TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES
Accents and diacritical marks have generally beenstandardised. Where there is a single instance of a wordwith an accent, and one without, no change has been madeto the original (e.g. Shigenari/Shigénari, Uesugi/Uésugi).
The letter o with a macron is represented as ō.
The letter u with a macron is represented as ū.
The letter e with a macron is represented as ē.
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The italicisation of Japanese words has been standardised.
Hyphenation and capitalisation has been standardised.
Punctuation and obvious printer's errors have beencorrected. For a complete list, please see the bottomof this document.
LEGEND.
The outline of the map is that found in Volume I. of the Edo Sunago,published Keio 2nd year (1866). The detail of district maps found in thebook is worked in, together with that from the sectional map of Edopublished Ansei 4th year (1857), and from the Go Edo Zusetsu Shūranpublished Kaei 6th year (1853). The map therefore shows in rough outlinethe state of the city just before the removal of the capital fromKyōto; the distribution of the castes.
The Pre-Tokugawa villages (Eiroku: 1558-1569) indicated on the map foundin the "Shūran" are:—
North and South Shinagawa: Meguro-Motomura: Gin-Mitamura: Mitamura:Ōnemura: Upper and Lower Shibuya: Harajuku-mura: Kokubunji: Azabu:Kawaza Ichi: Ōzawa-mura: Imai-mura: Sendagaya: Yamanaka-mura:Ichigaya: Ushigome: Kobiko-mura: Upper and Lower Hirakawa-mura: Ochiya:Sekihon: Ikebukuroya: Tomizaka-mura: Ishibukero-mura: Tanibaragaike:Neruma-mura: Okurikyōakarai-mura: Koishikawa: Zoshigayatsu:Ōji: Shimura: Takinogawa: Kinsoboku-mura: Harajuku-mura (II.):Komegome-mura: Taninaka-mura: Shimbori-mura: Mikawajima-mura:Ashigahara-mura: Haratsuka: Ishihama-mura: Senjū-mura: Suda-mura:Sumidagawa: Yanagijima: Jujō-mura: Itabashi: Sugamo-mura: Arakawa(river): Kandagawa pool (ike): Kanda-mura: Shibasaki-mura:Shin-Horima-mura: Yushima-mura: Shitaya-mura: Torigoe-mura:Shirosawa-mura: Asakusa-mura: Harai-mura: Some-Ushigome: Ishiwara:Kinoshitagawa: Ubagaike (pool): Negishi-mura: Kinsoki-mura: Kameido-mura(near Ueno): Shinobazu-ike (pool).
From South to North circling by the West.
Shinagawa: Mita-mura: Takanawa:
Near Imai-mura is a Myōjin shrine,
close by the mouth of the present Akabane river.
Ikura: Hibiya: Tsukiji: Tsukuda: Tame-ike (pool): Tsukuda Myōjin:Ota's castle: Sanke-in: Hirakawa-mura: Sakurada-mura: Honjū-mura:Ōtamage-ike: Kametaka-mura. To the East.
77 villages, total.
Pronounce as in Italian, giving vowels full value: ch- as in "church."
[NIROKUDŌ ISSUES]
TALES OF THE TOKUGAWA II
BAKÉMONO YASHIKI
(THE HAUNTED HOUSE)
RETOLD FROM THE JAPANESE ORIGINALS
BY
JAMES S. DE BENNEVILLE
The base of all governance,
Is governance; Seldom found,
And rarely applied."
—Seishin
YOKOHAMA
1921