In August 1893, Shohachi Kimura (1893-1958), famous for Kafu Nagai's “Illoha”, a beef shop at 1-1 Yoshikawacho, Nihonbashi-ku (currently Higashi Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku) In August 1893, Iroha was the eighth child of a businessman Shohei Kimura. This year marks the 120th anniversary of birth of the Chinese zodiac sign.
It seems that there were as many as 30 brothers and sisters in Shohachi, but many were blessed with artistic heavens, sister Eiko (Akebono), brother Sota, and brother Soju are writers, and brother Sotoji is a film director. I am named as a director. Shohachi's main business is oil paintings that played an active part in Fuzankai, Sodosha, and Shunyokai, but it was also very popular in the field of illustrations, and was a cultural person who performed various activities such as stage art and hobby kouta. In particular, he has demonstrated his talent in writing, and has left many wonderful sentences that talked about "hometown" Tokyo as a genuine Tokyo person born in Tokyo and loves Tokyo. (Souhachi Kimura, a literary artist, was awarded the Art Academy Prize for "Tokyo Shigeshoki" after his death. In addition, Kodansha has published a total of eight volumes of "Kimura Shohachi Complete Works". )
By the way, where is Yoshikawa-cho 1 now? After the war, the painter himself lamented the transformation, saying, "... Where did you born ... Even if you actually go to that area, you can hardly find ..." ("Ryogoku Past") Is it a little south of the Ryogoku Post Office (2-27-12 Higashi-Nihonbashi), east of the Yasukuni Dori Asakusabashi intersection? (Although he said, "Ryogoku" refers to the west side of Ryogoku Bridge, the Chuo-ku side. It seems that there was also the name of Ryogoku Yoshikawa-cho. You can feel a remnants of the post office name. The east of the bridge is "East Ryogoku", and now "Ryogoku" comes to mind only this Sumida-ku side. ) Here, "A corner shop with a wide frontage and a glass door on the front of the second floor with five-colored glass" ("Ryogoku neighborhood") was the eighth branch of "Iroha" beef shop (= Ushinabeya) . Inside the store, the entrance is depicted in one of the representative works, "Beef Store Bookhouse".
This year, the 120th anniversary of his birth, a retrospective exhibition was held at the Tokyo Station Gallery in Chiyoda-ku, next door. Unfortunately, there seems to be no special event in the birthplace of Chuo-ku, where he loved, so on August 21, the day of birth, I thought that it was the former Yokawacho, and hit the street iron I hit the street iron. I played a large kite of a warrior painting that I bought for two yen and fifty yen of a tiger boy who hit a five-sixed nails on the streets of Koyako.
[On the photo] From Asakusabashi intersection, look toward Ryogokubashi.
[Lower photo] The signature of the artist carved on the tomb of Enji, Suginami Ward
