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2 Mar 2019

Posted: 28 Feb 2019 11:43 PM PST

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. Famous Places and Power spots of Edo　江戸の名所 .
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There are two districts in Tokyo with the name SENGOKU, "one thousand stones"
but this is not related to the normal meaning of
sengoku 千石 1000 Koku

. koku, kokudaka 石/石高 unit of volume, rice bushels .
During the Edo period, each domain had an assessment of its wealth, and the koku was the unit of measurement.

The name of the two districts in Tokyo relates to the merger of two areas and the characters used to represent them.

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Sengoku 千石 Sengoku district
Koto ward, 千石一丁目 - 千石三丁目 from the first to third sub-district

In 1936, a part of 千田町 Sendamachi and 石島町 Ishijimamachj merged and a a character of each one was used to make
a new area name, 千石町 Sengokucho, Sengokumachi.
千田町 - 千
石島町 - 石

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. Sengoku, Koishikawa 小石川 Koishikawa area .
Bunkyo ward　文京区
One of its sub-districts is
千石一丁目 - 四丁目 Sengoku first to fourth sub-district

The two characters represent two subjects:
千 sen is a short version of the 中山道 Nakasendo Highway and the river 千川 Sengawa
石 koku, -goku, ishi is the middle character of the name 小石川 Ko ISHI kawa

The name was established in 1967, with a vote of the inhabitants.
The river Sengawa has later been landfilled.

The land belonged to 一橋徳川家 the Hitotsubashi branch of the Tokugawa clan. It was a rich forest area, now preserved as
Sengoku Ryochi 千石緑地 Sengoku Green Space.
1 Chome-6 Sengoku, Bunkyō

In the park are many old trees, one of them is a huge old
muku no ki ムクノキ / 椋木 / 椋の木 / 樸樹 Aphananthe aspera, oriental elm tree.

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24 Feb 2019

EDO - Edo famous Benten Shrines

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. Benten 弁天 / 辨天 / 辯天 / Benzaiten 弁財天 .
Goddess of Music, Poetry, Learning, Art
River Goddess, Patron of Children / Protector of the Nation

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Edo roku Benten 江戸六弁天 Six famous Benten in Edo

千歳 Chitose, former 本所 Honjo
一ツ目弁天　Hitotsume Benten / 江島杉山神社 Shrine Ejima Sugiyama Jinja
墨田区千歳1-8-2 Sumida ward, Chitose
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. 冬木弁天堂 Fuyuki Benten .
冬木弁天堂 Fuyuki Bentendo Hall, 宝珠山 Hoshusan
冬木辯天堂 Fuyuki Bentendo
江東区冬木22-31 Koto ward, Fuyuki - the shrine of the Fuyuki family.

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. 須崎弁天 / 州崎 / 洲崎 Suzaki / Susaki Benten .
須崎 / 州崎 / 洲崎 Suzaki / Susaki
浮弁天州崎神社 Uki Benten, Shrine Suzaki Jinja
江東区木場6-13-13 Koto ward, Kiba - Sunosaki Shrine

. 滝野川弁天 Takinogawa Benten .
岩屋弁天 Iwaya Benten - 弁天の滝 Benten Waterfall
松橋弁天洞窟 Matsubashi Benten cave

上野 Ueno
不忍池弁天堂 Shinobazunoike, Bentendo Hall / 寛永寺 Temple Kanei-Ji
台東区上野公園２－１ Taito ward, Ueno Koen Park

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. 区余丁 Yochomachi - Nukebenten .
抜弁天厳島神社　Nuke-Benten, Itsukushima Jinja
新宿区余丁町8-5 Shinjuku, Yochomachi

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Seven Benten Shrines of Good Fortune in the Eastern Capital
(Tôto shichifuku Benten, 東都七福弁天)
Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

This series of fan prints (uchiwa) pairs beautiful women with shrines to Benten:

Asakusa chinai Rojo Benten
Asakusa chinai Tafuku Benten
Chomeiji chinai Benten
Fukagawa Hachiman shanai Benten
Fukagawa Susaki Benten
Hitotsume Benten
Shinobazu Benten

