{"id":3858,"date":"2009-12-06T04:27:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T11:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2011-06-11T18:35:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T01:35:21","slug":"kanda-river-%e7%a5%9e%e7%94%b0%e5%b7%9d-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/kanda-river-%e7%a5%9e%e7%94%b0%e5%b7%9d-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanda River (\u795e\u7530\u5ddd) – Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kanda<\/a><\/p>\n

Things have changed since Hiroshige created the above scene (“Basho’s Hermitage and Camellia Hill on the Kanda Aqueduct at Sekiguchi, No. 40” (\u305b\u304d\u53e3\u4e0a\u6c34\u7aef\u306f\u305b\u3092\u5eb5\u693f\u3084\u307e) in “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (\u540d\u6240\u6c5f\u6238\u767e\u666f)). I haven’t taken any photos of the Kanda River yet, as it is anything but beautiful these days. However, I will in spring when the cherry blossoms are out. <\/p>\n

Basho’s hermitage (Bashodo or \u82ad\u8549\u5802) is still here, but it isn’t easy to find (especially if you can’t read Japanese), and you have to go through a closed gate to enter the grounds. <\/p>\n

This area along the river is still a great spot for a walk<\/a> though. I take one or two here a week, and Linda takes one almost every day past Chinzanso. Our apartment would be in the distance on the left side of this ukiyo-e<\/I> where the trees are, although at that time our apartment’s exact location was part of takadanobaba<\/i> which Hiroshige also included in his “100 Famous Views of Edo.”<\/a> <\/p>\n

A few weeks back I witnessed a man throw a hefty bag of garbage into this water way. What a shame. From the looks of the current state of the water, he isn’t alone.<\/p>\n

\"kanda<\/a><\/p>\n

The above is the current path along the river, complete with elevated expressway on the other side and guard rail (the river is some 30 feet below).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Things have changed since Hiroshige created the above scene (“Basho’s Hermitage and Camellia Hill on the Kanda Aqueduct at Sekiguchi, No. 40” (\u305b\u304d\u53e3\u4e0a\u6c34\u7aef\u306f\u305b\u3092\u5eb5\u693f\u3084\u307e) in “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo” (\u540d\u6240\u6c5f\u6238\u767e\u666f)). I haven’t taken any photos of the Kanda River yet, as it is anything but beautiful these days. However, I will in spring when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[237,288,270,30,326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7580,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/7580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}