Edo - the EDOPEDIA -: - - - Places and power spots

Showing posts with label - - - Places and power spots. Show all posts

8/08/2018

Ayase district Ayasegawa river Adachi

Former Ayase mura 綾瀬村 Ayase village. It stretched to parts of Adachi and then 青井 Aoi, 弘道 Kodo and 西綾瀬 Nishi-Ayase.

In 1867, 近藤勇 Kondo Isami and others from the 新選組 Shinsengumi stayed for 20 days at the estate of the 金子家 Kaneko family at 五兵衛新田 Gohei Shinden, now 綾瀬四丁目 Ayase fourth sub-district, according to 金子家文書 the Records of the Kaneko family. The estate was close to the temple 観音寺 Kannon-Ji.

..............................................................................................................................................

Tôkyô Ayasegawa nemu 綾瀬川合歓 Mimosa at the Ayase River in Tokyo
歌川広重 Utagawa Hiroshige II
1826-1869) here signed 喜斎立祥筆 Kisai Rissho hitsu,

. nemu no ki 合歓木 silk tree and Haiku .

..............................................................................................................................................

Higashi Ayase Kooen 東綾瀬公園 East-Ayase Koen park
with a 2 km straight cherry blossom lane and a huge bend, so that many people from the nearby Danchi residential areas could come here easily.
To built this large park, many of the local farmers offered part of their land and encouraged the construction, to make Ayase a pleasant place for the residents to come.

- quote -
Higashi Ayase Park is connected to the scattered squares around Ayase Station by a bridging promenade, formed into a U-shape.
What was formerly a paddy field, has since then been repurposed as this Metropolitan park under their readjustment project.
The park spans a total length of 2km, in which a change in seasons can be observed from the growth of cherry, bald cypress, and sweetgum trees and azaleas.
Along the West promenade of the park lies a flower garden, taking advantage of the former irrigation system of narrow streams across the field. The babbling of the water facilitates a sense of relaxation from being at one with the natural landscape, and a multi-purpose field serves to complement the various health play equipments available.
In the Northern regions of the park, there are additional sporting facilities surrounded by lush greenery.
In the event of a natural disaster, the park works in cooperation with the local community by providing toilets and stove benches. Well-equipped sports facilities are also made available across the park; myriad variety of seasonal flora propagate in the park to deliver a relaxing atmosphere.
The sports park offers a basketball field, tennis courts, and an indoor arena equipped with heated swimming pools, providing enjoyable options regardless of age.
- source : tokyo-eastpark.com... -

..............................................................................................................................................

Ayasegawa 綾瀬川 River Ayasegawa
綾瀬　鐘ヶ淵　The Ayasegawa River and Kanegafuchi
Hiroshige

Ayasegawa 綾瀬川浅草寺遠望 Ayasegawa Asakusadera enkei
小林清親 Kobayashi Kiyochika

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

8/07/2018

Machida city

[ . BACK to DARUMA　MUSEUM　TOP . ]
. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo　江戸の名所 .
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Machida shi 町田市 Machida city "city of fields"
Now close to Kanagawa prefecture, Yokohama and Kawasaki.

This city is already mentioned in the records of the Sengoku Jidai.
The part to the East of Kamakura Kaido was Hon-Machida. Nearby are relics of the Jomon and Yayoi period.
When more farmers came to live here, they developed more fields, according to special development plans,
hence the name.

In the Edo period, there were two cities,
Hon-Machida Mura 本町田村　
and
Hara-Machida Mura 原町田村, to the South of Hon-Machida.
Hara-Machida was a large area of wilderness, later developed to fields.
The adjacent district of 相模原　Sagamihara in Kanagawa prefecture carries the same meaning of HARA.

