Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

Ukiyo-e artist Kuniyoshi Utagawa [Utagawa Kuniyoshi = 1797 (1797)-1861 (1861)]. Born in Honshiroganemachi, he lived in Genyadana in his later years and became the land of demise. Currently, the "Kuniyoshi Utagawa Exhibition 150 Years After Death" (Roppongi Mori Arts Center Gallery until February 12) is being held (upper left photo). The Edokko Kuniyoshi Utagawa, who created masterpieces in Nihonbashi, is now revived.

Kuniyoshi was born in 1797 in Hongincho 1-chome. It is now Nihonbashi Muromachi 4-chome close to Kanda. His real name is Sonzaburo Igusa. In 1808 (1806), when he was 12 years old, he was recognized by Toyokuni Utagawa and became a disciple. The first Hiroshige Utagawa was of the same age, Yahari, at the time, a prosperous Utagawa school Toyohiromonjin. At the age of 31 in 1827 (1827), the "Hyogo Suikoden Greatest of eight hundred people" series hit a big hit and solidified the ground with warrior paintings. The dynamic composition depicting characters on the full screen seems to have attracted people. In 1842 (1842), it is said that due to the reform of Tenpo, it became impossible to draw actors' paintings, prostitutes, and geisha from there to show talent in caricatures and satires.

At first glance, a picture that looks like a graffiti represents a humorous rebellion soul that anyone who sees the actors actually knows. He drew a world of laughter and playfulness in a strange style, such as gathering people and creating portraits. There are many works about cats. Kuniyoshi's paintings may be familiar because they are on the cover of the monthly magazine "Nihonbashi". Recently, a hot topic is "Toto Mitsumata Figure" (late exhibition at the Kuniyoshi Exhibition), a scene that looks from Nakasu to the Fukagawa area, and makes you think that the towering towering high is the Edo Sky Tree.

Shigure Hasegawa, a female playwright, wrote Kuniyoshi as an old story of his father (Fukazo) in his book "Old Mon Nihonbashi".

"Kuniyoshi, who was at the Genji store, wrote that Oguro and Ebisu were taking horny power in a collaboration with Toyokuni, but (Father) was 6 or 7 years old. "Kuniyoshi's house was a small house with two frontages and five depths, and the garden was more than five. From the outside, his disciple was facing the desk, and Kuniyoshi had a habit of sitting on the surface. He was the second person in Toyokuni, but it was such a way of life. (hereinafter abbreviated) "(from Iwanami Bunko version). There is also an illustration by Fukazo Father, "Ukiyo-e artist Kuniyoshi's residence" (part = upper right photo).

In 1853 (1853), he lived at Shin-Izumicho Genji (currently Nihonbashi Ningyocho 3-chome) at the age of 57, and closed his 65-year-old life here in 1861 (1861). Currently, there is an explanation board for the Chuo-ku Board of Education at the site of the Genji store, but there is no description of Kuniyoshi (lower left in the photo). The graveJosuiminamicho, Kodaira-shiLocated in Nichiren sect Chushozan Daisenji Temple, the name of Kuniyoshi Ichiyusai is engraved (lower right photo). It is said that the temple was founded in Hatchobori in 1595 (1595), moved to Asakusa in 1644 (1644), was later hit by the war, and was rebuilt at its current location in 1948 (1948). ●Akira Makibuchi

Yodo Odai (Odai Yodo = 1799 (1799)-1870 (1870), a famous physician of Chinese medicine at the end of the Tokugawa period and also served as a physician of the 14th Shogun Shigeru. A monument has recently been erected at Kyobashi 1-chome near the residence by the commemorative project executive committee in 2010 after the death of Ryodo in Tokamachi City, Niigata Prefecture, where the birthplace was born.

Ryodo was born as the fourth son of the Kosugi family, a doctor in Nakajo-mura, Uonuma-gun, Echigo-kuni (now Nakajo, Tokamachi City, Niigata Prefecture). In 1814 (1814), he went to Edo at the age of 16 and studied with a doctor, Odai Asatake, and studied Confucianism under Ryorai Kameda (a legitimate son of Pensai). After that, he returned to his hometown in 1824 and opened his business. However, in 1834 (1834), his teacher Asatake died in the Great Fire of Edo, and took over his family to rebuild the Odai family, and was named Ryosaku Odai. He has written a large number of medical books with a strong focus on research, and in particular, "Ruijoho Kogi", published in 1856 (1856), has been highly regarded in Chinese medicine.

In 1861 (1861), he received a request from the Shogunate as a physician, and at this time, the following three conditions: "I can still treat the common people as before," "I am not always in Edo Castle, but climbing only when there is an errand. "Do not shaving". In recognition of this request, he accepted a physician and received the honor of a single audience from Shogun Ieshige Tokugawa.

The place where Ryodo was opened was Kitamakicho at the time, and it is said that it faces Yanagi-dori St. on the south side of Yaesu Street, the current Kyobashi 1-chome. In this area, a "Odai Ryodo Monument" was built in which a gentle statue of a woman dispensing at Ryodo, which treats patients, and a woman beside Yakken was gently carved (above photo). At that time, along with Sohaku Asada, who lived in nearby Kamimaki-cho, he was called a masterpiece of a famous physician in Edo, and his personality was full of human love, and even a poor person was kindly exhausted, It is said that he was treated with a jin.

In 1867 (1867), he returned his family to Shisei Ryoko (Takeo) of Asadatake and moved to Sugamo, and ended his life at the age of 72 in 1870 (1870). The tomb is located at Kanonji Temple in Taninaka, and there is a tombstone on the side of the tombstone that conveys the achievements of Ryodo in detail (lower photo). ●Akira Makibuchi