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8/05/2018

Kashiwagi district Shinjuku

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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

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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 .

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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.
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. Hyakuninchoo　百人町 Hyakunincho district .

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柏木公園 Kashiwagi Koen Park
新宿区西新宿7-14

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. 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.

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. 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.

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8/02/2018

kawa rivers of Edo

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kawa 江戸の川 / 江戸の河 the 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 .

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Arakawa 荒川
The river is 173 km long and flows through Saitama Prefecture and Tokyo.
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. 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.
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. 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.
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. 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 .

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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。

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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。

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

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

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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.
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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

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

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. 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 .

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7/29/2018

Shinano district Shinjuku

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Shinanochoo, Shinanomachi 信濃町 Shinano district
Shinjuku 新宿区信濃町 no sub-districts

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

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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.
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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.
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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.
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永井尚政数寄に通じた幕府の重鎮
深谷信子 Fukaya Nobuko

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Sōka Gakkai 創価学会 Soka Gakkai

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

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

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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

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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.
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. 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.

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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.

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. Shinano, home of Kobayashi Issa 小林一茶 .

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7/28/2018

Morikawajuku station Bunkyo

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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

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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 .

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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 .

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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.

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

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7/27/2018

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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7/26/2018

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.
- source : Tokyo Metropolitan Library -

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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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. Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government .

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. Doing Business in Edo - 商売　- Introduction .

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7/25/2018

Hashiba district Taito

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Hashiba 橋場 Hashiba district, "place with a bridge"
台東区 Taito ward, 橋場一丁目及び橋場二丁目 Hashiba first and second sub-district
In the North-East of Taito ward.

The river crossing of the river Sumidagawa was already known in the Heian period.

In the Edo period, this district was called
Asakusa Hashiba machi　浅草橋場町
The name implies that there must have been a bridge in former times.
The bridge might have been constructed by 太田道灌 Ota Dokan. Some remains of the wooden piles were found later.

. 太田道灌 Ota Dokan (1432 - 1486) .

In 1913, the oldest crossing of the river Sumidagawa、橋場の渡し Hashiba no watashi was designated.
In 1964, the local people decided to give the name of Hashiba to the whole district along the West side of the river.

. Sumidagawa 隅田川 River Sumidagawa in Edo .

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Hiroshige 広重 and Sumidagawa Hashiba - Imado

Taito-ku, Imado / Hashiba
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The area from Imado-bashi Bridge to Kanegafuchi on the right bank of the Sumida-gawa River. It is noted in the "Gikeiki" (a military epic about the life of Yoshitsune) and the "Genpei Seisuiki" (The Rise and Decline of the Minamoto and Taira Clans) that there was a floating bridge at Hashiba, and that is said to be the origin of the name.
The Hashiba ferry linked the present day Hashiba 2 chome with Sumida Ward Tsutsumi-dori Road.
A new port was opened in Imado while an old port existed in nearby Ishihama, and it is thought the name Imazu (current port) became linguistically corrupted to Imado.
Imado Ware (dolls, tiles, etc.) were one of Edo's meibutsu (famous products), and the kilns and smoke of Imado Ware being baked were often pictured in nishiki-e.

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橋場暮雪 Twilight Snow at Hashiba

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橋場雪中 Hashiba in Snow
江戸自慢三十六興 Edo Jiman Sanjurokukyo

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墨田河橋場の渡かわら竈 Sumida-gawa Hashiba no kawaragama
Tile Kilns and Hashiba Ferry on the Sumida River
名所江戸百景 Meisho Edo hyakkei

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隅田川橋場渡之図 Sumida-gawa Hashiba no watashi no zu
江戸高名会亭尽 Edo Komei kaitei zukushi

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. Sumida-gawa hakkei 隅田川八景 Eight Views from Sumidagawa .

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. Imado Shrine 今戸神社 Imado jinja .

