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The Sumida River ( then called the Great River, 大川 ), ran along the eastern edge of the city.
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* Shower at Shin-Yangi Bridge from Both Banks of the Sumida River ( 1803 ) Wood-block print in guidebook
Dōkan's 15th century poetic description of what was once just a fortified hill on the Sumida River near Edo Bay would become the basis for metropolitan Tokyo Governor Ryokichi Minobe's 1971 re-election slogan: " Give Tokyo back its blue sky!
It is central to the area colloquially referred to as Shitamachi, which literally means " low city ," referring to the low elevation of this old part of Tokyo, on the banks of the Sumida River.
File: Skytree & Asahi Breweries Building, from Azumabashi, Asakusa 2012 Ⅲ. JPG | Sumida River in Asakusa
The Sumida River makes up the southern border of Adachi ( right ) and the northern border of Arakawa ( left )
The ward consists of two separate areas: a small strip of land between the Sumida River and Arakawa River and a larger area north of the Arakawa River.
Much of the area ( particularly Ginza and Tsukiji ) was loose sand piled at the delta of the Sumida River before being filled in by the shogunate.
Ferries connect Odaiba with Asakusa running along the Sumida River and the Kasai Rinkai Park in eastern Tokyo.
The Tsukiji fish market fugu association holds a service each year at the height of the fugu season, releasing hundreds of caught fugu into the Sumida River.
Literally meaning " reclaimed land ," it lies near the Sumida River on land reclaimed from Tokyo Bay in the 18th century, during the Edo period.
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* Hokusai-dori ( street ), with a series of prints by famed Japanese artist Hokusai who was born in the Kamezawa area of Sumida.
The easternmost of the wards, it shares boundaries with the cities of Urayasu and Ichikawa in Chiba Prefecture ( to the east ) and with the wards of Katsushika ( to the north ), Sumida and Kōtō ( to the west ).
* National Archives of Japan ... Click link for photograph of Ryogoku bridge ( 1875 ), first built over Sumida River after Meireki fire
The work is based on the Japanese noh play Sumidagawa ( Sumida River ) of Juro Motomasa ( 1395 – 1431 ), which Britten saw during a visit to Japan and the Far East in early 1956.
Not long afterwards, the growing influx of believers led to a prayer house being held in a Deacon Sakiyoshi Kinoshita's ( 木下先義 ) restaurant at Omurai ( 小村井 ), Sumida ward.
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Mukojima, formed in 1932, contained the former town of Sumida, which along with the river gave the ward its name.
Tsukiji is built on reclaimed land out of what were once lowland marshes along the Sumida River delta.
File: Sumidagawa-UtagawaHiroshige1881. jpg | A triptych print showing Japanese and foreign people walking along the Sumida River among cherry trees in full bloom.
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Situated in the northeastern portion of the wards area of Tokyo, Taitō is surrounded by five other special wards: Chiyoda, Bunkyō, Arakawa, Sumida and Chūō.
Between 1948 and 1951 the ashes of 105, 400 people killed in the attacks on Tokyo were interred in Yokoamicho Park in Sumida Ward.
Sumida ( 2000 ) argues Mahan believed that good political and naval leadership was no less important than geography when it came to the development of sea power.
Oh, who was born in Sumida, Tokyo the son of a Chinese father and a Japanese mother, had originally signed with the powerhouse Yomiuri Giants in 1959 as a pitcher, but was soon converted to first base.
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