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6/18/2018

Edogawa ward Shishibone

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Edogawa ku 江戸川区 Edogawa ward

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo. It takes its name from the river Edogawa that runs from north to south along the eastern edge of the ward.

Yuki no Edogawa 雪の江戸川　 - Evening Snow at Edo River

Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水 (1883-1957）

. Kobayashi Issa and Edogawa .

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. Kasai 葛西 The Kasai district .
- Kitakasai // Nakakasai // Nishikasai // Higashikasai // Minamikasai
Koiwa 小岩 - see bwlow // 北小岩 Kitakoiwa // 西小岩 Nishikoiwa // 東小岩 Higashikoiwa // 南小岩 Minamikoiwa
Komatsugawa - see below // 西小松川町　Nishikomatsugawachō // 東小松川　Higashikomatsugawa
Shishibone - see below
Chuo, Chūō 中央 "Central part"
Tobu 東部 "Eastern part"

Edogawa 江戸川
. Funabori 船堀 Funabori district .
. Ichinoe 一之江 .
- - - Ichinoechō 一之江町 // Nishi-Ichinoe 西一之江　// Ninoechō 二之江町
Haruechō 春江町
Kamiisshiki 上一色
. Hirai 平井村 .
Hon'isshiki, Honisshiki 本一色
Horie 堀江町
Komatsugawa 小松川 - see below
Matsue 松江村
Matsushima 松島
Matsumoto 松本 // Higashimatsumoto
Mizue 瑞江 // Nishimizue // Higashimizue
Mizuho 瑞穂村
. Nīhori, Niihori 新堀村 .
Ōsugi 大杉
Okinomiyachō 興宮町
Rinkaichō 臨海町
Seishincho, Seishinchō 清新町
Shikamoto 鹿本村
Shinozaki 篠崎村 / Shinozakimachi // Kamishinozaki // Shimoshinozakimachi // Higashishinozaki // Higashishinozakimachi // Minamishinozakimachi
Shishibone 鹿骨 - see below
Ukitachō 宇喜田町
Yagouchi 谷河内

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Koiwa district 小岩 "small rock"
Edogawa, 小岩一丁目- 八丁目 first to eighth district
北小岩 Kitakoiwa // 西小岩 Nishikoiwa // 東小岩 Higashikoiwa // 南小岩 Minamikoiwa

The first spelling of this district was 甲和里 Kowari, Kowa no Sato.
It is already mentioned in old scriptures of 721.
The sound of 甲和 kowa eventually changed to 小岩 Koiwa.
In 1952, at the Kofun mound 上小岩遺跡 Kamikoiwa Iseki (now Kita-Koiwa) they found earthenware. This means there have been people living here since olden times.

These remains date back to the Yayoi period (300 BC – 250 AD).
The relics found here show that there was trade with the Tokai area.
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Komatsugawa district 小松川 "river Komatsu"
Edogawa, 小松川一丁目-四丁目 first to fourth district

Along the river (-gawa) were growing small pine trees (ko-matsu).
Once Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune came here during a hawking expedition and was given a regional vegetable, komatsuna, which he liked very much.

. komatsuna 小松菜 leafy vegetable, like spinach - Brassica campestris .
Komatsuna, or spinach mustard,
is commonly eaten during the New Year. In season from November through March, nearly 10,000 tons of spinach mustard is produced yearly in Edogawa Ward. Komatsuna gets its name from the Komatsugawa district, which includes Edogawa, Katsushika and Adachi wards. Tokyo was the second-largest regional producer of komatsuna in 2004.
The hardy green vegetable tastes best in winter, when its leaves become rich in flavor. Komatsuna is served blanched or in zoni boiled rice cake soup. Demand for komatsuna peaks around this time of the year.

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Shishibone district 鹿骨 "bones of the deer"
江戸川区鹿骨一丁目から鹿骨六丁目 Edogawa district, Shishibone from the first to the 6th sub-district

Shishibone cho 鹿骨町（ししぼねちょう）was established in 1932.
In 1970, the six sub-districts were established

source : chimei-yurai.seesaa.net/article

. The famous Kasuga shrine deer 春日大社の鹿 .

The name of this district go back to the legend of the deity Takemikazuchi no Mikoto 武甕槌神 in the Nara period.
The "Great God of Kashima" rode on a white deer from Kashima, Ibaraki, all the way to the Kasuga shrine in Nara as a divine messenger, and the deer became the symbol of Nara.
The Edo version of the legend
tells us that the deer died on the way and was buried here.

御籤　Mikuji holder from Kasuga Taisha

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Shishimizuka jinja 鹿見塚神社 Shrine
江戸川区鹿骨 3-1-1

where the mound for the grave of the deer was made.
The mound is no longer there, but a stone memorial reminds of its existence.

The character 鹿 is usually read shika.
The reading SHISHI expresses the respect for this special sacred animal.

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. Japanese Legends - 伝説　民話　昔話 – ABC-List .

. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .
Once on the 27th day of the 8th lunar month, a man surprized four white foxes sleeping on the road and the foxes run away. Then it begun suddenly to rain and he went to a home where he usually took shelter. The owner of the house was just taking the coffin for his wife to the graveyard, so he asked the man to wait until he would come back.
While he was there the ghost of the dead wife appeared and tried to eat his arm. A nearby farmer saw how the man run up and down the dam, bleeding from his arm. He was bewitched by a fox and the farmer washed his arm with clear river water to purify it. Thus he came back to his senses. He prepared fried Tofu and went to apologize to the foxes.
It had not really rained that day, but his arm had a wound and was hurting for a long time.

