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It is a rice cracker "Oya" introduced in the Edo period shopping guidebook "Edo Shopping Sogo Guide". There is "Terifuri Town", but let's take a look at where it is.

"Edogiri-ezu Nihonbashi Kita Kanda Hamacho-ezu" (marker, bridge name, place name added to the location of Terufuri-cho) National Diet Library Digital Collection

Between Horiecho 3-chome and 4-chome, the current Kofunecho, Koamicho. Only two streets between Arabu Bridge (Nishiborirugawa) and Father Bridge (Higashiborirugawa), which are now gone, were called Terifuricho (Teruricho). It's as you drew a yellow-green marker on the map.

It's an emotional name. What kind of things do you have?

On this street during the Edo period, there were many shops selling clogs, umbrellas, and snow clogs (leather behind sandals), and they sold both lit and rainy days, so it was called Terumachi. It seems to have been.

A town with a mixture of fine and rain. There are various human patterns.……It's just a short street name that you'll see for the beginning of a story. There are many people who are attracted to this name.

In the Edo period, Tokasha 19 wrote "Eimasu Terufumachi", and in modern times there is "Teruricho Shiki Series" by Yasuhide Saeki. In addition, the sesame rice cracker from Oya, Terufurimachi, which is mentioned this time, will also appear in the "Noscle Doctor" of the Onihei Criminal Book.

"Kawayanagi Edo Specialty" contains the following two phrases.

〇　It's a rice cracker shop

〇　All the rice crackers are sold without falling down

Both umbrella shops and geta shops have different sales depending on the weather, but rice crackers are phrases that they sold regardless of the weather.

In addition, the specific place is indicated in "Edo Specialty Poetry First Edition" as "Teruricho Corner". It's marked with a red circle on the map.

Similarly, "Edo Specialty Poetry First Edition" contains an explanation of Okinaya's rice cracker. I read it down because it's Chinese.

"It's easy to make the sugar classy, but it's light and good.　

There are quite a few vertical dried sweets, but this kind of rice cracker is also small in Ejo."

It seems that Okinaya's rice crackers were used for gifts. What surprised me here was that it was not a rice cracker, which was seasoned with soy sauce or salt made of rice that many people imagine.

The fact that sugar is used is a tiled rice cracker now?

"Wahan Three-year-old Zoukai" National Diet Library Digital Collection

In the middle of the Edo period (1712), the encyclopedia "Wakan Sansai Zuikai" page of "Senbei" explains sweet rice crackers using flour.

It seems that they were made by adding molasses to the flour, kneading it not too soft and not too hard, spreading it thinly, drying it, putting it in a formwork with an iron lid, covering it, and baking both sides. Probably, there is no mistake in imagining a sweet rice cracker using flour like the current tile rice cracker.

So, when did you start to eat rice crackers, which are generally called rice crackers and made from rice that floats on your head?

According to the website of Soka City, which is famous for Soka Senbei, when Soka-juku on the Nikko Kaido was built, preserved foods made from rice that had been eaten before that were sold as dumplings at teahouses and other places. At first, salt was kneaded into the dough, but from late Tokugawa shogunate, soy sauce came to be applied to baked rice crackers.

At present, the salty rice crackers that are generally imagined are newer than flour rice crackers, and it seems that they were rather popular with the common people compared to the fact that Okiya's rice crackers were for progress.

This is a photo in the direction of Arafubashi with the ruins of Father Bridge behind.

There seems to be nothing to extend the town. I can't find the name of the town, umbrella shop, geta shop or rice cracker shop.

Is there a slight trace about the explanation board of the traces of the father bridge and Isecho moat (the moat where the Arafubashi bridge was hung) at both ends of Terifuri town?

The explanation board of the father bridge. It is also written about the town.

It's on the wall of this dental clinic and the tobacco shop building.

Access Hibiya Line Ningyocho Exit A6 toward Kofunecho Intersection

Explanation board of the ruins of Isecho-bori (Nishi-borirugawa). There is an explanation board on the fence currently under construction. There was Arafu Bridge around here.

Access Near the Kobunacho intersection

From Thursday, September 12 to 15 (Sun), the Kofunecho Tenno Festival will be held grandly for the first time in six years. Please come by all means.

You can see the highlights in this link "Nihonbashikobunacho tile version".

I think you can enjoy it even more if you go to see it after seeing it.

It seems that the Nihonbashi Hashigami carrying out on the 15th of the Great carrying of miniature shrines was the first time in 107 years.