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　A talented painter, Ryusei Kishida, was born in June 1891 (1891) as the fourth son of Ginka Kishida, who runs the pharmaceutical shop "Rakuzendo" in Ginza 2-chome. Next year will be the 130th anniversary of birth. He studied painting with Seiki Kuroda and was selected for the exhibition. In the early Taisho era, he drew many "Reiko statues" with his daughter as a model. He died in December 1929 at the age of 38.

　Tokyo was destroyed by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 (1923), but a special feature was published in the Tokyo Nichi-Nichi Shimbun that looked back on the good old days before the earthquake. In May 1927 (1927), Ryusei Kishida wrote a retrospective of Ginza, where he was born and raised, entitled "Shinkozaiku Ginza-dori" (Shinkozaikurenga no Michisuji). The above figure is an illustration written by the same book, "It's a birthplace diagram, but I'm glad I'm 30 years ago."

　I would like to introduce this sentence that conveys the Ginza pattern from the Meiji era to the Taisho era in a series.

　This book is published in Aozora Bunko. Bunko books include "Kodansha Literature Bungei Bunko Edition" Dai-Tokyo Shigesho Kishitamachi Edition "published by Kodansha".

＊The vertical writing of the original text was changed to horizontal writing and Chinese numerals were changed to arithmetic numerals.

　I was born in 1891 at 2-11, Ginza, just at the current Hattori Clock Store, and grew up there until I was a young man while listening to the sound of the bells of railway carriages. That's why I've been watching Ginza's changes for a long time, but I don't know exactly what's exactly. However, it seems that there are many things to be talked about again in various changes from the only sidewalk age in Tokyo called "bricks". I would like to take a lot of memories and criticisms that remind me of the changing world.

　As you may know, my family was the main shop of Seisui, a drop of eye drops, and it was a shop where people such as Seisekisui passed rather than Kishida Rakuzendo. The shop was cut in half from his father (Ginka)'s doraku, one was a pharmacy, and one was a bookstore. At the Shobo, he sold Chinese brush inkstone paper and other stationery-like items, and book boxes. There are things that light the paper like Karagami, even though it is thick and thick, and when it blows quickly, it disappears when it blows quickly, and it is interesting and played with it There is. A lot of Chinese people came to buy, and the guards said in one word, "Zinzao" was doing it.

(Continuing on the next time)

【1】 Around 1902, there is a map near Ginza 2-chome (upper west) around 1-chome, "Kishida Ginka Seishimizu Honpo Rakuzendo" (arrow). Next to the south is Minamitani of the Kansen Factory. In the text, "At the Hattori Clock Store ..." is due to the fact that around 1927 at the time of writing, the Hattori Clock Store at 4-chome was built and a temporary store was in this place.

【2】 Signboard of the Meiji period Zendome medicine “Seijiku” (collected by Kyobashi Library)

【3】 The current Ginza 2-chome, near the site of Rakuzendo. （＠AM)