Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

 Ryunosuke Akutagawa was born on March 1, 1892 (1892) at 8-1, Irifune-cho, Kyobashi-ku (currently around 10,111, Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, St. Luke's College of Nursing). According to his own chronology, he was named Ryunosuke because he was born in Tatsutsutsutsutsutsutsutsushin. This year, the Year of the Dragon, the Chinese zodiac sign will be just two years old and 120 years old.

　His father, Toshizo Niihara, ran a milk business "Komakisha" and had a ranch in Irifune-cho. This was a foreign settlement in Tsukiji at that time, and there were only three Japanese people. He was born in unlucky year, a 43-year-old father and a 33-year-old mother, and took the form of dumping from superstitions. You. The Akutagawa family is located at 15 Koizumimachi, Honjo-ku (currently 3-chome, Ryogoku, Sumida-ku), and the family of the Sukiya monk of Edo Castle for generations, and the adopted mother appears in Edo's large streetman Koi Saiki ("Solitude Hell"). The niece of the niece, the elegance and hobbies of the genuine Edo people flow strongly in the family, and it is doubtful that this had a great influence on his later art.

　He loves the home where he spent his childhood, Ryogoku, and especially in Okawa (Sumida River), singing an enthusiastic hymn ("Okawa no Mizu"), but wrote about his birthplace, Tsukiji. Is there?

I moved to the headquarters immediately after birth, and I don't have any direct memories, but "I am a person who lived in the headquarters until I was about twenty years old." ("Honjo Ryogoku") and Irifune-cho have been broken. Regarding copperplate engraving barely depicting the Tsukiji settlement, there was a nostalgic expression that showed the beautiful harmony of Japanese and Western eclectic. ("Good People of Opening")

　"Sometimes I imagine that twenty or fifty years later, or even a hundred years later, there will be times when I do not know my existence. ----but I imagine. There is one reader who should get my collection of works after the 100s. In the meantime, in front of the reader's heart, there is my mirage that emerges as obsolete. " ("The posterity")

　120 years after birth, 85 years after his death. Betraying his imagination, the number of readers who love him continues to grow, and his reputation for him is as high as solid as the Sky Tree, not a mirage. This year, the 120th anniversary of the birth, there seems to be no particular event in Chuo-ku, but as one of my favorite readers, I visited the birthplace on a day when the cold weather was somewhat loose.

 

　One snake leg. The birthplace is the site of Takumi Asanouchi's mansion, the site of Kira Uenosuke's mansion south of the place of growth, and the connection to Chushingura. Did he recall such a coincidence while writing "One day's Oishiuchi Kuranosuke"?

　One more snake leg. This year is the Year of the Dragon, and the old calendar style is March = Tatsuzuki, and Tatsuzuki Tatsutsu is March 8 and 20. Will Ryunosuke of Heisei be born in Tatsuki (around 8:00 am)?

 

　[On the photo]　　　Near the birthplace of Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku

　[Photo top right]　 Birthplace, explanation board

　[In the middle right of the photo]　 3-chome, Ryogoku, Koto-ku, near the place of growth

　[Lower right of photo]　 Near the site of the residence of Tabata end, Kita-ku, "Gaki cave"

 

 

 

　♪Dreams sometimes bloom from a cup of coffee ... (Ko Fujiura lyric)

 

　According to the encyclopedia, coffee was brought by Dutch people who came to Nagasaki during the Edo period, but it seems that Japanese did not receive it. Nanpo Ota (Shusanjin), who worked in Nagasaki, wrote, "I can't stand it and taste it." In addition, Kano Siebold wrote, "It's strange that Japanese people who drink hot tea and like friends don't get acquainted with coffee." After the Meiji era, coffee shops and cafes opened and gradually became drunk, and according to statistics, it is now the third largest consumption in the world, with more than 10 cups per Japanese per week.

　In March 1944, the first store called "Cafe Plantan" will open at 20 Hiyoshicho, Kyobashi-ku (currently Ginza 8-6). Seiki Kuroda and other Western painters Shozo Matsuyama (1884-1970), who studied with Seiki Kuroda and Okada Saburosuke at the Tokyo Bijutsu School, opened a European cafe in Temoto with a friend painter, Gonpachiro Hiraoka (1883-1943, and a member of the restaurant Kagetsuro in Takekawa-cho) in collaboration with a group of Kitahara Hakushu andOkada Saburosuke.

