Chuo-ku Tourism Association correspondent blog

This is Ginza Honjin Fusa, located on the first basement floor of the 27th Central Building, Ginza 2-chome.

This is a store that has already been introduced in this blog.

The place is just halfway between Chuo-ku government office and Showa-dori.

The soba is delicious, the menu is wide, and the inside of the store is quiet and relaxed, so I often use it for lunch.

Today's recommendation, I ordered a daily bowl and a stone milled soba.

Today's daily rice bowl is "Seafood Goshikidon".

I ordered a warm soba.

Goshikidon is tuna, green onion, firstburi, salmon, and whitebait. The fillet is large and fresh.

The combination of seafood bowl and delicious soba is the best.

From Monday to Friday, lunch time is from 11:30 to 14:30 and dinner time is from 17:30 to 22:00.

Saturday, Sunday and public holidays are closed.

We have lunch rotation.

 

 

　For eight days from February 15th to 22nd, FANCL Ginza Square (Ginza 5) has opened the 10th floor salon space "Royal Room" to the public and is holding "Early Spring Goddess Garden".

One of the winter garden events out of the "seasonal garden events" currently held eight times a year.

The theme this time is "From the Snow Queen to the Spring Fairy."

From the world of the Queen of Snow, the world of spring fairies in full bloom with Christmas rose, budding bulbs, pansies, and violas is produced and invited.

On the 15th, a music event for violinist TSUMUZI will be held twice from 113:30 to 215:00, and during the period, "gardening mini lessons" using bred violas and the unique Pansy viola of individual breeders will also be exhibited and sold.

The first day was the opening in the midst of light snow.

 

 

Galerie Tamenaga, which opened in 1969 as a gallery specializing in Western painting, celebrated its 50th anniversary, and the exhibition of Paul Ispiri, which has been introduced since its founding, began on February 14. As Mr. Tamenaga's greeting says, "I couldn't think of the first thing I picked up in the 50th anniversary project except Aizupiri."

Speaking of Aizupiri, there are many light works of warm colors, such as children, airplanes, bicycles, fish, birds, and of course flowers, Santrope, Venice, and I always feel that Aizupiri is good to decorate my house. (I would be even more happy if I could buy it.) There are 40 points lined up and just looking at them makes you feel happy.

In 1969, when the founder Kiyoji Tamenaga opened the gallery, it was only more than 10 years since the Western Art Museum was opened, and Japanese knowledge of West painting was still unavailable. This gallery also introduced Echoard Pali painters who were still unknown in Japan at the time, Modi Liani, Van Dongen, Kissling, Chagall, etc. Please take a look at "Half-century trajectory of painters and painters who have walked together since their founding."

　

Gallery Tanaga Ginza 7-5-4

TEL 03-3573-5368　

10:00 to 19:00 (11:00 to 17:00 on Sundays and holidays)

 

 

Hello. This is a new correspondent, Hanes.
Continuing from the last time, I would like to focus on Chuo-ku that Sidmore saw!

■Impression of Edo (p. 75)
This section describes the scenery of Tokyo, where the remnants of Edo remain.
The frank and honest impression from overseas people at that time is spelled out.

"The scenery of Tokyo, which I see for the first time, disappointing travelers, just like the first scenery of Yokohama. Ginza, the main street in this commercial district begins with a bridge on the opposite side of the Shimbashi railway station and extends straight to Nihonbashi, the northern end of the Tokaido. Nihonbashi is the starting point of transportation for national distance measurement. In the Oita part of the road, moon-like buildings, curbs, and green shades are lined up based on foreign countries, but the railway carriage [carriage iron] echoes the pop-up sound, and the light carriage runs rattles. , The scenery of the city is quite inconsistent. This is not Oedo, which tourists dreamed, but is not a big city of the East. The plaster walls, wooden cylindricals, glamorous windows of the shops, and the stupid mountains of imitation, all the tourists face the way."



When I first read it, "I don't have to say so much."..."I felt somewhat sad,"
For those who are familiar with foreign landscapes, such harsh impressions may be appropriate.
And again, when we eat ramen and sushi overseas, we eat ramen and sushi.
"I'm sorry that the noodles are spreading...."The vinegared rice part is dry and hard to eat...."I feel like
Finding Chinese elements in buildings and gardens that are Japanese style or Japanese style.
"That's something different from the image....I think this feeling is something that I experienced with Sidmore.
Shedmore continued to say a word after this.

"But there are a lot of secret places unique to big cities, unforeseen excavations that are unrelated to the changing times, and you can get pure Japanese treasures that are enough to compensate for your initial disappointment."