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- reference : Nichibun Yokai Database -

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Kodaira city Ogawa

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Kodaira shi 小平市 Kodaira city

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Kodaira is located in the Musashino Terrace near the geographic center of Tokyo Metropolis.
The area of present-day Kodaira
was part of ancient Musashi Province. In the post-Meiji Restoration catastral reform of July 22, 1878, the area became part of Kita-Tama District in Kanagawa Prefecture.
The village of Kodaira was created on April 1, 1889 with the establishment of municipalities law. Kitatama District was transferred to the administrative control of Tokyo Metropolis on April 1, 1893. The population of the area expanded after the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake with the relocation of universities and housing areas from central Tokyo. Kodaira was elevated to town status in 1944 and to city status on October 1, 1962.
- source : wikipedia

Ōmekaidō Station is a railway station in Kodaira, by the Seibu Railway.

. Musashi no Kuni 武蔵国 Musashi Province .

The name Kodaira refers to two things:
小 ko (read O in the name of Ogawa Kurobei)
平 daira (taira) as in a flat piece of land.

The plain which was rather dry was irrigated by the
. Tamagawa Joosui 多摩川上水 Tamagawa Josui canal　.
The estates of the farmers were distributed to both sides of the canal as narrow, but rather long pieces of land, like a tansaku 短冊 long slip of paper to write poetry on it.
Since the farmers had to walk around these long fields to visit each other, they made a small path after the main gardens, the
takaramichi　たから道 "treasure path".

かつての短冊型農地の面影をとどめるまちなみ
- reference source : toshi-nogyo.jp/point... -

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Ogawa cho 小川町 Ogawa district, "small river"
東京都小平市小川町一丁目及び小川町二丁目　Kodaira city, from 1 to 2nd sub-district

This district takes its name from
小川九郎兵衛 Ogawa Kurobei (1622 - 1670), who developed the land in the early Edo period, around 1656, with the permission of the Edo Bakufu government.
Kurobei was from a Samurai family, which was loyal to the Odawara Hojo clan and had to flee when the clan was devastated. They went to Oku-Tama to 岸村 Kishi mura, where Kurobei was born.

He also developed a system of drainage canals to keep the village from flooding (nigemizu no sato 逃げ水の里).
The land was uninhabited and only thieves and robbers lured here, making it unsafe for travelers, who could not find shops or water.
Not many farmers wanted to live in such conditions in the beginning, and Kurobei even used his own money to persuade some to come here.
This sons were the headmen of the village for many generations.

Ogawa was located along the 青梅街道 Ome Kaido Highway. The village of 小川村 Ogawa mura profited from the highway travelers, providing the with fresh horses (馬継場).
The village had ケヤキ並木 zelkova trees for shadow along the road and 防風林 windbreak trees around the farm houses.

. 青梅街道 Ome Kaido highway from Shinjuku to Kofu. .

Shoosenji 小川寺（しょうせんじ） Temple Shosen-Ji
In honor of 小川九郎兵衛 Ogawa Kurobei.
His grave is in the temple compound. You can also see the protective trees around the temple.

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Ogawa machi 小川町 Ogawa district, Chiyoda ward

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Ogawamachi (小川町), or formally Kanda-Ogawamachi (神田小川町), is a district in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
It consists of 3 chōme. As of March 1, 2007, the district's population is 875. Its postal code is 101-0052.
Kanda-Ogawamachi
is located on the northern part of Chiyoda. It borders Kanda-Sarugakuchō, Kanda-Surugadai and Kanda-Awajichō to the north, Kanda-Sudachō to the east, Kanda-Nishikichō, Kanda-Tsukasamachi and Kanda-Mitoshirochō to the south, and Kanda-Jinbōchō to the east.
A commercial neighborhood, Kanda-Ogawamachi is home to a number of buildings and stores. Notably, many sporting-goods stores can be found on Yasukuni-Dori Ave. Since the district is located adjancent to Kanda-Jinbōchō, home to a massive book town, several publishers and bookstores can be found as well.
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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

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oni 鬼 demons
On the night of the Setsubun rituals to drive out the demons,those driven out from the neighbourhood came to the Ogawa family. They were served sekihan 赤飯 red auspicious rice and ritual Sake.
At the hme of the 植竹家 Uetake family there was a kamidana 神棚 shelf for the gods named oni no yado no kamisama 鬼の宿の神様 Deity of the lodging of the Demons. with a black zushi 厨子 miniature shrine. During the Setsubun rituals, the demons could shelter there.

source : myth.maji.asia/amp/item_kisyuku...

kishuku 鬼宿（きしゅく）lodging for the demons

. setsubun 節分 "seasonal divide" rituals - Introduction . .
In Kodaira they call

oni wa uchi 鬼は内 Demons come in!
oni MO uchi 鬼も内
(Good luck come in and) Demons also come in!

