Koedo Itabashi

The cityscape connected beyond space and time

 

When you walk around Nihonbashi Muromachi, you may feel like you are walking through the museum.

If you take a north path from Nihonbashi, which is designated as a national important cultural property, you will be connected to the Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi Main Store, Mitsui Main Building, and the Bank of Japan Main Building.

It is a group of buildings that have lived materials that can trace the history of modern architecture in Japan spread out in front of you, and are still used for various economic activities.

 

It is wonderful to walk through the heavy and gorgeous streets of the Reiwa era, but there is a place where you can go back in time and see the same path at once for 2018.

 

Take a look at the scenery of Oedo, which is the winner of Miyo, who is the key.

If you take a look at the scenery of Oedo, which is the winner of Miyo, you can see the cityscape that connects beyond time and space.

 

"Kidai Shoran"

Underground concourse at Tokyo Metro Mitsukoshimae Station. The wall near the central entrance of the main building of Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi Main Store.

The "Kidai Shoran" picture scroll is on display in the basement of Chuo-dori in Nihonbashi.

It is located between Exit A3 and Exit A5.

A long reproduction picture scroll with a width of about 17m.

It houses a cityscape of about 765m from Nihonbashi to Kanda Imagawa Bridge.

If you look at the connected wholesale streets and the people who come and go, you will be drawn involuntarily by the bustle of the city, the lively life and customs, and the rich expressions of the drawn people.

 

 The cityscape connected beyond space and time

 

The era of "Kyodai Shoran" is said to be around 2 years of culture (1805), so the era of the 11th Shogun Ienari Tokugawa.

Edo townspeople's culture reaches its heyday during the "Culture and Bunsei era" that continues from here.

 

The houses that line along the street include large kimono wholesalers, cutlery wholesalers, booth wholesalers, and various restaurants.

It is only the downtown area of Edo in Hana, and it is a magnificent tiled roof shop.

A long-established store founded in Edo, which I saw earlier on the ground, is actually depicted in a picture scroll more than 200 years ago.

From the name and signboard of Japanese shop curtain, you can combine old and now.

It's an exciting task that jumps over the time axis and connects it.

 

What a lot of "medicine wholesalers"

What a lot of "medicine wholesalers" cityscape connected beyond space and space

 

By the way, why don't you notice the characteristic industries in the wholesalers lined up on the street?

Yes, "medicine wholesaler."

You can count the drug wholesalers shown in the frame. I'm surprised at the number.

Echigo-ya. Kagiya. Fukushimaya. Yoshibei Oguroya. Tawaraya. Yorozuya. Nishimuraya. Konishibayashi. Fujiki. And so on.

 

 The cityscape connected beyond space and time

 

Pharmaceutical wholesalers mainly handled medicinal herbs and dispensing medicines, which are the raw materials of medicine.

With the dawn of the city of Edo as a city, the sankin kotai system attracts people from all over Japan and expands its scope rapidly.

In a dusty city under construction, demand for eye drops was born, and various diseases such as headaches, abdominal pain, cuts, and abrasions occurred with people's livelihoods, and medicines were required.

 

 The cityscape connected beyond space and time

 

Also on the signboard of the drug wholesaler in the picture scroll, Hyakudo, sputum's magical medicine, Hyakuyosan? What? You can check characters that make you feel the smell of Chinese herbal medicine.

 

What kind of god is the god of medicine?

What kind of god is the god of medicine? The cityscape connected beyond space and time

 

There is an important place related to medicine in Nihonbashi Muromachi.

"The founder of medicine," Yakusoancestor patron.

It is located on the east side of Fukutoku Shrine, in the back of Fukutoku Forest.

 

enshrined deity is the ancestor patron of medicine, the two pillars of Takamei Ohmi and Naohiko's name.

Takashi Omi is a god of nation-building, with many precious aliases, including the lord of the great power.

The cooperative god of nation-building is Shohiko Meimei. It is said that he is the god of medicine, sake brewing and hot springs, and has a spiritual power that saves many people from illness.

From the other side of the sea, I got on a boat made of potato (a vine perennial plant of the family Asteraceae).

Since the size of the ship is enough to fit on the palm of the hand, it is a god with a wide knowledge, also known as the roots of a one-dimensional master.

 

A certain sign of the city of medicine

The city of medicine connected beyond certain signs of time and space

 

The stone wall of the shrine is engraved with the name of a familiar pharmaceutical company that you usually use.

It is a spot worthy of Nihonbashi, which has been called the "city of medicine".

 

And now, this area is evolving as a "sacred place of life science".

As a cornerstone for redevelopment, the life science industry is accumulating.

 

Medicine museum

Medicine Museum A cityscape connected beyond time and space

 

There are facilities where you can feel the medicine more closely.

Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. Medicine Museum at 3-5-1 Nihonbashi Honcho

Through video and games, you can enjoy learning about the history, type, utility, and how to take medicine.

※ The tour is currently by appointment, so please see the homepage of the "Kusukuri Museum".

If you walk around the city after the tour, you will see a lot of pharmaceutical company buildings and signs that you didn't notice before.