(Okuno Building, a luxury designer condominium completed in 1932)

In other words, there are many immutable pure Japanese places, even as they change overseas (especially European countries) as examples.
From today's point of view, Japan's unique Historic buildings is located a little far from behind alleys and main streets.
I think it's an attractive place that can be called a "secluded gem" known to those who know it.
In addition, there may be wonderful scenery "I couldn't see it unless I got lost."
It can be said that such unexpected excavations are the real pleasure of walking around the town.


(Miyakawa poultry eggs, selected by Historic buildings, completed in 1929)

Sidmore's comment introduced this time is what modern tourists visiting Japan are looking for from Japan.
And I feel that it leads to what Japanese people who travel abroad are looking for.

It's a good idea to go around the sights of the royal road listed in the guidebook.
The popularity of traditional culture experience tours and "traveling like living" type trips is also increasing.
Also, rather than buying beautifully packaged souvenirs at shops like "The Souvenir Shop"
People have come to hear from locals that they want to buy something that has a reputation.
In that sense, it is necessary to consider what tourists visiting Japan are looking for.Sidmore's comments may be helpful.

"Sidmore Japan Journey" also describes the state of the army and Tsukiji foreign settlements at that time.
There is a record from the perspective of overseas people.
I'm sorry that there is no collection in the Chuo City Library, but it's a book worth reading.
Next time, I will take up the Shintomiza seen by Sidmore!

[References]
Eliza R. Sidmore (author) / Katsuhisa Tonosaki (translation) "Sidmore Japan Journey" (Kodansha, 2002).

 

 

The fourth episode of Kyobashi Monogatari. It's a continuation from the last time.

Until the last time →　Kyobashi Monogatari [1] [2] [3]

　

This is a postcard depicting the cityscape of Minami Temmacho, which had undergone a major transformation in the Taisho era (around 1921). The postcard says "Kyobashi-dori". Currently, it is called "Chuo-dori", but in old postcards, "Ginza-dori", "Kyobashi-dori" and "Nihonbashi-dori" were printed for each location. The names of each street were sent to all over the country with photos, and the development of Tokyo was visually understood.

However, Tokyo was attacked by an event on September 1, 1923.

　

The school on this day was the opening ceremony, Saturday, and the children were trying to eat lunch about their homes. The cause of the damage was fires that occurred in various places after that, rather than the collapse of buildings due to the shaking of the 11:58 earthquake. Minami Temmacho is no exception, and the city is burned.

　

I see it from around Konyabashi, a little upstream of the Kyobashi River. The daikon riverbank at the end of the revetment of the Kyobashi River has been burned down. However, the large building in Minami Temmacho seems to have not collapsed.

I'll get close to Kyobashi and check it. The postcard below shows the bridge and Minami Temmacho over the Kyobashi River from the Ginza side. Kyobashi survived the collapse, and the buildings of the tall Daiichi Mutual Hall in the center, Daido Life on the left, 34 Bank, and Toyokuni Bank on the right have not collapsed. The "three dome roofs" remained.

In the Great Kanto Earthquake, many famous buildings collapsed. Ryounkaku (Asakusa 12th floor), which was said to be the tallest, was also damaged, and the first mutual hall in Minami Temmacho replaces the tallest building in this area. After that, the first mutual hall will look at Tokyo, which is recovering, from the highest point.

　

I will check the status of the damage caused by the earthquake from the first mutual hall. First of all, the opposite side of Ginza is the Nihonbashi area. The town directly below is the current Kyobashi 2-chome, Minami Temmacho 2-3-chome at that time.

Although it turned into a pile of rubble, the Chiyoda-kan, which was completed three months before the earthquake, did not collapse. The postcard was created by Chiyoda Life Insurance Co. We sent postcards to various places and told them that the head office building had not fallen. It seems that the purpose was to make the contractor feel safe. At that time, there was no radio yet. As information was complicated in various places, postcards functioned greatly as a media that visually conveys information about the earthquake disaster.

　

On the other hand. This postcard is also a postcard made by Dai-ichi Life Insurance. It will be Kyobashi-dori on September 28, taken from around Chiyoda-kan.

Something like huts and tents are built on the side of the road, and many people gather on the street. It can be seen that it is chaotic, but the power of those who are confronting reconstruction is also transmitted.

　

Let's check the Ginza area from the first mutual hall. Although rubble is piled up on the side of Kyobashi at the lower right, you can see that the building on the banks of the radish behind it is beginning to build something like Kariya.

In Hashigami, you can see things like wagons and rear cars, and it is in the middle of restoration. The large building on the right side of the street is the Okura Gumi Main Building, which survived the earthquake. On the left side of the street, you can see a little Matsuya's steel frame, which will open later.

