Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

　Despite being in a prominent place called Sukiyabashi Park, the copper engraving commemorating the reconstruction of the earthquake, "Lighthouse" by Seibo Kitamura (1884-1987) is not attracting much attention. This memorial tower, which is right next to the long line seeking a jumbo lottery, is unlikely to be noticeable. This sculpture was 45 years old Nishibo, a professor at Tokyo Bijutsu School at the time, and exhibited at the 12th Tei Exhibition in 1931 (1931) in 1933 (1933), the tenth year of the Great Kanto Earthquake through a community donation. It was installed as an earthquake monument on September 1st.

　There is a lion, a king of beasts, at the feet of a young man wearing a helmet holding a torch. Is it a powerful male image that Nishibo is good at symbolizing the city of Tokyo, which is revived robustly? The design of the pedestal is also Nishibo, with a self-written nameplate of the slogan "Preparing for unexpected earthquakes" that was solicited for sweepstakes.

　It is said that "natural disasters come when you forget them", but recently it may be better to say, "I will come soon after you forget." When I go to Yurakucho, I often stop by this statue and keep in mind that I will be prepared for my daily routine. I hope the new year will be a calm year without disaster.

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　Seibo Kitamura is from Nagasaki Prefecture, a person who studied with the goal of two geniuses, Fumio Asakura and Taimu Tatehata, and worked hard to embody his favorite words, "Tamazaru Walking Soroshi Cochlea." In Tokyo, you can see many works of Saibo at the sculpture garden in the Inokashira Natural Culture Park. In 1958 (1958), Fumio Asakura was the second medal of culture, followed by Fumio Asakura, and in 1980 (1980), honorary citizen of Tokyo and honorary citizen of Nagasaki Prefecture. In 1987 (1987), he died long at the age of 102. The late masterpiece "Nagasaki Peace Prayer Statue" was completed in 1955 in five years with many difficulties, slander, and obstruction, and now prays for the happiness of war victims and world peace. .

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　The winner of the sumo wrestling Tokyo main place will be awarded the Tokyo Governor's Award, but the prize is a statue of "Lion Guijin" by Seibo Kitamura. The first prize winner in May 1981 (1981) was the lake of Toyoko Tsunakita at the time, the president of the Sumo Association, who died suddenly the other day.

　Bungo Soseki Natsume (1867-1916) appeared at the Ginza Asahi Building rebuilding site in Ginza 6-chome. On both sides of the temporary enclosure at the site, Namiki-dori St. side and Sony Street side, portraits of Soseki and illustrations of novels "Sanshiro" and "King Dark" (Natori Shunsen painting) are drawn.

　This is the place where the former Takiyama-cho, Tokyo Asahi Shimbun, where Soseki joined, was located (currently Ginza 6-6-7). Near the Namiki-dori St. Road, there is a song monument of Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912), the company's proofreader. People who usually look at this and pass by seem to be now caught by Soseki opposite.

　Soseki resigned in 1907 (1907) as a teaching profession at Teidai and Ichiko and joined Tokyo Asahi Shimbun. I was surprised by the difference in social reputation at that time, but I dared to say, "If a newspaper shop is a business, a university shop is also a business," and "I don't feel like I'm alive without writing something." I'm going on the path of literary creation. Starting with "Ago Bijingusa", it will be sent to the world as a serial novel in the Asahi Shimbun up to "Sanshiro", "Kokoro" ... and unfinished "Akiko". In addition, he presided over the literary column and promoted up-and-coming writers, giving a place to present. I didn't have a duty to go to work, but when I came to the editorial meeting on Wednesday, the number of words was small, but it seemed that it was a lively meeting with unexpected words with a simple face.

　I, Yotaro, wrote this blog twice about the relationship between Soseki and Chuo-ku in the past, but at that time, I remember him in this important place that is most closely related to Soseki in the city. I was sorry that there was nothing. Two years later, after the construction is completed, this enclosure will be gone. At that time, I hope that a new and permanent monument will be created. Next year 2016 will be 100 years after Soseki's death, and next year 2017 will be 150 years of birth, a major milestone is approaching.

[Adding] poetry monument of Takuboku Ichiishikawa (right photo)

　　"The fish of the time when it became a newspaper light in Takiyama-cho in Kyobashi"

　　Soseki's serialization of "From then" and "Mon" overlaps when Takuboku was in office. Takuboku would have been in charge of proofreading.

