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Sakai Cho in Edo
A pleasure quarter near the center of town at Nihonbashi.
One of the three famous Kabuki theaters of Edo was located in Sakai.
source : carolyn staley prints.com
The Kabuki Theater at Sakai, Fukiyacho 葺屋町
Kitao Masayoshi Keisai (1764 - 1824)
Edo Sanza 江戸三座
the three famous Kabuki theaters of Edo
with a special permission from the city government （町奉行 machi bugyoo).
堺町・葺屋町 Sakai Machi
木挽町 Kobiki choo
猿若町 Saruwaka choo. later renamed Nakamura-za
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Famous places in Edo
Ukiyo-e ni miru Edo no meisho.
Tokyo: Iwanami shoten, 1993.
From Kyôhô period on to Meiji, there were three kabuki theatres, the “sanza,” of which the two oldest, Nakamura-za and Ichimura-za, were located along the single street of Sakai-chô Fukiya-chô (now Ningyô-chô 3-chôme).
(The Morita-za was in Kobiki-chô, some 2.5 km to the south, and rarely appeared in meisho-e.)
Here Masanobu shows us the view from the Sakai-chô end, with the Nakamura-za on the right; the play on the kanban here enables dating of the keikan to early spring (shoshun) Enkyô 2 (1745). Further down on the same side in Fukiya-chô is the Ichimuraza, and on the left are three ayatsuri-ningyô-koya. Some eight years later, Eisen shows the same place but from the opposite direction, with Ichimura-za on the front left, an ayatsuri-za on the right, and Nakamura-za in the distance.
The time is now autumn, at kaomise. It is intriguing to compare the two views to see what has changed, what has not.
Ten-odd years after Eisen’s print, on 10/7 of Tenpô 12 (1841), the Sakai-chô Fukiya-chô shibai-machi was destroyed by fire, and Mizuno Tadakuni, who had begun the Tenpô no kaikaku just five months before, refused to permit rebuilding on the same site. As a result, a new shibai-machi named Saruwaka-chô was constructed north of Asakusa Kannon, shown here by Hiroshige II in a view showing the three theaters in order of seniority on the west side of the machi: Nakamura, Ichimura, and Morita.
source : www.columbia.edu
and a Japanese link with more photos
Okumura Masanobu 奥村政信
芝居狂言舞台見世大浮絵
source : tisiruinoe
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Sakai is a name given to many towns and villages in Japan, which are situated at a border, to another domain or village or region.
Sakai (堺市, Sakai-shi)
is a city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It has been one of the largest and most important seaports of Japan since the Medieval era.
Sakai is known for its keyhole-shaped burial mounds, or kofun, which date from the 5th century. The largest of these, Daisen Kofun, is believed to be the grave of the Emperor Nintoku and is the largest grave in the world by area. Once known for samurai swords, Sakai is now famous for the quality of its kitchen knives; most high-quality Japanese cutlery originates in Sakai, and its production is a major industry in the city.
In the Muromachi Period Sakai was one of richest cities in Japan. Sakai is located on the edge of Osaka Bay and at the mouth of the Yamato River, which connected the Yamato Province (now Nara Prefecture) to the sea. Sakai thus helped to connect foreign trade with inland trade.
Sakai was an autonomous city run by merchant citizens. In those days it was said that the richest cities were Umi no Sakai, Riku no Imai (tr. "along the sea, Sakai; inlands, Imai"; The latter is now a part of Kashihara, Nara). The famous Zen Buddhist priest Ikkyu chose to live in Sakai because of its free atmosphere. In the Sengoku Period some Christian priests, including St. Francis Xavier in 1550, visited Sakai and documented its prosperity.
Sen no Rikyū, known as the greatest master of the tea ceremony, was originally a merchant of Sakai. Because of the close relationship between the tea ceremony and Zen Buddhism, and because of the prosperity of its citizens, Sakai was one of the main centers of the tea ceremony in Japan.
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source : edococo
Edo no Ame 江戸の雨 Rain in Edo
More rain illustrations on this link.
雨の日や世間の秋を堺町
ame no hi ya seken no aki o Sakai choo
this rainy day -
(I leave behind) the autumn of the every-day-world
entering Sakai town
Matsuo Basho, age 35, in 1678
seken ... has a special notion as a place including the hardships and vicissitudes of every day life.
秋雨がしとしとと降っている。こんな秋の日は淋しいものだが、堺町だけは別で随分賑わっていることだ。
堺町は日本橋にあった色街。秋の淋しさを境で分ける意と、泉州堺の賑わいとをかけた。
source : www2.yamanashi-ken.ac.jp
Even on such a rainy day
This world's autumn has
A border with the pleasure quarter.
Tr. Thomas McAuley
a rainy day
the autumn world
of a border town
Tr. Jane Reichhold
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found on the way
Rain in Modern Japan - Photos
source : Lets Japan
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. Edo - Nihonbashi 日本橋 .
. The town of Edo, Ooedo, Great Edo, Old Edo
江戸 大江戸 .
. Kabuki Theater ... 歌舞伎 .
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. WKD - LIST of haiku topics and Keywords
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