In the first Mokutaro Kinoshita series "Mokutaro Kinoshita and Yaesu Bridge", I wrote that I was attending "Maison Kounosu" opened beside the armor bridge with members of the bread association.
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The Bread Association is a discourse that became the base of the aesthetic literary movement in the late Meiji era. It was established in December 1908 (1908) and is a member of the company.
This picture is a photograph of the one displayed at the Mokutaro Kinoshita Memorial Hall (Ito City). The picture is written by Motaro.
The name of "Kounosu" is based on the hometown of Komazo Okuda, the owner of "Maison Kounosu" and the hill near Terada Village, Kuze-gun (Joyo City, Kyoto Prefecture) "(Kounosu City, Saitama Prefecture, has nothing to do with Kounosu City). I am. Komakura at the time of the opening of "Maison Kounosu" was slightly 36 years old.
Around 1915, Maison Konosu will be relocated to the Nihonbashi Kihara store (the former Shirakiya Yokomachi, still the site of the Kihara store).
The first floor is a narrow bare like an eaves. The wall that came out of the brick looked like a basement. The cafeteria on the second floor is quite large, and it has become even more used as a meeting place for various literary groups than in the Koamicho era. A photo of Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "Rashomon" publication commemorative party is left, and you can see the inside of Konosu's store.
By the end of 1920, the store will be relocated again. This time, he claims to be a full-fledged restaurant as the French cuisine "Konosu". The location is 2-12 Minami Denmacho, Kyobashi, and is currently located at Meijiya on the subway Kyobashi Station. It was a four-story building that originally had a Tamura hat shop.
The first floor is like a hall with a high ceiling, with several round tables on a curved chair. In winter, the Daruma Stover burns red, and bottles of Western liquor line up on the shelves behind the counter, and the scent of coffee that tickles the nose drifts to the storefront, attracting customers. There were several large and small banquet halls on the second and third floors, and the fourth floor seemed to be a resting place for employees and a residence for their families.
On September 1, 1923, the store collapsed due to the Great Kanto Earthquake, but the Komazo family was safe.
However, on October 1, 1925, just two years after the earthquake, Komazo died suddenly at the age of 43.
The bread party will continue gatherings using various shops, but Ginza's plantan is a cafe that I became familiar with other than "Maison Kounosu". Shozo Matsuyama from Tokyo Bijutsu School (now the Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts) opened a cafe plantan in March 1911 to create a place where literary and painters can gather and talk about art, like a cafe in Paris. It is located at 20 Hiyoshicho, Kyobashi-ku (currently Ginza 8-6-24, near Ginza Kaikan), a corner of Ginza Brick Street. The brick building was renovated, and Kaoru Osanai named it "Platinum". There were similar stores, but with the advent of plantans, cafes (as salon-style stores) in the sense that people returning to the West had said.
It is not possible to identify whether it is a plantan or Kounosu, but there is a picture that Shohachi Kimura took a paintbrush after hearing from Mokutaro Kinoshita. It's fun!
After a variety of transitions, Ginza's cafes created the form of "bars" as one form, and there are about 350 houses throughout Ginza (1-chome to 8-chome). Why don't you visit a bar in Ginza to feel some of the cafe experiences such as Mokutaro Kinoshita and Dazai Osamu?