[Adding] Two of them

　　“Soseki's Footprint in Chuo-ku” (2012.10.31)

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　　"Bungo and Maruzen (Part 2) Soseki Natsume and Fountain Pen" (2013.3.14)

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　It was the early morning of December 15, 1702 that Nanji Akaho entered the Honjo Kira House and gave Uenosuke's leadership, and in the Christian era it was just about 312 years ago on January 31, 1703. did. It seems that the cold weather was very severe this year.

　By the way, among the forty-seven men, along with the chief Oishi built-in assistant, the top winner in popularity voting and general election is Taketsune Horibe (1670-1703). He is known as the hero of Baba's decisive sword in Takada's Baba, who struggles as an enemy radicalist in the Akaho incident, and continues to live in the world of plays, talks, and movies after his death. Recently, I went back in time to a TV commercial for corporate PR, and I was surprised.

　Many people may have seen "Horibe Yasubei Takeyuki Monument", which engraves his achievements, in Nishizume, Kameshimabashi, Chuo-ku. (1-14 Hatchobori) It seems that it was built in 1969 by Hatchobori 1-chome Town Association. Why is it built here? The monument says, "It seems that this is the basis because Anbei lived in the Confucian Jiro Hosoi Daio family in Mizutanicho, Kyobashi. In the Edo period, there was "Mizutanicho" at Hatchobori 1-chome and 2-chome. However, "Kyobashi Mizutanicho" was not there, but it was in the current Ginza 1-chome (around Mizutanibashi Park), but it was fired and moved to Hatchobori in 1719 (1719). Therefore, there was no Mizutanicho in Hatchobori yet in Genroku period, where Anbei lived. The people of Hatchobori 1-chome Town Association probably built a monument because Anbei lived in Mizutanicho, Kyobashi, the hometown of Mizutanicho (although it seems to be a very short time).

　Yasubee Horibe has the image of "Kenka Anbei" or drinking sake, but it is extremely gentle and cute for children, and is so honest that he can't say, there is no blood connection to his father-in-law Yahee. There is a reputation that he is very similar to his waist and aspirations, and he seems to be a rough young man who is never told. (There is a theory that it was Shimodo as well as Yahee.)　Did such a personality be loved by the surroundings and become a popular one, and later become a monument to Showa?

　By the way, Jiro Hosoi Daio (No. Hirosawa) (1658-1735) in the inscription that he lived in Kyobashi Mizutanicho, but he has earned his name in history as a Confucian scholar, calligrapher, and seal engraving artist. Haiku, martial arts, guns, art, art, art, art, and art. He met Anbei, who was 12 years younger, at Horiuchi Genzaemon Dojo, a swordsmanship memorial style, and has continued his deep friendship since then. With thorough support at the time of the debate, Horibe father and son are asked for their opinions on the draft of the letter of intent for the debate, "A Asanouchi Takumi Ikiguchigami". On the night of the debate, he climbed to the roof of his home in Fukagawa Hachiman-cho, and seemed to wake up until dawn to see if the fire was rising at Honjo Kira's residence. After the Gishi's stomach, important historical materials such as "Takeyo Horibe" and Yasubei's relics (Kagete) were entrusted to Hirosawa.

　The grave of the Kotaku Hosoi family is located at Manganji Temple, which is powered by Setagaya. main hall's "Manganji" is the book of the child's calligrapher Kusa. This temple is the origin of Kira Setagaya, and it is strange that he has the same family as Uenosuke, the enemy of the defeat he supported. . In his later years, Kaishu Katsu gave Kotaku Hosoi to one of the outstanding figures since the Edo era, and described "I do not know because I hide in the book." He appreciates him. It seems certain that he lived in Nihonbashibakurocho when he was young, so it would be nice to have his memorial monument in the ward.

　[Snake foot]　Kotaku Hosoi's mansion was located in Kyobashi Mizutanicho, and that Yasubee Horibe lived there, could not be found in Hirosawa's biography, chronology, or books related to Gishi. If you know what can support the text of the monument, please let us know.

　[On the photo]　"Horibe Yasubei Takeyuki Monument" of Nishizume Kameshima Bridge

　[Lower photo]　Tomb of Kotaku Hosoi at Manganji Temple　　　　　

　For a person to live his life as a poet

　You are intelligent and purely

　I had to live purely

　See you again

　I have to die early!

　(Tatsuji Miyoshi, "Breath of Life Spring")

　Michizo Tachihara (1914-1939), who was born in Nihonbashi, lamented by Tatsuji Miyoshi, a fellow of the doujinshi "Shiki", lamented his death. This year marks the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 75th anniversary of his death.

