The other day, I had an errand in Ito City, Shizuoka Prefecture, and stayed overnight, so the next day I visited Mokutaro Kinoshita-kan, about a 5-minute walk from Ito Station. When I entered the museum, I was surprised that my relationship with Chuo-ku was very strong, so I will report it.
[Location of the Memorial Hall] 414-0002 2-11-5 Yukawa, Ito-shi
It seems that the day I visited was free to enter.
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* Motaro himself, as a member of a bread party made with Kan Kikuchi and others, visited Ginza cafes such as "Maison Kounosu" (something said to be the first cafe in Japan) in Nihonbashi Koami-cho, Chuo-ku, and "Cae Plantan" that opened afterwards.
* Despite being a doctor and literary writer, he designed the Yaesu Bridge, which was built during the Meiji era in front of Tokyo Station. In addition, his brother, Enzo Ota, four years older, became the director of the Imperial Reconstruction Institute Doki after the Great Kanto Earthquake, and was under Shinpei Goto.
* Plan for the construction of reconstruction roads such as Showa-dori and Yasukuni Dori.
* In charge of bridge planning and construction of bridges such as Eitai Bridge and Kiyosu Bridge
He designed the modern city, Tokyo, and laid the foundation for it.
The brothers learned that they have a strong connection with Chuo-ku in this way, so they plan to investigate the background and serialize it as a blog for the next three months.
1st time (December): Mokutaro Kinoshita and Yaesu Bridge
2nd (January): The Life of Enzo Ota
3rd time (February): Mokutaro Kinoshita and Cafe
Although there is no direct relationship with Chuo-ku, I will introduce a photo of the three daughters Take and Ichiyo Higuchi moving together in the memorial hall. It is an unusual figure of Kazuha's hair. Ohtatake is large, or Ichiyo Higuchi is very small.
1) (First) Mokutaro Kinoshita and Yaesu Bridge
1)-1 Profile of Mokutaro Kinoshita
In 1885 (Meiji 18), he was born in Kamo-gun, Shizuoka Prefecture (currently Yukawa, Ito City), as shown in the upper right photo, as the youngest child of his father, Sogoro, and his mother, Ito. My father ran a general merchandise store called Yoneso. My brother is Enzo Ota, and my nephew is zoologist Kashio Ota (Professor, Hokkaido University). The family business was a general store called "Yoneso".
It's the Japanese shop curtain of Yoneso at that time.
In 1906 (Meiji 39), he went to Tokyo Imperial University Medical University, and in the following year (1907), he became a doujin of the magazine "Venus" of Yosano Tetsumi's new poetry company. From now on, a strong relationship with Chuo-ku will begin, but in 1908 (Meiji 41), we will launch the Bread Association with Kitahara Hakushu Isamu Yoshii and others. The opening of Maison Kounosu was a good time for our association, which was looking for a place to gather regularly. This is because I found the atmosphere of the Seine in Paris on the Nihonbashi River in Nihonbashikoamicho, where the Maison Kounosu was located. For three and a half years, this gathering was held frequently, and Tetsumikan, Kafu Nagai, Kaoru Osanai, Kotaro Takamura, Minoru Mushakoji, Junichirou Tanizaki, and Ippei Okamoto also appeared.
Motaro graduated from Tokyo Imperial University Medical University in 1911 (Meiji 44), and at the recommendation of Ougai Mori, he wanted to study lei disease under Professor Keizo Doi of dermatology. After studying abroad, he became a professor at Tokyo Imperial University School of Medicine in 1937 (Showa 12). He continued his research on dermatology and infectious diseases and came to be said to be the global authority of ley disease.
In addition, the painting also leaves 872 plant sketches that awakened. Some of them are on display at the Mokutaro Kinoshita Memorial Hall.
He died in 1945 (Showa 20) due to cancer of gastric Yumon.
1)-2 Yaesu Bridge
"Yaesu Bridge" is an unusual bridge that has been repeatedly bridged and removed as follows during the approximately 60 years from the beginning of the Meiji era to the postwar period.
① In 1884 (1884), a bridge between Gofuku Bridge and Blacksmith Bridge
② It was removed at the opening of Tokyo Station in 1914.
③ In 1925, the bridge was built again as the entrance to Tokyo Station.
④ It was removed again at the Sotobori River reclaimed in 1947.
The upper part of the photo is Tokyo Station and the Yaesu area seen from the Marunouchi side. The Yaesu Bridge spans the outer moat to the right, the Gofuku Bridge on the left, and the magnificent Tokyo Station on the inside of the Marunouchi, before the Great Kanto Earthquake, is located.
Yaesu Bridge is built on the map below in the middle of the Meiji era, and you can see the old town names "Yaesu" and "Eiraku" in the current Marunouchi.
Full view of Yaesu Bridge
In the chapter of "Marunouchi" in Utaro Noda's "Reforming Tokyo Literature San", he wrote tears of the foolishness of the landfill of the Sotobori River and the destruction of "Yaesu Bridge" designed by poet Mokutaro Kinoshita.
"Soon after the station hotel appeared as a representative hotel in Tokyo, in August 1918, poet Mokutaro Kinoshita stayed in room 71." It was to write the preface to the book of virgin poems "After Shoku no Uta", which had been delayed in Manchuria, but he wrote in the preface that he could not be suppressed by the change of Tokyo over the past two years. And...
Yaesu Bridge, which followed a sad fate
It is very unfortunate that few people know that Yaesu Bridge was designed by Mokutaro Kinoshita. I think that Mokutaro Kinoshita was able to design the Yaesu Bridge because of the architect who designed the Eitai Bridge, Enzo Ota.
