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| It was the center of politics and culture
over about 1000 or more after Emperor Kammu moves a capital to Kyoto in 794 until
a capital will be moved to Tokyo in 1869. It is Heiankyo. It was the year of 5.2km
of north and south, and 4.5km of east and west. It was called the Suzaku-Oji passage
and the way which goes south the government-offices front of the Heiankyo center
was seen from government offices bordering on the Suzaku-Oji, the left (east side)
was called Sakyo and right-hand side (west side) was called Ukyo. When it became
in the late Heian period, a capital name came to be given, and it became the name
of a place which means the capital "Kyoto". "Luoyang" Ukyo
is changed for Sakyo with "Changan", the central city in former Sakyo
is "Rakutyu", and the outside is "Rakugai" Bordering on the
Nijo main street, north was called "Top", and it came to call south
"bottom", and changed with present coming up to Tokyo and Shimogyo.
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| If it is called the climate of Kyoto, "summer is
sultry" and "it chills to the body in winter" will be said like
a time-tested product. Annual normal temperature is 15 degrees. Since it is a
basin, the temperature difference of the feature of the temperature change on
the 1st or summer winter is intense. A wind is weak, heat tends to collect in
summer, since night does not almost have that a wind blows, it turns into a sultry
night in many cases, and it is the basin surrounded in the mountain, and cold
collects according to a radiative cooling phenomenon, and it gets still colder
in winter. This caused chill. Moreover, in order to keep off the heat of summer,
the door and a table are watered and many various devices, such as lowering temperature
by evaporation of moisture, making low the roof where direct rays hit, or using
a table as an airy lattice door, are seen. | | |
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| The thing of the selling institution made by Heian period
Heiankyo was called "Machiya". The frontage of Machiya of a house is
so narrow that it is called "eels' bed", and depth of the feature is
long.. Moreover, there is "Toriniwa" in Machiya. A firm footing is established
at a door and it is divided into the front store and the back kitchen by Nakato.
And in order to keep off the damp heat of Kyoto, such as a sliding door, are changed
into Sudare, and the device of the cool of a capital no one but is seen variously.
It will deal, if a lattice is removed, and the "fine lattice" which
is visible also to the face of Machiya is the face of business. If it sloses,
it will change to private space. It cannot look [ of Machiya ] in through outside,
but has structure which can be seen through a lattice out of Machiya. Recently,
the accommodations which can experience the life of Machiya, and those who do
the Machiya life increased in number. | | |
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To the address of Kyoto, the address "bottom Ru on
Ru of top Ru" is often seen. To a "bottom Ru" east, it is called
"east on Ru", and it is called "west on Ru" to west to go
that this goes to north since the ground in Kyoto is divided like the squares
and the way is running north, south, east and west in a straight line to "top
Ru" and south. Moreover, a passage also has the origin.
※"The Sawaragi-cyo"
had many wood stores which sell.
※People to whom "The Fuya-cyo"
sell wheat gluten and tofu near this a long time ago lived mostly. | |
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| Kyoto was making the vegetables pickled in salted rice-bran
paste called "Doboduke" at home from ancient times. It is the pickles
of Kyoto to carry out such an important role that it will be said that even the
most delicious entertainment till then becomes spoilt if pickles are unsavory
however delicious cooking may be. As for Kyoto, the preservation technology of
food had developed from ancient times by climate nature. Capital pickles greatly
utilized the preservation technology. And whatever it may say, Kyoto is also the
land which can take high quality vegetables. "Said to be able to grow as
tradition vegetables only in an upper Kamo area -- it comes immediately and "
and famous "Japanese pickles of sliced turnip" are using the Shogoin
turnip. It is not an overstatement even if it calls it the pickles made just because
it is climate peculiar to Kyoto, and the Kyoto vegetable which consists of delicious
water. | | | | |
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