Edo - the EDOPEDIA -

2/02/2013

Reference and LINKS

For most people in Japan, Edo is more than just a historical city. It also has a symbolic image and meaning. It represents nearly everything that they consider a part of their "traditional" culture.
source : www.us-japan.org/edomatsu

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東京今昔物語 Tokyo Konjaku Monogatari
by 東京都不動産鑑定士協会 (編集)

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Anatomical illustrations from Edo-period Japan
- source : pinktentacle.com...
- more of his EDO monsters information
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Arasan Ukiyoe Blog くずし字見ながら歴史散歩
- source : arasan.sakura.ne.jp... -

Asian Education
. Culture and Lifestyle in Japan .

Edo Daisetsuyō Kainaigura 江戸大節用海内蔵 An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Common Knowledge in the Edo Period - source : wul.waseda.ac.jp ... -

. Edo no gaidobukku 江戸のガイドブック Guidebooks for Edo .

そうだったの？江戸時代 - very extensive resource
- source : mag.japaaan.com/archives -

Edo gaishoku bunka
- source : park11.wakwak.com/~kitai...

Edo Period 1603 – 1868 - Long Essay about many aspects of the time
- source : doyouknowjapan.com... -

Edo Sansaku 江戸散策　- walking in Edo
- source : cleanup.jp/life/edo... -

Bunka Digital Library 文化デジタルライブラリ
- source : ntj.jac.go.jp/dglib/modules ... -

Edo Tokyo Digital Museum - Tokyo Metropolitan Library -
with a huge database of woodblock prints
- source : www.library.metro.tokyo.jp/portals
- - - Edo Tokyo Database / Great-Edo Database - This database searches for and displays the Edo and Tokyo related documents on this site by document type and keyword.
- source : www.library.metro.tokyo.jp/Portals/0/edo/tokyo_library/english
- - - Great-Edo Database - category and keyword search:
Great-Edo Entertainment / Great-Edo Style / Great-Edo Culture /
A Visit in the Great Edo / The Great Edo Metropolis / Saijiki / Edo
Games
- source : library.metro.tokyo.jp/portals -

Edo Guide 江戸ガイド
- source : edo-g.com/blog ... -

Edo Tokyo Museum, Sumidaku, Tokyo
. . . a facility to preserve the historical heritage of Edo-Tokyo.
- source : www.edo-tokyo-museum.or.jp

Exploring Old Tokyo Areas and Food
... to let you explore and discover old Tokyo, in particular the areas associated with shitamachi.
- source : old-tokyo.info/category -

Fiorillo John Fiorillo
Viewing Japanese Prints

fuuryuu 風流江戸川柳 Furyu Edo senryu
- source : www.geocities.jp/kinomemocho

Jackson Terrence
Network of Knowledge: Western Science and the Tokugawa Information Revolution

featuring on the life of Ōtsuki Gentaku, a doctor, and Rangaku
source with comment : uhpress.hawaii

Kasuga Kazuo 春日和夫
. 江戸・東京88の謎 88 mysteries about Edo / Tokyo .

The Kidai Shōran Scroll: Tokyo Street Life in the Edo Period

Kobayashi 小林祥次郎
. 遊びの語源と博物誌 . - vocabulary

Kokkei doke anmon ― Writing summer greetings to a thunder god
- source : National Diet Library -

Kowner, Rotem Kowner
From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735
- source : www.academia.edu - - to download

Nihombashi - History of Nihombashi
The story of Edo culture

Nanchiku 南竹c　Nanchiku-c
江戸時代の絵画、書、和歌、俳句、古文書 - very extensive resource !
- source : eonet.ne.jp/~yohi-

National Diet Library
With a monthly newsletter of translations, including many illustrations
- source : ndl.go.jp/en/publication/ndl_newsletter... -

. Onagi Zenko 小名木善行 - Nihon no sugoi himitsu .

Ooedo no kagaku 大江戸の科学　　TBA
- source : www.gakken.co.jp/kagakusouken

Soothill - William Edward Soothill
A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms (very long file)
http://mahajana.net/texts/kopia_lokalna/soothill-hodous.html

Tamar Avishai
Art in Isolation: The Delicate Paintings of Edo Japan
(Online during the Covid-19 epidemic 2020 worldwide)
- source : web-japan.org/tokyo -

Tokyo Sanpo 東京散歩インデックス (long list)
- source : guiter.cocolog-nifty.com/bare... -

Ukiyoe - Ukiyo-e Prints Reflect the Popular Culture of Edo
- source : nippon.com/en -

Yamashita Kazuhisa 山下和久
woodblock prints of summer - long list
- source : kazuhisa.eco.coocan.jp/summer
..... ukiyo-e 浮世絵　- source : kazuhisa.eco.coocan.jp/ukiyoe.htm

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. MORE - Titles of Books, Articles etc. - Book, Buchtitel .

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. Edogaku Jiten 江戸学事典 Dictionary of Edo .

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Downer, Lesley

The Shogun’s Queen
by Lesley Downer (Bantam)
the life of Okatsu, a young woman who grows up to be the Shogun’s Queen.

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Heine, Steven
Sacred High City, Sacred Low City: A Tale of Religious Sites in Two Tokyo Neighborhoods.
Steven Heine argues that lived religion in Japan functions as an integral part of daily life

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大江戸神仙伝シリーズ - Oedo series
大江戸えころじ－事情 Sustainability in EDO
- and many more
. Ishikawa Eisuke Ishikawa 石川英輔 .