- quote
Machida is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis.
Machida is located in the Tama Hills of southern Tokyo Metropolis, bordered by Kanagawa Prefecture on the west, south, and east approximately 40-50 kilometers from the center of Tokyo. The Tama River flows through the city.
- - - - - History
The area of present-day Machida was part of ancient Musashi Province.
In the post-Meiji Restoration cadastral reform of July 22, 1878, the area became part of Minamitama District in Kanagawa Prefecture.
The village of Machida was created on April 1, 1889 with the establishment of municipalities law. Minamitama District was transferred to the administrative control of Tokyo Metropolis on April 1, 1893. Tama was elevated to town status on April 1, 1913. The town was bombed by American forces on May 24, 1945 during World War II
Machida expanded through annexation of the neighboring village of Minami on April 1, 1954, followed by the villages of Tsurukawa, Tadao and Sakai on February 1, 1958 to become the city of Machida.
A USMC RF-8A crashed in Machida on April 1, 1964.
From 1973, the Tama New Town development resulted in a rapid increase in population, turning the city into a bedroom community for Tokyo and Yokohama.
- source : wikipedia

. Musashi no Kuni 武蔵国 Musashi Province .
Musashino Plain 武蔵野

..............................................................................................................................................

Machida Footpath フットパス Foot Path project

- reference source : city.machida.tokyo.jp... -

Inspired by projects in England, a group of citizens developed part of the extreme rural areas, making foot paths for easy walking on a Sunday excursion.
They have a detailed guide book with various paths along the fields, rivers and woods.

１大戸から草戸山
（エリア地図、散策コースガイド、寄り道ガイド、立ち寄りショップ情報、景観情報、路線バス・停留所ガイド）
２相原から七国峠
３多摩境から絹の道
４小山田から常磐・小山
５小野神社から小野路界隈
６薬師ヶ丘から七国山
７町田駅から原町田界隈
８金森から下鶴間
９成瀬尾根から長津田
10三輪から王禅寺
- reference source : midorinoyubi-footpath.jp... -

..............................................................................................................................................

. kinu no michi 絹の道 the Silk Roads of Japan .
Passing through Machida.
From Hachioji to Yokohama.

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Buaisoo, Buaisō 武相荘 Buaiso villa

- quote -
Buaisō (武相荘) is the former home of post-war Japanese bureaucrat Jirō Shirasu and his wife Masako Shirasu, located in Machida. The name was derived from an amalgamation of kanji for the former provinces of Musashi and Sagami, as its location is near the border between the two provinces.
The house was a traditional farm house,
located in what was then a rural area of Minamitama District, Tokyo. It was acquired by the Shirasu family in October 1942 while Jirō Shirasu was still a businessman working for the predecessor of Nichirei Corporation. Predicting that his residence in Shinjuku in downtown Tokyo would be endangered due to the worsening war situation in World War II and to avoid possible food shortages. His foresight paid off when his Shinjuku house was destroyed in the 1945 bombing of Tokyo. In the post-war era, he continued to use the house while working with Prime Minister of Japan Shigeru Yoshida in negotiations with the American occupation authorities.
Jirō Shirasu died in 1985
and his wife in 1998. The house was preserved by the city of Machida as a memorial museum to the couple, and is kept as it appeared when they lived there, with items varying according to the seasons.
The house is a wooden structure constructed in the traditional style with a thatched roof, surrounded by Japanese gardens.
- source : wikipedia -

Buaiso – the Last Residence of the Refined Shirasu Couple
- look at many photos here :
- source : matcha-jp.com... -

. Masako Shirasu 白洲正子 (1910 -1998) .
Her husband was the politician Jiro Shirasu 白洲次郎.

..............................................................................................................................................

Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts 町田市立国際版画美術館
- quote -
Opened in 1987 as one of the world's few museums dedicated to prints, the Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts now maintains a collection of some 30,000 Japanese and Western prints spanning from the eighth century to today.
Works of exceptional aesthetic value show the history of print art and reveal technological changes, social roles, and other insights as multifaceted works of art. In addition to conservation and research of our collection, the museum's mission is to use its collection to introduce the amazing world of print art through exhibitions on diverse themes. As a comprehensive venue for appreciating, creating, and displaying art for the public and our community, we offer a variety of facilities, including rental exhibition spaces and print studio.
Museum events and lectures of all kinds bring together local residents and visitors into this center for art and cultural exchange in Machida.
We invite you to stroll through Serigaya Park and visit the museum nearby for an intimate encounter with art.
- source : hanga-museum.jp/english -