　If it was my first time to call it a cafe, it was my first time to put a hand-held phonograph and play Western music such as classical and dance. Grape shelf at the entrance, large oil paintings drawn by Shozo Matsuyama were placed inside the room, and graffiti such as improvisation of visitors and caricatures were drawn on walls painted in white plaster, creating an atmosphere similar to a cafe in Paris. As for the menu, Western and Western sake are the main players rather than coffee, the specialties are hot sandwiches and macaroni, the sake is rich in assortment, and Western sake that is not familiar in Japan at that time were also prepared.

　If so many celebrities gather, various anecdotes are left. Ougai's daughter, Mari Mori, was a young girl like a white hat, returned home from the Imperial drama taken by "Black Man" (Ogai), and drinking coffee for the first time in my life here. I put a hot coffee on my chest. ("Café Plantan of Memory") Also, drunk Shunro Oshikawa sold a fight with Kafu Nagai and Aoi Ikuta (Mt. Aoi), accompanied by the Tomoe family's Yaeji (later Seiju Fujikage). It was this shop. (Aoi Ikuta's "Plantan's Light at that time") Plantan was later pressed by Lion (Owari-cho corner) and Paulista (Minaminabe-cho), but it was a little threshold for ordinary people Is it partly due to the fact that it was considered a high shop?

　The smoke of Macaroni and Mocha rises

　Cuffet, outside the plantan window

　Midnight in the early summer on the streets of Hiyoshi-cho　　　(From Kafu Nagai's Improvisation)

 

　Gonhachiro Hiraoka, who will draw his hand later, is the creator of the poster (1913) of "Kaidai Bijin" playing the biwa at Mitsukoshi Kimono Store. Shozo Matsuyama's child is the fifth generation of actor Kunitaro Kawarasaki (1909-1990), and his grandchildren are Eitaro Matsuyama (1942-1991) and Masaji Matsuyama (1947-). At the cemetery of Meiseiji Temple in Chofu City, Shozo, Taro Kuni, and Eitaro are one grave and sleep forever.

 

[On the photo] Around the present Namiki-dori St., where there was a plantan.

[Lower photo] The tomb of the Matsuyama family in Chofu.

 

 

 

　The body is decayed in Nobe of Musashi, and the Yamato soul 21 times Takeshi (Yoshida Shoin)

 

　It was near noon on October 27, 1859, that Yoshida Shoin (1830-1859), a revolutionary thinker of the late Tokugawa shogunate who had trained many rebels, was executed at the Temmacho prison (now Nihonbashikodenmacho 3-5).

 

　In May of this year, Hagino Noyamagoku was sent to Edo by the order, and on July 9, he was called at the Shogunate Rating Office and entered Temmacho. Suspirations such as the relationship with Umeda Unhama will be cleared, but they will be guilty of death because they will open a measure for victory during the old and middle age. The slashed was Asaemon Yamada (Yoshitoshi Seventh), and he said that the end of Shoin was dignified and wonderful. The remains of Shoin are buried from Kozukahara to Wakabayashi-mura, Ebara-gun (currently Wakabayashi, Setagaya-ku) by gatekeepers. This was the land of Mori family, and in 1882, Shoin Shrine was founded on the grave. In 1907, Shoin Shrine was founded in Hagi, but both enshrined deity and Yoshida Shoin (Torajiro Yoshida Norikata Fujiwara) and the annual festival is October 27.

 

　The Temmacho Shimogoku in Shoin was the second time since the attempted Shimoda smuggling incident (1854), but as in the first time, it seems that he was treated quite well thanks to his friend and gatekeeper. The prisoner Yoshigoro Numazaki and the prison graduate Kinroku, paid tribute to Shoin and helped. A book of the will, "Remorse Record", which begins with the resignation written at the beginning, is entrusted to Numazaki and is still present at Hagi Shoin Shrine.

 

　The Temmacho prison was abolished in 1875, but the site was no one who lived as a devastating land, and there is a story in "Old Mon Nihonbashi" that Shigure Hasegawa's father refused to give it for free.)　Temples, parks and schools are available. Currently, it is a temple such as Daianrakuji Temple, Jisshi Park, and Jushi Square. A monument engraving the resignation of Shoin is on the northeast side of Jisshi Park. At the ruins of the execution site in the southeast corner of the prison mansion, you can see the found amount of the casting of the Enmei guardian of children and travelers of Daianrakuji Temple and Tesshu Yamaoka's book "Tame Prison Dead Group Recession" at the foot of Jizo.

