I visited the museum in a corner of River City in the rain afternoon.
This museum is located in River City 21, where Ishikawajima Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) founded, "Introducing the history and culture of Ishikawajima and Tsukuda Island, which have a deep connection with the shipyard from the founding to the present."
Among the exhibited materials, there was "Yoriba Standing" (a copy of Jingu Bunko collection). As you know, it is a "Proposal for the Establishment of a People Ashoba" created by Heizo Hasegawa. Heizo Hasegawa is the most popular character of modern Japanese as a real Edo period person in Shotaro Ikenami's "Kihei Criminal Book", but according to the material, he was the first bow head in 1787 (1787), when he inherited the 1500 stone family. It is the birth of "Onihei". Recognizing the necessity of a place for rehabilitation of light criminals in the process of performing their duties, Sadanobu Matsudaira, who submitted the above proposal in 1790 and started reforming Kansei, was the centerpiece of the reform. It became. Adoption of Proposals-Immediate Execution! Reclaimed the shallows between Ishikawajima and Tsukuda Island and built a focal point for people. In 1792, he was also involved in "Hitoshoroshoba magistrate". The venue was 16,030 tsubo, where there were a coal mining plant, a paper making hut, a blacksmith hut, etc., where the detainees returned to society with skills in their hands. According to other materials, the concept of "rehabilitation of criminals" itself was very new at the time even from an international perspective. Heizo died at the age of 50 (overwork death?) He served as secretary until 1795, just before. Only debt remained after death, and the mansion that was sold was later home to Toyama's Kin, a town magistrate! ! ! Hey. By the way, the ruins of Heizo's mansion, which was 1238 tsubo, seem to have a monument next to Kikukawa Station on the Toei Shinjuku Line.
The history of Ishikawajima is derived from the fact that Hachizaemon Ishikawa, a shogunate shipman, worshiped an uninhabited island at the mouth of the Sumida River in 1626 (1626) and made it a site. In the old days, it was called Armor Island, Morishima, etc., but it was later called Ishikawajima. Since it was relocated in 1792, the entire Ishikawajima became a site for people's accession. (IHI materials)
Now, a monument imitating the Ishikawajima Lighthouse created by Jungen Shimizu, a magistrate in 1866, stands at the trace, and there is an explanatory board indicating the trace of a human footing place nearby.
Ishikawajima Museum: 1-11-8, Tsukuda, Chuo-ku, Pier West Square 1F
Opening day: Wednesday / Saturday 10:00-12:00, 13:00^17:00
TEL: 5548-2571