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. An Edo Anthology:
Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750-1850 .
Table of Contents
Editor: Jones, Sumie; Watanabe, Kenji - University of Hawaii Press

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The Edo Inheritance
by Tokugawa Tsunenari

In 2007, Tsunenari published a book entitled Edo no idenshi (江戸の遺伝子), released in English in 2009 as The Edo Inheritance, which seeks to counter the common belief among Japanese that the Edo period (throughout which members of his Tokugawa clan ruled Japan as Shoguns) was like a dark age, when Japan, cut off from the world, fell behind.
On the contrary, he argues, the roughly 250 years of peace and relative prosperity saw great economic reforms, the growth of a sophisticated urban culture, and the development of the most urbanized society on the planet.
©　More in the WIKIPEDIA !

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Buyo Inshi　武陽隠士 - 世事見聞録
Lust, Commerce, and Corruption:
An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai
. Buyo Inshi　武陽隠士 .

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Education in Edo
浸透する教養 / 鈴木健一 (編集)

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Nagatomo Chiyoji 長友千代治
Onna Chōhōki - Otoko Chōhōki - Choho-Ki
女重宝記・男重宝記 ― 元禄若者心得集
Encyclopedia for Women and Men of the Genroku Period
published by Gendai Kyōyō Bunko (現代教養文庫) 文庫, 1993/11

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Everyday Life in Traditional Japan
by Charles J. Dunn (Author), Laurence Broderick (Author)

Everyday Life in Traditional Japan
paints a vivid portrait of Tokugawa Japan, a time when contact with the outside world was deliberately avoided and the daily life of the different classes consolidated the traditions that shaped modern Japan.
With detailed descriptions
and over 100 illustrations, authentic samurai, farmers, craftsmen, merchants, courtiers, priests, entertainers and outcasts come to life in this magnificently illustrated portrait of a colorful society. Most works of Japanese history fail to provide enough details about the lives of the people who lived during the time. The level of detail in Everyday Life in Traditional Japan allows for a more complete picture of the history of Japan.

In fascinating detail,
Charles J. Dunn, describes how each class lived: their food, clothing, and houses; their their beliefs and their fears. At the same time he takes account of certain important groups that fell outside the formal class structure, such as the courtiers in the emperor's palace at Kyoto, the Shinto and Buddhist priests, and the other extreme, the actors and the outcasts. he concludes with a lively account of everyday life in the capital city of Edo, the present–day Tokyo.
- source - amazon com -

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Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology
Jinnai Hidenobu
"It was a particular pleasure to discover "Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology, for Jinnai's book is precisely a guide to Tokyo-literacy. By this, I do not mean that it is a conventional guidebook. . . . Rather, it is a book about the historical and social logic of Tokyo: a compelling exploration of the reasons why the city acquired is present shape. . . . "Tokyo: A Spatial Anthropology is very obviously a labor of love; its style overflows with enthusiasm at the wonders to the city. . . . An original, readable, and fascinating book."
--Tessa Morris-Suzuki, "Journal of Asian Studies
"The sheer physical extent of Tokyo, its mile upon mile of high-density and mostly low-rise development, seemingly without topographic or maritime memory, makes it a difficult city for many Westerners to understand. We suspect that the same may be so for many Japanese. Jinnai Hidenobu shows us how today's Tokyo is rooted in its early development and how today's streets, waterways, land uses, and building types come from a past that remains visible to those who would care to look. One needs to walk or to row with Jinnai to see how yesterday makes today. His is a work of love that ties generations together in their physical environment."
--Allan B. Jacobs, author of Great Streets - at amazon com

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Tokyo: City Of Stories
Paul Waley
Of all the world's great cities, Tokyo remains one of the least well known. Paul Waley calls forth the stories sleeping behind the glass and chrome of today's fast-paced metropolis and conjures the traces of Tokyo past overlapping Tokyo present.
Paul Waley is a scholar of Human Geography at the University of Leeds.

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Pitelka Morgan Pitelka
Spectacular Accumulation:
Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability

In Spectacular Accumulation , Morgan Pitelka investigates the significance of material culture and sociability in late sixteenth-century Japan, focusing in particular on the career and afterlife of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616), the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate.
The story of Ieyasu illustrates the close ties between people, things, and politics and offers us insight into the role of material culture in the shift from medieval to early modern Japan and in shaping our knowledge of history. This innovative and eloquent history of a transitional age in Japan reframes the relationship between culture and politics. Like the collection of meibutsu, or "famous objects," exchanging hostages, collecting heads, and commanding massive armies were part of a strategy Pitelka calls "spectacular accumulation," which profoundly affected the creation and character of Japan's early modern polity.
Pitelka uses the notion of spectacular accumulation to contextualize the acquisition of "art" within a larger complex of practices aimed at establishing governmental authority, demonstrating military dominance, reifying hierarchy, and advertising wealth. He avoids the artificial distinction between cultural history and political history, arguing that the famed cultural efflorescence of these years was not subsidiary to the landscape of political conflict, but constitutive of it.
Employing a wide range of thoroughly researched visual and material evidence, including letters, diaries, historical chronicles, and art, Pitelka links the increasing violence of civil and international war to the increasing importance of samurai social rituals and cultural practices.
Moving from the Ashikaga palaces of Kyoto to the tea utensil collections of Ieyasu, from the exchange of military hostages to the gift-giving rituals of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Spectacular Accumulation traces Japanese military rulers' power plays over famous artworks as well as objectified human bodies.
- source - amazon com -

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Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan
Roberts, Luke S.

Performing the Great Peace offers a cultural approach to understanding the politics of the Tokugawa period, at the same time deconstructing some of the assumptions of modern national historiographies. Deploying the political terms uchi (inside), omote (ritual interface), and naisho (informal negotiation)—all commonly used in the Tokugawa period—Luke Roberts explores how daimyo and the Tokugawa government understood political relations and managed politics in terms of spatial autonomy, ritual submission, and informal negotiation.

