nakabashi

Updated: April 30, 2025

It was not until the year A.D. 1624 that a man named Saruwaka Kanzaburô, at the command of the Shogun, opened the first theatre in Yedo in the Nakabashi, or Middle Bridge Street, where it remained until eight years later, when it was removed to the Ningiyô, or Doll Street.

Baron Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale - Tales of Old Japan