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- Fukagawa Susaki Benten

- Hitotsume Benten
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江戸三十三ヶ所弁財天霊場 Pilgrimage to 33 Benten Shrines
Established in 1780.
including
1 八臂大辯才天 / 2 宝珠弁財天 / 4 出世弁才天・金山弁天 / 5 白蛇弁才天 / 6 水晶輪弁財天女 / 7 丈六弁才天 / 8 子安弁才天 / 9 丈六弁才天・お多福弁天 /
10 銭瓶弁才天 / 11 姥ヶ池弁才天 / 12 山下弁天 / 13 正真白蛇弁天 / 14 清雲山弁才天 / 15 授福弁才天 / 16 出世弁才天 / 17 子安弁才天 / 18 江島下之宮弁財天 / 19 江島一体弁天
21 首尾弁才天 / 28 松橋弁才天 / 30 江島弁財天 / 32 田中愛敬弁才天 / 33 吹上弁才天

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江戸弁財天百社　100 Benten Shrines in Edo

Shrines 01 to 30
- reference source : ameblo.jp/ryuuren99... 留連のブログ - 01

Shrines 31 to 40
- reference source : ameblo.jp/ryuuren99... 留連のブログ - 02

Shrines 41 to 50
- reference source : ameblo.jp/ryuuren99... 留連のブログ - 03

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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

. daija, orochi 大蛇 the huge serpent, great snake .
- often associated with a Benten pond.

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The Inokashira Benten Shrine in Snow (Shatô no yuki)
Kawase Hasui 川瀬巴水 (1883 - 1957)

. Inokashira Benten pond 井の頭弁天 / 井ノ頭辨天池 .

ryuukotsu 龍骨 dragon bones
Once a young priest was cutting weeds when by mistake he cut the mouth of a small serpent in two. This small snake was in fact the dragon living in Inokashira pond, so the river out of the pond was carrying blood for three days.
The young priest died from this curse.
The top part of the serpent dragon head flowed all the way to a temple in 中野 Nakano.
The lower of the serpent dragon head is kept at the Inokashira Benten.
These bones were used for rain rituals. If it had not rained for a long time, the bones were taken outside in a special ritual - the then rain would fall!
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bake-benten 化け弁天 monster-Benten
The 佐内家 Sanai family did not have any children. So the wife went to the Inokashira Benten to make a wish. Indeed, soon after the gave birth to a girl.
The neighbours said this was 神の申し子 a god-given child.
When the girl had grown up, the mother took the girl and both went to the Inokashira Benten to give thanks.
The girl suddenly turned crazy, went to the pond, stared into it and then was lost in the pond.

yooji 楊枝 toothpick
In the compound of the 井の頭弁天堂 Bentendo Hall at Inokashira there was yanagi 柳 an old willow tree.
The toothpicks for the third Shogun Iemitsu have been made from its branches.
. Legends from 吉祥寺村 Kichijojimura village .

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Hachijoojima 八丈島 Hachijo Island

daija 大蛇 huge serpent
On 八丈島 Hachijo Island there was a swamp and a huge serpent was the master of it.
At night it came to the village to kidnap women or cows and threaten the villagers.
Then came 為朝 Tametomo and killed the huge serpent.
He cut it into eight parts of about ichi joo 1丈 3 m each, hence the name of the island, hachi joo 八丈 Eight Jo.
The pond became red with blood and was called アカミショー（赤み沢）Akamisho.
To appease the sould of the serpent, a sanctuary of Benten was erected.
A retainer of Tametomo, 忠次郎 Chujiro, was killed in the event and is now venerated as チュージョー様 Chujo sama.