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

.................................................................................　Machida 町田市

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
Sometimes a fox comes along, carrying a lantern and making the sound like a car.
When this apparition comes too close, it suddenly disappears.
.
Once a boｙ needed to go to the toilet at school. When he passed the sports hall, he heard the sound of Kagura dance music, like ピイタラピイタラ piitara piitara.
He had been bewitched by a fox in pure daylight and became missing. When they found him later, he said he had been to 七面山 Mount Shishimensan.
.
At the temple Shinko-Ji in 真光寺町 Shinkoji town, people never drink tee on 初午の日 the first day of the horse before 10 in the morning.
In former times, a fox had been stealing ears of rice from Izumo and was running away.
He hid under cha no ki 茶の木 a tea tree until 10 in the morning and was thus saved. Thanks to this fox, growing rice became possible for the local farmers.
To take good care of the fox and not hurt him, people do not put hot water over the tea leaves until later.

.......................................................................

chinshoo 沈鐘 the fallen temple bell

Once the temple bell from the 大日堂 Dainichi-Do hall had fallen down and nobody could find it - it had simple disappeared.
.
There was a bell at Ropponmatsu 六本松 "Six Pine Trees", but the local fishermen said it was disturbing and asked the officials to take it down. But it was not allowed. So the fishermen took it away secretely at night and threw it into a deep valley. Later they could not find it any more, however much they searched.
.
Another bell had been thrown into a well and all the villagers wanted to pull it out again.
But every time when the bell was almost out, the thick rope ruptured and the bell fell back into the well.
Eventually they burried the well and made a memorial mound out of it.

. kane 鐘と伝説 Legends about the temple bell .
tsurigane 釣鐘 hanging temple bell

..............................................................................................................................................

- reference : nichibun yokai database -

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

8/06/2018

Mikawa district Kanda Chiyoda

[ . BACK to DARUMA　MUSEUM　TOP . ]
. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo　江戸の名所 .
. Persons and People of Edo - Personen .
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Mikawa choo 三河町 Mikawacho, Mikawa district
Chiyoda ward 千代田区 / 内神田 Uchi-Kanda first district and 神田司町2丁目 Kanda Tsukasa machi second district
and 神田美土代町の一部 part of Kanda Mitoshiro cho
神田区三河町 Kanda Mikawa cho was a rather long and thin district in the Edo period.

The name refers to the Mikawa region (now Aichi prefecture), where Tokugawa Ieyasu was born.
When he came to Edo in 1590, he had his 下級武士 junior Samurai retainers settle in this district.
It is one of the old districts in Edo.
In the Meiji period it got the name of 神田区三河町 Kanda Mikawa cho.
In 1953, the first sub-district became 鎌倉町 Kamakura machi, the second to fourth sub-district were merged to
神田司町 Kanda Tsukasa machi and the old name was lost.

. Tokugawa Ieyasu 徳川家康 (1543 - 1616) .

. hachoo miso, hatchoo miso 八丁味噌 from the Mikawa region. .
a favorite food of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

. Kanda Kamakuracho 神田鎌倉町 .

.......................................................................

. Mikawa dolls 三河人形 .
made in the towns of Toyokawa and Toyohashi and many other places in Aichi prefecture.

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

- quote -
Mikawa Province (三河国 Mikawa no kuni)
was an old province in the area that today forms the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture.
Its abbreviated form name was Sanshū (三州 or 参州). Mikawa bordered on Owari, Mino, Shinano, and Tōtōmi Provinces.
Mikawa is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō. Under the Engishiki classification system, Mikawa was ranked as a "superior country" (上国) and a "near country" (近国) in terms of its distance from the capital.
..... However, by the Sengoku period, the province had fragmented into many small territories largely dominated by the Matsudaira clan, and contested by the Imagawa clan to the east and the Oda clan to the west. It was united under Tokugawa Ieyasu after the power of the Imagawa had been destroyed at the Battle of Okehazama. After the creation of the Tokugawa shogunate, parts of the province were assigned as feudal domains to trusted hereditary retainers as fudai daimyōs, with large portions retained as tenryō territory administered by various hatamoto directly under the shogunate.
During the Edo period, Mikawa was the only area permitted by the shogunate to produce gunpowder, which led to its modern fireworks industry.
..... The entire territory of former Mikawa Province became part of the new Aichi Prefecture in January 1872.

