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Map of Bushū Toshima Area, Edo (Bushū Toshima-gōri Edo no Shōzu)
武州豊嶋郡江戸庄図
This picture is representative of early Edo period illustrations and is considered to have been drawn in 1632 (Kaei 9). It is the oldest Edo map with accurate details according to current knowledge. It allows us to know the early Edo period town.
This illustration is a copy, but the original is assumed to be the oldest published map.
Beginning with the castle keep and Mt. Momiji, the pictorial technique is adapted to the topography of Nichieda Shrine, a reservoir to Mt. Atago and Zōjō-ji temple, etc., and the geographical expressions of other districts. It is said to be a transitional piece leading to the making of fully-fledged maps. Many similar types of drawings such as tracings and reproductions are in circulation and are generally called illustrations in the Kan'ei style.
- source : Tokyo Metropolitan Library -
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. Ikebukuro district 池袋 "pond bag" .
- - - including Kami Ikebukuro / Nishi Ikebukuro / Higashi Ikebukuro
Kanamecho 要町
. Komagome 駒込 . - districts in Toshima 豊島区 / Bunkyo 文京区
Mukohara 向原
. Ootsuka 大塚 Otsuka "big mound" .
Sugamo - see below
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Sugamo 巣鴨 Sugamo district "ducks nest"
Toshima ward, Sugamo sub-district 1 - 5.
The area used to be a set of swamps, where many water fowl hat their nest (su 巣), especially the ducks (kamo 鴨)- as is written in an old guide book of 1722.
But maybe there is a different reason for the name, which had been written with various characters :
須賀茂 洲鴨 菅面 洲処しやくじい面 洲処面
すが suga refers to a mound of sand carried along by a river, like a"a field of sand" 砂原.
Originally it was suga-mo.
In the Edo period, the Nakasendo Highway passed through the area and it begun to prosper as a rest station. Since 1737, townspeople were allowed to live here. Many gardeners came to live here.
https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2018/06/toshima-ward-sugamo.html
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Map of Bushū Toshima Area, Edo (Bushū Toshima-gōri Edo no Shōzu)
武州豊嶋郡江戸庄図
This illustration is a copy, but the original is assumed to be the oldest published map.
Beginning with the castle keep and Mt. Momiji, the pictorial technique is adapted to the topography of Nichieda Shrine, a reservoir to Mt. Atago and Zōjō-ji temple, etc., and the geographical expressions of other districts. It is said to be a transitional piece leading to the making of fully-fledged maps. Many similar types of drawings such as tracings and reproductions are in circulation and are generally called illustrations in the Kan'ei style.
- source : Tokyo Metropolitan Library -
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. Ikebukuro district 池袋 "pond bag" .
- - - including Kami Ikebukuro / Nishi Ikebukuro / Higashi Ikebukuro
Kanamecho 要町
. Komagome 駒込 . - districts in Toshima 豊島区 / Bunkyo 文京区
Mukohara 向原
. Ootsuka 大塚 Otsuka "big mound" .
Sugamo - see below
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Sugamo 巣鴨 Sugamo district "ducks nest"
Toshima ward, Sugamo sub-district 1 - 5.
The area used to be a set of swamps, where many water fowl hat their nest (su 巣), especially the ducks (kamo 鴨)- as is written in an old guide book of 1722.
But maybe there is a different reason for the name, which had been written with various characters :
須賀茂 洲鴨 菅面 洲処しやくじい面 洲処面
すが suga refers to a mound of sand carried along by a river, like a"a field of sand" 砂原.
Originally it was suga-mo.
In the Edo period, the Nakasendo Highway passed through the area and it begun to prosper as a rest station. Since 1737, townspeople were allowed to live here. Many gardeners came to live here.
https://edoflourishing.blogspot.com/2018/06/toshima-ward-sugamo.html
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