Tametomo Jinja 為朝神社 Tametomo Shrine
at 東京都八丈町大賀郷大里

. Minamoto no Tametomo 源為朝 (1139 – 1170) .
(also known as Chinzei Hachirō Tametomo (鎮西八郎為朝)
After the Hōgen Rebellion,
the Taira cut the sinews of Tametomo's left arm, limiting the use of his bow, and then he was banished to the island of Ōshima in the Izu Islands. Tametomo eventually killed himself by slicing his abdomen, or committing seppuku.
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23 legends to explore

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tatsu 竜 dragon，hakuja 白蛇 white serpent
大谷弁天 Otani Benten is known for its power to help women.
One day a woman came to make a wish, and when the wish was granted she came back to the Shrine to express her gratitude.
Suddenly it became cloudy and dark. From the 弁天池 Benten Ike pond at the side of the Benten Shrine a dragon came out and ascended to heaven. On the way he began to make painful sounds and fell down.
A lightning struck 大松 the great pine tree. The large tree split into three and out of it came a white serpent of about 60 cm. It burst into white powder and fell dead.

the Bentenike pond

. ryuu, ryū 龍　tatsu 竜　と伝説　Ryu - dragon legends .

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bake Benten 化け弁天 monster-Benten
Once upon a time
near the 駒止橋 / 駒留橋 Komadomebashi bridge a rather wicked Benten was venerated.
If someone passed the bridge, disrespectfully riding his horse, he would fall down.
Sometimes wicked young men wearing woman's headgear came to behave badly.
If a procession with a bride passed the bridge, the wedding would not go well, so nobody even tried to do that.

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東両国の駒留橋 at Komatodomebashi, Eastern Ryogoku / Aoyanagi 青柳 Restaurant
広重 Hiroshige
- source : ndl.go.jp/landmarks

Komadome Hachiman Jinja 駒留八幡神社
5 Chome-35 Kamiuma, Setagaya, Tokyo

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. kitsune 狐 the fox from temple 増上寺 Zojo-Ji .

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daija 大蛇 huge serpent
In 桧原村 Hinohara village in 1868, there was クヨ(鉄砲水) a great flooding and a young wife was washed away. A diviner told the family:
"The young wife is at the pond 長峰の池 Nagamine no Ike.
When they went to look for her, she had changed into a huge serpent and lived in the pond. The family built a small sanctuary in the back of their estate and venerated the soul of the woman.
The sanctuary is called Hebigami sama 蛇神様 Serpent Deity and sometimes 弁天様 Benten sama

There is a pond Nagamine in Niigata.
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. Tengu 天狗と伝説 Tengu legends "Long-nosed Goblin" .
More than 500 years ago, a young man from the village had fallen in love with お里 O-Sato, but the lord of 弁天島 Benten Island, a Tengu, also loved O-Sato.
O-Sato had fallen in love with a young Samurai and the angry Tengu produced a huge flood to wash the Samurai away. O-Sato became a nun. She got healing power and a 霊泉 healing well from Benten sama and begun to heal people. They say she was an incarnation of Benten herself.

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. Benten 弁天と伝説 Legends about Benten .

. Edo, Tokyo　江戸 - 東京 - 伝説 Legends Index .

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

. Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government .

. 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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21 Feb 2019

EDO - Togoshi district Shinagawa

Shinagawa was the first station of the Tokaido Highwy and thus "out of Edo".

The meaning of the name relates to this:
The second character of Edo : 戸 o koshite 越 - finally out of Edo
江戸を越えた! 江戸越えが「戸越」

. The 53 stations of the Tokaido Highway 東海道五十三次 .
1. Shinagawa-juku 品川宿 (Shinagawa) .

Since 1559, three was 小田原衆所領役帳 an outpost from Odawara and the place was called とごえ Togoe.
In 1793, a boat merchant named 山路勝孝 moved here and begun to grow 孟宗竹 bamboo as a speciality of the village.
The area was then also called 荏原郡 Ebara district.

In 1889, it became part of 平塚村 Hiratsuka village.
In 1932, the area was called 荏原区戸越町 Ebara ward, Togoshi town.
In 1941, the area was departed into 西戸越・東戸越 Western and Eastern Togoshi, 平塚 Hiratsuka, 荏原 Ebare and 小山台 Koyamadai.

In 1965, the six sub-districts of Togoshi were established, including Western and Eastern Togoshi, 東中延 Higashi-Nakanobu and parts of 西品川 Nishi-Shinagawa.

