In June, it's time for hydrangea to blend in with rain!
In the Edo period, when the world of Taihei continued for more than 260 years, Dejima in Nagasaki, which was the only point of contact with overseas during the isolation era, and Capitans in Dutch trading post who came to Edo from there (Jojuku was "Nagasakiya" in Nihonbashi), people who wanted to absorb Western knowledge based on Dutch studies from Tsukiji!
In 1774, "Tarher Anatomia", translated by Genpa Sugita, Ryotaku Maeno, Hoshu Katsuragawa, etc., became "Dismantling Shinsho". (The site of the residence of Hoshu Katsuragawa is Heisei-dori, opposite the diagonal line of Kyobashi Tsukiji Elementary School.)
The translation work was carried out at Nakatsu clan's Nakayashiki near the current St. Luke International Hospital (and Nursing University). After that, in this mansion, Yukichi Fukuzawa started a Dutch school in 1858, and Keio University was also the birthplace of this mansion! (The DNA of global thinking has been firmly passed down to this land as stated on the monument, "It is here of Dutch studies!"
There is Akatsuki Park behind this monument. There is a bust and monument of Siebold for some reason.
In 1823, Siebold was a German doctor, but was assigned to Nagasaki as a Dutch trading post member, opened Narutaki Juku, and conducted interviews with scholars from the Shogunate in Nagasakiya in Edo. On the other hand, he was immersed in plant collection and research, and published a Japanese botanical picture book. The name of my beloved Japanese wife was "Otaki-san", who thought about the lovely blooming hydrangea, the botanical picture book that had been compiled was "Ho hydrangea" and the original text was H.Otaxsan.
The two beloved daughters "Ine" (Ine Kusumoto, Oine, the Netherlands) opened a maternity hospital in Tsukiji in 1870 and took over his father's DNA as the first female doctor in Japan.
"Time Dome Akashi", the Chuo Ward Local Tenmonkan adjacent to Akatsuki Park, is currently holding the "Tsukiji Small Theater Exhibition" as the 7th special exhibition!
The 33-page full-color special exhibition catalog entitled "Tsukiji Small Theater: Follow the Trajectory from the Earthquake to the War-" contains performance posters, theater models, censorship scripts, original stage equipment (art) and stage photos by Kisaku Ito. Admission to special exhibition (including commemorative lectures) and this catalog are all free Triple Happy!
This year, the 85th anniversary of the opening of the Tsukiji Small Theater, the first commemorative lecture (June 3) was held by Yukio Sugai, Professor Emeritus of Meiji University, "The Significance of Tsukiji Small Theater and the History of New Theater". Yoshi Hijikata, a powerful theater member who is said to be the father of the new theater, Kaoru Onai, a theater company, who is a powerful theater.
In the new Japan, which gradually has a global perspective from Edo late Tokugawa shogunate to the Meiji and Taisho eras, Kaoru Osanai died as an "experimental theater for new dramas" centered on translation plays, in addition to 84 regular performances in the 58 months before Kaoru Osanai died! Is it absolutely impossible in the contemporary theater world?
Not only actors (Korenari Senda, Osamu Takizawa, Haruko Sugimura, etc.), but also those who were involved in management (Tsuruo Asari), stage equipment (Kisaku Ito), sound effects (Sei Wada, Kosaku Yamada), etc. The DNA has been firmly passed down to descendants and disciples, and the number of actors, troupe producers, illustrators, and musicians who are active in Japan.
Located in Tsukiji from June 13 (1924) to March 1945 (1945), this Tsukiji small theater was established in Japan's first "cupper Holizont" (dome-shaped curved wall) and a prompter box (for putting out dialogues to performers). As an experimental theater that is at the forefront of the times, he survived many rough waves without losing the spirit of challenge, but now he only left the shadow as a relief on the site.
The Tsukiji community may have the energy that conveys something over the years and the DNA that inherits the life of passion!
Let`s find our roots in Tsukiji!