Roberts suggests as well that a layered hierarchy of omote and uchi relations strongly influenced politics down to the village and household level, a method that clarifies many seeming anomalies in the Tokugawa order. He analyzes in one chapter how the identities of daimyo and domains differed according to whether they were facing the Tokugawa or speaking to members of the domain and daimyo household: For example, a large domain might be identified as a“country” by insiders and as a “private territory” in external discourse. In another chapter he investigates the common occurrence of daimyo who remained formally alive to the government months or even years after they had died in order that inheritance issues could be managed peacefully within their households. The operation of the court system in boundary disputes is analyzed as are the “illegal” enshrinements of daimyo inside domains that were sometimes used to construct forms of domain-state Shinto.

Performing the Great Peace’s convincing analyses and insightful conceptual framework will benefit historians of not only the Tokugawa and Meiji periods, but Japan in general and others seeking innovative approaches to premodern history.
- source : www.uhpress.hawaii.edu -

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Screech Timon
Tokyo Before Tokyo: Power and Magic in the Shogun’s City of Edo

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Japanese Illustrated Books

The Discovery of Japanese Illustrated Books in Europe and the United States
- source : Matthi Forrer -

Japanese Illustrated Books from the Edo and Meiji Periods (1600-1912)
The Freer | Sackler Library of the Smithsonian Libraries have completed digitizing over 1100 volumes/41500 images from its collection of illustrated Japanese woodblock-printed books and manuscripts from the Edo and Meiji periods (1600-1912).
- source : blog.library.si.edu/2017 -

Obtaining Images: Art, Production, and Display in Edo Japan
Screech, Timon

The Edo period (1603–1868) witnessed one of the great flowerings of Japanese art. Towards the mid-seventeenth century, the Japanese states were largely at peace, and rapid urbanization, a rise in literacy and an increase in international contact ensued. The number of those able to purchase luxury goods, or who felt their social position necessitated owning them, soared. Painters and artists ﬂourished and the late seventeenth century also saw a rise in the importance of printmaking. There were dominant styles and trends throughout Japan, but also those peculiar to specifc regions, such as the Kanto (Edo) and the Kamigata (Osaka and Kyoto) and, more remotely, Nagasaki.
- uhpress hawaii

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Edo, Art in Japan 1615-1868
Singer, Robert T., Carpenter, John T.

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Book 江戸の性 / 中江克己 Nakae Katsumi
江戸の町なかに各種の性の見世物が軒をつらね、性具や秘薬の専門店も繁盛していた。長命丸という強精薬を売っていた両国薬研堀の「四つ目屋」では、他方への通信販売も行なっていた。密通が盛んで、男と女が密会する場所として出合茶屋が急増し、隅田川近くの船宿が利用された。性の快楽を求める欲求が強まり、閨房術への関心が高まった。廓や岡場所が栄え、おびただしい数の好色本や春画が出版され、性文化が花開いた江戸時代の性事情を活写する。

［目次］
第１章　性を楽しむ（江戸にもあったポルノショップ
湯女風呂の生態　ほか）
第２章　結婚と密通（介添女と仲人
不自由な武士の結婚
密会は出合茶屋で
「夜這い」という婚前交渉
「三くだり半」は再婚の許可書
人妻の情事と首代）
第３章　性欲と性愛術（貝原益軒が説く性交回数
女の性欲は灰になるまで　ほか）
第４章　大奥の性（新参者の裸踊り
将軍の不自由な性生活　ほか）
第５章　この人物の意外な性生活（宮本武蔵と遊女雲井
貝原益軒の「神聖な儀式」　ほか）

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Urbanowicz Mateusz
Tokyo Storefronts

- source and more photos : mateuszurbanowicz.com/works. misegamae ... -

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Williams, Duncan Ryuken Williams
. The Other Side of Zen:
A Social History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan .

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Portraiture and Early Studio Photography in China and Japan
Edited by Luke Gartlan, Roberta Wue // Routledge, 2017
- source : routledge.com/Portraiture-and-Early-Studio-Photography -

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Online Glossary of Japanese Historical Terms
日本史用語翻訳グロッサリー・データベース
digitalgallery/glossary ...

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- further reference - Edo Japan Books -

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2/01/2013

Shinjuku

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. Famous Places and Powerspots of Edo .
for Yodobashi, see below
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Shinjuku　新宿区　Shinjuku Ward

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In 1634, during the Edo period, as the outer moat of the Edo Castle was built, a number of temples and shrines moved to the Yotsuya area on the western edge of Shinjuku.
In 1698, Naitō-Shinjuku had developed as a new (shin) station (shuku or juku) on the Kōshū Kaidō, one of the major highways of that era. Naitō was the family name of a daimyo whose mansion stood in the area; his land is now a public park, the Shinjuku Gyoen.

In 1920, the town of Naitō-Shinjuku that comprised large parts of present-day Shinjuku, parts of Nishi-Shinjuku and Kabukichō was integrated into Tokyo City. Shinjuku began to develop into its current form after the Great Kantō earthquake in 1923, since the seismically stable area largely escaped the devastation. Consequently, West Shinjuku is one of the few areas in Tokyo with many skyscrapers.
,,, More in the WIKIPEDIA !

Naitoo Shinjuku 内藤新宿 Naito Shinjuku (model, wikipedia)
CLICK for more photos !

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New Yotsuya Naitō Station 四谷内藤新駅

As one of the four stations of Edo, the new station of Naitō Shinjuku
was an important place bustling with activity.
Initially, the first station along the 甲州道中 Kōshū Highway was 高井戸 Takaido.
However, Takaido was a long way from Nihonbashi
and the journey there would be wearisome for horses and humans alike.
The new station of Naitō was therefore set up around the Genroku period (1688-1704) as a new relay station.
. source - Tokyo Metropolitan Library .

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高松喜六 Takamatsu Kiroku (? - 1713)
高松喜兵衛 Takamatsu Kihei
and the beginning of Naito Shinjuku / Naitō-Shinjuku 内藤新宿.