After the bubble times, the local shopkeepers tried hard to invigorate their long shopping mall, with special events, modernizing toilets and recently English advertisements for the many tourists which come visiting.

Togoshi Ginza 戸越銀座 Togoshi Shopping mall
After the Great Earthquake in 1923, may people from the Ginza district moved to Togoshi, where much of the rubble was burried, and later kept the name for their own shopping mall.
The Shopping Mall is the pride of the citizens. It houses many food stores that sell over the counter.
There are many stores with specialities and often events cater to other shops of Tokyo.

To reach the shopping street easily, a station was soon added:

Togoshi Eki 戸越駅 Station
The mark includes part of the the character 合 to bring people together under one roof.

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Street Food Adventure at Togoshi Ginza, Tokyo's Longest Shopping Road
It might not be the most famous spot in Tokyo but it's surely worth a visit for its uniqueness. Togoshi Ginza is a homely shotengai (shopping street) located in Shinagawa Ward. With its 1.3 km length it's the longest shopping street of the capital and one of the longest in the Kanto area. Be charmed by the energetic shopkeepers and the laid-back atmosphere, and enjoy some of the best street food that Tokyo has to offer!
- Ginza's Rightful Namesake
Hundreds of shopping streets around Japan incorporated the name "Ginza" hoping to bask in the reflected glory of the fancy Tokyo district. But Togoshi Ginza might have been the first to do so and it actually has a reason for it.
After the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, the district of Ginza was having problems with the disposal of bricks from devastated zones. These bricks ended up being given to the area of Togoshi who used them to pave the poorly draining streets that often caused floods. After this, the area took the name of Togoshi Ginza.
The story of Togoshi Ginza's name is explained in a plaque. You can see the actual bricks that came from Ginza.
- the Tokyu Ikegami line was opened in 1927. In 2015 it underwent some remodeling works and now it sports beautiful wooden structures made to resemble old station buildings.
- Dive Into the Everyday Life of Tokyoites
The first thing I noticed about Togoshi Ginza was the lack of utility poles, which are omnipresent in Japan. Here, all the cables were installed underground for a safer and more spacious place. Thanks to this the street looks very pretty and there is more room to walk.
The street is closed to cars from Monday to Saturday between 3:00pm and 6:00pm, and from 2:00pm to 7:00pm on Sundays and holidays.
You will meet a lot of different people here. Office workers scurrying around in their suits. Tiny old ladies getting an early morning massage or chatting with the shop owners. A lot of people walking their dogs, often in a stroller. A multitude of young mothers are constantly zigzagging through the crowd in their mamachari (literally 'mom bicycles', they are equipped with luggage racks and several child seats). ...
- Let Togoshi Ginza's Official Mascot Show You Around
... a mascot character called Togoshi Ginjiro or Gin-chan for short ...
You can also purchase Gin-chan merchandise!...
- Read more on this extensive introduction !
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Togoshi Ginjiro 戸越銀次郎

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Togoshi Hachiman Jinja 戸越八幡神社 Togoshi Hachiman Shrine

This is a quiet place within a buys shopping area, with chairs and sofas for people to sit and rest.
It has a Kagura dance hall for special ritual dances.

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Togoshi Kooen 戸越公園 Togoshi Koen Park

The entrance is an old gate from the Edo period!
This is a place to enjoy a quiet natural atmosphere. A waterfall gives it extra sound.

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. Legends and Tales from Japan　伝説 - Introduction .

The night hawk prostitutes, yotaka 夜鷹 sleep during the day and walk around at night.
The name is also written 怪鴟 or 恠鴟. Sometimes called sekikitsune, seki-kitsune 隻狐 foxes along the weir.
When 今井良臰 Mister Imai lived in the village 戸越村 Togoshi mura a bird came out of the nearby forest during the twilight hours. It lay down by the side of the road and if a person passed it moved on but soon lay down again. Its form was different every night, so it must have been a real Yotaka.

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. Edo, Tokyo　江戸 - 東京 - 伝説 Legends Index .

