{"id":38415,"date":"2023-01-28T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/no-category-1\/%e3%81%8a%e7%8e%89%e3%81%8c%e6%b1%a0%e8%b7%a1"},"modified":"2023-01-28T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T09:00:11","slug":"%e3%81%8a%e7%8e%89%e3%81%8c%e6%b1%a0%e8%b7%a1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/column-en\/%e3%81%8a%e7%8e%89%e3%81%8c%e6%b1%a0%e8%b7%a1","title":{"rendered":"Ruins of Otama-ga-ike Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/guide\/?&#038;guide_category=%E5%8F%B2%E8%B7%A1\">historic site<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/area\/%e3%81%8a%e8%8c%b6%e3%81%ae%e6%b0%b4%e3%83%bb%e6%b9%af%e5%b3%b6%e3%83%bb%e5%be%8c%e6%a5%bd%e5%9c%92\">Ochanomizu, Yushima, Korakuen<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"style_01\"><span class=\"main\">Ruins of Otama-ga-ike Pond<\/span><span class=\"ruby\">\uff08Otamagaike-ato)<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e5%8d%83%e8%91%89%e5%91%a8%e4%bd%9c\">Shusaku Chiba<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e6%96%b0%e9%81%b8%e7%b5%84\">Shinsengumi<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/tokyo\/tag\/%e6%b1%a0\">pond<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                  Otama-ga-ike Pond is said to have been as large as Shinobazu Pond during the Edo period (1603-1868), but was reclaimed in the late Edo period and turned into a residential area. The name comes from an anecdote about Otama, the signboard girl of a teahouse by the pond, who was caught between the affections of two men and threw herself into the pond, and a shrine dedicated to Otama, &#8220;Otama Inari,&#8221; still remains today. At the end of the Edo period, Shusaku Chiba&#8217;s dojo, Genbukan, was located here, where members of the Shinsengumi and Ryoma Sakamoto also attended, and &#8220;Otama ga Ike&#8221; was sometimes used to refer to Genbukan. The Shozan Sakuma, a scholar of Shuji, also held a cram school here, and the area seems to have been a gathering place for both literary and military talents.\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"js-way\"><span class=\"ja\"><span>Spot Outline<\/span><\/span><span class=\"en\">Outline<\/span><\/h3>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>address (e.g. of house)<\/th>\n<td>\n2-7 Iwamoto-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Access<\/th>\n<td>\n5 minutes from Iwamoto-cho Subway Station<\/p>\n<div class=\"elem-sec_01 mrg-style_21\"><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">phone<\/th>\n<td><a class=\"link-style_02\" href=\"tel:%E3%81%AA%E3%81%97\">nashi (Pyrus pyrifolia, esp. var. culta)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">Business Hours<\/th>\n<td>\n24 hours<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">regular closing day<\/th>\n<td>\nnashi (Pyrus pyrifolia, esp. var. culta)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"historic siteOchanomizu, Yushima, Korakuen Ruins of Otama-ga-ike Pond\uff08Otamagaike-ato) Shusaku ChibaShinsengumipond Otama-ga-ike Pond is said to have been as large as Shinobazu Pond during the Edo period (1603-1868), but was reclaimed in the late Edo period and turned into a residential area. The name comes from an anecdote about Otama, the signboard girl of a teahouse by the pond, who was caught between the affections of two men and threw herself into the pond, and a shrine dedicated to Otama, &#8220;Otama Inari,&#8221; still remains today. At the end of the Edo period, Shusaku Chiba&#8217;s dojo, Genbukan, was located here, where members of the Shinsengumi and Ryoma Sakamoto also attended, and &#8220;Otama [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4020],"tags":[4345,4604,4619,5013,5217,5232],"area":[3991,4039],"class_list":["post-38415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column-en","tag-ochanomizu-yushima-korakuen-en","tag-agatajapan-culture-tourism-en","tag-historic-site-en","tag-shinsengumi-en","tag-pond-en","tag-chiba-shusaku-en","area-tokyo-en","area-chiyoda-ward-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38415"},{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agatajapan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=38415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}