Edo era culture

[caster51]

At the beginning of 18th century
Ranking of Japanese sake
1) kenbishi剣菱(established in 1505) 灘 Ｈｙｏｇｏ

it was used by ako-roushi at the ceremony of departure for the front
Forty-seven rōnin - Wikipedia

２)oimatsu老松 before 1697 伊丹


tokugawa allowed 24 sake stores to have katanas
3)otokoyama(男山）1655～1672 伊丹

they are keeping to get a Gold medal from 1972
Utamaro Kitagawa

after ako-roushi killed Kira in 1702.
they got a celebration
Utagawa kunitoshi 1857

 

[caster51]

Shirayuki白雪 1550

it was built in 1909

5)Nanatsu-Ume七つ梅 established in 1688~1703 伊丹→旭川？

Nanatsume has gone...


katsushika hokusai北斎

6)Sawanotsuru沢の鶴 1717

in 1900ﾂ Sawanotsuru head office

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Edo Shinkawa(新川）1834 新川の酒問屋に下り酒が入荷したところ（sake stores)

桜正宗（1625）月桂冠(gekkeikan)（1637年），菊正宗kikumasamine（1659年），
白鹿hakushika（1662年），富久娘fukumusume（1681年）大関ozeki（1711年），白鶴kakutsuru（1743年）

 

[caster51]

Japanese restaurant(料亭）Ranking 1859
184 famous restaurants In Edo ( more than 400 restaurants in Edo at that time)

1)Yorozuya 1716
江戸流行料理通』（1822年） 八百善亭

Yorozuya Geisha1875

menu

2)Hirasei平清 1804, cessation1899

most customers went to there by boat because of 平清盛（TAIRA no Kiyomori ）。 .

3)Shimamura嶋村 1850 nihonbashi

http://www.nihombashi.co.jp/menu/omi...himamura1.html
4) 亀清楼（Kameseiroh） 1854
ぐるなび - レストラン・宴会予約 グルメ情報サイト
5)魚十（Uojuu）1688
they carried bentos to Daimaru's customers

6)扇屋（Ohgiya） 1648
東都高名会席盡 扇屋」 1852年

ougiya...by Hiroshige

Bakumatsu

Enkai(meiji 1885)

 

[caster51]

fireworks(ukiyoe 1780~1840)

Hiroshige

 

[caster51]

Kabuki theatre
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~ukiyoe/kabuki/architecture/index.html








1830~40


Sumo stadium

 

[Yoshida Shoin]

Awesome site. Great ukiyoe. I'm going to spend some time checking this out.

 

[caster51]

Bestsellers
It seems the literacy rate was so high in Edo era
Tsutaya(蔦屋）publisher ＋printing company ＋bookstore
Tsutaya juzaburo
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/...03/MQ51565.pdf
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%94%...B8%89%E9%83%8E

It seems to be large best-selling if selling by about roughly 10,000 books
in 1805, there were 656 rental book store in Edo town
in 1830, there were 800..
each shop had 200 customers..
Ranking..
1)御文章（Go-bunshoh）(30,000 books(forgery incuded) in a yaer
Buddhism textbook

2)東海道中膝栗毛（Tohkai dohchuu hizakurige, funny travel books)
430,000 books for 21 years
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%...A0%97%E6%AF%9B

3)偐紫田舎源氏（Nisemurasaki inaka Genji）』
38 volume( 10,000 each) was sold ...380,000books
ディジタル貴重書展 和漢書の部 第２章 名家の筆跡

4)心学早染草（Shingaku hayasomegusa)
14,000 books
Good VS Evil(in 1790)

5)類聚方（Ruijuuhoh)medical book 、1765
10,000+α

６）大悲千禄本（Daihi no senrokuhon 、1786）
10,000＋α
http://kibyou.hp.infoseek.co.jp/daihi/daihi0.htm

７）春色梅児誉美（Shunshoku ume goyomi）』 1832
10,000 books

8)好色旅枕（Kohshoku tabimakura）』 Ero-bon ? 1689
8000~9000 kyoto
http://blog.urban-green.jp/?month=200601
9)『もろしぐれ紅葉の合傘（Moroshigure momiji no aigasa）』
8,000
10)新編金瓶梅（Shimpen Kimpeibai）』 Ero-bon
7,000 books. it was sold out for two weeks

 

[caster51]

illustration
歌川国芳 UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuniyoshi

 

[caster51]

craftman
a famous person was 田中久重（Tanaka Hisashige)

Tanaka Hisashige - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

founder of Toshiba(東芝）

http://www.toshiba.co.jp/130/karakuri/asx/yumihiki_bb.asx



http://www.toshiba.co.jp/130/karakuri/asx/mojikaki_bb.asx

 

[pipokun]

三重県亀山市で１５日に震度５強を観測した地震で、亀 山城跡の石垣が
崩れた現場を専門家が調査したところ、３０年余り前に比較的小さな石を
使って修復した部分だけが崩れていたことがわかりまし た。

これに対し、４００年前に石が積まれたままの場所はま ったく壊れていませんでした。

http://www.nhk.or.jp/news/2007/04/17...417000116.html

A 5.4 magnitude earthquake on Sunday damaged a 400-year-old castle's stone wall in Kameyama, Mie. But reserchers found it was partly damaged where it was restored 30 years ago.

On the other hand, no damage has been found in the wall built 400 years ago.

 

[GodEmperorLeto]

The woodblock(?) picture with the skeleton is awesome. Can you give me the artist and title so I can look it up? And do you have any information on what it represents? It looks very cool.

 

[pipokun]

Edo-Meiji-Present

http://www2.ntj.jac.go.jp/dglib/edc3/scene_4/enmoku/buyou_7.html
積恋雪関扉

Tsumoru koi yuki no sekinoto is a popular kabuki play started in the Edo.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (Edo-Meiji)'s work on the sakura ghost of Ono no Komachi based on the story.

The Kyoto-based Ichinoi Co. really shows an interesting project to tie the present with the past, but I think their next step would be to create the English website.

The sakura ghost by Kozo Nakamura, a Japanese style painter

One-off jeans, Tiger, by Nakamura
http://www.ichinoi.com/shop/shop.cg...ey=1&back=http://www.ichinoi.com/004ranking/#
99,750JPY
73,500JPY (when you bring your own jeans)

You can save some money if you bring UNIQLO's 3990 yen jeans, but I still find it too expensive for a pair of jeans.

 

[caster51]

Hasekura Tsunenaga
Hasekura Tsunenaga - Wikipedia