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Sea Day Interaction with Chuo-ku
July fifteenth was a sea day. It seems that there was an event in Harumi, do you know the origin of the sea day? July 20 is the original anniversary, which comes from the fact that in 1876, Emperor Meiji sailed at the Meiji Maru, a lighthouse cruise ship that was not a warship, and returned to Yokohama on July 20. The Meiji Maru is an iron sailing ship made in the UK (the current ship is steel), and the Ogasawara Investigation Team was a new shipbuilding, so it arrived at Ogasawara two days earlier than the British ship that departed on the same day. It is a ship with episodes such as contributing to possession. Later, it became a training boat for Tokyo Shosen School. Even now, it is preserved as a national important cultural property on the premises of Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in Echinakajima, Koto-ku, and can be visited. (You can see the Goza place in Emperor Meiji, etc.) Well, there are two points of contact between Meiji Maru and Chuo-ku. Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology and Ishikawajima Shipyard.
Meiji Maru seen from the Chuo-ku side across the canal. The three yellow masts that can be seen far from Ishikawajima Park and Shinkawa Park are Meijimaru.
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (formerly Tokyo Shosen University)
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology) was established in 2003 by integrating Tokyo Shosen University of Marine Science and Technology and Tokyo University of Fisheries in Shinagawa. Tokyo Shosen University was founded in 1875 by Yataro Iwasaki at the request of Toshimichi Okubo, a little downstream of Eitai Bridge, Reigishima, Kyobashi-ku, and now Sumida River in Shinkawa, Chuo-ku. The school opened by mooring a sailing ship called Seimeimaru. Later, it was renamed the government Tokyo Shosen School, and a school building was also built. Until it moved to Echinakajima in 1901, seafarer education was provided at the school building in Shinkawa. To commemorate this, a monument to "the birthplace of seafarer education" stands on Eitai Bridge Nishizume. Meiji Maru became a training boat for the Shosen School in 1897, so I think Meiji Maru was also moored around Shinkawa at that time.
Up to this point, it has been written in various things, but about the site after the relocation of Shosen School. The site school building is the Central Commercial School, which opened here in 1900 (later Central Commercial High School and Central Commercial Junior College). It was handed down to the current Chuo Gakuin University. (Relocated in 2001) Condominiums are now built, and there is nothing to survive at that time, but there is a monument of "the birthplace of Chuo Commercial School" along the Sumida River Terrace.
Ishikawajima Shipyard
Meiji Maru refurbished at the Ishikawajima Shipyard, which was located at the current Okawabata River City 21, when it became a training boat for the Shosen School. It seems that it took a lot of time, such as dredging the bottom of the Sumida River to pass through the Meiji Maru.
Ishikawajima Shipyard is the first West-style shipyard in Japan that the Shogunate ordered Nariaki Tokugawa in Mito to build on the arrival of Perry in 1853. In the Meiji era, it was paid to the private sector and became Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries (currently IHI). The image is an illustration in a book called "Tokyo Famous Zoukai" at that time, and is just a picture when Meiji Maru is in the dock. The dock seems to have opened toward the main stream of the Sumida River, Shinkawa.
It is a monument to "the birthplace of Japan's first private Western-style shipyard" in Ishikawajima Park. What is depicted on the monument is a ship called "Chiyoda Kata", a warship of the Shogunate. In Boshin war, led by Takeaki Enomoto, escaped from Edo and moved to Hakodate. (Because it is a warship made at the shipyard of the Shogunate, it feels a bit unsuitable for the title of the monument.)
The plant continued until it was closed and sold in 1979. When I was a child, I knew the time with the factory siren ringing at noon and evening. At the Ishikawajima Shipyard, materials such as models are displayed at the "Ishikawajima Museum" at the town corner exhibition hall in Chuo-ku, where you can see the face of Chuo-ku, which was also an industrial area.
With the transition of the times, the relationship between Chuo-ku and the sea is gradually becoming thinner, but it was said that Sea Day and Chuo-ku were also connected.
Meiji Maru
Department of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology
2-1-6, Ecchujima, Koutou-ku, Tokyo
Open days Tuesday, Thursday, and 3rd Saturday (closed on holidays * University festivals and sea days are open to the public.)
From April to September 10:00 to 16:00 from October to March 10:00 to 15:00
Ishikawajima Museum
1-11-8 Tsukuda, Chuo-ku, Pier West Square 1F
Water / Saturday from 10:00 to 12:00 13:00 to 17:00 (until 16:30).