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. Shinagawa ku 品川区 "goods river" district .

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

. Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government .

. 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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17 Feb 2019

EDO - Narihira district Sumida

https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2019/02/narihira-district-sumida.html

Narihira district Sumida

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Narihira 業平 Narihira district
Sumida, Narihira 一丁目 - 三丁目 first to third sub-district

Named after . Ariwara no Narihira 在原業平 (852 - 880) .
Waka poet of the Heian period.

The Narihirazuka 業平塚 Mound for Narihira used to be in the compound of 南蔵院 Nanzo-In and 業平神社 Narihira Shrine.
Narihira had visited this area and the mound in in his memory. Legend says he died here.
The name of the bridge, 業平橋 Narihirabashi, is also very old.
In 1662 the bridge was built East of the Shrine 業平神社 Narihira Jinja.

The name of this area in rather new, since 1872 when 小梅業平町 Koume Narihiracho was formed, and renamed in 1930.
Now famous for being close to the Tokyo Skytree Tower.

source : edo.amebaownd.com/posts,,, 小梅業平町 Koume Narihira Cho
業平橋 Narihirabashi and 東京スカイツリー Tokyo Skytree

南蔵院も葛飾区に Nanzo-In has been moved to Katsushika ward.
It is famous for the statue of
. Shibarare Jizoo 縛られ地蔵 . しばられ地蔵 Jizo bound by ropes .

The old river 大横川 Oyokogawa is now almost completely reclaimed, to become
大横川親水公園 Oyokogawa Shinsui Koen Park.

The park has 5 zones :
釣川原 Tsurikawara, 河童川原 Kappakawara, 花紅葉 Hanamomiji, パレットプラザ Palette Plaza
and ブルーテラス Blue Terrace.

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小梅業平町 Koume Narihiracho became 東駒形四丁目 Higashi-Komagata 4th sub-district.
中ノ郷業平町 Nakanogo Narihiracho became first and second sub-district of Narihira.
In 1967, it merged with 平川橋1-5丁目 Hirakawabashi 1 to 5th sub-district to become Narihira.

The former Shrine 業平天神社 Narihira Tenjinsha, who gave the name to the area, was lost.

Another theory about the name includes the grave of a Samurai from Chiba,
里見成平 Satomi Narihira.

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. Yanagishima 柳島 Yanagishima district "Island of Willow Trees" .
Meguro ward 墨田区 toward Koto ward 江東区 :
墨田区業平 Narihira - 横川 Yokogawa - 太平 Taihei - 錦糸 Kinshi and Koto ward 江東区亀戸 Kameido

. Kinshi 錦糸 Kinshi district "brocade thread" .

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押上天祖神社 Oshiage Tenso Shrine
東京都墨田区業平2-13-6 / 2 Chome Narihira, Sumida

. Oshiage 押上 Oshiage district, Sumida .

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Narihira no shijimi 業平のシジミ / 　業平しじみ Shijimi corbicula shells from Narihira

source : www2.ssh.nir.jp/~y-yoshi-1234/azuma....

They are collected near the 業平橋 Narihirabashi bridge. They are rather small, but have an appealing taste.
They were sold in many parts of Edo.

. shijimi 蜆 (しじみ) corbicula . - Corbicula japonica

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. Narihira Ki 業平忌 Narihira Memorial Day .
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業平忌京に居たがる京をんな
Narihira ki Kyoo ni sumitagaru Kyoo onna

Narihira memorial day -
as a woman from Kyoto I want to live
in Kyoto

笠井百合彦 Kasai Yurihiko

業平忌かもめの声の潮さび
Narihira ki kamome no koe no shio sabi

Narihira memorial day -
the call of the seagulls
so sad in the tide

永方裕子

業平をうつつにすなる薪能
Narihira o utsutsu ni sunaru akigi noo

千原草之

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EDO - Kinshi district Sumida

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Kinshi district Sumida

The name goes back to the old canal 錦糸堀 Kinshibori.
Around 1660, the area of Honjo was developed and the Kinshibori canal built.
Some say it is a local dialect for 岸堀 Kishibori "canal at the shore".
Another possibility mentions kinshi 琴糸 strings for a Koto, that were made nearby.

