Udagawa district Minato Shibuya

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Udagawa choo, Udagawachō 宇田川町 Udagawa district
渋谷区 Shibuya ward, no sub-districts



The name might refers to a retainer of the Hojo clan
宇田川和泉守長清 Udagwa Izumi no Kami Nagakiyo
who had his estate in this area.
In 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeated the Hojo in Odawara and Hojo Ujimasa killed himself.
Later Udagawa in Edo became the head man of a district named after him.

The river Udagawa 宇田川 can not be seen from this district.
It used to be a small shopping district of Tokyo, but recently many highrise buildings were erected.

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River 宇田川 Udagawa is a tributary of the river 渋谷川 Shibuyagawa.
In a print by 長谷川雪旦　Hasegawa Settan, Yoyogi Hachimangu, there is a Shinto shrine on a hill, with the river Udagawa running below.
In the Edo period, there was a bridge, 五石橋 Goseki-Kyo over the river.
(Now this is around 神山町5番 Kamiyama, fifth sub-district.
It flowed into the Shibuyagawa close to Shibuya station, at the bridge 宮益橋 Miyamasubashi.

The Udagawa River is a tributary of the Shibuya River. Though now a culvert, its name lives on -- the district north of JR Shibuya Station is called Udagawacho. The Shibuya River used to flow round an elevated area, which was to the right of the land depicted in the print -- and which encompasses what are now Yoyogi Park and Meiji Shrine. Today it runs along part of Meiji-dori near Ebisu Station and then on into Tokyo Bay.
. Yoyogi Hachimangu 代々木八幡宮 .

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Miyamasu Chiyoda Inari Shrine 渋谷宮益 千代田稲荷之図

Chiyoda Inari Shrine was said to have begun with calling upon Fushimi-Inari in Kyoto
when 太田道潅 Ōta Dōkan built the Chiyoda (Edo) castle in 1457 (the first year of Chōroku).
After that, in 1602 (the seventh year of Keichō) when Tokugawa Ieyasu extended the Edo castle,
it was moved to Shibuya 宮益町 Miyamasu-chō.
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Fujimi-zaka slope and Lone Pine 富士見坂一本松 ippon matsu

The slope leading westward from Miyamasu in Shibuya
was known at the time as Fujimi-zaka.
The name indicates that Mt. Fuji could be seen from the slope.
- source : Tokyo Metropolitan Library -

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Ukita choo 宇喜田町 Ukita Cho district
Edogawa 江戸川区, no sub-districts



The name refers to the developer of new fields in the Edo period
宇田川喜兵衛 Utagawa Kihei
Kihei was a retainer of the Hojo Clan and Tokugawa Ieyasu gave him this wilderness, where reeds grew, to 新田開発 develop new fields.
In the beginning, the area was called
宇喜新田 Uki Shinden
Later when more farmers moved here, it became 宇喜田村 Ukita mura village.

The Utagawa family lived here in their special estate in 江戸川区江戸川五丁目 the fifth sub-district of Edogawa district.
Their nagayamon 長屋門 entrance gate is still there.


江戸川区江戸川五丁目に宇田川家長屋門


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