EDO - Ichigaya Tamachi district Shinjuku

https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2018/07/ichigaya-district-shinjuku.html

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Ichigaya Tamachi, 市谷田町 Ichigaya Tamachi district "field district"
Shinjuku, 市谷田町一丁目から市谷田町三丁目 Ichigaya-Tamachi first to third sub-district



First there were only ta 田 fields, hence the name.
In the Edo period, there lived Samurai and merchants in the first sub-district, which was rather long and narrow.
TIn 1623, it was part of Toshima, 豊島郡市谷領布田新田 under the supervision of the Edo Bakufu government after the construction of 外堀 the Sotobori moat.
The merchants wanted to construct more buildings and were given the districts of 佐渡殿原 / 佐渡原 Sadohara（modern 市谷砂土原町 Ichigaya Sadohara) and and 赤坂御門前 in front of the Akasaka Gate. This plan was refused. They begun to reclaim the wetlands beside the Sotobori at 佐渡殿原 Sadohara, 浄瑠璃坂下, below Jorurisaka slope and around 逢坂 Oosaka slope.
In the middle of the Edo period, the population had grown quite a lot, from the first to the fourth sub-district.


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