There are many works of art with the title of the street name and place name in Chuo-ku, but the white eyebrows are "Tsukiji Akashicho" by Kiyokata Kaburagi (1878-1972). Kiyokata 49 years old, 1927. The wind of Akashicho, which was a foreigner's settlement, was like an ideal home for him. There are masts of merchant ships coming to the sea, and morning glory is entangled in the light blue paint wooden fence. Kiyokata recalled in the morning mist standing in Akashicho's morning fog, a beautiful woman with the hair of Igirisu, a woman named Rohan Kouda's "Tentsunami" I'm drawing. The model is Masuko Egi, who became a master with the introduction of Kyoka Izumi, and the pose that stirs the sleeves in the cold air of early autumn sketches Kiyoko, the eldest daughter. By the way, there is no street name "Tsukiji Akashicho", but the artist wrote, "I dared to name it from the feeling of Goro and Reality."
The response when this work was announced at the 8th Teijin Exhibition was great, and many people still won the Imperial Art Academy Prize, as a masterpiece of modern beauty paintings, and as a masterpiece of Kiyokata who later received the Order of Culture. Continue to attract. My best friend Kyoka wrote the sentence "Kenchan is great! ] And won this picture. (Kiyokata's real name is Kenichi) "... I felt it was good this time. And above all, it is the appearance of euphemism, Kiyoshu, lively, and people. In addition, the tenderness of the chest, the emotion of the sleeves, the care of the shoulders ..."
Kiyokata was born in Kandasakumacho in 1878, and died in 1972 under the snow of Kamakura City (currently Kaburagi Kiyokata Memorial Museum). I have moved more than 30 times during that time, but I spend most of my childhood, small and adolescents between the ages of 1 to 17 and 22 to 34 in the current Chuo-ku area. The environment where I was born and raised laid the foundation for the subsequent Kiyokata art. In addition to "Tsukiji Akashicho", there are many representative works that cannot be cut off from the address in the city. "Morning and evening Yasui", "Sardines" and "Tsukiji River" are the neighborhood of the downtown area of childhood, and "Ms. Itsuha's Tomb" was at Tsukiji Honganji at that time. "Sanyutei Encho Statue" is a sketch of oral performance for quick recording at 
his home at 11-11-chome, Kyobashi Kibikicho (Chijono Rigiku House). "Noveler and Illustrator" is the first meeting with Kyoka at home at 1-15, Kibikicho. Except for "The Tomb of Ms. Itsuha", I drew it after leaving Chuo-ku. (In particular, "Noveler and Illustrator" is a work of 1951, 50 years later.) Kiyokata painter who is closely related to Chuo-ku, and if there is a system before his birth, he is an "honored inhabitant" without complaining.
By the way, this masterpiece "Tsukiji Akashicho" has not been released in art exhibitions or retrospective exhibitions for more than thirty years because it is a private collection. I'd like to see it again while I'm alive.
[On the photo] From Akashicho Riverside Park, look toward Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge.
[In the photo] "Tsukiji Akashicho" became a stamp. (Hobby Week 1971)
[Lower photo] Near the bus stop in front of St. Luke Hospital with an explanation board of "Remains of Foreign Residents".
The purpose of the publication of "Nihonbashi Goyomi" is included in the first issue.
