Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

 

In the planting of the sidewalk in front of Ginza Matsuzakaya, there is a monument to the Commercial Code Training Center.
This place is the origin of Hitotsubashi University, which was established in 1949.
 

The Commercial Code Training Institute is Yukichi Fukuzawa of Keio University and the creator of Japanese capitalism.
With the support of Eiichi Shibusawa and others, Arinori Mori (first Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, 1847-
It was founded as a private school in 1875 by 1889.
Nine years later, under the direct control of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce, the name was changed to Tokyo Commercial School.
After that, the jurisdiction changed to the Ministry of Education and several renamings (higher commercial school, Tokyo)
Higher Commercial School, Tokyo University of Commerce, Tokyo Sangyo University during the war, and after the war, again
After returning to Tokyo University of Commerce, it will be organized into the current Hitotsubashi University.

Meanwhile, in 1909, there was a crisis of being integrated into Tokyo Imperial University.
However, it is avoided with the support of school officials and many others.
 The founding spirit of "cultivation of industry leaders" is the purpose of training bureaucrats.
I did not allow the annexation to Imperial University. (Monkey Rooster Case)

The antigovernment stance unique to Hitotsubashi University is not only private universities but also other national universities. 
It emits a beam of light by distinguishing it from each other.

This monument was not the birthplace of Hitotsubashi University, but the commercial law workshop.
You can feel the face and pride of this university, which maintains a free and vigorous school style since its founding period.

 

 

In Kanbun 12 (1672), a drifting haiku poet Matsuo Basho (the haiku at that time was Sofusa).
29 years old, 1644-1694) left Iga Ueno to stand as a haiku master.
I'm going down to Edo.

He used the peach blue haiku since 1675 (1675, 32 years old).
Sugikaze, Motosumi, Arashiyuki and others, village headman, and leading merchants, and provide support.
Get it and establish a shomon.
In 1678, he stood as a master.

It was a short period of time until he retired to Soan in Fukagawa in 1680.
Taro Ozawa (haiku, Urashaku) store in Honodawara-cho (1-chome, Nihonbashi Muromachi),
Live in
1679, peach blue 36, I will examine this phrase.
 
　　"Spring of Matsuo Momo Aojuku"

"Nihonbashi Funasa" storefront in Muromachikoji in Nihonbashi Kitazume.
stone monument marks the fact that Basho left a footprint in Nihonbashi.
 

Basho's important works, "Nozarashi Noriyuki", "Oi no Kobun", and travel literature
The masterpiece "Oku no Hosomichi" has been written since Fukagawa moved to Basho-an.
For Basho, the Nihonbashi period was the infancy for subsequent activities.
It was a preparation period for the next leap.

 

 

It's not enough to enter a coffee shop, but when I want to take a break, here Kuyasu
A space like a bridge park is ideal.
 
It faces Yaesu Street, which has a lot of traffic, so the noise is great.
People, pigeons and fountains are all taking a break.
 
While there are many non-smoking areas, ashtrays are also installed beside the bench.
 Not only smokers but also women can smoke without hesitation.
 
The pigeon is a square filled with granite-like pavement tiles, making it comfortable.
Relaxing.

The fountain that makes a pleasant sound of water drops the amount of water and takes a break.

 The silence in the hustle and bustle.
Kibana cosmos fills the midsummer day and gives a lively yellow flower.
It blooms in full bloom.
 

 

 

A Meiji literary writer who loved rakugo and loved Nihonbashi, a downtown area rich in Edo atmosphere.
Three monuments of Soseki Natsume have been erected in the last five or six years.

One is "Soseki's Echigo-ya" installed here in Nihonbashi Sankoshimoto store.

 

The feature-length series "Ago Bijingusa" serialized in the Asahi Shimbun has a great response due to its advertising effect.
Mitsukoshi releases "Ago Bijinso Yukata" associated with its name. This is a great reputation. Demand
It seems that many production did not catch up and sold a lot.

In addition, the Cored Nihonbashi (this is the site of a rival Shirakiya of Mitsukoshi) Annex Square.
Monument of "The Stage of Soseki Masterpieces".
In the youth novel "Sanshiro", he went to vaudeville to listen to the third generation Kosan, and in the excellent work "Kokoro"
It depicts a scene where the masters eat at the former gourmet town Kihara store.

In Nakasu at the base of Kiyosubashi, "The site of Masago-za, where Soseki's "cat" is performed,"
It is placed. "Cat" is, of course, a masterpiece "I am a cat."

 Professor Takayasu Okushima, the 14th President of Waseda University.
It's a great place. Soseki, a young man, was at Tokyo College of Technology (currently Waseda University).
I've been a lecturer for about three years.

The fusion of the heart of Edo and the modern thinking of the Meiji era, Chinese studies and English literature.
Soseki is color-coded in the genre of Takato school, but what is the characteristic of it?
It is hidden by the stylishness of the smell of the common people.
I may be there.