In the ghost stories of 本所七不思議 Honjo Nanafushigi is the canal
置いてけぼり / おいてけ堀 Oitekebori, said to have been the Kinshibori.

. Oitekebori, Oiteke-bori 置いてけ堀 / 置行堀 / 置いてけぼり "leave it behind - canal" .
This canal is near Kinshicho 錦糸町.

The fishermen heard the call to "leave it behind" and threw their catch back in the water or left their baskets just standing there.
One legend advises to throw three fish back into the canal. If you do not do so, you will get lost on your way back home and wander around the whole night.
kinshi 禁止 "don't do this" ... turned into 錦糸.

One legend tells of a 河童 Kappa, who took the catch.
It even got its own statue in the 錦糸堀公園 Kinshibori Park.

source : majin.myhome.cx/pot-au-feu...
Looking for Kappa in おいてけ堀 Oitekebori

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The area developed around Kinshichoo eki 錦糸町駅 Kinshicho Station.

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Kinshibori kooen 錦糸堀公園 Kinshibori Park
江東橋四丁目17番1号 / Kotobashi

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KINSHICHO / KAMEIDO
... When we get off the train at Kinshicho Station, we first head towards the shopping in the buildings lined up outside of the South Exit. There is a monument in memory of Ito Sachio inscribed with one of his poems. Believe it or not, back during the Meiji Period (1868-1912), this area mainly was used for ranches. Ito wrote various works during his time while running a cow-milking business here.
Termina, a department store directly connected to the station, offers everything from clothing, to household goods, to groceries. The adjacent amusement facility of Tokyo Rakutenchi offers saunas and natural hot spring baths as a way to relax after your shopping and enjoying things like the movie theaters and bowling alleys.
WINS Kinshicho,
off-track horse racing and betting, is located on Keiyo Road across from the station rotary. Just behind the building sits Koto-ji temple. Kobayashi Ichizo, a businessman who developed the Tokyo Rakutenchi (noted before), built this temple wishing for the city's development and enshrined Koto Kannon in the temple. The horse-headed deity Bato Kannon can also be found on the grounds and just may have some connection with the nearby WINS complex.
Oiteke-bori
A five-minute walk to the south of Kinshicho Station takes us to Kinshibori Park. A statue of a kappa (a river monster) stands at this site that was previously the Kinshi-bori moat, or more popularly known as "Oiteke-bori."
According to one of the local ghost stories, "The Seven Mysteries of Honjo," back during the Edo Period (1603-1867), some people were out fishing in the moat and caught an abnormally large amount of fish one day. Just as they were about to happily go home with their big catch, a scary voice was came from somewhere inside the moat saying, "Oiteke! (Leave your things and get out of here!)" Everyone was terrified but still took their fish baskets and hurried home.
Upon arrival, they reluctantly opened their fish baskets only to find them completely empty. ...
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shopping mall アルカキット錦糸町 Arcakit Kinshicho
2 Chome-2-１ Kinshi, Sumida

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. Yanagishima 柳島 Yanagishima district "Island of Willow Trees" .
Meguro ward 墨田区 toward Koto ward 江東区 :
墨田区業平 Narihira - 横川 Yokogawa - 太平 Taihei - 錦糸 Kinshi and Koto ward 江東区亀戸 Kameido

. Narihira 業平 Narihira district . - Sumida

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朝顔の鉢を舗道に錦糸町
asagao no hachi o hodoo ni Kinshichoo

pots of morning glories
placed on the pavement -
Kinshicho
Tr. Gabi Greve

轡田進 Kutsuwada Susumu

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. asagao ichi 朝顔市 market selling morning glories .
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Iriya asagao ichi 入谷朝顔市 market at Iriya in Edo

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. Sumida ku, Sumida-ku 墨田区 Sumida ward, "ink field" .

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

. Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government .