Hiroshige "Mikawa" in "The Famous Scenes of the Sixty States" (六十余州名所図会),
depicting the mountainous scenery around the temple of Hokai-ji, a popular pilgrimage destination in Mikawa
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

The author of the famous tales of
Hanshichi Torimonocho 半七捕物帳 The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi
Okamoto Kido 岡本綺堂 (1872 - 1939)
lived in 三河町 Mikawa cho.

a Japanese author. His real name was Keiji Okamoto (岡本敬二 Okamoto Keiji). His best known work is the Shin Kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

Hanshichi was often called
Mikawa no Oyabun　三河の親分 The Boss of Mikawa

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

8/05/2018

Kashiwagi district Shinjuku

[ . BACK to DARUMA　MUSEUM　TOP . ]
. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo　江戸の名所 .
. Persons and People of Edo - Personen .
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Kashiwagi mura 柏木村 Kashiwagi village, "oak tree"
Shinjuku 新宿区 /
北新宿 Kita-Shinjuku first to fourth sub-district, 西新宿 Nishi-Shinjuku sixth to eighth district

A triangular piece of land, surrounded by the river 神田川 Kandagawa, the 青梅街道 Ome Kaido and the modern road 小滝橋通り Otakibashidori.

In the mid-Heian period the regent of Musashi resided here around 1030. His name was
Kashiwagi Emonnosuke Yorisue 柏木右衛門佑頼季/ 柏木右衛門佐頼秀.
He had fought against the regents of Kazusa and Mutsu in the North and as a reward was granted the land from
Kashiwagi (North-Shinjuku) to 角筈 Tsunohazu (West-Shinjuku).
His residence later became the temple

Enshooji 円照寺 / 圓照寺　Ensho-Ji
Shinjuku, 北新宿 Kita-Shinjuku 3-23-2

In the temple compound is a famous cherry tree, Emon sakura 右衛門桜, now in the third generation

- CLICK for more photos !

The temple dates back at least to 940. Priest 貞崇僧都 Jozu (Teizu, 866 - 944) built a 薬師堂 hall for Yakushi Nyorai and placed a Yakushi statue here.
藤原秀郷 Fujiwara no Hidesato came here to pray for his health on the war campaign to the North, fighting 平将門 Taira no Masakado.

The temple was lost to fire around 1600, but later rebuilt on request of
. Lady Kasuga 春日局 Kasuga no Tsubone .
(1579 – 1643)

. Ōme Kaido 青梅街道 Ome Kaido Highway .

. Twelve Kumano Shrines at Tsunohazu in Yotsuya 角筈熊野十二社 .

..............................................................................................................................................

- quote -
During the Edo period, the villages of 柏木 Kashiwagi and 大久保 Okubo were agricultural districts on either side of Hyakunin-cho where samurai warrior residences were located.
These villages were known as vegetable producing areas. The samurai families cultivated plants and flowers and this a tradition was continued through the Meiji period (1868-1912) even though the samurai class itself had disappeared by then.
The area was particularly famous for its azaleas (tsutsuji).
Since Hyakunin-cho was a residential area of the constables (doshin) belonging to the Hyakunin (hundred-man) brigade of shooters operated by the Bakufu military government during the Edo period. During festivals held at the Kaichu Inari Shrine, they fired ceremonial volleys with firelocks.
- source : kanko - shinjuku -

. Hyakuninchoo　百人町 Hyakunincho district .

..............................................................................................................................................

柏木公園 Kashiwagi Koen Park
新宿区西新宿7-14

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

- - - - - not related - - - - -

. Kashiwagi Soryuu 柏木素龍 Kashiwagi Soryu (? - 1716) - 儀左衛門 .
Haiku poet
Samurai from Awa, Tokushima. Worked for Yanagizawa Yoshiyasu (time of Shogun Tsunayoshi). Sarumino.

