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At the Nihonbashi 3-chome intersection, you will find the Jan Jooss Ten Monument (pictured on the left) and the Artizon Museum. Jan Jooss Ten is a Dutch navigator who drifted to Bungo on the Dutch ship Reefde in 1600 (1600). He settled in Japan with the confidence of Ieyasu Tokugawa. He worked as a diplomatic adviser and interpreter for Ieyasu, and engaged in red stamp trade in Asia. He worshiped a mansion at the moat outside Wadakuramon and was called Yatsushiro Sukawagi after his name, and from there he became Yaesu.

This area, which was called Nakahashi in the Edo period, is now a city where many companies have offices. What kind of place was it during the Edo period?

"Kanei era Edo Figure" (additional red letters) National Diet Library Digital Collection

There is no bridge in the "Edo Famous Zoukai" mentioned at the beginning (Tenpo era 5 (1834)-Tenpo era 7 (1836)), but if you go back to the "Kanei era Edo map" of Kanei era 9 (1632), you can see that there is a digging and Nakahashi. After that, all the diggings called Momiji River were reclaimed and became Nakahashi Hirokoji Temple, where the shop was built and it became a lively place where people gathered.

In Nobe, Kyobashi-ku of "Tokyo Famous Zoukai", a reproduction of "Shinsen Tokyo Famous Zoukai" published from 1896 to 44, "Nakahashi Hirokoji Temple". Originally there is Kido. There are brooks, ring chrysanthemums, and teahouses on both sides of the east and west. It's busy at four o'clock. Especially in summer, there is a pick-up and drop-off of Oyama. I'm so excited about the crowd. To the Edo Famous Festival. There is a picture of both tea shops. The brook is autumn leaves in the lantern. Kangiku attaches the emblem of Kangiku. "It is.

It seems that Nakahashi Hirokoji, which was very crowded, was particularly crowded with pick-up people when visiting Oyama in summer. Here's your visit to Oyama → Please refer to the past blog "Oyama pilgrimage". Those who have returned to Edo City from their pilgrimage to Oyama cross Kyobashi and are in Nihonbashi a little longer. Some people have come to pick me up at the Machiaichaya in Nakahashi, the middle point. It may have been a relaxing place for those who came back and the greeted family.

I expanded the waiting teahouse on the left side of "Edo Famous Zoukai Nakahashi". It's "Kangiku". The name "Kankiku" is lowered under the eaves on the first floor. Japanese lantern has a round chrysanthemum crest.

In "Edo's Special Poetry First Edition", it is introduced as "Kangiku Sencha" as follows. "The sweet chrysanthemum house cleaning shop where the hot spring kettle kettle sleeps diagonally, the tea of Yamabuki Kisen, which is roasted by customers from north and south east."　※All of them were Chinese-language poems, so I rewritten them in an easy-to-read manner.

At this time, instead of making tea in a teapot, it seems that they cooked iron bottles and iron pots on fire and roasted tea leaves. I'm wondering if it's not astringent.

This is a waiting teahouse called "Ogawa" opposite across the street of "Kangiku". The crest of the brook is autumn leaves. The crest of autumn leaves is drawn on the lantern descending under the eaves. It was not clear whether Nakahashi Hirokoji was created by reclaiming the Momiji River and the "Autumn Leaves" in the crest of "Ogawa" were related.

At the storefront in Ogawa, there are adults who are doing hand-held fireworks and children who are surprised to see it. It's a summer tradition that doesn't change even in the Edo period.

In the title of this blog, I called Obon, but the reason why the picture of Nakahashi is that it is during the Bon Festival is that the procession of children holding hands passing in front of Machiaichaya "Kangiku" symbolizes Obon. Because it is. Let's expand the procession of children.

There is a commentary in the item of "Yuran Bonkai" in "Kyoto's customs in the late Edo period, Kyoto, and Edo period). To sum up, "From early July to the end of July, more than a dozen girls are holding hands next to five to seven or eight. Toddlers are behind, older ones. The utterance of the song sung at that time is always "bonbon", so it is called "bonbon". There is an explanation.

In addition, there is a description of this procession in Shikitei Sanma's "Ukiyo Bath" fourth volume. To sum up, "A girl between the ages of 6 and 17 and 8 at the time of the Bon Festival walks with 5,6 people in front of the younger ones while singing Bon Uta with her nanny." And the character who saw it said, "I heard it, or the current tray."　

Both are like Bonbon dances called Bonbon, which lays side by side in small order during the Bon Festival in July old calendar, holds hands and sings Bon Uta. That's the difference. Behind the line, there are also people like nannys who are wearing babies or soothing children who have cryed.

The exact same procession of girls is also drawn in the "Picture of Bonchu Traffic" in "Toto Toshikiki". There is no doubt that this procession is drawn because it is the time of the tray if it is drawn from the "Figure of the traffic in the tray".

It seems that there was such a procession of girls in Bon Odori in the Edo period.

The place where "King Chrysanthemum" was located is the "Artizon Museum" (the dark gray building on the left side of the photo). The place where "Ogawa" was located is "Echizenya Building" (a bright gray building on the right corner of the photo). In 1865 (1865), when Echizen Yachuchichi came out of Echizen and opened a shop for Japanese clothing accessories (Sanada string) here, it seems that Ogawa was already knocking down in late Tokugawa shogunate.

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[References]

"Edo Famous Zoukai" National Diet Library Digital Collection

"Tokyo Famous Zoukai" Nobe Mutsushobo, Kyobashi-ku

"Morisada Kitagawa Bunko" Morisada Iwanami

Ukiyo-Baro, National Diet Library Digital Collection

"Edo Specialty Poetry First Edition" Edo Tokyo Museum Digital Archives