For a person to live his life as a poet
You are intelligent and purely
I had to live purely
See you again
I have to die early!
(Tatsuji Miyoshi, "Breath of Life Spring")
Michizo Tachihara (1914-1939), who was born in Nihonbashi, lamented by Tatsuji Miyoshi, a fellow of the doujinshi "Shiki", lamented his death. This year marks the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 75th anniversary of his death.
Michizo Tachihara was born in July 1914 at 3-1, Tachibanacho, Nihonbashi-ku (currently around 3-9-2, Higashi Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku). The ancestor of the mother are the famous Confucian scholar Tatehara Midoriken, and his child and painter Kyosho Tachihara. The birthplace's family business was the manufacture of wooden boxes for packing, which was quite extensively operated in the center of the wholesale district in Nihonbashi. He grew up in the downtown culture and went to Yotoku Kindergarten and Hisamatsu Elementary School in Hamacho, and was said to be the Shundo since the school opened at Hisamatsu Elementary School, and passed the chief for six years. After that, as with Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Tatsuo Hori, he went to Minaka, Ichitaka, and Teidai, but at university he studied architecture instead of the Faculty of Letters, demonstrated his talent here, and was given to the best student "Tatsuno (Kingo) Award" Has been awarded three times. After graduating, I joined the architectural office of a renowned architect Kikuji Ishimoto on the shore of Sukiyabashi and designed several buildings.
In the field of poetry writing, he visited Setagaya Wakabayashi's home in Kitahara Hakushu during his junior high school days and continued to write poetry with interest
from an early age. In the year he joined Ishimoto Architectural Office (1937), he continued to publish a collection of poems "Stop in Kayakusa" and "Poetry of Akatsuki and Evening". In March 1939, the month before ending a short life due to a sudden change in tuberculosis, Was selected as the first winner of the Chuya Nakahara Prize. His poems are described as delicate, pure and musical lyric in the form of 14 lines. Tatsuji Miyoshi says, "Slightly light music that can speak in our language, as much as we can sing." There is a feeling that it is an excellent lyric poem built with a design drawing called Sonnet and an architectural material called Japanese. His poems are often said to be musical, but it seems that there is a word "architecture is frozen music", so I wonder if it's too bad. It seems to be a lyric poem by science brains, like abstract paintings that are often used in Japanese lyric poems, such as sentimental and glamorous things and private novels.
All the buildings he designed have been lost. However, dreaming of a newlywed life with Asai Mitobe, whom he met at work, he was preparing for his death. It was built in 2004 with the efforts of volunteers based on the sketch. It seems that the place he thought was on the other side of the swamp. This year is just 10 years.
This year, the 100th anniversary of his birth, commemorative events were held at Karuizawa and Bessho-numa in Shinshu, which often visited on the edge of Tatsuo Hori and often set the stage of his poetry. It seems that there was no special event in Chuo-ku, which was a fabric and spent most of his short life. Is he unfamiliar because he did not leave the original Edokko-like part outside or did not make the local area the stage of his work? I feel a little lonely. So, on the day of Koharu weather, in memory of Michizo Tachihara (because it is painful to Shinshu), I walked around the birthplace, the tomb of Tahoin in Hisamatsu small, Taninaka, Bessho Numa Hyatin House, etc. .
[From the top of the photo]
● Around the current Tachibana-cho birthplace
Many poems and architectural drawings were produced in the attic of a newly built house after the earthquake.
● Hisamatsu Elementary School, "Learn here" monument on the left side of the main gate "Michizo Tachihara Learn here"
● Tomb of the Tachihara family of Taninaka Tahoin
● Fushinkoso (Hiyacinth House) in Besshonuma Park, Minami-ku, Saitama City