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- reference : nichibun yokai database -

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6/17/2018

Shirokane Shirogane district Minato

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Shirokane 白金 Shirokane district "white metal" silver district
(both readings can be found - 町名の白金は正しくは「しろかね」と発音し、「しろがね」ではない)
東京都港区白金一～六丁目 with six sub-districts

The Shirogane chooja 白金長者 lived here around 1400, known as the "silver millionair". He developed the land and his name gave rise to the district name.
He horded shirogane 白銀 silver.
白金 is now known as platinum.

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The term Shirokane narrowly refers to Shirokane 1-chōme to Shirokane 6-chōme, but is sometimes used to include the larger neighborhood formerly known as Shiba-Shirokane (芝白金), which encompasses part of Shirokanedai and Takanawa as well as Shirokane.
Shirokane is one of the most wealthy neighborhoods in Japan which located in the southwestern part of Minato, Tokyo. It is a quiet residential area that is abundant in undeveloped green space. And also this area is known for its one of the most expensive real estate fee for living in Japan. Shirokane has boundaries with the neighborhoods of Minami-Azabu, Shirokanedai, Takanawa and Ebisu. ... The recent opening of a subway allowed the area centered at Shirokane-Takanawa Station to undergo a large redevelopment.
... There are forest areas owned by academic institutions and private companies such as Seishin Joshi Gakuin and the Kitasato Institute. With the Institute for Nature Study and the Institute of Medical Science in Shirokanedai, these areas forms one of the largest green districts in the special wards of Tokyo. This large green area traces back to daimyo's mansions which existed in Edo period; later, industrialists made their residences in this place, which gave rise to the well-known upper-class neighborhood.
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During the Ōei era (1394–1428), a government official of the Southern Dynasty who settled here became wealthy. His nickname was Shirokane Chōja (白金長者), which means "man who possesses much white gold" (白金), a reference to platinum.
Thus the name of this location is the "Platinum District".
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Shokkō-zaka (蜀江坂)
Sanko-zaka (三光坂)
Meiji-zaka (明治坂)
- source : wikipedia

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So the story goes that in the 14th century, a powerful clan migrated here and took the area under their direct control and began the development and cultivation of the area. According to the legend, the family was called Yanagishita 柳下氏 or Yagishita or Yanashita the Yanagishita clan. The story goes so far as to allege the head of the clan was a certain 柳下上総之介 Yanagishita Kazusanosuke who was so rich that he was called the shirokane chōja 白金長者 the silver coin millionaire. Bear in mind that there is very little corroborating evidence to support this story.
The name Shirokane
first appeared in 1559, when the so-called Late Hōjō clan granted a place called Shirokane Mura 白金村 Shirokane Village to the great grandson of Ōta Dōkan.
..... judging from the topography there clearly was a pre-Azuchi-Momoyama fortress in the area[iv], which at least indicates that some powerful lord lived in the area before the coming of the Tokugawa. The ruins, which are just embankments and plateaux today, can be seen in Shirokanedai at the Shizen Kyōikuen 国立自然教育園 National Park for the Study of Nature.
..... in the Kamakura Period, this area fell under the domain of the clans such as the Edo and the Shibuya. One of these clans may or may not have had fortresses in the area – and it’s possible that they could have – and the timing is right. Apart from the anecdotal story from the late Edo Period, the Yanagishita clan is otherwise unknown in the area.
Complicating the issue,
later, after the coming of the Tokugawa and the establishment of sankin-kōtai 参勤交代 the alternate attendance system, this area became home to many palatial residences of 大名 daimyō lords. In 1627, the Sanuki no Kuni Takamatsu-han no Matsudaira-ke 讃岐高松藩松平家 the Matsudaira Family of theTakamatsu Domain in Sanuki Province, a branch family of the Tokugawa, established a shimo-yashiki 下屋敷 lower residence here. .., the lower residence was usually the grandest and would have included beautiful gardens and ponds.
In the Meiji Era,
the imperial government set about its wholesale erasing samurai history and appropriated the sprawling palace of the Matsudaira and repurposed the land as an arsenal for the Imperial Navy. In 1893, the arsenal was transferred to the Imperial Army. In 1917, the wooded area was granted to the Imperial Forestry Bureau. In 1949, the area was finally open to the public as Kokuritsu Shizen Kyōikuen 国立自然教育園 the National Park for the Study of Nature.
..... However, another intriguing theory exists.
This theory proposes that the name actually derives from a Classical Japanese phrase 城ヶ根 shiro ka ne/shiro ga ne/jō ga ne which would mean something along the lines of “the castle’s embankments” or “castle foundations.” According to this etymology, the presence of a former lord’s castle ruins from time immemorial came to be written in more auspicious kanji, ie; 白金 shirogane/shirokane “silver” or “silver coins.” In the Edo Period, a folk etymology came to be circulated which created this Shirokane Chōja Silver Coin Millionaire character and story.
Another kind of interesting thing about this place name is that it does mean “silver” or “silver coins” and to this day the area is located in the richest ward of Tokyo.
- source : japanthis.com/201...

source : shirokane-1.com/history
江戸時代は、豊島郡と荏原郡の境界線上にあったこの白金村

Many craftsmen working with silver came to live in this district, attracted by the name.
. shokunin 職人 craftsman, craftsmen, artisan, Handwerker .