. 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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15 Feb 2019

EDO - 100 views

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Edo Tokyo Hyakkei 100 Views

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Shin Tokyo Hyakkei 新東京百景

In 1928, a group of eight Japanese artists got together to produce a series of prints, called
Shin Tokyo Hyakkei, One Hundred Views of New Tokyo, New One Hundred Views of Tokyo

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Shin Tokyo Hyakkei:
The Eastern Capital Revisited by the Modern Print Artists
by James B. Austin
In his introduction to the catalogue of modern Japanese prints exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago early in 1960, Oliver Statler distinguishes four generation of sosaku hanga artists.
First came the pioneers, men such as Yamamoto Kanae and Tobari Kogan who pointed the way. Then came a second generation "who created a sound intellectual base for the movement, who fought through to recognition of their prints as serious art, and who, by their personal magnetism, attracted scores of younger artists." This was the generation which began to reach artistic maturity in the early days of Showa. Though few of them had, at that time, achieved either the artistic freedom or personal style which was to characterize their later work, all were experimenting. Moreover, they were collectively striving to form some viable association which would solidify the movement and nurture its growth. These efforts, from the acceptance of such prints at the Government show of 1927 to the formation of the Nippon Hanga Kyokai in 1931, are described by Onchi in his Nippon Gendai Hanga (of which a partial translation in English appeared in Ukiyo-e Art, No. 11, 1965) and by Fujikake in his book, Japanese Wood-Block Prints (1938).
An interesting and revealing example of this tendency
was a group of eight artists who, in 1928, banded together to publish, over the next four years, a series of prints entitled Shin Tokyo Hyakkei (One Hundred Views of New Tokyo).
These artists were
Hiratsuka Un-ichi, Onchi Koshiro, Fukazawa Sakuichi, Kawakami Sumio, Maekawa Sempan, Fujimori Shizuo, Hemmi Takashi and Suwa Kanemori.
Hiratsuka recalls that this series was planned so that many aspects of Tokyo could be "remembered by people for a long time." In this connection, one must keep in mind that much of Tokyo had been destroyed in the great earthquake and fire of 1923 so that the city and its life which the artists wished to depict were, in many respects, rather new.
One cannot help wondering whether they were intending, consciously or unconsciously, to record the current scene against the possibility of new disasters. They were, in a way, repeating what Hiroshige had done 75 years before in his Meisho Edo Hyakkei series.
01. HYAKKEN-TEN, SHIBUYA
13. ATAGOYAMA RADIO STATION
26. NIJUBASHI
39. BOTANICAL GARDENS, UENO
52. NIHONBASHI
64. AOYAMA CEMETARY
76. SHIBA ZOJOJI TEMPLE
89. SHIMBASHI EMBUJO
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Another list of Tokyo 新東京百景一覧
compiled in 1982.
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. 73 田無山総持寺 Tanashisan Soji-Ji .

新東京百景 by 山口瞳 Yamaguchi Hitomi

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Tokyo Shitamachi Hyakkei (Japanese Edition)
by Tsuchimochi Shinji
歌川広重の「名所江戸百景」をモチーフに、東京に今なお残る下町の風景を切り取ったつちもちしんじ「下町百景」シリーズ
"100 Views of Tokyo" gets the idea from "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo", Hiroshige Utagawa's works.
These artworks were rendered views of extant old town in Tokyo. It published on the web and created a sensation until finish in 2016. We gather these works into one book. Moreover, we added newly drawn pictures like guide maps of 3 areas in Tokyo and 5 Views of Osaka.
This book is written in Japanese and English. Therefore this is the most suitable gift from Japan or for friends in Japan.

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

. Edo bakufu 江戸幕府 The Edo Government .

. 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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12 Feb 2019

EDO - Takinogawa district

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Takinogawa district Kita

The river Shakuji-I gawa 石神井川 became quite steep and fast at 板橋区加賀 Kaga in Itabashi and this part was called
Takinokawa 滝野川 "Waterfall River"

There used to be at least seven natural waterfalls of the river Shakuji-I gawa 石神井川, also called 滝野川 Takinogawa in Edo.
. Edo no taki 江戸の滝 waterfalls in Edo .