　Michizo Tachihara was born in July 1914 at 3-1, Tachibanacho, Nihonbashi-ku (currently around 3-9-2, Higashi Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku). The ancestor of the mother are the famous Confucian scholar Tatehara Midoriken, and his child and painter Kyosho Tachihara. The birthplace's family business was the manufacture of wooden boxes for packing, which was quite extensively operated in the center of the wholesale district in Nihonbashi. He grew up in the downtown culture and went to Yotoku Kindergarten and Hisamatsu Elementary School in Hamacho, and was said to be the Shundo since the school opened at Hisamatsu Elementary School, and passed the chief for six years. After that, as with Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Tatsuo Hori, he went to Minaka, Ichitaka, and Teidai, but at university he studied architecture instead of the Faculty of Letters, demonstrated his talent here, and was given to the best student "Tatsuno (Kingo) Award" Has been awarded three times. After graduating, I joined the architectural office of a renowned architect Kikuji Ishimoto on the shore of Sukiyabashi and designed several buildings.

　In the field of poetry writing, he visited Setagaya Wakabayashi's home in Kitahara Hakushu during his junior high school days and continued to write poetry with interest from an early age. In the year he joined Ishimoto Architectural Office (1937), he continued to publish a collection of poems "Stop in Kayakusa" and "Poetry of Akatsuki and Evening". In March 1939, the month before ending a short life due to a sudden change in tuberculosis, Was selected as the first winner of the Chuya Nakahara Prize. His poems are described as delicate, pure and musical lyric in the form of 14 lines. Tatsuji Miyoshi says, "Slightly light music that can speak in our language, as much as we can sing." There is a feeling that it is an excellent lyric poem built with a design drawing called Sonnet and an architectural material called Japanese. His poems are often said to be musical, but it seems that there is a word "architecture is frozen music", so I wonder if it's too bad. It seems to be a lyric poem by science brains, like abstract paintings that are often used in Japanese lyric poems, such as sentimental and glamorous things and private novels.

　All the buildings he designed have been lost. However, dreaming of a newlywed life with Asai Mitobe, whom he met at work, he was preparing for his death. It was built in 2004 with the efforts of volunteers based on the sketch. It seems that the place he thought was on the other side of the swamp.　This year is just 10 years.

　This year, the 100th anniversary of his birth, commemorative events were held at Karuizawa and Bessho-numa in Shinshu, which often visited on the edge of Tatsuo Hori and often set the stage of his poetry. It seems that there was no special event in Chuo-ku, which was a fabric and spent most of his short life. Is he unfamiliar because he did not leave the original Edokko-like part outside or did not make the local area the stage of his work? I feel a little lonely. So, on the day of Koharu weather, in memory of Michizo Tachihara (because it is painful to Shinshu), I walked around the birthplace, the tomb of Tahoin in Hisamatsu small, Taninaka, Bessho Numa Hyatin House, etc. .

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　●　Around the current Tachibana-cho birthplace

　　　Many poems and architectural drawings were produced in the attic of a newly built house after the earthquake.

　●　Hisamatsu Elementary School, "Learn here" monument on the left side of the main gate "Michizo Tachihara Learn here"

　●　Tomb of the Tachihara family of Taninaka Tahoin

　●　Fushinkoso (Hiyacinth House) in Besshonuma Park, Minami-ku, Saitama City

　"Tsuyu no Satosaki" is the title of a novel that reminds me of this time. The author is Kafu Nagai (1879-1959). Kafu says, "The title of the novel is too elaborate, it doesn't matter if it's too elaborate," but it's exactly a wonderful title.　(Masashi Sada has a song with the same name, but the title of this novel may have been in my head.)

　In 1959, Kafu celebrated at his home in Ichikawa, and this year 55 years, this year's 55 years, the novel "Sumida River", "Sumitomo 1959" in the book "Hiyowa Geta" diary "Syotei Nijo", etc. In recent years, the number of female readers who were previously said to be empty has increased, and this is the end of Dokei.

　By the way, speaking of Kafu's homes, "Shikikan" inbei-cho, Azabu-shi, "Shokutei" in Ushigome Yochomachi (behind the prison station"), and the birthplace of Koishikawa Kintomi-cho ("Fox") are famous. However, we seem to have a short period of time in Chuo-ku, but it seems to have a lot of Tsukiji neighborhood.

　In May 1915 (1915), Kafu moved from his late father's house in Yochomachi to a rented house at 1-6 Tsukiji, Kyobashi-ku (currently 2-7 Tsukiji). The second floor was 10 tatami mats and 6 tatami mats, the lower floor was 8 tatami mats, 6 tatami mats, and 3 tatami mats. The rent was 26 yen, and there was a residence of Kiyoharu's teacher Umekichi next to the back. In September of the same year, he moved to her in 9-chome, Sojuro-cho (currently Ginza 7-5) to live again with the divorced geisha Yaeji (later Seiju Fujikage).

