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On November 2nd, TODA BUILDING in Kyobashi opened grandly. TODA BUILDING has a collection of museums, contemporary art galleries, and cafes as a base for arts and culture.
Together with the museum tower Kyobashi, which opened in 2019, it is named Kyobashi Aya Ward based on the concept of "a city where art and culture are close to everyone," and is the center of Kyobashi, a city of art and art.

Please refer to this correspondent blog for the opening of TODA BUILDING.
Congratulations!　TODA BUILDING has opened. (by Tokyo Dumbo)

This is the information board of the newly revived Hiroshige Utagawa Residence Ruins.
Hiroshige Utagawa is a ukiyo-e artist famous for landscape paintings such as "Tokaido Goju Sanji" and "Hundred Famous Views of Edo", but about 10 years from 1849 (1849) to death at that time, Ogamachi I spent this place called.
According to the map of the Path of Cultural History, there was a residence opposite the street of TODA BUILDING, in a corner where the Kyobashi Nishoku Building is located.

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Site of Hiroshige Utagawa residence
This is the residence where ukiyo-e artist Hiroshige Utagawa (1797-1858) spent about 10 years from 1849 to his death. Hiroshige was born as the eldest son of Genemon Ando, who was concentric with the fire extinguisher of the Shogunate, in a firehouse on the banks of Yatsushiro (currently Marunouchi 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku). He lost his parents at the age of 13, and became concentrating on fire extinguishing like his father, but at the age of 15 in 1811 (1811), he became a gateman of Toyohiro Utagawa, and the following year he was given the name of Hiroshige and named Utagawa. I was allowed to do it.
Rei Kishijima has also become famous as a landscape painter since "Tokaido Goju Sanji", which came out of Yasunaga-do, and Edo has also left "Toto Famous Places" and "Hakkeinouchi in the suburbs of Edo". In particular, the “Hundred Views of Edo” drawn in his later years is a masterpiece in this area, which was called Ogamachi at the time. It is said that the residence was a two-story independent house next to the residence of the Kano Nakabashi family among the back painters of the Shogunate (Goyo painter) Kano Yotsuya.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
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When Hiroshige lived in Ogamachi, a major earthquake in Ansei occurred. It is said that Hiroshige's masterpiece "Hundred Famous Views of Edo" was painted to celebrate the city of Edo, which was revived from major earthquake, but there is a theory that Hiroshige had temporarily moved to Ogamachi after major earthquake in Ansei.

This is a newly installed information board.
Along with the construction of the building, excavations of the construction site were conducted between 2016 and 2020, and remain, the residence of the Kano family, was discovered. On the signboard, there was a pond in the mansion, and a large number of plates dissolving paints were found, along with pictures of remain.
According to the information board on the Road of Culture, the site of the mansion is located on the southeast side of TODA BUILDING.

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The ruins of the Kano Nakabashi family residence
In the early Edo period, this area was an Iribori. Iribori was reclaimed by the middle of the 17th century and became a townspeople area called Ogamachi. In Ogamachi, there was the residence of the Kano Nakabashi family, the sect of Edo Kano Yotsuya, the shogunate Oku-e artist, and continued to late Tokugawa shogunate. The other three families are Kajibashi Kano, Kibikicho Kano, and Hamacho Kano. The first generation of the Kano Nakabashi family was Yasunobu, the grandson of Eitoku. In the early Edo period, when he was in Kyoto, he was called to Edo and succeeded to the sect, and started the Kano Nakabashi family. The famous ghost of the family is Yasunobu's brother. Mystery started the Kajibashi Kano family.
In addition, excavation of Kyobashi 1-chome archeological site was carried out in this area from 2016 (2016) to 2020 (2020), and the site of the Kano family's mansion was discovered.
There is a pond in the mansion, from which a plate (pallet), which is thought to be used to dissolve many paints, was excavated. Some of the small plates had slightly red, black, and green pigments left, indicating that the picture was actually drawn here.
This is the first time in the ward that the site of a painter's mansion from the Edo period has been excavated, and is a rare case nationwide.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
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For excavations and Yotsuya Kano, please see this correspondent blog.

[The 37th Excursion Series] What is the Kano family talking about historical sites, archeological sites, and castle ruins (by Hanes)　　
Edo Kano school and the site of Kano Painting School in Chuo-ku (by Ginzo)

It is a stone monument that records that Kitani Ichiroemon Honpo, which sells the women's drug "Minoru Mothers", which has been around since the Edo period, was located here. The construction of this monument is marked as 2013 (2013), so was it relocated to this place in line with the opening of the building?
According to the information board on the Road of Culture and History, the "Jinmosan" store was located opposite the street of TODA BUILDING, in a corner where the current National Credit Union Hall is located.

If you look at "Ninmosan" and Ichiroemon Kitani Honpo, there is an interesting history, so I would like to write it on another occasion.

The luxurious "Mikoshi of Kyobashi 1-chome Town Association" was newly exhibited. This portable shrine was created in 1951 by Naomitsu Goto, portable shrine teacher of Gyotoku Sekigashima, and was revived beautifully in 2022 (2022), 70 years after its production. The sculptures of the four gods (Seiryu, White Tiger, Suzaku, Xuanwu) are on all sides of the pedestal, and a phoenix is attached to the roof.

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portable shrine of Kyobashi 1-chome Town Association
In 1951 after the war, in order to regain the vitality of the town, the portable shrine was created by Naomitsu Goto, the portable shrine teacher of Gyotoku Sekigashima.
In 2022, 70 years after the production, we had a major renovation at the Nakadai Plant in Gyotoku. The base of the pedestal is two feet and three inches, but the thick wood and cast phoenix make the portable shrine heavier than it looks.
The characteristic of portable shrine is its well-balanced beauty, such as the thick roof and the warpage of the extended roof. In addition, the sculpture on the side is a "Shiraki" that does not dare to color to make the craftsman more prominent, and the "thickness (three-dimensional effect)" that gives a sense of perspective by carving the back side is a major feature. In addition, I would like you to pay attention to the sculptures of the four gods (Seiryu, White Tiger, Suzaku, Xuanwu) applied on all sides of the pedestal and the expression of the phoenix.　　　　
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Please visit the "Cultural History Path" behind TODA BUILDING.

TODA BUILDING 1-7-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031, Japan
The Path of Cultural History: Map