He is the "founding father of Naitō-Shinjuku 内藤新宿 Naito Shinjuku".
Kiroku was village headman of 浅草阿部川町 Asakusa Abekawamachi and helped develop Shinjuku after a new legislation in 1697.
Since his time, the head of the Takamatsu family took the name of Kiroku.

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Koshu-kaido Avenue was the main road from Nihon-bashi Bridge to Kofu, and from Kofu connected to Shimo-Suwa via the Nakasendo Avenue. Nihon-bashi Bridge was a long way from the first inn area —Takaido— on the Koshu-kaido Avenue, and travelers had a difficult time making the trip. For this reason, upon the request of Lord Takamatsu Kiroku , authorization was received to place an inn in an area midway.
Since the inn was placed on the property of 内藤 Lord Naito, who returned this land to the Shogun government, and since the inn was new, the area was called Naito-Shinjuku (Naito new inn), thus marking the origin of the name Shinjuku for the area.
On March 15, 1947, the three areas of former Yotsuya, Ushigome, and Yodobashi cities merged to create Shinjuku City. The name Shinjuku was used not only because of its historical significance, but also because Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden and Shinjuku Station were well known across Japan.
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His grave is in Shinjuku at the temple
. 獨鈷山 Dokkozan　愛染院 Aizen-In 　光明寺 Komyo-Ji .

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- Districts in Shinjuku -

. Aizumichoo 愛住町 Aizumi district .

. Arakichoo 荒木町 Arakicho, Araki district .
and Tsunokami Benzaiten 津の守弁財天 and the pond 策の池 Muchi no Ike.

. Daikyoochoo 大京町 Daikyocho .

. Enoki machi, Enokicho 榎町 Enoki district "nettle tree" .

. Hyakuninchoo　百人町 Hyakunincho district "100 Riflemen" .

. Ichigaya 市谷 / 市ヶ谷 / 市ケ谷 "Market Valley" district .

Kabukicho 歌舞伎町 Kabukichō -- - this page -

. Kashiwagi mura 柏木村 Kashiwagi village .

. Kikuicho 喜久井町 Kikui, Kikuicho district .

. Ochiai 落合 Ochiai district .

. Ookubo, Ōkubo 大久保 Okubo district .

. Samegahashi 鮫ヶ橋 / 鮫河橋 "Shark bridge" district .

. Shinanochoo, Shinanomachi 信濃町 Shinano district .
- and Sōka Gakkai 創価学会 Soka Gakkai

. Suga 須賀町 Suga district .

. Takadanobaba, Takada no Baba 高田馬場 "Horse grounds of Takada" district .

. Ushigome 牛込 Ushigome district .

. Yaraichoo 矢来町　Yarai-Cho district - "Palisade quarter" .

. Yochoomachi 余丁町 Yochomachi district .

. Yotsuya 四谷 / 四ッ谷 "four valleys" .

Misty Morning at Yotsuya Mitsuke
. Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水 (1883 - 1957) .

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. Ichigaya Oosaka 逢坂 / 逢坂 / あいざか - "slope of the meeting" .

. Ichigaya Sanaizaka 市谷左内坂 .

. Kagurazaka - Kagurasaka 神楽坂 "Slope of the Music of the Gods" .
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source : shinjuku-ohdoori.jp.e

The town of Shinjuku dates from the late 17th century, when a post-station was set up there
on the Koshu-kaido on the northwestern edge of Edo (present-day Tokyo).
To the south, Yoyogi was then mainly sparsely populated hills that rolled on as far as the eye could see.

. Shrine Yoyogi Hachimangu 代々木八幡宮 .

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Yodobashi 淀橋 "Yodo Bridge"
former Yodobashi mura 淀橋村 Yodobashi village

Yodobashi is said to be the oldest bridge built across Kanda aqueduct.
It is said that when the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu performed falcon hunting in this place, the surrounding scenery reminded him of the place called Yodo in Yamashiro (Kyoto) and so ordered that the place be called Yodobashi.
There was a water wheel (Mizuguruma) nearby for hulling the rice and wheat from neighboring farming villages.
source : library.metro.tokyo.jp...

. Horinouchi 堀之内 / 堀ノ内 Horinouchi district - Suginami .

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in the Edo Period this area of the Ōmekaidō west of the Kanda river was part of
Yodobashi Mura 淀橋村 (Yodobashi Village).
Supposedly, the 3rd Tokugawa shōgun, Iemitsu named this area.
The bridge used to be called Sugata-mizu no Hashi 姿見ずの橋 (Invisible Figures Bridge).
The reason was that in this area there was a legend that a certain Suzuki Kūrō (1371-1440) – the so-called “Tycoon of Nakano” – who hid his vast fortunes underground here. While burying his treasure, he became paranoid that the people helping him dig and carry the money might try to come back to steal his money. So, he killed the dudes who helped him bury it and threw their corpses into the river. People in the town saw a group of figures (姿) go over the bridge, but only one figure (姿) came back. So they named it the “Invisible Figures Bridge".
The Tokugawa shōguns used to make a long journey from Edo Castle to Mitaka for falconry. One time, Iemitsu and his entourage rested their horses by the bridge and heard the local story about the bridge’s inauspicious name. He thought it was an unlucky name for the bridge. The view of the river crossing reminded him of the Yodogawa 淀川 (Yodo River) in Kyōto and so he commanded the people to name the bridge Yodobashi 淀橋 (Yodo Bridge).
Of course, it was a great honor for the people to have the shōgun rename their bridge, so they started to call their town Yodobashi. The famous electronics store, Yodobashi Camera began in the area that is now Shinjuku Nishiguchi. The name of the store and area comes from this bridge.
Actually this area made up a ward called 淀橋区 Yodobashi-ku, but was merged with 四谷区 Yotsuya-ku in the 1947 restructuring into the 23 Special Wards. The merged area became present day 新宿区 Shinjuku-ku.
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新宿淀橋市場の歴史
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新宿は雪降るやうに罪かき消す
Shinjuku wa yuki furu yoo ni tsumi kakikesu

Shinjuku
it erases sins
like falling snow
Tr. Fay Aoyagi

Tsukushi Bansei 筑紫磐井

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. Legends from Shinjuku ward .
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1/31/2013

Shrines of Edo - INFO

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　Shrines of Edo 江戸の神社 - INFO

. Tookyoo jusha 東京十社 ten shrines of Tokyo / Edo .