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Shirokanedai 白金台（しろかねだい） Shirokane-Dai
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The kanji 台 is a reference to a daichi 台地 plateau.
As mentioned earlier, the area was clearly fortified no less than 500 years ago. The area was probably a naturally high area, but it was intentionally built up too. Anyways, while one common meaning of the kanji 台 in a place name is “high ground,” it’s not always a reference to elevation in the modern geological sense (think sea level); it was a much more relative term. But in this case, it is most certainly a reference to the foundations of the old fortifications.
- source : japanthis.com/201...

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Shirokanedai (白金台)
is a highly affluent district of Minato, Tokyo. The district today is made up of 5 chome.
The former neighborhood of Shirokanedai (Shirokanedaimachi, 白金台町) consisted only of very narrow area along Meguro-dori (Tokyo Prefectural Route 312) and the former imperial estate called Shirokane Goryochi. It was merged with nearby neighborhoods after the promulgation of the current addressing system in 1969.
Located at the southwestern end of Minato, the neighborhood of Shirokanedai lies between Ebisu, Kamiōsaki and Higashigotanda on the west, Takanawa on the east, and Shirokane on the north.
..... Shirokanedai remains abundant in natural green space, for historically Shirokanedai-cho was home to the former imperial estate called Shirokane Goryochi (now the Institute for Nature Study and the Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum are located) and several national institutions such as the former Institute of Public Health and the former Institute of Infectious Diseases (now the Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo). Later, Shirokanedai came to be considered as one of the most upmarket residential areas in Tokyo,
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- sub-districts in 1878

芝白金丹波町　Shiba-Shirokane
白金志田町
芝白金今里町
芝白金三光町 - 東名光（ひがしなこう）、西名光（にしなこう）、松久保
- turned 白金三光町 Shirokane Sanko Cho

source : blog.goo.ne.jp/sake-masumoto...
Sake from Shirokane Sanko Cho

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Shrine Shirokane Hikawa Jinja 白金氷川神社
Tokyo, Minato, Shirokane, 2−1-7

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素盞嗚尊 Susano no Mikoto
日本武尊 Yamato Takeru
櫛稲田姫尊 Inada hime no mikoto

Edo Meisho Zue

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. 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 .

. 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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6/16/2018

Hieda Jinja Shrine

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Hieda Jinja 薭田神社（ひえだじんじゃ）
大田区 Ōta-ku, Ota ward, Kamata // Hieta Shrine

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Along with Rokugo Jinja, Mita Hachiman Jinja, and Unoki Hachiman Jinja, Hieta Jinja is one of the four candidates to be the Hieta Jinja mentioned in the Engi-shiki.

The shrine legend tells us that in the year 709 the Buddhist monk, Gyōki, made shintai (divine images) of Amaterasu Ōkami, Hachiman, and Kasuga and enshrined them. That the three shintai existed and were worshipped is probably a matter of fact, the existence of what is now the Hieta Jinja is more one of conjecture.

The first historical reference to what may have been a Hieta Jinja is in the Veritable Record of Three Generations of Emperors of Japan, published in 901. In the Engi Shiki, completed in 967, mention is made of two shrines in Ebara-gun, Musashi Province, Hieta Jinja and Iwai Jinja. In 1872 it was designated a gōsha: it is currently a kenmusha of Kamata Hachiman Jinja.

The shrine was basically destroyed in the firebombing of April 15, 1945, and while a temporary main hall was quickly put together it was not until 1954 that it was properly rebuilt. Further work was done in 2000. The koma-inu, dating to 1959, are relatively recent.

- In-ground Shrines:
Tenso Jinja 天祖神社
Sanjūban Jinja 三十番神社
Inari Jinja 稲荷神社
Yakuso Jinja 薬祖神社

- Deities in residence
Hondawake-no-mikoto 誉田別命
Amaterasu Ōkami 天照大神
Takenouchi no Sukune 武内宿禰
Kazuragi Sotsuhiko 葛城襲津彦
Kasuga Ōkami 春日大神

Note that the two kami, Takenouchi-no-Sukune and Katsuragi Sotsuhiko are semi-historical persons, father and son , and Takenouchi is said to have been an advisor to five emperors between 71 and 399. His 73rd generation descendant, Takeuchi Mitshiro (竹内睦泰), is the current custodian of what is a fascinating, if fanciful, family history.

- source and photos : Rod Lucas

. Gyooki Bosatsu 行基菩薩 Gyoki Bosatsu . (668 - 749)

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One of the enshrined deities here is the sun goddess, Amaterasu Oomikami, considered to be the creator of the Japanese people. On the right-hand side of the main structure there are three smaller shrines with their own torii gate. By one of the shrines there is a small pond with “pure water” written in kanji. In the pond you can see tiny fishes swimming actively.
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薭田神社(稗田神社)

東京都大田区蒲田3-2-10 Kamata
御祭神:誉田別命・天照大神・武内宿禰命・荒木田襲津彦命・春日大神
社格等:延喜式内社(小社論社)・郷社
例大祭:9月15日前後の土・日曜

式内社と呼ばれる古い格式をもつ神社である、平安時代（十世紀）に編纂された『延喜式』の神明帳に記載され、また『三代実録』に貞観六年（864）「武蔵国従五位下蒲田神を以て並びに官社に列す」とあるのが、この神社であろうといわれる。
社伝によれば、和銅二年（709）僧行基が天照、八幡、春日の三神体を刻んで安置し、鎌倉時代（十三世紀後半）に日蓮が村民の請いをいれて開眼したと伝えられる。江戸時代（十七〜十九世紀後半）には隣接の栄林寺が別当であったが、明治初年（十九世紀後半）の神仏分離により独立し、旧社格は郷社に定められた。
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6/13/2018

Igusa village Suginami

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Igusamura, Igusa mura 井草村 Igusa village
. Suginami 杉並区 Suginami ward . from the first to the 5th sub-district
Kami-Igusa, Shimo-Igusa

. igusa 藺草（いぐさ）rushes, Juncus effusus .
Igusa is the main material for the Tatami floor mats.

