"There is Kazuha in the Meiji era. There is time rain in the Showa era." The famous book "Old Mon Nihonbashi" written by Shigure Hasegawa on the buried grass of "Women's Art", which he presided over. When I read this work, which recalls the girl's age, when the rain was born in Aburamachi, Nihonbashi-dori, was dubbed "Ann Pontan", the appearance of the city around the birthplace of the early Meiji era and the people around it revived lively, I feel like I was put on a time machine. 。 Today, I walked along the traces of several stages drawn here with Iwanami Bunko in one hand.
[On the photo] It is Daidenma Honcho-dori St. Look at Midoribashi from Daimon Street. You can see the sky tree under construction.
Birthplace: No. 1, Nihonbashi-doriyucho
Shigure Hasegawa was born on October 1, 1879 as the eldest daughter of Fukazo Hasegawa, a government official (lawyer) at Doyucho, Nihonbashi-ku (currently 14, Nihonbashi-Daidenmacho, Chuo-ku). Honmachi-dori, which runs through the middle of Yuyu-cho, is a main line from the Edo period heading from Nihonbashi to Asakusabashi. It is a town with many wholesalers connected to Honmachi, Otemmacho, Torigocho, Toyucho, and Toshio-cho, and the rank of the city was much higher than the parallel Kokumachi-dori (currently Edo-dori St.). Toyu-cho was on both sides of Honmachi-dori from Daimon-dori to Hamacho-Kawa Midoribashi, and his birthplace was facing a small alley near Kodemmacho, with Honmachi-dori back. This alley is called "Umaya Shindo" and handles carriages on the opposite Kodemmacho side.
There was a big freighter. The predecessor of this shop was a horse-drawn house for Temmacho prison and a sinner.
There is a large store of glasses and glass wholesalers called Kagayoshi near the center of Yuyu-cho, and when the Constitution was issued, it became a venue for speeches in the town. The spokesman was a government official in 1879, one of the first friends who had only 12 people, and the father of Shiame, who was regarded as new wisdom at the time. Kagayoshi is the birthplace of Kayo Yamagishi, a novelist and calligrapher under the Momijimon.
By the way, Tsuyu-cho was a first-class version of the cypress stage in the Edo period. Kiemon Tsuruya and others have a store, and Juzaburo Tsutaya also advanced from Yoshiwara Ikumamichi, and has Shunsui Tamenaga Monochi Shoshi in Toyu-cho. Tsutashige's store
And they were also working. "Old Mon Nihonbashi" does not mention anything about this area, but I imagine that the DNA of this area was inherited by the book lover Ann Pontan.
[Photo top right] Around the birthplace of the horses and new roads.
[In the middle right of the photo] Daimon Street. I'd like to see Ningyocho.
[Lower right of the photo] The ruins of Midoribashi. I can see the manhole.
Daimaru Kimono Store
On the other side of Daimon-dori is the place where the Daimaru kimono shop was located. (currently 10, Nihonbashi Daidenmacho, Chuo-ku) It was also depicted in Hiroshige's "Hundred Views of Edo", and even after entering the Meiji era, "Nihonbashi culture and prosperity center point at that time". It was a famous kimono shop made of Odozo. On New Year's Day, the children in the neighborhood also acted.
[Upper left photo] The trace of Daimaru kimono shop.
[Lower left of the photo] Well of Take Dainichi Nyorai. If you go only two streets from Umaya Shindo, Ann Pontan passed the source elementary school. It's a bit ahead of it.
Hara of the prison
Immediately after the Meiji Restoration, there was a story that my father refused to give a corner of the prison free of charge. The large prison in Temmacho existed until 1875, and a temple was erected around 1882, but it seems that it was crowded with huts and monsters, probably because they tried to pay the unclean land. . My grandmother visits Kobo-sama (Daianrakuji Temple), which was built in Hara of the prison, with Ann Pontan every night.
[Left photo] Daianrakuji Temple. It was erected on the ruins of the prison.
Home of Tsukuda Island
His father, Fukazo, secluded on the shores of Aioi Bridge on Tsukuda Island in his later years. In 1904, he separated from his husband and lived in his parents' house. 3-5, Shin-Tsukuda Nishimachi, Kyobashi-ku (currently Tsukuda 2-chome, Chuo-ku). Here, I will become a leading female writer. Aioi Bridge was a wooden bridge, and few people crossed the bridge. There was a ferry that arrived in front of the gate from the time of Eitai Bridge, and the willow of the gate was a landmark of the ferry. It seems that the time rain went to a women's language school (currently Futaba Gakuen) in Tsukiji Reservation by Tsukuda. In September 1910, Tsukuda Island was severely damaged by the tsunami, but the breakwater was safe because the pine, which my father had elaborated, firmly rooted.
[Lower photo] See Tsukuda 2-chome from Aioi Bridge. Of course, there are no pine trees on the willow and breakwaters at the gate, and there are stunning rows of cherry trees.
Shigure Hasegawa died on August 23, 1941. At the beginning, "There is Kazuha in the Meiji era ..." is a praise in the condolences of Eiji Yoshikawa. In addition, Yaeko Nogami is a great meritorious person who sent many female writers to the world from "Women's Art", and mourns "unexperienced people like Ougai and Soseki". At present, it is not very popular, but it seems that there are no monuments or explanation boards related to time rain in Chuo-ku. (Speaking of that, it seems that her name was not in the text of the Chuo-ku Tourism Certification.) I don't feel very sorry.
"The atmosphere of the downtown summer is that the sunset is pushed up from Okawa with the upper tide." It was a hot day, but near the evening, I felt the same cool breeze as before.
