| In the evening of the day of the Gencho-no-iwai, bucket-type bonfires were lit at Honmaru (a donjon), Ote-mon Gate (a main gate) of nishinomaru (a western citadel), Sakurada-mongai (outside of Sakurada-mon Gate) and Gejousho of Edo-jo Castle. |
また、この日の夜は江戸城の本丸・西の丸の大手門・桜田門外・下乗所（げじょうしょ）に釣瓶（つるべ）式の大篝火（かがりび）が焚かれる。 |