..............................................................................................................................................

. Odawara imono 小田原鋳物 Odawara casting .
In 1686, the Kashiwagi family relocated to Odawara’s Nabe Town under the auspices of the Okubo family, where they started a casting business as well. When Yamada Jirozaemon’s descendants moved to Tokyo in 1891, the Kashiwagi family purchased the Yamada family’s casting facilities lock, stock and barrel. With this, the Kashiwagi family’s production capabilities increased dramatically, and the techniques they developed form the backbone of today’s Odawara casting methods.

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

8/02/2018

kawa rivers of Edo

That map describes four river basins:
Tonegawa 利根川 (Tone River)
Arakawa River 荒川
Tamagawa 多摩川 / 玉川 (Tama River)
Sagamigawa 相模川 (Sagami River)

. Waterways in Edo .

..............................................................................................................................................

Arakawa 荒川
The river is 173 km long and flows through Saitama Prefecture and Tokyo.
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

. Edogawa 江戸川 .

. Furuishibagawa 古石場川 .
- and 平久川 Heikyugawa

. Furukawa 古川 (渋谷川 Shibuyagawa) .

. Hamachogawa 浜町川 . - Chuo ward

. Hikifunegawa 曳舟川 .
- and Kasai Yōsui 葛西用水 the Kasai Waterway

. Igusagawa 井草川 .

. Kaedegawa 楓川 . - Chuo

. Kandagawa 神田川 .

Megurogawa 目黒川
The Meguro River
The river is 7.82 km in length and passes through Setagaya, Meguro and Shinagawa wards.
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

. Miyatogawa 宮戸川 .

. Myooshoojigawa, Myōshōjigawa 妙正寺川 Myoshojigawa .

. Nakagawa 中川 Naka-gawa, Naka River .

Nihonbashigawa 日本橋川
The Nihonbashi River
The river is 4.8 km in length and passes through Chiyoda and Chuo wards.
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

. Ooyokogawa 大横川 Oyokogawa . - Sumida

. Otonashigawa 音無川 .

. Ryukangawa 竜閑川 .

. Sengawa / Senkawa 千川上水 Josui waterway .

. Shakujiigawa 石神井川 .

. Shibuyagawa 渋谷川 (Ondengawa 隠田川) .

. Sumidagawa 隅田川 .

Tamagawa 多摩川 /　玉川 River Tama
. Tamagawa Joosui 多摩川上水 Tamagawa Josui Kanal .

. Tatekawa 竪川 and Yokokawa 横川 - vertical and horizontal canal .

. Tonegawa 利根川 / Bandō Tarō 坂東太郎 Bando Taro .

..............................................................................................................................................

江戸の川・復活 ― 日本橋川・神田川・隅田川 - 絵図から学ぶ
渡部一二 Watabe Kazuji (1938 - )

本書の主題「江戸の川を復活する」舞台となるのは日本橋川です。日本橋川は、東京都千代田区三崎町で神田川と分岐し、中央区日本橋箱崎町で隅田川に合流する延長約4キロメートルの河川であり、川の上空には現在首都高速道路が通っています。2006年9月には「日本橋川に空を取り戻す会」により、小泉首相(当時)へ首都高速道路を地下化し河川の環境整備を行うという提言がなされるなど、日本橋川への注目が集まっています。
著者である渡部一二先生はランドスケープデザインの専門家で、これまで日本全国のいたるところで数々の河川再生に取り組んできました。景観の改善を第一とする首都高速道路の地下化には、膨大な費用がかかり、その他にも難題が山積しています。著者は江戸の川の水辺空間を描いた浮世絵図などを手掛かりに、現状のままでも江戸の面影を体感し、楽しめる水辺空間づくりの可能性に注目しました。日本橋川・神田川・隅田川はループ状につながっており、そこを回遊する舟のルートを構築し、川沿いには散歩道(リバーウォーク)をつくり、その一部に江戸時代に賑わった河岸を再現するというものです。そして、江戸の文化・風物詩・情緒などを参加者がそれぞれに楽しむ体感型野外博物館(エコ・ミュージアムの応用)について具体的に提案しています。
一般の読者を対象とするため、第一部では、浮世絵図などを数多く掲載し、江戸の水辺空間の魅力を解説します。また、日本橋川に架かるすべての橋についても写真とともに紹介しています。第二部では、体感型野外博物館の実現にむけた具体的な構想について述べています。また、巻末には絵図が描かれた江戸時代をイメージできるように「日本橋川・江戸の面影まっぷ」を付録としてつけました。案内まっぷを切りとって、日本橋川の水辺空間を歩いてみてはいかがでしょうか。

.......................................................................

