A corner of Fukagawa where Matsuo Basho penned his famous lines, with several sumo stables around the station
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Morishita was the monzen-cho (temple town) of Fukagawa Shinmei Shrine in the Edo period, and the streets today are still a mix of homes and shops. Morishita Station is close to Ryogoku, and there are quite a few sumo stables around the station. In 1680, Matsuo Basho moved from Nihombashi into a thatched hut in Fukagawa, and used it as a base to write many of his famous verses.
Tokiwa 1-chome is within the neighborhood; it was designated the "Basho-o Furuike Iseki" (Old Pond Site of Basho) in 1921, and the annex of the Koto City-run Basho Memorial Museum was built right by the Sumida River and the Onagi River. On the second Saturday of every month, elementary school students learn to write haiku at the main building of the Basho Memorial Museum, finding seasonal subjects from the garden.
This neighborhood also includes Tatekawa 1-chome and 2-chome and Kikukawa 1-chome in Sumida City, while Morishita 4-chome and 5-chome, which share the same name, are not included. In 2020, more than six out of ten households were single-person households, and people aged 20 to 39 made up about 35%, both higher than the figures for Koto City and Sumida City overall.
Morishita Station is a transfer point between the Toei Shinjuku Line and the Oedo Line, and public transit ranks 32nd among Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, the strongest score in this neighborhood. Everyday shopping also ranks 53rd.
The Morishita Cultural Center houses the "Tagawa Suiho and Norakuro Hall," commemorating Tagawa Suiho, the author of the manga Norakuro. The historic site observation garden at the Basho Memorial Museum annex is open to the public for free.
Healthcare ranks 176th among 395 neighborhoods, landing in the lower-middle range. Judging from our street photos, greenery ranks 357th, the weakest score in this neighborhood.
Fukagawa Shinmei Shrine was founded during the Keicho era, enshrining Fukagawa Hachiroemon, who developed this area. At the time, this place had no name, so Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered that his surname "Fukagawa" be used as the place name. The name Morishita is generally believed to come from a deep forest that stood here in the early Edo period.
After Basho's death, the Basho-an hut was absorbed into a samurai residence, and it disappeared sometime between the late Edo period and the Meiji era. After the storm surge from a typhoon in 1917, a stone frog said to have been a favorite of Basho's was dug up in Tokiwa 1-chome.
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