- old name of 1654: 武州多摩郡井草村 Bushu Tama Igusa mura
The part in the West, closer to downtown Edo, became 上井草村 Kami (upper).
The part in the East, further away, became 下井草村 Shimo (lower).
Apart from these two, Igusa village is now part of 今川 Imagawa, 善福寺 Zenpuku-Ji, 桃井 Momoi, and Shimizu 清水 and even 上荻 Kami-Ogi and 西荻 Nishi-Ogi.

Igusamori kooen 井草森公園（四丁目）Igusamori Park
Suginami, Igusa, 4−12-1

There are various theories about the name of this village.
1 - The area around 善福寺池 Zenpukuji-Ike pond and 妙正寺池 Myoshoji-Ike pond was a swamp where 藺草 Igusa was growing wild.
2 - ashi 葦 reed was growing in the ponds, then called ike no kusa 池の草. Ikenokusa was then shortened to イグサ Igusa 葦草.
3 - Between the ponds of Zenpuku-Ji and Myosho-Ji there was a grassland. Between pond 池（井）i and soogen 草原 grassland, using the Kanji 井草.
4 - The developer of the area was 長左衛門 Chozaemon, who used the family name 井口 Iguchi. He was also called 草分け長左衛門 Kusawake Chozaemon. kusawake, lit. "dividing the grass and weeds" is a pioneer in farming areas. His familiar name, Iguchi no Kusawake, was then shortened to 井草.

The village started developing, first Kami and Shimo Igusa, around 1644.
Kami-Igusa used to be called 遅野井村 Osonoi mura "slow wilderness well".
This village name comes with a legend of itself.

In 1189, when Minamoto no Yoritomo was on his way to fight the people of Tohoku he passed this area and his soldiers felt very thirsty. They begun digging for water in the ground with their arrows. Finally some water came sprouting out, but very slowly (osoi　遅い). Yoritomo complainde "osoi no" (this is sooo slow)". Eventually this was written as Osonoi.

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Around 1827, Osonoi village changed the name to Kami-Igusa.

Igusa village was close to the 青梅街道 Ome Kaido highway.

Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered、板倉重宗 Iwakura Shigemune (1586 - 1657) and 井上正利 Inoue Masatoshi (1606 - 1675) to be the 領主 lords of the village.
In 1645, Igusa mura became the land of Hatamoto 今川直房 Imagawa Naofusa (1594 - 1662) and stayed in his family that way until the Meiji period.

Minamoto no Yoritomo 源頼朝 (1147 – 1199)

. Iogi 井荻 Iogi district .
The name I-OGI was constructed of the first letters from Igusa and Ogikubo.

. Ōme Kaido 青梅街道 Ome Kaido Highway .

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Igusa Hachimangu Shrine 井草八幡宮
Kami-Igusa 上井草商店街 / 1-33-1. Zenpuku-ji, Suginami-ku

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Igusa Hachimangu Shrine has many kinds of plants and trees in the spacious compound, including some cherry trees that are very impressive when the blossoms are in full bloom. Cherry trees along the north approach and two huge lanterns welcome visitors.
The shrine is believed to have been founded in around 1190. In front of the main shrine there used to be a red pine tree and black pine tree planted around 1200 by the Shogun Yoritomo Minamoto. Those trees withered but parts of the roots are now exhibited along the corridor of the front shrine. In 1664 Ujinari Imagawa, an influential samurai of this area, renovated the main shrine, and this vermillion-lacquered shrine is the Suginami’s oldest wooden construction and is still preserved within the main shrine.
Igusa Hachiman Shrine
is famous for yabusame that is held every five years. Yabusame is the art of shooting arrows on horseback. When it first started in around 900, it was just a martial art, but later it became a ritual for Shogun families. When they wished to ward off evil spirits or for a new-born baby’s good health, yabusame was performed.
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Igusa Hachimangu Shrine is a Japanese shrine in Tokyo with a long history. It is said that this shrine was originally built in the Heian Period when samurais had much less power than that of several aristocrats. The Heian period started in 794 and ended about 900 years ago, so Igusa Hachimangu has a really long history.
After the original one was built,
several shoguns prayed for winning the war. For example, Minamoto no Yoritomo did it before his final battle to rule Japan against the enemy force in the northern Japan. Finally he won the battle and found the Kamakura shogunate which means he became the practical ruler of Japan.

The god of Igusa Hachimangu Shrine has some power.
1. Solving troubles around you smoothly and speedily.
2. Giving you an opportunity when you messed up.

