EDO - Ichigaya Sanaizaka district

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Ichigaya 市谷 / 市ヶ谷 / 市ケ谷

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Ichigaya Magojiroo. Ichigaya Magojirō 市ヶ谷孫四郎 / 市谷孫四郎 Ichigaya Magojiro
He ruled the region in the Kamakura period. Not much is known about him.

Ichigaya has many sub-districts
- - - More in the WIKIPEDIA !
...japanthis.com/tag/ichigaya...

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Ichigaya Sanaizaka 市谷左内坂町 Ichigaya Sanaizaka cho
in Sanaicho 左内町 - Ichigaya-sanaicho

Located to the West of Edo castle and to the West of Kaga cho.



The area is named after 島田左内 Shimada Sanai, who lived at the top of the very steep slope as a village headman in the early Edo period around 1620. At that time the village was called
坂町 Sakacho "village on the slope".
A person like Sanai who developed barren land around Edo castle was called
kusawake nanushi　草分け名主 pioneer headman.
The home of the Shimada family was there until the end of the Edo period.
One of the more famous members of the Shimada family was the head on the 8th generation,
島田友直 Shimada Tomonao
He is better known as 酒上熟寐 Sakenoue no Jukune (1724－1784) and was a famous teacher of 狂歌 Kyoka comic "crazy verses".
The characters of his name 酒上 Sakenoue (he liked 酒 Sake a lot), are a pun with
坂の上 Sakanoue "on top of the slope".
Jukune 熟寐 "drunken slumber"

At Sanaizaka there are now the remains of 市谷左内坂定火消屋敷跡
one of the 10 special estates of the fire brigade of Ichigaya. The entrance to the estate was called
Sanai mon 左内門 Sanai gate.

左内坂 Sanaizaka now



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