How are your blog readers going to spend during the rainy season? If you think that there was a sunny day like midsummer in this year's rainy season, it's abnormal weather such as hail and sudden thunderstorm!
Unlike the perfect season for going out in early spring, you are worried about sudden changes in the weather these days. Today, I would like to change my taste a little more than usual, and explore Chuo-ku in literature and Ishikawajima and Tsukuda in the Edo period.
On the way back from the company on Friday, I bought two books
set in Chuo-ku at a bookstore in front of Tokyo Station.
Speaking of period literature in Chuo-ku, first of all, Shotaro Ikenami's "Kihei Crime Book". This is a TV drama and novel that is famous as a model by Heizo Hasegawa, who managed the Ishikawajima Ashoshoshojo under Sadanobu Matsudaira in the latter half of the 18th century in Edo's mid-18th century. I would like to introduce a novel focusing on a people-shore by changing the angle a little.
The first book is Seicho Matsumoto's "Mujukujin Separate Book" (Bunshun Bunko). This short story book contains 10 stories, of which 
"Tsunami" is a story of a human footing. In the novel, Shinta, who was born in a fisherman in Noto and drifted to Edo and was stopped by Okabiki while walking around the town, was taken to Tsujibansho, and was taken to a temporary prison in Temmacho. Will be put in From Temmacho, they are sent to Kanayama in Sado, where they are forced to work on watering a tunnel like hell, and often lose their lives, but Shinta is fortunately sent to Ishikawajima.
According to a textbook on Japanese history, `` As the number of non-stayers who abandoned rural areas and flowed into Edo due to the famine in the Tenmei era in the latter half of the 18th century increased, the Shogunate accommodated these non-stayers in Ishikawajima's people's horoscopes to improve security. ", And from such an explanation, it seems to be a little more calm thing like a prison. "Tsunami" also states that "things with good results after a certain period of time will be given labor wages and released", and they do not impose extreme labor, but carpenters, plasterers, blacksmiths, etc. It seems that Ishikawajima was given a job related to them for those who have a job in hand with a farmer, such as a farmer, etc.
One autumn day, a fisherman sees the clouds and predicts that the tsunami will come. Ishikawajima, Tsukudajima, and Tsukiji were quickly attacked by the tsunami, and with the permission of Yoba magistrate, `` escape, and if the high waves subside, gather near Eitai Bridge '' and swim while diving in the waves to Fukagawa. . The novel doesn't tell you if Shinta finally returned to Eitai Bridge, but this novel allows us to learn about the crowds at that time.
Furthermore, in the nine other stories of the Unjukujin Book, the story of the prison in Temmacho, the island flow to Hachijojima Island, and the escape from Sadogashima in 
the world's hell, you can learn about various worlds in relatively different places from relatively humanitarian places such as "Ishikawajima Hitoshishoroba".
It's a good idea to go back in time to Edo through novels during the rainy season.
Next time, I would like to introduce Shugoro Yamamoto's "Sabu", which I bought at another bookstore.
(The upper right photo shows the Ishikawajima Lighthouse, which was introduced in the blog on April 7 of the cherry blossom season, "Ohanami Walk from Shinkawa Park to Chuo-ohashi Bridge and Tsukuda Park": /archive/2014/04/post-1956.html)
