Matsunosuke Nishiyama said, "Edokko is not a specific entity that has a simple structure with a simple hierarchy, but has a double structure."
"Edo kid who is" Ora Edokko "(Edo kid who has appeared mainly after the Kasei period" (self-proclaimed Edo kid), and instead, "The big husbands on the fish banks of Nihonbashi, Kuramae's bill, Kiba's lumber merchants, Seikishima Island and Shinkawa neighborhoods, and merchants who have lived in Edo, such as Edo, who have grown up in Edo, or a real estate.
Nishiyama said, "Not only" self-proclaimed Edokko ", but also rich people with a more advanced culture, who enjoyed themselves alone in a sense of superiority that could be considered to be a reverse of inferiority, I would like to clearly discuss the overall picture of Edokko with a double structure." （10）
Nishiyama's book "Edokko" is also described as "a breakthrough achievement that broke the long-standing theory" (Makoto Takeuchi).
Nishiyama's theory of "double structure of Edokko" can be said to be the same as Yasaburo Ikeda's theory as follows.
＞In addition to the husbands of the merchants of "Honmachi" in Edo, the number of people belonging to the craftsman class increased, forming Edokko. Therefore, even if you preach the temperament about money, when targeting people who belong to the class of merchants, mainly in Honmachi in Edo, you must find the temperament of those who have stored dignifiedly, rather than not using the money of the evening. Must. It is dangerous to bring out the temperament from Edokko, a concept that appears in the world of lectures and rakugo. (Nihonbashi Private Note 88)