There is dog shit and an Inari shrine at every corner of the city.
. Inari Fox Shrines 稲荷神社 - Introduction .

. 銀座八丁神社めぐり Ginza Inari Shrines pilgrimage .

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. Atago Jinja 愛宕神社 Atago shrine in Edo .

. Benten - Edo roku Benten 江戸六弁天 Six Benten Shrines in Edo .

. Hachiman 八幡　Shrines in the Edo period .
八幡宮 Hachiman Gu, 八幡神社 Hachiman Jinja / Hachiman no Yashiro 八幡社

. Imado Jinja 今戸神社 . Tokyo

. Kaichuu Inari Jinja 皆中稲荷神社 Kaichu Inari Shrine . - Shinjuku

. Konno Hachimangu 金王八幡宮 . - Shibuya

. Miho Kashima Jinja 御穂鹿嶋神社 . Minato, Shiba

. Nezu Jinja 根津神社 . Tokyo

. Okunitama Jinja 大国魂神社. Tokyo

. Okusawa Jinja 奥澤神社 . Tokyo

. Onoterusaki jinja 小野照崎神社 . Tokyo

. Ooji Jinja 王子神社 Oji shrine . Tokyo

. Sakura Jingu 桜神宮 Sakura Shrine .

. Shiba Daimyoojinguu 芝大神宮 Shiba Daimyojin Shrine . Tokyo

. Sugimori Jinja 椙森神社 .
one of the oldest shrines in Tokyo - built in 940.

. Taro Inari Jinja 太郎稲荷神社 . - Asakusa

. Tomioka Hachimangu　富岡八幡宮 . Fukagawa Tokyo　深川

. Torikoe Jinja 鳥超神社 . Tokyo

. Yanagimori Jinja 柳森神社 . Tokyo

. Yasukuni Jinja 靖国神社 . Tokyo

. Yoyogi 代々木 .
- - - - - Yoyogi Hachimangu, Yoyogi Shusse Inari

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- Reference -
list of temples and pilgrimages in Edo
http://www.tesshow.jp/index.html
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- Shinto Shrines in Tokyo - rodsshinto.com
A very extensive resource !
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Temples of Edo - INFO

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　Temples of Edo 江戸のお寺 - INFO

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. Asakusa Kannon　浅草観音 .
Temple Sensooji　浅草寺 Sensoji
fujikoo　富士講 Fujiko , Mount Fuji pilgrims

. Denzuuin 伝通院 Denzu-In, Denzuin - Tokyo .
小石川伝通院　Koishikawa Denzu-In, Dentsu-in, Dentsuin
and the Inari foxes Hakuzosu Inari 伯蔵主稲荷 / 澤蔵司稲荷 Takuzosu Inari

. Fukagawa Fudo Doo 深川不動堂 . Tokyo

. Gofunai 御府内八十八ヶ所霊場 88 Henro Temples in Edo .

. Gojiin 護持院 Goji-In .

. Jooju in 成就院（たこ薬師）Temple Joju-In .
and Tako Yakushi, Meguro, Tokoy

. Karasuyama teramachi 烏山寺町 Karasuyama Temple Town .
Introducing 26 temples in Setagaya ward.

. Keigenji 慶元寺 Keigen-Ji .
and The Edo Clan of the Musashi Taira　武蔵江戸氏 Musashi Edo-Shi

. Koofukuji 弘福寺 Kofuku-Ji . Tokyo

. Mokuboji 木母寺 temple Mokubo-Ji .
and the legend of Umewakamaru 梅若丸伝説

. Myoohooji, Myōhō-ji 妙法寺 Myoho-Ji .

. Narita Fudo 成田不動尊
Temple Shinsho-Ji (Shinshooji) 新勝寺

. Sengakuji - (Senkakuji) 泉岳寺 Sengaku-Ji .
and the story of the 47 Ronin, Chuushingura 忠臣蔵　 Chushingura

. Shoogetsuin, Shōgetsu-In 松月院大堂 Shogetsu-In Taido .

. Zoojooji, Zōjō-Ji 増上寺 Zojo-Ji .
- the family temple of the Tokugawa family

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Tokyo Daibutsu 東京大仏 Great Buddha of Tokyo
Joorenji 乗蓮寺 Jorenji, Joren-Ji
板橋区赤塚5－28 / 5 Chome-28 Akatsuka, Itabashi ward

