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This time, we look back on the history of the Kyobashi Library and introduce mainly to the "Current Regional Archives".

Kenji Sugawara, Chuo Ward Kyobashi Library, took care of me this time.

In addition, images other than the above two images and notes of history have been posted from the Chuo Ward Kyobashi Library 100th Anniversary (October 2014) edited and published by the Chuo Ward Kyobashi Library.

I would like to explain from the history of Kyobashi Library.

(The image shows Kyobashi Hirone Elementary School.)

Looking at the current Chuo-ku, Nihonbashi Ward (at that time), one year and three months before that, in 1909 (Meiji 42), the "Tokyo Municipal Nihonbashi Simple Library" was opened in Joto Hirone Elementary School. Was open.

The Kyobashi Simple Library was opened in Kyobashi Hirone Elementary School in Kinrokucho, Kyobashi-ku (at that time).

Purchased approximately 3,200 books with the donation of Baron Ichizaemon Morimura and 607 volunteers from the ward.

In addition to partitioning a part of the rainy day gymnasium into a reading room, a room of about 9 tsubo was used as a library and office room.

The current Chuo Ward Tsukishima Library has been decided to open at Tsukishima Hirone Elementary School as "Kyobashi Daini Library", and it opened in 1912 in the same year.

With the opening of Tsukishima, the "Kyobashi Simple Library" has been added to the "first".

In 1912, we started lending books outside the library.

However, the following year, the first library was further renamed Kyobashi Library and the second library was renamed Tsukishima Library.

The building attached to the Tairei Memorial Kyobashi Kaikan, built in Kinrokucho, Kyobashi Ward, was rented free of charge and relocated.

The biggest feature is that

〇　Everything must be an open shelves.

〇　A children's reading room was set up from the beginning.

Yes, it is.

The Tokyo City Library became the second independent building after Hibiya, Fukagawa and Hitotsubashi.

The number of browsing was the smallest among the four independent buildings, but the number of out-of-the-art lenders was the highest in Tokyo.

Total area: 347m2

10,152 books (as of August 31, 1923)

Average number of visitors per day 468

13,401 books have been burned down.

However, the following year, the museum opened in a temporary building built on a burnt site.

After temporary relocation to Kobiki-cho, it was built at 1-chome Tsukiji, Kyobashi-ku as a complex with Kyobashi Ward Office and Kyobashi Public Hall, and opened as Japan's largest open-air library at the time.

It is highly regarded as a super modern library.

On the first floor, there was a children's room and office, a newspaper reading room and magazine reading room, on the second floor there was a catalog room and a men's reading room, on the third floor there was a women's room, and on the rooftop there was a glass-enclosed Nikko disinfection room.

In addition, a business library was opened at the same time as the museum opened, and there were more than 200 types of newspapers and magazines, commercial bulletins, lists, and advertising materials, and more.

Total area approximately 2,113 m2

16,900 books (as of March 31, 1929)

Average number of visitors per day: 339

(The image is in the Kyobashi Library at that time. As you can see, it's a stairwell.

At that time, there were many small and medium-sized enterprises nearby, so a 36-seat “Business Reference Room” with about 1,000 books, mainly economic books, was newly established.

There was a "business library" from the beginning of the museum's opening, but it disappeared naturally during the war.

It was the first attempt in Tokyo to revive this by changing its name.

At that time, it was also featured in newspapers.

At present, it has been changed to a "reference survey corner".

In 1967 (Showa 42), temporary work was dispersed to Arima, Kyoka, and Joto elementary schools for rebuilding the ward office main government building, but it was opened on the first and second floors of the current ward office main government building basement .

Total area: 2,553m2

Collections of 86,371 books (April 1970)

Average number of visitors per day: 578

(The image is at Chuo-ku government office.)

(General counter)

The Kyobashi Library holds valuable materials collected over a history of more than 100 years.

It is one of the few municipal libraries that hold books issued before the war, drama-related materials, and books censored by the Ministry of Home Affairs because they survived the war.

As a general rule, these materials cannot be borrowed from the viewpoint of preserving the materials, but can be viewed.

Application is required for copying.

In addition, image data can be viewed by map search or keyword search (place, building, river, bridge, etc.).

Images are also introduced according to the theme in the web gallery.

http://www.library.city.chuo.tokyo.jp/

When we talk about Edo, most of them are Chuo-ku.

The "Regional Reference Room" is a collection of materials from the city called "Edo" instead of Edo in Japanese history.

One of the features is that it collects quite a lot of town walking relationships.

Cultural assets are summarized in this corner, but the reason here is that Ieyasu Tokugawa entered Edo and started town development first in Nihonbashi Honmachi.

(Ieyasu Tokugawa) Of course, I don't do it myself.

Did you start making bureaucrats, or split the town?

Before building the bridge in Nihonbashi, Nihonbashi Honmachi, the location has changed a bit now, but that was the starting point of the first town development, so the city planning was carried out.

In the city center, including Chuo-ku, reconstruction projects have changed significantly due to the Great Kanto Earthquake.

So I'm collecting it to see that the Imperial City Reconstruction Project has changed like this.

We are also collecting that Showa-dori is the first, so we have created a new road.

Also, there was Yoshiwara in Ningyocho.

So it's not a customs relationship, good or bad, but a playground or a necessary evil in the Edo period, or a necessity approaching, such materials are also subject to collection.

Most of the shrine parishioner in Sanno and Kanda at the Tenka Festival are large shops in Nihonbashi.

That's why there is a festival.

As I just said, Chuo-ku is the center of Edo Tokyo, the capital of water, so the river of Edo and the river of Tokyo.

Many modern buildings were built in the Imperial Capital Reconstruction Project after the Great Kanto Earthquake, and that relationship.

Edo Castle is also related to architecture.

Behind this is the birthplace of commerce in Edo Tokyo, such as local companies, faces and facilities, and the Nihonbashi district.

I moved from Nihonbashi to Tsukiji, and then to Toyosu in Koto-ku, but also market relations.

It is also the birthplace of a painting school, and it collects drama, kabuki, and themes.

(It is said to be Japan's first town magazine) "Ginza Hundred Points" (from the first issue in 1955).

With the donation, there are housing maps of 23 wards and Tama in 1962, 45 and 48 years.

The "Chuo-ku Chronology" has a history, and has been compiled since around the 1930s and has continued it.

The staff cuts out articles related to Chuo-ku every day, and indexes them.

The whole Chuo-ku, Tsukishima, Ginza, Nihonbashi and Kyobashi, and Kawaseki staff, theater relations, Tokyo Bay, and binders are spelled separately.

It's an interesting place, in this library.

There were about 24,000 pre-war books, and 2,400 books commissioned by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

We will provide you with the materials here.

(About the old days of Edo Tokyo) If you would like to find out, please come to this regional reference room.

・・Thank you very much, Mr. Sugawara.

Next time, I would like to introduce "The Future of Kyobashi Library".

Please look forward to it.

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