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Speaking of "Edo Famous Zoukai", a book known for the precise picture of Yukidan Hasegawa is famous, but about 20 years earlier, Jukasha 19 published a Kyoka picture book at the same name "Edo Famous Zoukai". I am. This is a picture of Nihonbashi in that book.

The kyoka attached is "Namakusaki Nihonhashitoshite and Uouri Sensarutei business branch that is not sandwiched by people."

On Nihonbashi, you can see the townspeople, fish sellers with sticks, and two people with pinch boxes at the back. Its appearance is typical Feudal lord's procession……It's close! Isn't it near? Feudal lord's procession. Just because it depicts how crowded Nihonbashi is Nihonbashi is, it does not mean that it is lined up with Feudal lord's procession.……

"Tokaido 53rd Himotohashi Asanokei", Hiroshige Utagawa National Diet Library Digital Collection

It's a very famous morning view of Nihonbashi. The wooden door in front of the bridge opens and people's lives begin early in the morning. The people carrying fish and vegetables on the balance rod in front of the left hand are peddlers called botefuri. It's a bit difficult to see, but there is also a cutting board in the tub of the person in front. If you ask, he will judge the fish you bought on the spot.

Feudal lord's procession is coming over the bridge.

It's not as much as the picture of Tokasha 19, but here too, the peddlers are not in a hurry to feel like Doshitaza. Look, by the end. By the end. Or, because they came in a line, they quickly dispelled and dispelled. It looks like I'm talking about it.

You should never give your face by rubbing your head to the ground as I learned in elementary school. If you don't sit under the ground, you won't feel a sense of urgency, such as being cut off.

In fact, only in Edo Mifunai, it was supposed that daimyo other than the Misan family (Owari, Kishu, Mito) and the Misan Lord (Tayasu, Shimizu, Hitotsubashi) did not have to sit under the ground. . Because Edo is a place where many Feudal lord's procession come and go in sankin kotai. Because every time a line comes, sitting under the ground will cause traffic jams.

You don't have to sit down in the procession of the largest large nameda family, said to be Kaga Hyakumangoku. However, the wife of the Maeda family's 13th generation Nariyasu is the daughter of the 11th Shogun Ienari Tokugawa. The shogun's house needs a ground seat. Therefore, in the procession of the shogun's daughter, Sorahime, was necessary.

By the way, the current site of the University of Tokyo was Kaga Domain Kamiyashiki. It is famous that Akamon is a gate built for the shrine of Sohime.

In Nihonbashi, you don't have to sit down in Feudal lord's procession. I was relieved that the fish shops in this picture were safe.

But how did you determine who line was?

"Sodechin Takekan" National Diet Library Digital Collection

"Takekan" was published every year from the store of Shigeru Suharaya, the largest in the Edo publishing industry, which lasted for nine generations from the early Edo period to the Meiji period. Takekan is a famous book of samurai. The head and family of the daimyo family, genealogy, stone heights, gifts to generals, coats on kimonos and palanquins, and drawings of Feudal lord's procession's tools (such as spears and long-Feudal lord's procession umbrellas) are on display.

Please take a look at the picture of the fifty-three Tokaido again.

The two at the beginning of the procession carry a pinch box. The box contains changing clothes of a daimyo. There are two hair spears behind it. What you can see in the back is a horse seal. The shape differs depending on each daimyo family, so if you look at this, you can tell who line is.

It was the one who needed the most to tell who was in the procession was the finder of Edo Castle, the officer of the guardhouse, and the postman of the Feudal lord's procession. Depending on the status of the daimyo, the order of the descending castle to Edo Castle and the manners when the line passed each other had the role of avoiding trouble by immediately determining who the opponent's line was and giving instructions to change behavior accordingly.

Other merchants also used to identify their homes when dealing with samurai, or as a guidebook for townspeople and travelers visiting Edo to see the luxurious Feudal lord's procession.

The photo shows "Syugyoku Takekan", which is smaller than the original Takekan. Easy-to-carry size by putting it in the pocket or sleeves. It's like a pocket book. It seems convenient to see the line.

Hokusai Manga (part) Katsushika Hokusai National Diet Library Digital Collection

It is life-threatening to see if it is a procession that requires Doshitaza, but what does it mean to see Feudal lord's procession, who does not need Doshitaza, relying on Takekan?

The expensive Feudal lord's procession was a means for each daimyo to show himself to society. It would be natural to want to see the procession that appeals to people like that.

The first spearman showed a geish of throwing a long spear. There is a picture of the yakko in the Hokusai manga. In this picture, one leg is kicked high up to the buttocks, and a hair spear that seems to be longer and harder to balance is supported and danced with one hand. If you can do it without dropping it, you will want to applaud it. Hokusai may have seen Feudal lord's procession somewhere in Edo-Ofu to paint this picture.

There must have been many highlights such as the performance of a spear holder, the gorgeous palanquin with a daimyo, and the costume with a crest. However, the performance of the spears is only when leaving Kunimoto and when entering Edo. I don't have time to do such a thing on a long way. All you have to do is walk for your destination.

If the number of people in the procession is too large, the cost will be increased along the way. So, only when he left Kunimoto and when he entered Edo, he used retainer and the people he hired to form a procession to increase the number of people and make the procession longer and look luxurious.

Feudal lord's procession travels through Edo Prefecture. It seems that there was less tense than I thought and there was a look.

You can see the high billboard behind the merchant of stick hand shake, the picture of "Fifty-three Nihonbashi Tokaido".

At present, there is a "Nihonbashi-originki" that imitates the shape of a high bill at the site of the Takafuda, which is a plaza of Nihonbashi Hana.

[Nihonbashi Hana no Plaza Takafuda Site]

　B9 Exit of Nihombashi Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Tozai Line, Toei Asakusa Line, next to Nihonbashi Tourist Information Center

[References]

The Truth of sankin kotai Yuichiro Ando Tokuma Bunko College

"Edo samurai family name book" Kumiko Fujizane Kikkawa Hirobunkan