 

　At Jisshi Park, when lunch comes, people working in the neighborhood eat lunch and spread newspapers. The old abominable place is now a bright resting place.

 

[Photo] The monument of the end of Yoshida Shoin in Jisshi Park (right)

[In the photo] Monument of Shoin Diction in the center of the photo

[Lower photo] Prolonged life of Daianrakuji Temple guardian of children and travelers　

 

 

　Hoitsu Sakai (1761-1829), the third master of "Rinpa" following Sodatsu and Korin. Many people know that his tomb, also known as the ancestor of Edo Rinpa, is located at Honganji Temple in Tsukiji. In 1797 (1797), under the master of Kyoto Nishi Honganji Temple, who descended to Edo, he earned his home at Tsukiji Honganji Temple. But this is not the only connection between Huichi and Chuo-ku.

　Tadanori Sakai (Tadanori Sakai) was born in 1761 at the Sakai family annex in Kandaogawamachi as the second son of the Gagaku head family, Himeji feudal lord, and grew up in the upper house in front of Ote-mon gate, Edo Castle. Nakayashiki straddles the current Nihonbashi Ningyocho 1-chome and Nihonbashi Kakigaracho 1-chome on the east side of Inaribori, crossing Shin-ohashi-dori St. from Nihonbashi Elementary School, just before Nihonbashihakozakicho, and around the Metropolitan Expressway. It was quite wide. (It seems that this place became the residence of Saigo Takamori after the Meiji Restoration.)

　He demonstrated a unique talent not only in paintings but also in the literary world such as haikai and Kyoka, but he used the issue of "Hakozaki Funamori" in the collection of phrases from the Nakayashiki era, "The Sound of Kaji" . Speaking of Huichi's residence, Negishi's "Ugean", which produced a fulfilling work in his later years, is famous, but now there was a time when he was "Chuo Kumin".

　This year is just 250 years from 1761 when he was born. At the beginning of this year, there were related art exhibitions at the Idemitsu Museum of Arts and the Hatakeyama Memorial Hall, but since summer, a large-scale retrospective exhibition featuring representative works such as "The 250th Anniversary of Birth of Hoitsu Sakai and Edo Rinpa" will be held around Himeji, Chiba and Kyoto. Unfortunately, there is no event in Tokyo, but in the Tokyo metropolitan area, it will be held at the Chiba City Museum of Art from October 10 to November 13. Taro Iyo also visits the grave of Tsukiji and then goes to Chiba to enjoy the essence and elegance of Huichi.

[Photo] Shin-ohashi-dori St., which crosses the center of the Sakai family Nakayashiki site.

[In the photo] Tsukiji Honganji's tomb

[Lower photo] stamp (1970) Representative work "Natsu Akikusa Figure Screen" (part)

 

 

　The hot summer has come again this year. When you go out in the hot weather, you just get your hands on shaved ice and ice cream.

　Ice, as is known in the story of Kaga Domain's ice offering on June 1 (the lunar calendar) during the Edo period, seems to have been eaten only by noble people. After the Meiji Restoration, he moved to Yokohama, and in Tokyo in 1872 (1872), Hakodate's natural ice was sent to the ice room in Shintomi-cho and sold to citizens. It seems that artificial ice was founded in 1883 (1883), when an ice making company was established in Shinsakaemachi, Kyobashi Ward. ("History of Chuo-ku")

　Ice cream was introduced by foreigners at the end of the Tokugawa period, and in 1869, a person named Fuzo Machida opened an ice shop on Bashamichi Street in Yokohama, and sold it with a banner called "Aisukurin". ("Milk and Japanese") However, it seems that foreigners rarely stopped by and suffered a great loss. The ice cream was sold to the general public around 1879 and 13 (1879, 80) at Hakodateya in Ginza, and "Chuo-ku Fumishita" said it was probably the first shop in Japan.

　Shin Okura (1831-?), the owner of the Hakodate shop, is said to be the former Owari clansman, and is the remnant party of Hakodate Goryokaku, who fought according to Takeaki Enomoto. In 1876 (1876), Mount Fuji was formed at 2-9 Hiya, Owari-cho, Kyobashi-ku (now around 6-9-7 Ginza). (Roan Uchida's "Ginza Prosperity", Shogetsu Yamamoto's "100 episodes of Meiji Seso") He was said to be a strange man and famous man in Ginza in an unexpected Australian language of customers, such as a drum belly like a beer barrel, wearing clogs on clothes, etc. Was Roan Uchida says that the presence of a grandfather at Hakodateya is proud of Ginza, and that the disappearance of the store is even the loss of Ginza.

