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Chuo-ku Monoshiri Quiz 15

There is a quiz at the entrance of the Chuo Ward Senior Center.

 

In May of last year, the "Chuo-ku Monoshiri Quiz" was issued for the first time in commemoration of the 100th anniversary. 

 

This quiz is an introduction of 15.

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Problem Chuo-ku Monoshiri Quiz 15

Answers and Commentary

1 "Chuo-ku Marugoto Museum". The Chuo-ku Marugoto Museum is held every Saturday Sunday, November, where you can experience the rich cultural attractions of the city, such as famous places, historic sites, galleries and museums, and waterside scenery. This year will be held on November 10th (Sun).

This is the Mitsui Memorial Museum. This private art museum is operated by Mitsui Bunko, a public interest incorporated foundation established in Muromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo to store and display items from the former Zaibatsu Mitsui family. 

It's the United States. On the site of St. Luke International Hospital in Akashicho, there is a relic (stone structure) that tells the place where the American Mission was located during the Meiji era.
In 1854 (1854), the Shogunate concluded a Japan-US Peace Treaty with the United States. Townsend Harris (1804-1878), the first U.S. missionary in Japan, was established in June 1859 in kitchen hall, Azabuyama Zenpukuji Temple (now Motoazabu, Minato-ku, Japan) on June 21, 1859. It was burned down in a fire in 1863 and moved to a Yokohama foreign settlement, but then moved to the Tsukiji foreign settlement in Edo (Tokyo), which opened in 1868 (1868) (currently Akashicho area). ) Will be relocated.
In Akashicho, relics (stone sculptures such as white head eagle, shield-shaped star-shaped flag, and Goryo stars, etc.) of the ministerial building when they were at the Tsukiji foreign settlement, are left, and are now a monument It has been preserved.
There are two monuments in St. Luke Garden (Akashicho No. 8) on the banks of the Sumida River, where the ministerial hall was located at the beginning, and in front of St. Luke International Hospital Toysler Memorial Hall (Akashicho No. 10). It is a valuable historical material that can extend the era of settlement.

4 Hitotsubashi University. Matsusakaya-mae at Ginza 6-chome. There is a stone monument engraved with "Business Law Training Center" on a red stone in the planting that separates the roadway and the sidewalk. As you can see from the inscription, this is the birthplace monument built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Hitotsubashi University.

Hitotsubashi University started in 1875 when Arinori Mori opened a commercial law workshop on the second floor of a sea bream miso shop in Ginza in 1875. Shortly after its establishment, Arinori Mori was appointed Chinese Minister, so he entered under the control of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry with the efforts of Eiichi Shibusawa and others, and later became the Tokyo Prefectural Government, but became the national government in 1985 (Meiji 17) Renamed "Tokyo Commercial School". The name was changed to Hitotsubashi University in 1949. The Faculty of Commerce, the Faculty of Economics, and the Faculty of Law and Sociology.

 


Chuo Ward Senior Center

〒104-0051 1-11-1, Tsukuda, Chuo-ku, Tokyo