Minamoto no Yoritomo defeated the war and was about to die before his battle against the north Japanese.
Are you ready for some sort of “revenge”?
Then Igusa Hachimangu Shrine will give you a special power just like it did for Minamoto no Yoritomo.
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. yabusame 流鏑馬 archery on horseback .
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6/12/2018

Kokubunji city Koigakubo

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Kokubunji is a city located in the western portion of Tokyo Metropolis.
Kokubunji is located on the Musashino Terrace of western Tokyo, approximately in the geographic centre of Tokyo Metropolis.
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The area of present-day Kokubunji was part of ancient Musashi Province, and was the site of the Nara period Provincial temple of that province. In the post-Meiji Restoration reform of 1878, the area became part of Kita^Tama District in Kanagawa Prefecture. The village of Kokubunji was created on April 1, 1889 with the establishment of municipalities law. Kita-Tama District was transferred to the administrative control of Tokyo Metropolis on April 1, 1893. Kokubunji was elevated to town status in 1940, and to city status on November 3, 1964.
- source : wikipedia

. Musashi no Kuni 武蔵国 Musashi Province .

. Nishi-Suna 西砂川 / 殿ヶ谷街道 Tonogaya Highway .
- Tonogayato Teien 殿ヶ谷戸庭園 Tonogayato Garden, Park

. Kokubunji 国分寺 Kokubun-Ji temples .
A system of regional provincial temples everywhere in Japan, established by Emperor Shomu Tenno (701 – 756) .
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Kokubunji village charcoal Kiln 国分寺村炭がま

This scene depicts a charcoal kiln in Kokubunji village and the people working there.
Kokubunji was a center of charcoal production along with Hachiōji.
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　Koigakubo, Koi-ga-kubo 恋ヶ窪 "cave of love"
Kokubunji city, 東 Higashi-Koigakubo, 西 Nishi-Koigakubo, Eastern and Western sub-district

It is located on a plain and has rich water supplies, including the river 野川 Nogawa from Higashikoigakubo, flowing into the river 摩川水 Tamagawa.
In the many ponds of old lived koi 鯉 carp fish, giving a name to the area, 鯉ヶ窪 "hollow with carp fish".

The city used to be a postal station along the Kamakura Kaido Highway with many red-light districts.

The name might also relate to a story around 1200.
This is the love story of Hatakeyama Shigetada and the courtesan 夙妻太夫 Asazuma Dayu.

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Shigetada was the lord of the land, but Asazuma was just a very beautiful prostitute of the village. Shigetada's main residence was in 埼玉県大里郡川本庁 Saitama and on his way to and from Kamakure he stopped here to see his beloved. Then Shigetada was ordered to go to Western Japan to fight. When he told Asazuma about his absence, she felt she would never see him again and was very sad. She begged him to take her with him. This was not possible so she remained here, crying all day long.
Another visitor fell in love with Asazuma, but she did not accept him as her lover.

When she heard of the death of Shigetada, she was overcome with grief and threw herself into the pond 姿見の池 Sugatami no Ike.
She was buried near the pond and a pine tree grew near her grave. This tree stretched all its branches to the West, as if to find her lover far away. The pine needles had 一葉 only one needle, an expression of her singular love for Shigetada.
The pond has been filled in 1965, but was reopened in 1998, now called 遊水地 Yusuichi.
- You might have guessed, Shigetada had not died at all and eventually came back. When he learned the fate of Asazuma, he grieved and built a small temple for her, named 無量山道成寺 Dojo-Ji. He had a statue of Amida Nyorai made and prayed there every day.

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Koigakubo, Amida-dō hall, Keisei-ga-matsu, Gozu-tennō Shrine
Koigakubo thrived since ancient times as an inn post on the highway which links the Tōhoku and Hokuriku Regions to Kyoto and Kamakura. Sugatami-no-Ike pond was a place around here where a prostitute named Asazuma Dayū drowned herself overwhelmed by her sorrow when she heard the news that Hatakeyama Shigetada, a warlord who loved her dearly, had been killed in a battle.
The pine tree of matchless beauty is a burial mound for Asazuma and Amida-dō hall is said to have been built for Shigetada who died in the war and there remained many historic spots related to Shigetada and Asazuma in Koigakubo.

source : library.metro.tokyo.jp/portals...

. Hatakeyama Shigetada (畠山重忠, 1164–1205) .
Originally fighting for the Taira clan, he switched sides for the battle of Dan-no-ura, and ended the war on the winning side.

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Koigakubo Station is a railway station in Kokubunji, Tokyo.
It is operated by the private railway operator Seibu Railway. It was opened on 10 February 1955.

There are only four station names that start with koi 恋 love.
The other three are
・三陸鉄道　恋し浜駅 Koishihama station, Sanriku Tetsudo
・智頭急行　恋山形駅 Koi Yamagata station in Tottori
・北海道旅客鉄道　母恋駅 Bokoi station, Hokkaido

紫陽花や練り塀長き国分寺
ajisai ya nerihei nagaki Kokubunji

hydrangeas -
the long stone-mud-wall
of temple Kokubun-Ji

anonymous
source :　slownet

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. Doing Business in Edo - 商売　- Introduction .

. shokunin 職人 craftsman, craftsmen, artisan, Handwerker .

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Komagome district

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Komagome 駒込 Komagome districts "groups of horses, crowds of horses"

There are two districts with this name, one in 文京区 Bunkyo ward and one in nearby 豊島区 Toshima ward.

