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Sumida-gawa: tales from the riverbank this month, as Stephen Mansfield, camera in hand, continues his literary tour of Tokyo. (Writers' Tokyo).

Publication: Look Japan
Publication Date: 01-JAN-03
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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SUMIDA-gawa, Tokyo's premier waterway, has always been a stage for its commerce, festivals, bridges and ferries, its literary associations massing into a rich body of lore. By the postwar years, most of the old ferries that once enjoyed a brisk trade across the river had been replaced by Nor...

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...bridges. is there any trace now of Suijin jinja, a shrine dedicated to the river deity, the Tokyo Metropolitan government having taken over the role of tutelary river god. The realities of living along the Sumida, softened by literary references to fireflies on its banks and assignations...

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