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Saruechoo 猿江町 Sarue Cho - "Monkey Inlay"
深川猿江町 Fukagawa Sarue Cho since 1934 亀戸村 Kameido became 猿江裏町 Sarue Uramachi
猿江村 Sarue Mura became 猿江町、猿江裏町
深川猿江裏町 - since 1934 : 猿江町1・2
深川上大島町 - since 1934 : 猿江町2
深川本村町 ^ since 1934 : 猿江町2
In the beginning of the Edo period this was a wetland with all kinds of reeds and used for hunting with hawks.
Around 1610, on orders of Tokugawa Ieyasu, a canal was constructed here as 小名木川 Onagigawa to ship the salt from Chiba to Edo.
The Onagigawa cuts a wide path through the marshy lowlands to the east of Edo. There are many explanations for how the canal got its name. The characters O - NA - GI ("small", "name", "tree") do not make much sense unless they were a person's name -- perhaps this was the name of the person who oversaw construction of the canal. Another likely explanation is that the name was originally Unagi-gawa (eel river). The river is, in fact, filled with eels, and many
unagi fishermen can be seen along the river, fishing for these delicacies. Perhaps the pronunciation changed over time, and people forgot the original source of the name.
. 小名木川 and 行徳 Gyotoku salt fields . The North side of this canal was soon developed into fields and living quarters and called
Sarue.
The SARU of this name does not refere to the monkey, though.
Around 1060, when Minamoto no Yoshiie during his war with the Northern Territories passed here, his vassal, 猿藤太
Mashira no Tota, died and his body, clad in full armor, was left in the inlay
e 江. His name includes the Chinese character used for monkey,
saru 猿.
Later the farmers erected a shrine to appease his soul and venerated him as a deity.
Sarue Jinja 猿江神社 / Sarue Inari 猿江稲荷 江東区猿江2-2-17 / 2 Chome-2-17 Sarue, Kōtō ward
The deities in residence in this shrine are
天照大御神 Amaterasu Omikami, 宇迦之御魂命 Uka no Mitama no Mikoto and 猿藤太
Mashira no Tota,
ema 絵馬 votive tablet - source and more photos : Peter Sidell - . Minamoto no Yoshiie Hachimantaro 源八幡太郎義家 / 源義家 . .......................................................................
猿江泉養寺 Sarue - Temple Senyo-Ji 
All kinds of white and red lotus flowers grew in the pond of the temple and many people came to visit.
猿江 摩利支天祠 Sarue - Marishiten Shrine 
- source and more photos of the modern area :
- source : symphonic-net edo meisho zue - ..............................................................................................................................................
The Edo estate of the 九鬼家
Kuki family of the 丹波綾部 Tanba Ayabe domain was in Sarue.
In their park was an old pine, the famous
小名木川五本松 Onagigawa Gohon Matsu 
Edo Meisho Zue
広重 Utagawa Hiroshige -
Five Pines at the Onagi canal ..............................................................................................................................................
猿江恩賜公園 Sarue Onshi Park 
- quote - ... Formerly a timberyard during the Edo Period, it opened as a park in 1932 and since been cherished by residents and visitors from inside and outside of Tokyo. It is a microcosm of Japanese society, the old (neatly carved out gardens and jarimichi, gravel paths) and the new (tennis courts and food trucks with African cuisine.
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