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The Japan You Don’t Know…Photos of Japan 100 years ago. It became the second home of rice wholesalers

Suginami Fudoki” by Yasuki Mori. Suginami Local History Association HamadayamaThis area, on the north side of the Kanda River, is Hamadayama. The name Hamadayama comes from Yahei Hamadaya, a merchant in Naito Shinjuku during the Edo period. Hamadaya seems to have had a forest of pine trees an...