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. Comparison of Menus (御料理献立競　Oryori Kondate Kurabe) .
Since the beginning of the Bunka/Bunsei eras (1804 - 1830), many ranking lists that give an insight into the food culture in Edo in those days were published. This ranking is one of them, with Tagawa-ya, a famous catering restaurant in front of Daion-ji temple (in Ryūsen, Taitō ward) as the top-ranked restaurant in the east, and Kawaguchi, a Japanese style luxury restaurant in Hashiba (in Taitō ward) as the top in the west.
Hashiba was an elegant place along the Sumida river with many vacation houses of wealthy merchants and luxury Japanese restaurants.
- source : library .metro. tokyo.

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Hashibaji Fudo-In 橋場寺不動院 Temple Hashiba-Ji Fudo-In
2 Chome-14-19 Hashiba, Taitō, Tokyo 111-0023

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Hashiba-fudo-son　橋場不動尊 was founded in the fourth year of Hoji era(760) in Tempyo period. In march of the first year of chokan (1163) the temple, which had belonged to the Hosso sect was reorganized by Kyoenbo into the Tendai sect and became a department of Sensoji temple.
According to tradition,
a high priest created the principal image of Fudo-myoo, Roben-sojo (who is also known as the creator of the Daibutsu in Nara) as one of triplet-born images carved from same wood. One of Them has been preserved in Oyama temple of Soshu (present Kanagawa prefecture) and is familiar by the name of Oyama-Fudo.
Roben carved three identical images of Fudo-son,
Leaving one of them to Oyama-dera, the second to himself and the third to his best disciple, Jakusho-shonin. In the forth year of Hoki (773), which was the Year Roben passed away, on his way to Kazusa(present Chiba prefecture) Jakusho happened to be here to be inspired by Buddha with the idea that this should be the place to enshrine the image. He constructed a small shrine, which he named Sunao-Fudo-son.
For 1,250 years local peasants have worshiped it and since the temple attained an image of Yakushi-Nyorai, which is supposed to be the creation of Eshin-sozu, it has also been called Sunao-Yakushi.
The present head-priest, Kamiya Ryoshu is the hundredth successor of Hashiba-Fudo-son.

Hashiba Fudo-in and it is dedicated to Hotei.

- HP of the temple
- reference source : www.fudoin.jp... -

. 関東三十六不動霊場 Pilgrimage to 36 Fudo Temples in Kanto .
Hashiba Fudo-In is Nr. 23

. Rooben Soojoo　良弁僧正　Roben Sojo　(689 - 773) .

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. kitsune densetsu 狐と伝説 fox legends .

Oide Kitsune, Oidegitsune 御出狐 the Fox Oide and the shrine おいで稲荷 Oide Inari
Around 1780 there lived an old woman in the tea stall at 真崎稲荷 Masaki Inari shrine, who was friends with a fox. When the woman called
"Oide おいで Come here, come here!"
the fox came to look at her and was thus called Oidegitsune.
The fox later bewitched the daughter of the old woman and told her it had to go home to its hometown in Northern Japan.
As a memento the fox left a hand fan with a poem on the bench of the tea stall and was not seen again.

In the back of Masaki Inari is the Oide Inari shrine. People make a wish and offerings of 油揚 Abura-age Tofu in the evening and if the offering is gone next morning, their with will be granted.
Oide Inari ｢招来（おいで）稲荷｣

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The mystery of the Shinto shrines 真崎稲荷 Masaki Inari and 石浜神社 Ishihama Jinja
There are two names for the same shrine located at
真先稲荷　東京都荒川区南千住 3-28-58 / 3 Chome-28-58 Minami-Senju, Arakawa ward

Close to the shrine was the Hashiba crossing of the river Sumidagawa.

石浜神社 Ishihama Jinja
東京都荒川区南千住3-28-58 / 3 Chome-28-58 Minamisenju, Arakawa ward

- HP of Ishihama Jinja
- reference source : ishihamajinja.jp... -

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