江戸の川あるき - Walking along the rivers of Edo
栗田彰　Kurita Akira

江戸は埋立ての人工のまち。暮らしの移り変りとともに、川はつくられ、渡しが橋になり道路となって、やがて消えていった。
gesuido 下水道の専門家が江戸のまぼろしの川を探し求めて東京をあるく。江戸情緒たっぷりのイラストマップ付き。

.......................................................................

. Ochiai Water Reclamation Center 落合下水道局 Gesuido Kyoku .

.......................................................................

江戸の川・東京の川
鈴木理生　Suzuki Masao (1926 - 2015)

.......................................................................

Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan’s Rivers, 1600–1930
Roderick L. Wilson
In Turbulent Streams: An Environmental History of Japan’s Rivers, 1600–1930, Roderick I. Wilson describes how the rivers of Japan are both hydrologically and historically dynamic.
Today, these waterways are slowed, channeled, diverted, and dammed by a myriad of levees, multiton concrete tetrapods, and massive multipurpose dams. In part, this intensive engineering arises from the waterways falling great elevations over short distances, flowing over unstable rock and soil, and receiving large quantities of precipitation during monsoons and typhoons.
But this modern river regime is also the product of a history that narrowed both these waterways and people’s diverse interactions with them in the name of flood control. Neither a story of technological progress nor environmental decline, this history introduces the concept of environmental relations as a category of historical analysis both to explore these fluvial interactions and reveal underappreciated dimensions of Japanese history.
- source : brill.com/view/title... -

.......................................................................

江戸の川風 Edo no Kawakaze
羽山信樹 Hayama Nobuki (1944 - 1997)

天皇の料理人と将軍の料理人！ Cooks for the Tenno
壮大なスケールと江戸前の枠、待望久しい未完の秀作。
縄田一男スペシャル解説付。
日本料理の源流である四条流からは、高橋家、石井家の2派があり、四条流包丁の総元締は、高橋家がつとめ、形式上、石井家は高橋家に入門し包丁式の免許を得るかたちとなっている。そして高橋家は天皇の料理番を、石井家は将軍家の料理頭取をつとめていた。
一見、羽山信樹作品初の市井ものと見紛う本書の真のテーマは、食文化を介した皇室と幕閣の抗争である。（略）
1人の男、早咲屋圭次郎を江戸へ送った。鮨屋の圭次郎に託された密命は――？（解説より

..............................................................................................................................................

. The 御菜八ケ浦 eight special inlets with fishing rights in Edo Bay .

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

- - - To join me on facebook, click the image !

:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

. hori 堀 moat and districts with this name .

. Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government .

. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo　江戸の名所 .

. Doing Business in Edo - 商売　- Introduction .

. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

[ . BACK to DARUMA　MUSEUM　TOP . ]
[ . BACK to WORLDKIGO . TOP . ]
- - - - - #kawa #river #rivers - - - -
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

7/29/2018

Shinano district Shinjuku

It is named after the Shinano province of old, now Nagano, where the lord of Shinano
永井尚政 Nagai Naomasa had his estate.
There were no townspeople living in this district, only some Daimyo estates.
Shinano Tono Machi 信濃殿町
Shinanohara 信濃原

