A sign stands quietly in the planting of Shin-ohashi-dori St., right opposite Hamacho Building, Hamacho 2-chome, Tornale Hamacho Building. According to the description
The Tokiwa-kai was established in 1883 in 1883 by the Hisamatsu family of Matsuyama feudal lord in Iyokuni (now Ehime Prefecture) to support the former clansman children in Tokyo.
The Hisamatsu family set up a mansion in this area after the Meiji Restoration, and the Tokiwa-kai was set up in this mansion.
Among the 10 first payees in 1884, there was a poet Shiki Masaoka. Shiki moved to Tokyo alone from his hometown of Matsuyama in June 1883 to the student's room at Hisamatsu's house, and states that being selected as a payee the following year is one of the joys of half-life.
Tokiwa-kai founded a dormitory at the site of Shoyo Tsubouchi in Masago-cho, Hongo in 1887, and Shiki spent his time as a student from September 1888 to the end of 24.
This Hisamatsu residence has been met many times in the clouds above the slope of Ryotaro Shiba.
The Akiyama brothers are also from Iyomatsuyama, and when their older brother Yoshiko moved to Tokyo, they are told, "If you arrive in Tokyo, go to a mansion on the banks of Nihonbashihamacho." It is a small annex that was said to be "Hamacho's Imperial House" during the former Makuhaku period, and is still owned by the former feudal lord Hisamatsu family, and the Hisamatsu family used it as a dormitory when the former clansman moved to Tokyo and entered school.
When he moved to Tokyo, Shiki said, "As soon as he arrived, he would greet the former feudal lord residence," so he took a rickshaw from the station (Shimbashi) to Hisamatsu residence in Hamacho, Nihonbashi-ku. Yes, there is.
After this, the younger brother of the Akiyama brothers, Masayuki, also moved to Tokyo and sent youth with Shiki.
A few years later, Hekigodo Kawahigashi also moved to Tokyo to enter the dormitory of Tokiwa-kai to take the first high exam.
In 1889, Shiki was in the Tokiwa-kai dormitory in Hongo and was hit by the first sputum blood.
