Minato kid

The sidewalk in Chuo-ku is interesting! 32 [Hatchobori Suzuran Street]

Hello, this is Minato kid.

Today, I came to Hatchobori's "Suzuran Street".

Speaking of Hatchobori, "Yes! For you!" It's a familiar, smart common people's ally, power and concentric town.

I found a picture on the sidewalk of Suzuran Street in Hatchobori!

Japanese lantern!

If you look at it, you can see ten hands are drawn in the foreground.

Zhubo with ten hands surrounds Hatchobori characters in eight characters!

It's a very deep picture.

 

The sidewalk in Chuo-ku is interesting! 32 [Hatchobori Suzuran Street]

Hatchobori is a town that has changed drastically with the times.

In the early Edo period, it was Teramachi.

When many temples move to the suburbs due to the great fire of the Meiryaku era, this is a town of power and concentric, with samurai and townspeople.

The power and concentric rented a part of the vast mansion and earned extra income.

However, it was not allowed to lend it to the townspeople, so many Confucian scholars, doctors, painters, etc., equivalent to the samurai status, lived.

The names of familiar people in Chuo-ku, such as the poet Kikaku Takarai, Ukiyo-e artist Sharaku Toshusai, Tadataka Ino, who made a map of Japan, and Yasubee Horibe of Nanji Akaho.

It is also famous for its powerful poets, Enao Kato and Chikage, as well as many painters of Kano school.

 

It was blessed with waterways such as Kaedegawa, Hatchobori (Sakuragawa), Kamejima River, and Nihonbashi River, and it was also a town where many craftsmen lived.

There is a structure as a wholesale district where wood wholesalers and charcoal firewood wholesalers gather.

And to the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras.

The name of the town has changed, and many steel wholesalers have gathered.

Hatchobori has become one of Tokyo's leading steel towns.

 

The sidewalk in Chuo-ku is interesting! 32 [Hatchobori Suzuran Street]

The main street of Hatchobori, "Suzuran Street".

Nowadays, there is a strong impression of a business district, but in the old and fine days when the streetcar was running, movie theaters and vaudeville were lined up, and it was very crowded with shoppers from nearby areas.

Even now, when you enter a single alley, you may be bound by a mysterious feeling that the flow of time changes.

Small wholesalers line up, there is an old-fashioned side dish shop, potted plants are lined up at the eaves, and the smell of human life is transmitted.

And there is Sangoro Akiyama Shoten on Suzuran Street.

Miya portable shrine of Tepposhu Inari Shrine, which is familiar to Minatokko, was created by the predecessor.

 

"Painted sidewalks" tell the history of the city.

This time, I was able to meet a wonderful sidewalk.

After all, the sidewalk in Chuo-ku is interesting!

 

※Unfortunately, there are some places that have been removed.

 

The sidewalk in Chuo-ku is interesting! 32 [Hatchobori Suzuran Street]

Correspondent Minato kid, Chuo-ku Tourism Association
No. 71 December 10, 2019