- quote
Shinano Province (信濃国 Shinano no kuni) or Shinshū (信州)
is an old province of Japan that is now Nagano Prefecture.
Shinano bordered on Echigo, Etchū, Hida, Kai, Kōzuke, Mikawa, Mino, Musashi, Suruga, and Tōtōmi Provinces. The ancient capital was located near modern-day Matsumoto, which became an important city of the province.
- - - - - Historical record
In 713, the road that traverses Mino and Shinano provinces was widened to accommodate increasing numbers of travelers through the Kiso District of modern Nagano Prefecture.
In the Sengoku period,
Shinano Province was often split among fiefs and castle towns developed, including Komoro, Ina, and Ueda. Shinano was one of the major centers of Takeda Shingen's power during his wars with Uesugi Kenshin and others.
Suwa taisha was designated as the chief Shinto shrine (ichinomiya) for the province.
In 1871, during the Meiji period, with the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures (Haihan Chiken) after the Meiji Restoration, Shinano Province was administratively separated in 1871 into Nagano and Chikuma prefectures. These two tentative governmental and territorial units were reconfigured together again in 1876.
This became the modern prefecture of Nagano, which remains substantially unchanged from that time.
- source : wikipedia

..............................................................................................................................................

永井尚政 Nagai Naomasa (1587 – October 16, 1668)

... was a Japanese daimyō of the Edo period, who ruled the Uruido, Koga and Yodo Domains. The eldest son of Nagai Naokatsu, he fought at the Battle of Sekigahara and the Siege of Osaka. During the Shimabara Rebellion he was assigned to defend Kyoto.
Naomasa held junior 4th court rank, lower grade (従四位下 ju shii no ge) and the title of 信濃守 Shinano no Kami.
He retired in early 1658 and became a monk, taking the name Shinsai.
- source : wikipedia -

永井尚政数寄に通じた幕府の重鎮
深谷信子 Fukaya Nobuko

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Sōka Gakkai 創価学会 Soka Gakkai

- quote -
Shinanomachi has so many buildings and believers of 創価学会 Soka Gakkai, so Shinamomachi is called
Gakkai Village, Soka Gakkai Town, or Soka Kingdom.

Daisaku Ikeda (池田大作) : The third leader of Soka Gakkai.
Komeito (公明党) : A political party founded and supported by members of Soka Gakkai.
Seikyo Shimbun (聖教新聞) : Soka Gakkai’s daily newspaper.

Soka Gakkai Headquarters - Kosen Rufu Daiseido 広宣流布大誓堂
with many Soka Gakkai goods
Seikyo Shimbun (the Soka Gakkai newspaper)

Hakubundo Shoten (博文堂)
Hakubun Eikou Do (博文栄光堂)

Keio University Hopital
Shinanomachi Mint Candy
Shinanomachi Shoten Shinkokai (信濃町商店振興会)
- source : tokyodeep.info/shinanomachi-soka-gakkai... -

Tricolor flag of blue, yellow, and red are the symbol of Soka Gakkai.
Blue means peace, yellow means glory, and red means victory.

- quote -
Soka Gakkai (創価学会 - Sōka Gakkai, "Value-Creation Society")
is a Japanese Buddhist religious movement based on the teachings of the 13th-century Japanese priest Nichiren as taught by its first three presidents Tsunesaburō Makiguchi, Jōsei Toda and Daisaku Ikeda. It is the largest of the Japanese new religions and holds the largest membership among Nichiren Buddhist groups.
"The Gakkai" bases its teachings on Nichiren's interpretation of the Lotus Sutra and places chanting "Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō" at the center of devotional practice. The organization promotes its goals as supporting "peace, culture, and education".
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

. Temple 長安寺 Choan-Ji .
火防地蔵 Hibuse Jizo Bosatsu to prevent fire

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

.................................................................................　Nagano 長野県
上水内郡 Kami-Minochi district 信濃町 Shinano town

Shinano is located in far northern Nagano Prefecture, bordered by Niigata Prefecture to the north.
Lake Nojiri and Mount Kurohime are in Shinano.
The area of present-day Shinano was part of ancient Shinano Province. The modern village of Shinano was created by the merger of the villages of Kashiwabara and Fujisato on July 1, 1955. Shinano merged with the neighboring villages of Furuma and Shinanojiri to form the town of Shinano on September 30, 1956.
- quote wikipedia -

.......................................................................

. hebi 蛇と伝説 Legends about snakes and serpents .
If a serpent or snake takes possession of a human, they must perform special exorcism rituals to heal.

