みしま地蔵尊

所在地　台東区谷中3-7-1　（初音児童遊園）　

みしま地蔵尊
　太平洋戦争下の昭和20年（1945）3月4日午前8時40分頃、小雪振る中に、谷中地区はＢ29爆撃機の空襲を受け、死傷者約5百人、全半壊家屋約2百戸の被害を蒙った。
　戦争も終り昭和23年（1948）、当時の三崎町、真島町の有志により、三ヶ町の戦災死者70余名の霊を永久に供養するために地蔵尊が建立された。
　みしま地蔵尊とは三ヶ町の町名からそれぞれ一字をとったもので（三四真地蔵）、かなで読みやすくした。
　平成4年（1992）1月　台東区教育委員会



                   The Mishima Jizo
 During the Pacific War at 8.40 am on March 4th 1945,the Yanaka area suffered an air raid by B29 bonbers.Approximately 500 people were killed or injured and about 200 houses were partially or wholly destroyed.
 In 1948,when the war was over people living in the three destricts of Sansaki-cho,Hatsune-cho 4-chome and Mashima-cho had a statue of the Buddhist guardian deity Jizo erected to be a permanent memorial to the sperits of the 70 or more people who had died as a result of the war.
 The name"Mishima"was derived by taking one character from be name of each of the three districts,and adopting alternative readings for two of the charavters so that they could be pronounced easily when put together.