　Next, in September 1917 (1917), he moved from a house in Yochomachi to an alley in Kibikicho 9-chome (currently Ginza 7-chome 15-18) near Izumo Bridge and a second-floor house with lattice doors. It is named "Muyoan". The reason for the rented house was that Dr. Oishi of Nakasu Hospital was easy to receive a home call in case of emergency. At this time, "Shokutei Nijo" began, and it is written until the day before death.

　At the end of 1918 (1918), Kafu sold the old house in Yochomachi for a total of 26,264.22 yen, and sold a house behind the alley at Tsukiji 2-300 Tsukiji behind Tsukiji Honganji (currently 3-chome 10, 11) for 2,500 yen and move. It's almost a year and a half. In May 1920, a new house "Shikikan" was completed on a leased land on a cliff at 1-6,beicho, Azabu-shi, and will leave Tsukiji.

　Kafu loved the taste and emotion of the downtown area, but when I actually lived, I couldn't withstand the human relationships that were too close, the busyness behind the alley, and the badtaro of the noisy town, and returned to `` a mountainside with lots of trees '' I went.

　It is extremely difficult to remember the appearance of the time when you heard the sound of the shamisen, a bustling city as you know, but once by all means for Kafu fans, Kabuki sightseeing, Tsukiji gourmet walk, etc. Please try. The annual Tsukiji Honganji Noryo Bon Dance Festival will be held until August 2nd. Here, there is a famous store in Tsukiji, which is said to be "the best Bon Odori in Japan". It's a good idea to take a walk in the neighborhood where the great walker Kafu lived before seeing it.

　[On the photo]　The area around 1-6 Tsukiji 1-chome

　[In the photo]　From the ruins of Izumo Bridge, you can see the old Kibikicho 9-chome

　[Lower photo]　Former 2-30 Tsukiji 2-chome

　Speaking of March, it was 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake three years ago, but it is an unacceptable disaster for Tokyo people to forget the 3.10 Tokyo Air Raid, which killed 100,000 people 69 years ago. At this time, among those who evacuated to Meijiza in Hamacho and lost their lives, there is the name of Kayo Yamagishi (1876-1945), a novelist, play critic, and calligrapher born in Nihonbashi.

　Kayo Yamagishi was born in the real name Sojiro, the main street Honcho-dori St. at the time, and Kagaya (commonly known as Kagayoshi), a glass and eyeglass wholesaler in Toyu-cho (currently Nihonbashiodenmacho). Cultural figures who grew up in the same town include Seitan Kawajiri and Shigure Hasegawa. According to the time rain, "Old Mon Nihonbashi", her father gave a speech to celebrate the publication of the Constitution at the Oten Kagayoshi.

　He excelled in Japanese calligraphy from an early age, and was called a prodigy under the calligrapher Ichiroku Iwaya, and later became a family with the Kaganoya-ryu.) He entered Inkuriyusha with the introduction of his 16 son Konami, and became a novelist under Koyo Ozaki. His work depicting the downtown atmosphere set in Nihonbashi merchants and Hanayanagi world in the Meiji era, including his masterpiece "Kon Japanese shop curtain", was called "Nihonbashi Literature". In the later years, he became interested in theater, contributing to the popularization of Western drama, such as performing a play of translation of leaves at Meijiza by Otojiro Kawakami, and also played a role in Kabuki's play reviews. His personality is friendly and fashionable, and is said to have been loved by everyone. The painter Kiyokata Kaburagi was a friend who forgives each other.

　In the Great Air Raid on March 10, 1945, he evacuated to a Meijiza building close to his home and had a connection with performing a translation drama, but he was also damaged and died. Kayo Yamagishi, the last writer of inkstone Tomosha, was born and raised in Nihonbashi, depicting Nihonbashi, and ending his life in Nihonbashi. I was 69 years old.

　[On the photo]　At present, Odenma Honcho-dori St. in the former Totsuyu town. Until the train ran on Kokumachi-dori (now Edo-dori St.), this was the main road, and there were large shops. In the Edo period, the Shoshi and Koshodo of Juzaburo Tsutaya was also here.

　[Lower photo]　The tomb of the Yamagishi family in Yanaka Cemetery. An inscription of a postcard is engraved on the statue pedestal of Otojiro Kawakami nearby.