　

Ginza Street was a luxury city that developed from brick streets in Meiji period. But here the end of that era was announced, and the start of a new city was started.

　

I'll check the status of other buildings. It is the direction where you can see Tokyo Station in the back. You can also see how the houses are being built and reconstructed.

The building on the left is Katakura-kan, and the right is star pharmaceutical with a diagonal window. The Katakura-kan will continue to expand and grow, but the Hoshi Pharmaceutical building has been damaged and will be rebuilt after this. The Kajibashi-dori, which runs in the middle, will be widened by the earthquake reconstruction project.

　

Due to the Great East Japan Earthquake, the marriage ceremony of His Imperial Highness Higashimiya (later Emperor Showa), which was scheduled to be held in November, has been postponed. He married on January 26 of the following year, celebrated on June 5, and a celebration tower will be built in Kyobashi.

It is a photo of the Ginza area from Minami Temmacho, but you can see that the new cityscape of Ginza has already been shaped. I guess this celebration gave new hope and courage to Ginza Street, which is recovering. Five months later, the department store Matsuzakaya will open in Owaricho on Ginza Street.

　

On the other hand, Minami Temmacho. Since the large building in this neighborhood did not collapse, from the Ginza side, it seems that the scenery has hardly changed before the earthquake. Actually looking at the postcard, I had a hard time identifying the times before or after the earthquake.

The clues were the letters written on the postcard and the ballaque-style building in front of the left hand. If this building is shown, it will be the scenery of Minami Temmacho after the earthquake.

　

It was around this time that a lot of shared buses came to be seen. This is the scenery of 1926. This year was also the year when the radio broadcasting started.

Despite the earthquake, the cityscape of Minami Temmacho, which left the scent of the Taisho era, will enter the era of Showa as if nothing had happened. From the point of view of the city of Ginza, which looks for the best way to be reborn, the streets of Minami Temmacho are nostalgic, seeming to be watching over, and may have looked strange.

　

But here suddenly a change occurred in the cityscape of Minami Temmacho.

The dome roof of the Daido Life Building on the left stretched out.

　

This Tongari roof is as if the design of the main pillar of Kyobashi in the Taisho era has been transferred. When replacing the bridge, it would not mean that foresee the future and made the design of the main pillar into a Tongari style. If anything, the city of Minami Temmacho seems to be returning to the old days rather than being reborn.

　

In any case, I think it is true that the cityscape of Minami Temmacho and the design of Kyobashi have been integrated.

In this way, the cityscape of Minami Temmacho, which survived the Great Kanto Earthquake, inherited the atmosphere of the Taisho era as it was in the Showa era, and continued to watch the city of Ginza, which is recovering.

Followed.

　

 

 

Hello, this is Minato kid.

After the Meiji Restoration, modern literature was nurtured in our Chuo-ku. Newspapers were born one after another in Ginza Brick Street, and the information industry was developed. In addition, many cultural figures visited Chuo-ku and drew scenes of Chuo-ku in various works such as novels and plays.

Today, I examined literary people who are closely related to Chuo-ku.

Kitamura Tokoku (Kitamura)

Meiji 1st year-Meiji 27 (1868-1894)

Literary critic and poet. Born in Odawara. In 1880 (1880), he moved to Tokyo Yazaemon-cho, Kyobashi-ku (currently Ginza 4-chome, Chuo-ku). Transferred to Yasuaki Elementary School. He is involved in the liberal rights movement set in Ginza. 1889 (1889) Announced "Shu Prison's Poet" and "Renna Song". Participated in the creation of the "Literature World" and presented numerous criticisms such as "Internal Life Theory".

Toson Shimazaki (Shimazaki)

Meiji 5-Showa 18 (1872-1943)

Poet and novelist. Born in the house of Shoya in Nagano Prefecture. In 1881 (1881), he moved to Yariya-cho, Kyobashi-ku (currently Ginza 4-chome, Chuo-ku). He studied at Yasuaki Elementary School and graduated from Meiji Gakuin. Through the activities of the literary world, he learned Kitamura Toya and was deeply influenced. From 1907 (1907) to the following year, "Spring" was written at Kaikaikan (currently Tsukuda 3-chome, Chuo-ku), and his representative work "Before Dawn" was performed at Tsukiji Small Theater.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Ryunosuke

Meiji 25-Showa 2 (1892-1927)

Noveler. Born in a milk ranch in 8-chome, Irifune-cho, Kyobashi-ku (currently Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku). Soon after birth, he moved to his mother's home in Honjo Ward. Graduated from Tokyo Imperial University. Entered the gate of Soseki Natsume and became a doujin of the third and fourth "Shinshicho". Representative works include "Rashomon", "Nas", "Hell thread", "Kappa".