. kitsune 狐 the fox in Japanese culture and tales .
If a fox takes possession of a human, they must perform special exorcism rituals to heal.

inari イナリ the fox deity
Sometimes people are allowed to sit on a Inari fox statue and dance, イナリオドリ inari odori.
Such a person is able to answer all kinds of questions during such a session. To end the ritual, people must chant:
「天タタラ、地タタラ、国王タタラ、天ビャク、地ビャク、ワレニ、ヒカレヌ、ネガタキマツワ、
コモアラジ、サラサラト、アガリタマエ、ヨモノカミ」

. neko 猫 / ねこと伝説 Legends about cats, Katzen .
Cats can take possession of humans.
Once a poor old woman was so hungry she killed a cat and ate it. But the cat took possession and the woman begun to run around the eaves of her home.

.......................................................................

yuurei 幽霊 ghost
A ghost appears when the dead person has left some unfinished business and grudges in this world.
Some take the form of a woman with long tangled hair, with hands hanging down below the breast and no feet.
Once a farmer saw such a ghost under 柳の木 a willow tree.
Another one was seen in the private graveyard of an estate.
But the reason why some can see them is not quite clear.

..............................................................................................................................................

- reference : nichibun yokai database -

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

- - - - - H A I K U and S E N R Y U - - - - -

. Shinano, home of Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 .

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

7/28/2018

Morikawajuku station Bunkyo

[ . BACK to DARUMA　MUSEUM　TOP . ]
. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo　江戸の名所 .
. Persons and People of Edo - Personen .
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Morikawajuku 森川宿 Morikawa rest station
森川宿追分 Morikawajuku Oiwake　　// 森川町 Morikawa cho
文京区 Bunkyo ward 本郷　Hongo fifth and sixth sub-district

Here was the first ichirizuka 一里塚 stone marker mound of the 中仙道 Nakasendo Highway, where the 日光御成道（岩槻街道) Nikko Onari Michi started.

Until the middle of the 18th century, there ware many enoki 榎 nettle trees along the road, but they were cut down to make a wider road for fire prevention and enlargement of the street.
The corner shop 高崎屋 Takasakiya in the Edo period was a Sake store and also money changer, who only sold goods for money.
The road to the left of the store is the Nakasendo Highway.

Oiwake Ichirizuka post

..............................................................................................................................................

Kaneyasu かねやす

A saying from Edo:
Hongo mo Kaneyasu made wa Edo no uchi 本郷もかねやすまでは江戸の内
Hongo belongs to the city of Edo until the store of Kaneyasu.

Kaneyasu Yuuetsu 兼康祐悦
Kaneyasu was a 口中医(歯医者) dentist who came to Edo at the time of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
兼康祐元 Kaneyasu Yugen, the third generation, opened the corner store かねやす Kaneyasu in 1617. The store also sold nyuukoosan 乳香散 Nyukosan, a kind of toothpaste.
His store was at the traffic crossing Hongo Third District 本郷三丁目の交差点. It remains there to our day, now as a store selling cloths.
nyuukoo 乳香 francinsense, Olibanum, was an ingredient of Nyukosan.

. Hongō, Hongoo 本郷　Hongo district .

..............................................................................................................................................

Walking along the Nakasendo from the store of Kaneyasu, there was the station 森川宿 Morikawa-juku.
The 宿 juku here does not mean a postal station, but just a place to stand and take a rest, tatejuku 立宿.
Travelers and horse leaders could take a rest and refreshments, before coming to the first postal station of the Nakasendo,
Itabashi-shuku 板橋宿 Itabashi.

. Nakasendoo 中山道 Nakasendo Highway .

..............................................................................................................................................

In the Edo period, there was the estate of
森川金右衛門 Morikawa Kinemon.
Kinemon was an official of the Edo Bakufu government, taking care of the safety of this crossroads.

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

. Yaoya no O-Shichi 八百屋のお七　Greengrocer's Daughter Oshichi .
She was born in Morikawajuku.

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

7/27/2018

Enoki machi Shinjuku

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.

..............................................................................................................................................

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... -

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::