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... this temple was only available to Japan’s ruling family - the Tokugawa Shogunate - before their 268 years of dynastic rule ended with the Meiji Restoration.
These days the temple is known for its more recent addition - the Tokyo Daibutsu.
Upon completion in 1980, it was the third largest sitting Buddha in Japan (at 13m it’s only a mere meter shorter than it' more famous Kamakura cousin).
Twenty two tons of once shiny golden metal has oxidized into a jet-black patina that exudes a powerful serenity. The bronze statue sits meditating in a grand hilltop compound that also houses a huge wooden temple, a Chinese pagoda, a pond of hungry pouting carp, a traditional family dwelling, a scattering of statues, and a graveyard.
There is an impressive example of a traditional temple bell used to ring in the New Year, with a Buddhist countdown of 108 strikes that serve to cleanse the 108 delusions of mankind.
Nearby stand a set of stone Shichifukujin, or seven gods of good fortune. Ebisu, Daikokuten, Bishamonten, Benzaiten (or Benten), Fukurokuju, Jurojin, and Hotei are the deities of prosperity in business, the kitchen, battle, arts and sciences, long life, wisdom, and overall happiness.
... the small temple shop provides a tiny guardian deity to petition the larger Jizo, already crowded with hundreds of statues representing wishes requested.
A gaman no oni - literally a patient demon - will shoulder your worries for the price of a prayer.
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The imposing presence of the Daibutsu dwarfs the temple’s historical significance.
Commissioned in 1977 by the then 88-year-old chief monk, the figure took three years to complete. Built to comfort the souls of those who lost their lives in the 1923 earthquake and WWII, he hoped it might also assuage his own haunting memories of the death and destruction of both calamities. Perhaps this also extends to all those who died in the fierce battles that once raged over the old Akatsuka castle, the site the temple now occupies. Ironically, while it has become a cherished local landmark, succession of custodianship is a problem.
The current caretaker would dearly love a young devotee of Jodoshu Buddhism to take over the temple and grounds, but it isn’t a lifestyle that appeals to many young people these days.
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gaman no oni 我慢の鬼 demon who endures with self-control and perserverance

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Jōren-ji Temple 乗蓮寺 (じょうれんじ）

During the Edo period, Jōren-ji Temple was located in Itabashi-shuku and called
孤雲山慶学院乗蓮寺 Koun-zan Keigaku-in Jōren-ji.
In the prencincts there is a 相生杉 "Aioi-sugi" ("Long-life together cedar tree") and
女男の松 "Meo-no-matsu" ("female and male pine tree") so this is also known as a temple of matchmaking.
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butsubatsu 仏罰 Buddha's punishment
On the 28th day of the 8th lunar month in 1680, there was the ritual of painting eyes to the statue of the Gread Buddha of Edo.
They found four nails in the back of the statue and one parishioner wanted to pull them out, but could not do it. He got angry, but now some wood fell down and he got great wounds on four fingers of each hand.

. Daibutsu 大仏 The Great Buddhas of Japan - Introduction .

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. Shikoku Henro Pilgrims in Japan .
- - 関東 -- Kanto - -
. 関東八十八ヶ所霊場 Kanto Henro Pilgrimage .
. 東国八十八ヵ所霊場 Togoku Henro Pilgrimage .
. 御府内八十八ケ所 - Gofunai Henro in Edo Town .
. 多摩八十八ケ所 - Tama .
- 玉川八十八ケ所 - Tamagawa
- 荒川辺八十八ヶ所 Arakawa
- 豊島八十八ヶ所霊場 Toshima ward in Tokyo (not : Toyoshima)

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12/04/2012

Senryu Ueda

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. senryu, senryū 川柳　Senryu in Edo .

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Light Verse from the Floating World:
An Anthology of Premodern Japanese Senryu
Makoto Ueda

- source and further reading : books.google.co.jp

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Similar in form to the well-known, more serious haiku, the satirical -- and often humorous -- poems known as senryu have received little scholarly attention because most were written by anonymous amateur poets and were therefore considered popular literature unworthy of serious study. Senryu are interesting, however, precisely because they reflect the thoughts and feelings of ordinary townspeople in a way that other more orthodox types of Japanese literature do not. In his introduction on the nature and historical background of the form, Makoto Ueda explores the elements of humor and satire contained in senryu, highlighting the mores that lie behind the laughter the poems evince.

Collecting 400 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poems -- with the romanized Japanese verse presented at the bottom of each page -- Light Verse from the Floating World is divided into thematic sections, each preceded by a short introduction:

• satirical senryu, aimed at people of the ruling warrior class and civilians of various professions;
• senryu on human relationships -- between young lovers, husband and wife, parent and child, or family members of different generations;
• poems on townspeople enjoying themselves in the "amusement" district;
• ridicule of well-known historical figures;
• and poems on the poets' general outlook on life.

Replete with keen observations on the human world rather than the natural one, this first comprehensive anthology in English translation of this major genre of Japanese literature will appeal to scholars and students of Japanese culture, as well as general readers of poetry.
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The Nature and Value of Pre-modern Senryu
from the Introduction to Light Verse from the Floating World
(Excerpt from pgs. 18 - 21 for Study Purposes by Elaine Andre)

It would be difficult to claim that senryu written in pre-modern Japan is great poetry, no matter how we may propose to measure the greatness of a poem. For Edo townsmen of the eighteenth century, senryu was more entertainment than poetry. Yanagidaru had a good sale each year because the verses it contained amused a vast number of people, including those who had no special interest in literature. Those who wished to write more serious poetry could –– and did––utilize other types of verse, such as haikai and waka. Yosa Buson (1716-1784), the greatest haikai poet of he eighteenth century, proclaimed a poetic principle known as rizoku or “detachment from the mundane,” precisely because senryu and much of haikai in his time seemed too mundane for his poetic taste. Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), who had a more worldly mind than Buson and who may have written some senryu in his youth, went on to focus his creative energy on haikai and ended up becoming a major poet in that genre. As mentioned before, the waka poet Tayasu Munetake wrote senryu, yet he did so merely to amuse himself. At least three reasons can be thought of to explain why senryu was less appealing than other verse forms to the most gifted poets of the time.

First, whereas hokku, which had the same 5-7-5 syllable pattern as senryu, could create poetic tension by the technique of internal comparison, senryu, lacking such an established device, could not easily do so and too often allowed itself to be flat and prosaic. Also, it was too short to make itself as lyrically moving as waka or as tonally multifarious as linked verse.

