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Masago-za Ruins Monument

[North Yujin] February 21, 2012 08:30

 When you get off at Chuo-ku circulation bus, "Edo bus" north circulation course "Nakashu", you will see the monument of "Masagoza Ruins" beside the apartment along the road. On the right shoulder, there is an appendix of "Soseki" Cat "the place where the performance is performed".

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 Read the description on the right.

  Soseki Natsume's "I Ha Cat Deal" was adapted by Kaoru Osanai.

  Yoho Ii and others appeared at the site of Masago-za in Nakasu, Nihonbashi-ku.
  From November 3, 1906

  It was performed on the thirty.

    October 2003 lucky day

     Takayasu Okushima, President of Waseda University 14    Yes, it is.

 

If you look at the regional map AREA MAP, you will see from Nihonbashihamacho to Kiyosu Bridge, pass under the high speed, near the Sumida River, and turn right.

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 Masago-za seems to have been a prestigious new theater since the middle of the Meiji era. But one theater is called "Hongo-za". The head is Yoho Ii, and Kaoru Osanai was in charge of writing and directing.

 Kaoru Osanai later connects with Sadanji Ichikawa and plays an active role in the Jiyu Theater and Tsukiji Small Theater.


The explanatory version describes Soseki's "cat" in 1906, but in 1937 translated by Kaoru Osanai, "Romeo and Juliet", and in 1938, Koyo Ozaki's "Kiniro Yasha" was performed.

Kafu Nagai is said to be swimming in the Sumida River when he was young and watching the play of Masago-za in swimwear.


At this time, it was a flower district and the surrounding area would have been bustling.

From here, when you go to Kiyosubashi-dori, you can see the torii gate opposite.

It looks like Kotohiragu Shrine.

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 If you look into the monument on the right, Funatama Kotohira Shrine in this area was burned down by the Great Kanto Earthquake and rebuilt in 1954.


 There is a "monument" on the left.

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 Turning backwards,

It was built in 1986 and is known as "the monument of the 100th anniversary of the construction of Chushu".

The title of the table is written by Iichiro Hatoyama.

I would like to introduce it.


  Chushu has a special history.

 Nakashu during the Edo period was one of the best summer viewing moons in Edo, surpassing Suma Akashi.

 It was built during the Meiwa period and prospered as Mimata Tominaga-cho, but was backfilled during the Kansei period.

 In 1886, Nakashu was rebuilt and became the former Nakasucho, Nihonbashi-ku.

 Through the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras, many cultural people, such as Kaoru Osanai, came and went as the land of Okawabata.

 It will be the stage of the work.

 A commemorative monument will be erected here on the 100th anniversary of the construction of the Meiji era in April this year.

    August 1986 lucky day

 

There are traces of liveliness on the surrounding fence.

Masagoza 021.JPG Masagoza 020.JPG At present, the Hakozaki River is also reclaimed, and only the name of Ayame, the remnant of the former Shobu Bridge, is left in the park under the expressway. 

 

 

 
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