Enoki machi Shinjuku

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Enokimachi, Enoki machi, Enokicho 榎町 Enoki district "nettle tree"
東京都新宿区 Shinjuku, 榎町 (no sub-districts)



In the North-East of Shinjuku ward.
The road 外苑東通り Gaien Higashidori crosses it from South to North.

In the Edo period, there grew a huge nettle tree, large enough to have a man shelter is a cave of its trunk.
Around 1685, there lived a strange man in this tree cave. He wore beggar's robes and had a cooking pot dangle from his waist. He left the cave every morning, walked around to collect the droppings of horses and cows and sold them (as was a common job in Edo at that time). When he got some money, he bought rice, collected fallen branches from the trees, made a fire and cooked a meal.
He never talked to grown-ups, but always laughed and taught poems to the local children. They all called him
maguso sennin　馬ぐそ仙人 The Hermit of Horse Droppings.

The big Enoki burned down during a fire around 1730.
All that is left of him is now the name of this little district.




. enoki 榎 nettle tree, Chinese hackberry tree .
Chinese nettle-tree or Japanese hackberry
Celtis sinensis var. japonica.

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Saishooji 蔭凉山 済松寺 Saisho-Ji
東京都新宿区榎町77番地 Enoki machi Nr. 77



Built by Tokugawa Iemitsu for 祖心尼 Lady Soshin-Ni (1588 - 1675)
Soshin-Ni is also called おなあ O-Nao, おのう O-No
She was the daughter of 伊勢国・岩手城主 牧村利貞 Makimura Toshisada (1546 - 1593).
She was later adopted to the family of 前田利家 Maeda Toshiie in the Kaga domain.
She was the niece of Kasuga no Tsubone.
She practised Zen and taught it to Iemitsu.
When Iemitsu died, Soshin-Ni left the Ooku Harem of Edo castle and lived here in this temple.




- HP of the temple
- reference source : saishouji.or.jp... -


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. Shinjuku　新宿区　Shinjuku Ward .


. Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government .

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. Doing Business in Edo - 商売　- Introduction .

. shokunin 職人 craftsman, craftsmen, artisan, Handwerker .

. senryu, senryū 川柳　Senryu poems in Edo .

. Japanese Architecture - The Japanese Home .

. Interior Design - The Japanese Home .

. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .


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