　The grandson of Shindaizo is actor Kinzo Shin (1910-1988). He has been active as a famous supporting role for a long time and has appeared in many movies and TVs. He is a graduate of Yasuaki Elementary School.　His writing, "Genso Ice Cream Hakodateya", states, "Grandpa borrowed money from Takeaki Enomoto and opened Hakodateya," "How to make ice cream from a Frenchman of the Shogunate adviser during the Hakodate War. I got it. " By the way, what was the taste of the ice cream at Hakodateya? I'm writing this.

"My misfortune is that ice cream grew up thinking that the house is the best, so I still can't afford the ice cream at any shop and I can't feel like eating it."

　The graves of the Hakodate family and Kinzo Shin are located in Yanaka Cemetery.

 

[On the photo] Around 2-9 Owaricho, former Owaricho

[Lower photo] "Hakodateya" in Taninaka (right) and "Kinzo Shin" (left) tombstone

 

 

　There are many works of art with the title of the street name and place name in Chuo-ku, but the white eyebrows are "Tsukiji Akashicho" by Kiyokata Kaburagi (1878-1972). Kiyokata 49 years old, 1927. The wind of Akashicho, which was a foreigner's settlement, was like an ideal home for him. There are masts of merchant ships coming to the sea, and morning glory is entangled in the light blue paint wooden fence. Kiyokata recalled in the morning mist standing in Akashicho's morning fog, a beautiful woman with the hair of Igirisu, a woman named Rohan Kouda's "Tentsunami" I'm drawing. The model is Masuko Egi, who became a master with the introduction of Kyoka Izumi, and the pose that stirs the sleeves in the cold air of early autumn sketches Kiyoko, the eldest daughter. By the way, there is no street name "Tsukiji Akashicho", but the artist wrote, "I dared to name it from the feeling of Goro and Reality."

　The response when this work was announced at the 8th Teijin Exhibition was great, and many people still won the Imperial Art Academy Prize, as a masterpiece of modern beauty paintings, and as a masterpiece of Kiyokata who later received the Order of Culture. Continue to attract. My best friend Kyoka wrote the sentence "Kenchan is great! ] And won this picture. (Kiyokata's real name is Kenichi) "... I felt it was good this time. And above all, it is the appearance of euphemism, Kiyoshu, lively, and people. In addition, the tenderness of the chest, the emotion of the sleeves, the care of the shoulders ..."

　Kiyokata was born in Kandasakumacho in 1878, and died in 1972 under the snow of Kamakura City (currently Kaburagi Kiyokata Memorial Museum). I have moved more than 30 times during that time, but I spend most of my childhood, small and adolescents between the ages of 1 to 17 and 22 to 34 in the current Chuo-ku area. The environment where I was born and raised laid the foundation for the subsequent Kiyokata art. In addition to "Tsukiji Akashicho", there are many representative works that cannot be cut off from the address in the city. "Morning and evening Yasui", "Sardines" and "Tsukiji River" are the neighborhood of the downtown area of childhood, and "Ms. Itsuha's Tomb" was at Tsukiji Honganji at that time. "Sanyutei Encho Statue" is a sketch of oral performance for quick recording at his home at 11-11-chome, Kyobashi Kibikicho (Chijono Rigiku House). "Noveler and Illustrator" is the first meeting with Kyoka at home at 1-15, Kibikicho. Except for "The Tomb of Ms. Itsuha", I drew it after leaving Chuo-ku. (In particular, "Noveler and Illustrator" is a work of 1951, 50 years later.) Kiyokata painter who is closely related to Chuo-ku, and if there is a system before his birth, he is an "honored inhabitant" without complaining.

　By the way, this masterpiece "Tsukiji Akashicho" has not been released in art exhibitions or retrospective exhibitions for more than thirty years because it is a private collection. I'd like to see it again while I'm alive.

 

[On the photo] From Akashicho Riverside Park, look toward Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge.

[In the photo] "Tsukiji Akashicho" became a stamp. (Hobby Week 1971)

[Lower photo] Near the bus stop in front of St. Luke Hospital with an explanation board of "Remains of Foreign Residents".