There were two main sub-districts :
滝野川西地区 Takinogawa Western area
滝野川東地区 Takinogawa Eastern area

In 1889, the area was called
滝野川村 Takinogawa mura village
and in 1913
滝野川町 Takinogawa cho town
In 1923 it became part of Tokyo and was named
滝野川区 Takinogawa ku ward
In 1942, this ward was renamed
王子区 Oji ku ward
In 1967, the seventh sub-district, 滝野川七丁目 was added.

瀧野川紅葉 Maple leaves at Takinogawa
広重 Hiroshige II

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Takinogawabashi 滝野川橋 Takonogawa bridge
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Takinogawa kooen 滝野川公園 Takinogawa Koen Park
even with a waterfall in the park and a walk along the river.

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Takinogawa Hachiman Jinja 瀧野川八幡神社 Shrine
北区滝野川５丁目２６−１５

Built in 1202.
The main hall was restored in 1885.
The prayer hall was restored in 1922.
There used to be a market of vegetable seeds.

- Deity in residence
品陀和氣命（ほんだわけのみこと）Hondawake no Mikoto - 應神天皇 / 応神天皇 Ojin Tenno (200 - 310)

goshuin　御朱印 stamp - to win in sports 勝

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0oji Fudoo no Taki 王子不動之滝 Fudo Waterfall in Oji, Edo

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

There used to be at least seven waterfalls of the river Shakuji-I gawa 石神井川,
also called Takinogawa 滝野川 in Edo.
People came here in summer to feel the cool, have a snack and relax.
Now part of Nerima ward.
. Fudo Myo-O and waterfalls in Edo .
The statue of Fudo 滝不動尊 is now preserved at the temple 正受院 Shoju-In
(北区滝野川2-49-5) Kita-ku, Takinogawa.

. Edo no taki 江戸の滝 waterfalls in Edo .

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Maple season at Takinogawa, Oji, Tokyo, c. 1910.
"A notice of the floral festivals of the year as observed in Japan demands some mention of the maple – for the reddening leaf of the maple, like the foliage of many other blossomless trees, is regarded as a flower in Japan.
"The rich tints of the changing leaves of certain deciduous trees hardly distinguishable from the colouring of blossoming shrubs, such as the azalea, form a favourite object of attraction during the Autumn months. The native term, momiji, which is commonly translated 'maple', is, strictly speaking, a general name applied to many trees which redden in the Fall.

"Of the maple itself, there are many varieties distinguished both by the form of their leaves and the tone of their changing colour. No garden is considered complete without its group of such reddening trees, placed beside some artificial hill towards the West, to receive additional splendour from the setting sun.

"… At Ko-no-dai, a famous prominence commanding a view of the whole plain of Tokio, there are some magnificent maple trees noted for their enormous size … About the end of October, in the glen called Taki-no-gawa at Oji, a suburb of Tokio, the slopes of a natural glen between the hills are planted with thick masses of these trees forming a most romantic spot where from the galleries of a rustic arbour the sight of the foliage in all its burning splendour may be enjoyed. Shinagawa and Meguro, other well known spots in the vicinity of the capital, have also good groups of maples which attract many sight seers. Picnicking and mushroom gathering are pastimes which accompany the viewing of the maple.

"In the poems and pictures of the country, the maple is associated with deer:
How full of sorrow seems the Autumn! when
In solitary rambles slowly straying,
Amid the russet foliage of the glen,
I listen to the lonely stag's sad baying."

– The Floral Art of Japan: The Flowers of Japan and the Art of Floral Arrangement, Josiah Conder, 1899
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岩屋弁天 Iwaya Benten - 弁天の滝 Benten Waterfall
松橋弁天洞窟 Matsubashi Benten cave does not exist any more.

北区滝野川3-88-17Kita ward, Takinogawa / 金剛寺 Temple Kongo-Ji

Bentendoo 辨天堂 Benten Do Hall

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. Edo roku Benten 江戸六弁天 Six famous Benten in Edo .

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. Takinogawa ninjin 滝野川人参 carrots .

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