Bunkyō
"Literature Capital" is a special ward located in Tokyo, Japan. Situated in the middle of the ward area.
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Toshima
is one of the eight central wards of the Tokyo Metropolitan area. Located in the northern area of Tokyo,
Toshima is bordered by the wards of Nerima, Itabashi, and Kita wards, in the north, and Nakano, Shinjuku and Bunkyo in the south.
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Horses were the most important means of transportation and very important to the people of Edo.
. uma 馬, koma 駒 - horse amulets .
The horse is also one of the 12 zodiac animals

In the early Edo period, Komagome was a plain, where many wild horsed lived, giving reason for its naming.
Another theory goes back to
Yamato Takeru, who was surprised to see the many horses of his allies gathered here for his Eastern Expedition and had used the many trees to bind the horses on them.
He called out: uma komitari 馬込みたり "So many horses have come together here!"
The komi later changed to gome.

. Yamato Takeru 日本武尊 .

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駒込 Komagome district / 文京区 Bunkyo ward
文京区本駒込一丁目から本駒込六丁目 Hon-Komagome from the 1st to the 6th sub-district

It is composed of many sub-districts
駒込片町、駒込曙町、駒込富士前町、駒込上富士前町、駒込吉祥寺町、駒込浅嘉町、駒込動坂町、駒込神明町、小石川駕籠町
There were at one time seven Komagome sub-districts, called
Komagome shichiken mura 駒込七軒村 Seven villages of Komagome.
They also used to be called
. Somei shichiken mura 染井七軒村 .
Somei was a cluster of small towns and villages that specialize in growing ornamental plants and trees to plant in the gardens of all the wealthy Daimyo in Edo.

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. Shrine Komagome Fuji Jinja 駒込富士神社 .
and the festival with mugiwara hebi 富士祭の麦藁蛇 the straw serpent

source :　yosukenaito.blog40.fc2.com

stamp with the straw serpent, from 1965

This shrine is located in :
5 Chome-7-20 Honkomagome, Bunkyo, Tokyo

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Hon-komagome-eki 本駒込駅 Honkomagome Station is a subway station on the Tokyo Metro Namboku Line in Bunkyo.

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Rikugien 六義園　'6 Poem Garden'
6-16-3 Hon-komagome, Bunkyo

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Rikugien is often considered Tokyo’s most beautiful landscaped garden. Built by the 5th Tokugawa Shogun Tsunayoshi in the 17th century, it reproduces 88 scenes from famous Japanese poetry. It has a traditional Edo-period design with a pond, small hill and trees. The garden was later neglected following the death of it’s key designer and was restored in 1878 by the owner of Mitsubishi, Iwasaki Yataro before it was donated to the Government in 1938.
It is one of Tokyo’s more spacious parks and takes roughly an hour to explore, and longer during cherry-blossom and autumn-leaf viewing seasons. There are different tea houses serving traditional tea and sweets to the public (around ¥500 each), including Fukiage Chaya which is located on the water’s edge. Seasonal flowers are a major attraction even in spring and summer, with plenty to explore and admire throughout the year.
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. Haiku about Rikugi-En .

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. Komagome Oiwake 駒込追分 .

The Nakasendo Highway branch off of the Nikko Highway at 駒込追分 Komagome-Oiwake.

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Komagome nasu 駒込茄子　eggplants from Komagome
. Edo yasai 江戸野菜　vegetables from Edo .

とくに、ナスは優れたものが出来たことから「駒込ナス」として江戸庶民に好まれ、徳川幕府が発行した「新編武蔵風土記稿」（１８２８年）にも記されています。農家はナス苗や種子の生産にも力を入れるようになり。タネ屋に卸していました。現巣鴨駅の北西にある旧中山道にはタネ屋が集まり、さながらタネ屋街道の趣をなし、駒込、滝野川など周辺の農家が優良品種の採種に大きく貢献していました。

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駒込 Komagome district / 豊島区 Toshima ward
豊島区本駒込 Toshima ward, Hon-Komagome

In the Edo period, the village 駒込村 Komagome mura was located here.

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Is Hon-Komagome the Original Komagome?
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When the same place name has variations, the kanji 本 is sometimes read as moto “source” (in place names, often “old, original.”
But Hon-komagome is different. In the former Tōkyō City, there was an ward called Hongō-ku 本郷区 Hongō Ward but in 1966 administrative units were re-assigned when the city became the Tōkyō Metropolis. At that time, Bunkyō Ward and Toshima Ward found themselves both in possession of areas called Komagome. The area in Toshima (the former Toshima District) kept the original name Komagome. The new Bunkyō Ward merged the former Hongō Ward name with the old name and so it became Hon(gō) + Komagome = Hon-komagome. So the meaning is not “Original Komagome” as some might think, the original Komagome is the area still called Komagome.
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Komagome-eki 駒込駅 Komagome Station is a railway station in Toshima.

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. Magome 馬込 Magome district, 大田区 Ota ward .

