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Article: Shiba: this month's stop on Stephen Mansfield's tour of the capital.(Writers' Tokyo)
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- Look Japan
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- August 1, 2003
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SHIBA, a fashionable residential and temple quarter favored by diplomats, merchant bankers and media people was once, along with Kanda, part of the older shitamachi downtown area of Tokyo, home of the earthy Edokko, or "sons of Edo." The expression "Shiba de umarete, Kanda de sodatsu" (Born in Shiba, raised in Kanda) hints at its grittier legacy. Shiba today is dominated by two buildings: the main hall and outbuildings of Zojo-ji temple, and Tokyo Tower. Founded in 1393, Zojo-ji was chosen by the Tokugawa shogunate in the late 1600s as the clan's ancestral temple. Tokugawa leyasu chose the location as part of a scheme to protect Edo from evil spirits. This southeastern ...
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