Second, whole a haikai poet could create semantic complexity through the use of kigo (season word), a senryu writer had no such culturally loaded vocabulary at his disposal and had to devise his own method if he wanted to write a verse that would expand in meaning. He could use a word referring to the season (and there are many instances of such use, as seen In the eighth section of the anthology), but because senryu had no tradition of seasonal poetry to feed on, the word would not carry the kind of rich cultural connotations that a kigo would.

Third, senryu’s thematic focus on social life led its writers to observe people primarily in the context of the contemporary society, not in terms of a more transcendental principle. It did treat foibles of human nature, but only when those foibles manifested themselves in everyday social behavior. To over-generalize a little, very likely a poet moved by the beauty of nature would write a hokku. A poet wishing to vent out a personal emotion like love or grief would compose a waka. Someone with a novelist’s eye but without his ability (or patience) to construct a lengthy plot jotted down senryu.

The raison d’etré of senryu, then, lies in its value as popular literature, literature for mass production and consumption. If it is poetry, it is the kind of poetry specifically intended to entertain the millions. It belongs to the type of “light verse” as defined by W.H. Auden: poetry that has “for its subject matter the everyday social life of its period or the experiences of the poet as an ordinary human being.” [Auden: “Introduction.” In The Oxford Book of Light Verse (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938, ix.)] Such poetry has to be “light” or humorous; otherwise the general public would show no interest in it.

No one in pre-modern Japan tried to give a scholarly definition of senryu, but as essayist named Ogawa Akimichi (1737-1815) once made a comment touching on its basic nature. In his opinion, senryu is “playful verse that comments on human behaviors, virtues and vices, noble and base emotions, thoughts of upper- and lower-class people, and all the other matters that make up this life on earth.” [Ogawa Akimichi, Chriizuhabanashi. In Iwamoto Sashichi, ed., Enseki jisshu (Tokyo: Kikusho Kandokai, 1907-1908) 1:274.] The key word here is “playful verse” (zareku). Senryu was comic verse, a type of verse that gained popularity through its humorous quality, through its ability to make the reader laugh. Edo townsmen amused themselves by reading and writing senryu, not caring whether it qualified as poetry.

In making their verse humorous and entertaining, senryu writers in pre-modern Japan often depended on the mechanisms of laughter widely observable in Western culture and variously theorized by Western philosophers. Indeed, if the humor of senryu somehow comes through in English translation, it is because senryu writers frequently used the instruments of laughter commonly employed in the Western world. Unfortunately, the subject matter to which those instruments were applied is closely related to the mores of the contemporary society, making the humor of senryu difficult to understand for those who know little about social customs of pre-modern Japan. The oldest known mechanism of laughter in the West is built around a feeling of superiority. Briefly stated, philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, and Hobbes thought that we laugh from our feeling of mingled superiority and triumph, the kind of feeling that comes to us when we discover incompetence, clumsiness, misfortune, or misjudgment in others. As is well known, Aristotle defined comic heroes as the “person worse than the average” because they make us feel superior by comparison. Knowing nothing about Aristotle’s theory, Karai Senryu seemed to think along the same line when he specified the kind of people he thought were most suitable for subjects of senryu. Appearing in the sequence of verses published at the end of Yanagidaru 2, these subjects include illiterates, loafers, parasites, fanatics, invalids, blind men, low-ranking samurai, destitute samurai, concubines, men with idiosyncrasies, and so forth.

Of the people listed about, senryu writers seem to have been especially fond of ridiculing people of the ruling class. Perhaps because townsmen were always looked down upon by samurai in their daily life, they made them a source of their laughter. Financially better off, they would jeer at the low-ranking samurai’s poverty:

魂をせっぱつまって質に置き
tamashii wo / seppa zumatte / shichi ni oki

a last resort:
the samurai puts his soul
in pawn

. . . [Ueda goes on to describe the reasoning behind the verse, explaining Bushido, the Way of the Warrior, by which a samurai is taught that his sword should be treasured as if it were his very soul.]

- source : Senryu in Edo - facebook

. katana 日本刀 the Japanese sword .
The "Soul of a Samurai" 武士の魂 bushi no tamashi and haiku

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. - Doing Business in Edo - 商売　- Introduction .

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12/02/2012

Yosa Buson - Kushu

- - - - - Dengaka, Denga-Ka 澱河歌

春水浮梅花　南流菟合澱
錦纜君勿解　急瀬舟如電

菟水合澱水　交流如一身
船中願同寝　長為浪花人

君は水上の梅のごとし花（はな）水に
浮（うかび）て去（さる）こと急（すみや）カ也
妾（せふ）は江頭（かうとう）の柳のごとし影（かげ）水に
沈（しづみ）てしたがふことあたはず

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Three Songs on Yodo River

春水浮梅花　南流菟合澱
錦纜君勿解　急瀬舟如電

The spring water floats down plum blossoms
toward the south to join Yodo River
Do not loose the gilt-threaded mooring lines
On the rapids a boat runs like a lightning

菟水合澱水　交流如一身
船中願同寝　長為浪花人

Once Uji River joins Yodo River
their mixing flows are like one body
On the boat hopefully we will sleep together
and be living in Naniwa forever

君は水上の梅のごとし花水に
浮て去こと急カ也
妾は江頭の柳のごとし影水に
沈てしたがふことあたはず

You are like a plum blossom dropped
on the water that floats away so quickly
I am like a willow tree whose shadow
is sunk too deep in the water to follow

source : www.deepkyoto.com
translations by Keiji Minato.