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Komagome Sendagi choo 駒込千駄木町 Komagome Sendagi "with 1000 trees",
"a lot of trees"
文京区 Bunkyo ward 千駄木一丁目から千駄木五丁目 from the first to the 5th sub-district

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Sendagi is a mixed residential and shopping area between Nezu and Yanaka. Today the area is distinctly shitamachi. However, if you go there you’ll notice slopes which are clear indicators that in the Edo Period the area was mixed with the elites living on the yamanote (high city) and the merchants and other people living on in the shitamachi (low city) while low ranking samurai naturally lived on the hillsides according to rank.
... 谷根千 Yanesen, an abbreviation based on the collective areas of 谷中 Yanaka, 根津 Nezu, and 千駄木 Sendagi.
The area is dotted with temples, shrines, shops dating as far back as the Edo Period, and is literally so steeped in history ...
The area was formerly part of Komagome Mura 駒込村 Komagome Village and in fact today is still officially part of Komagome. The name Komagome isn’t attested until the Sengoku Period. One the other hand, 千駄木 Sendagi isn’t attested until the early Edo Period when it appears as a label in a map. The label reads Ueno Tōzen'in mochi Komagome Sendagi o-hayashi 上野東漸院持ち駒込千駄木御林 the Komagome Sendagi o-hayashi which is controlled by Ueno Tōzen Temple.
Another early Edo Period map includes the label Ueno Kanshō'in mochi Komagome Sendagi o-hayashi 上野寒松院持ち駒込千駄木御林 the Komagome Sendagi o-hayashi which is controlled by Ueno Kanshō Temple. An 御林 o-hayashi was a hilltop wooded area owned by the shōgunate, but control of the area was granted to a lord or temple.
About 1656,
the former hilltop forest came to be the site of a daimyō residence of the lords of Bungo no Kuni Funai Han 豊後国府内藩 Funai Domain, Bungo Province (present day Oita Prefecture in Kyūshū). The family was the 大給松平家 Ōgyū Matsudaira, a samurai family from Mikawa no Kuni 三河国 Mikawa Province, Tokugawa Ieyasu’s homeland. As Edo depended on the shōgunate and the shōgun himself was from Mikawa, having a Mikawa family bearing the name Matsudaira bolstered the area’s prestige[. The hill became a yamanote town comprised of high ranking samurai residences. It seems that because the Ōgyū residence was first the prestigious palace built on the hilltop, the area came to be to be known as Ōgyūzaka 大給坂 Ōgyū Hill. If you go to the top of Ōgyūzaka there is a crappy little park with a huge gingko tree called the 大銀杏 Ōichō. They say this tree stood inside the original Ōgyū property.
Nearby
is another hill called 道灌山 Dōkanyama. It’s said that at the end of the Muromachi Period, 太田道灌 Ōta Dōkan had a branch castle here which he built for tactical support of Edo-jō 江戸城 Edo Castle.
..... 千駄 senda was another word for takusan 沢山 a lot.
- The 1000 Da Theory - firewood
da 駄 is a unit of measurement that describe how much stuff you can put on a horse’s back.
- The Ōta Dōkan Did It Theory
he re-forested the area by planting sendan 栴檀 Chinaberry trees here.
- It’s a Reference to a Traditional Japanese Prayer For Rain
..... amagoi 雨乞い prayer for rain. In the common parlance, this activity was called 千駄焚き senda-taki burning 1000 da.
There is also the district 千駄ヶ谷 Sendagaya.
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Sendagi 千駄木

Sendagi Dango-zaka Hanayashiki
Hiroshige

This area was originally forest land called 千駄木御林 Sendagi Ohayashi, and was contributed as a supply area for firewood after the construction of Ueno Kan'ei-ji Temple. It is said that the area was named Sendagi because senda was the amount of goods carried by a thousand horses and a senda of firewood was cut each day. Because the top of 団子坂 Dango-zaka Hill, which runs from Sendagi to Yanaka and Ueno, overlooks 佃沖 Tsukuda-oki , it was also known as 汐見坂 Shiomi-zaka Hill, and there were many dango (rice dumpling) shops along the roadside. There were many gardeners on top of the hill, and some sort of garden plants could be seen throughout the year. In 1856, a gardener who cultivated chrysanthemum moved to Sendagi from 染井 Somei, and the area became known for kiku ningyo (dolls wearing clothing made of chrysanthemums).
At the bottom of the hill, the 谷戸川 Yato-gawa River (Aizome-gawa River) threaded between the Hongo and Ueno plateaus, but it was turned into a culvert after the Great Kanto Earthquake. It is said a gardener named 宇平治 Uheiji opened a flower garden called 紫泉亭 Shisentei and established a pond.
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Sendagi
Sendagi Station is located in the Sendagi district of Bunkyo Ward of Tokyo. It is operated by Tokyo Metro for its Chiyoda Subway Line.
Sendagi is part of the historical area known as 谷根千　Yanesen.
The atmosphere of this simple and cozy residential district still holds signs of the Edo period. One can still find traditional wooden houses, small old-styled pubs (Izakaya), and a large number of old temples here mainly because this area has miraculously survived the 1923 Kanto earthquake and the World War II bombings. Walking through the narrow streets of Sendagi will take you to many of these sights. Among the most prominent of these are:
Daienji Temple
Choanji Temple
Tennoji Temple
Yanaka Cemetery
Asakura Choso Museum ( Choso Sculpture Hall )
Yanaka Ginza
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Sendagi Dango-zaka Hanayashiki
Flower Pavilion on Dangozaka Hill in Sendagi - Hiroshige
Yanaka, Nezu, Sendagi 谷中・根津・千駄木 - - 谷根千 Yanesen

- reference : aizome-gawa -
"Aizome Gawa" (The Resurrection of a Woman at Aizome-gawa River), Noh Drama

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