Torahiko Koori (Koori Torahiko)

Meiji 23-Daisho 13 (1890-1924)

Playwright. Born in Minami Hatchobori 3-chome, Kyobashi-ku (currently Minato 1-chome, Chuo-ku). He entered the English Department of Tokyo Imperial University from Gakushuin. "Shirakaba." In 1913 (1913), "Dojo-ji Temple" will be performed at Jiyu Theater. He traveled to Europe and wrote "Tetsuwa" and "Yoshichoki". It was performed in London and gained popularity.

Bosha Kawabata (Kawabata)

Meiji 30-Showa 16 (1897-1941)

A poet. Born in 2-chome Kakigaracho, Nihonbashi-ku (currently Nihonbashi Ningyocho 2-chome, Chuo-ku). He became a painter and studied under Ryusei Kishida. Because of his illness, he devoted himself to Haiku and studied under Kyoshi Takahama. "grayheaded cuckoo," he said. There are "Bosha Kawabata Kushu", "Kagon" and "Shirachi" in the haiku collection.

Kayo Yamagishi (Kayo Yamagishi)

Meiji 9-Showa 20 (1876-1945)

Noveler. Born in Aburamachi, Nihonbashi-ku (currently Nihonbashiodenmacho). He went to Tokyo College of Technology (the predecessor of Waseda University) and studied under Shoyo Tsubouchi. Later he entered the gate of Koyo Ozaki. "Ikuriyusha" is the same person. Announced "Nihonbashi Literature" based on the townscape where he was born and raised, such as wholesale district and geisha district. "The beginning of service", "the temperament of this life", etc. Later, he worked for the Yomiuri Shimbun as a commentator.

Shigure Hasegawa (Shigure Hasegawa)

Meiji 12-Showa 16 (1879-1941)

Kabuki screenwriter, legendary writer, novelist, essayist. Born in Aburamachi, Nihonbashi-ku (currently Nihonbashiodenmacho). Debuted in 1905 (1905) with "Umishione". He builds his position in the biography of women. In 1933 (1933), he published the magazine "Keiku" and sent many female writers and critics to the world. In his essay, "Old Mon Nihonbashi" is a masterpiece.

Kanajo Hasegawa (Hasegawa)

Meiji 19-Showa 44 (1887-1969)

A poet. Born in Honishi-cho, Nihonbashi-ku (currently Nihonbashi 2-chome). Supports the magazine "Kareno" presided over by her husband, Kaizo Tomita (Reiyoshi Hasegawa). He studied under Kyoshi Takahama. In 1930 (1930), he launched "Suimei" and became a pioneer of female poets. The phrasebook includes "Ametsuki" and "Lake Flute", and the essays include "Koyuki" and "Yukiki".

Junichirou Tanizaki (Tanizaki)

Meiji 19-Showa 40 (1886-1965)

Born in Kakigara-cho, Nihonbashi-ku (currently Nihonbashi Ningyocho 1-chome, Chuo-ku). He studied at Sakamoto Elementary School. Representative works such as "tattoo", "love of chijin", and "Shunkinsho", which are considered to be aesthetics. He also published naturalist literature and modern translations of The Tale of Genji. "Hosoyuki" published after the war is considered to be the ultimate in Tanizaki literature.

Michizo Tachihara (Michizo Tachihara)

Taisho 3-Showa 14 (1914-1939)

A poet. Architect. Born in 3-chome, Tachibanacho, Nihonbashi-ku (currently Nihonbashi Hisamatsucho, Chuo-ku). He studied at Hisamatsu Elementary School and graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Imperial University. I liked tanka poetry since I was a teenager and was influenced by Tatsuo Hori. Participated in the first publication of the poetry magazine "Shiki". Announced a collection of poems "Some by Kayakusa" and "Poetry of dawn and evening". Received the 1st Chuya Nakahara Award.


He was born and raised in Chuo-ku and represents the times.

It was interesting to note that literary activities that pioneered the times were unfolded here in Chuo-ku, as well as that each literary person was connected in Chuo-ku.

In addition, many works were born in Chuo-ku, and the appearance of the town at that time is alive in the story, and conveys the scene now. It remains in many films, not only in novels and plays, but also in films.

(The photo shows the "Kitamura Toya / Toson Shimazaki Monument" built at Yasuaki Elementary School and Yanagi Nisei in Ginza)

Correspondent Minato kid, Chuo-ku Tourism Association

No. 34 February 11, 2019