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- - - - - Shunpuu Bateikyoku 春風馬堤曲 Shunpu Batei Kyoku
"Spring Wind on the Riverbank of Kema"
Shumpu Batei Kyoku

余一日問耆老於故園。渡澱水過馬堤。
偶逢女帰省郷者。先後行数里。
相顧語。容姿嬋娟。
癡情可憐。因製歌曲十八首。
代女述意。題曰春風馬堤曲。

春風馬堤曲十八首
○やぶ入や浪花（なには）を出（いで）て長柄川（ながらがは）
（注）「長柄川」中津川（新淀川の前身）。
○春風や堤長うして家遠し - harukaze ya see below
○堤下摘芳草　荊与棘塞路
荊棘何無情　裂裙且傷股

○渓流石点々　踏石撮香芹
多謝水上石　教儂不沾裙

○一軒の茶見世の柳老（おい）にけり
○茶店の老婆子（らうばす）儂（われ）を見て慇懃に
無恙（ぶやう）を賀し且（かつ）儂（わ）が春衣を美（ほ）ム
（注）「老婆子」おばあさん、「無恙」つつがないこと。
○店中有二客　能解江南語
酒銭擲三緡　迎我譲榻去

○古駅三両家猫児（べうじ）妻を呼（よぶ）妻来（きた）らず
（注）「古駅」古い宿場。
○呼雛籬外鶏　籬外草満地
雛飛欲越籬　籬高堕三四

（雛ヲ呼ブ籬外（りぐわい）ノ鶏　籬外草（くさ）地ニ満ツ
雛飛ビテ籬（かき）ヲ越エント欲ス　籬高ウシテ堕（お）ツルコト三四）

○春艸（しゆんさう）路（みち）三叉（さんさ）中に捷径（せふけい）あり我を迎ふ
○たんぽぽ花咲（さけ）り三々五々五々は黄に
三々は白し記得（きとく）す去年此（この）路（みち）よりす
○憐（あはれ）ミとる蒲公（たんぽぽ）茎短（みじかう）して乳（ちち）を（あませり）
○むかしむかししきりにおもふ慈母の恩
慈母の懐袍（くわいほう）別に春あり
○春あり成長して浪花にあり
梅は白し浪花橋辺（けうへん）財主の家
春情まなび得たり浪花風流（ぶり）
○郷を辞し弟（てい）負（そむ）く身三春（さんしゆん）
本（もと）をわすれ末を取（とる）接木（つぎき）の梅
○故郷春深し行々（ゆきゆき）て又行々（ゆきゆく）
揚柳（やうりう）長堤道漸（やうや）くくだれり
○矯首（けうしゆ）はじめて見る故園の家黄昏（くわうこん）
戸に倚（よ）る白髪の人弟を抱（いだ）き我を
待（まつ）春又春
（注）「矯首」首（こうべ）ヲ矯（あ）ゲ。
○君不見（みずや）古人太が句
薮入の寝るやひとりの親の側

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“Shumpu Batei Kyoku” is a kind of collage in which Chinese-style verses, freer Japanese lines based on Chinese styles, and hokku-like 575 lines.
In “Denga-ka,” he tries a similar style but in a smaller scale. The first two stanzas are written in a major Chinese style, Gogon-zekku (五言絶句), which has four phrases, each of which has five letters. The last stanza flows more freely, yet still based on Chinese writing styles.
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What is appealing about the poem, however, lies more in content than in form, or in the intersection between content and form. The narrator is a female who sings of her affair with a man. The described geography shows that the relationship is between a merchant from Naniwa. a city of commerce, and a yujo (遊女; performer-prostitute) in Fushimi, a town in the south of Kyoto City. The poem superimposes them with the two rivers, Yodo (澱水) and Uji (菟水) (On today’s map Uji and Katsura Rivers join around Yahata to be Yodo River; See Google Map!). The image of the joining rivers of course has sexual connotations, which are strengthened by “the gilt-threaded mooring lines” in the second line, which connotes an obi (a broad sash tied over a kimono) the yujo is wearing.
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source : www.deepkyoto.com

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春風や堤長うして家遠し
harukaze ya tsutsumi nagooshite ie tooshi

spring breeze -
the river bank so long and
my home so far
Tr. Gabi Greve

. Discussing the translations .

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- - - - - 北寿老仙をいたむ - 北寿老仙を悼む
Mourning for Hokujuu Roosen 北寿老仙 Hokuju Rosen
- 晋我追悼曲 - at the death of the haikai poet Hayami Shinga 早見晋我 (1671 - 1754)

北寿老仙 is the name Buson used to think about him.

君あしたに去（い）ぬゆふべのこころ千々に
何ぞはるかなる
君をおもふて岡のべに行（ゆき）つ遊ぶ
をかのべ何ぞかくかなしき
蒲公（たんぽぽ）の黄に薺のしろう咲きたる
見る人ぞなき
雉子（きぎす）のあるかひたなきに鳴（なく）を聞（きけ）ば
友ありき河をへだてて住（すみ）にき
へげのけぶりのはと打（うち）ちれば西吹（ふく）風の
はげしくて小竹原（をざさはら）真すげはら
のがるべきかたぞなき
友ありき河をへだてて住にきけふは
ほろろともなかぬ
君あしたに去ぬゆふべのこころ千々に
何ぞはるかなる
我庵のあみだ仏ともし火もものせず
はなもまいらせずすごすごと彳（たたず）める今宵は
ことにたうとき

quote
Mourning for Hokujurosen

you left in the morning, in the evening my heart is in a thousand pieces
how far away!

thinking of you, I wander the hillside
the hillside—how sad it is!

dandelions blooming yellow, shepherd’s purse white
no one to see this
is that a pheasant crying over and over:
"I had a friend who lived across the river
mysterious smoke suddenly scatters, the wind blowing from the west
furiously, in a field of bamboo grass and reeds
no place to hide
I had a friend who lived across the river, but today
no melodies are sung"
you left in the morning, in the evening my heart is in a thousand pieces
how far away!

in my hut, I light no candles for the Amida image
I offer no flowers, lingering this evening with a heavy heart
you are venerable

. . . . . a free style poem (haishi　俳詩)
source : Ken Blacklock, Oita, 1999

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. Yosa Buson - Four Seasons - Collection .

. WKD : Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 in Edo .

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