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For the poor elderly, the library is the most thankful facility, and you should be able to feel the value of it only in situations where you should refrain from traveling as it is now, but when the library is closed, various new magazines I can't read and feel lonely. I want you to normalize as soon as possible.

　Inevitably, in the nest, I opened "Junichirou Tanizaki Complete Works" at home for the first time in a long time. A few years ago, when I wanted to read Tanizaki's complete collection at Nihonbashi Library, it was not an open shelves but a library collection, and what I got out was quite dirty and I didn't want to read Because of that, I purchased it at an online auction.

 

Looking back again, what I feel is the harshness of seeing Tanizaki and Tokyo (Edo) after moving to Kansai.

　

Born in Nihonbashikakigaracho in 1886 in Meiji 19 (1886), Tanizaki moved to Kansai after the Great Earthquake (1923).　For two or three years after moving to Kansai, every time I moved to Tokyo, I felt like I came back, and at first stated my aversion to Kansai culture. However, in the meantime, when I was in Tokyo for a week, I wanted to return to Kansai, and the train came to "go over the Osaka mountain tunnel and pass around Yamazaki to breathe." ("Omofu Tokyo's Omofu")

 

　From Tanizaki's eyes, which showed a deep commitment to food culture, compared to Kansai's food culture, which has a long tradition, "Tokyo's specialty" is "a lot of things that seem strangely cold," such as salt senbei, laver, sparrow ware, and sardines.

 

"If you have good dried sweets and raw sweets, there is no rabbit or horn, no yokan, and salted rice crackers are so barbarous that they are famous. However, Monaka and rural buns have some good things, but they are crude, poor, and murderous."

 

"It's not limited to Tokyo, which is said to be a good thing. ・・ ・ However, in Tokyo, there is no good food used in formal dishes, and there is no way to fish such strange twisted things. "

 

"In fact, when I hear the word 'Otsu', I feel a kind of chilly man, and I feel sad at all, thinking of the thinness of the Tokyo people who are hidden behind it."

 

"Tokyo Omofu" may have been a song dedicated to Tokyo in the Meiji era, especially to the Nihonbashi area, which was lost due to the Great East Japan Earthquake. In 1934, it was published in the magazine Chuo Koron.

 

　And Tanizaki says as follows.

 

"I wonder where the weird lonelyness of the Tokyo people's clothing, food and shelter comes from, but is it not affected by the Tohoku people after all? ・・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ Because people in Tokyo live in the center of politics, it is easy to think that it is the center of Japan in terms of geographical and humanities, but when I happened to go out of Kansai, Tokyo somehow seems to be the gateway to Tohoku, and it is deeply felt that Tohoku starts here. ・・・・・・

　When we look at Tokyo as "things belonging to the Tohoku region", the land of Arabu where Yi, which used to be called "East where Birds Cries" used to be, is politically, according to the Irifu of Gongen-sama, is artificially made into a prosperous town. For the first time, the Senju rice crackers and Senju of Asakusa.

 

Tanizaki says as follows in "Upper Eating" ("Bungei Shunju" 1924).

 

"Edo children often say that the upper food should not be watery. And even for boiled food, Tokyo people cook sugar and soy sauce in black using kotekote. In other words, this is evidence that Tokyo's vegetables and fish have poor natural flavor, and if you don't have sesame seeds with sugar or soy sauce, you can't eat it very badly. I told the superiors that Tokyo's cuisine is bad and I can't eat it. In the upper part, the ingredients are so good that they can be eaten quite simply by adding a little assali mirin or kelp soup without killing the natural taste. ・・・・・・・

　The Edo kid, who calls the upper dish water, is a countryside person. "

 

　And in "East-West Taste Comparison" ("Women's Public Theory", 1928), we repeat the above-mentioned purpose.

 

"... From the point of view of integrated taste, Kansai is the upper country and Kanto is the lower country. ・・ ・ ・ ・ ・ I think the more I go east from Kyoto, the lower the food.

　Tokyo and other places are vigorous in terms of Edo-mae and somehow, but if you think about it, the countryside cuisine from the time of Tokugawa's creation was transmitted to today. "　It's like that.

 

For me as a Kansai person, I feel shy, but I wonder if I can "swear" Tokyo so much.

 

My hometown is a country samurai

　　　The old Edo period

 

　It is one of the late years of Junichirou Tanizaki (1886-1965), which was written in 1962.

 

　Another song of Tanizaki, which was written in his later years.

 

　　Kikugoro Danjuro Danjuro in Kibori-cho

Meiji, Tokyo, my father, mother.