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There is an article about the birthplace of Kabuki hut in "News from Local Room" No. 71 and No. 72 issued by the Chuo Ward Kyobashi Library, so we will post it so as not to pollute its originality. 。

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(News from Local Room No. 71)

In the Edo picture folding screen, a playhouse, a prostitute house, a puppet show hut, a public bath, etc. are painted in vivid colors around Matsushita Nakatsukasa Nakayashiki on the opposite bank of the Momiji River. A pile house is a form in which a pile is driven off the waterside and a house is set up on it. Both floating houses are called floating houses. (Notes to yaz)：　It is the same as stilt dwellings commonly found in Southeast Asia.)

(News from Local Room No. 72) I returned to Edo Kabuki again following the previous issue, and the birthplace was at the corner of the Nakahashi Intersection, the center of land and land transportation.

If you look at the explanation of "Edo Kabuki Birthplace" in "Chuo-ku Cultural Properties / Historic Sites / Historic Sites / Historic Sites / Cultural Properties" (published by the Chuo-ku Board of Education), it is written as follows . Please refer to the following paragraph.

"It was on February 15, 1624 that Nakamuraza, who played the oldest tradition and highest position in the eastern dramadan, was allowed to play a drum tower in the southern region. The founder of Nakamuraza, Kansaburo Saruwaka ... In the southern part of Nakahashi, there were huts such as Ningyoza and Joruriza in addition to Nakamuraza, but in May of Kanei 9 (1632), the performance was completely abolished, moved to Negimachi, and later turned to Sakaimachi. ・・・・・・・

There are no playhouses around the Kanei era figure at the time of Kanei 9 (1633), and there is no entertainment district like the "Edo figure folding screen". ・・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ ・ (There is a theory that the entertainment district of "Edo-zu folding screen" refers to the Kabuki hut in "Kinbiki-cho", but isn't this the east side of Kuyasubashi?)

In cities in Western Europe, theaters are generally built in the center of the city. In modern Japan, theaters are concentrated in the city center and subcenters. About four centuries ago, in Japan, theaters and entertainment districts were only allowed to be built on the "waterside of the river" in the city. ・・ ・ In neighboring cities such as Edo, it was allowed to create such facilities on the coast or on the shores of landfills, not on the waterside of rivers.

As introduced in the previous issue, in the early Edo period, a pile house was set up on the east bank of Edo Maejima, and facilities such as a playhouse, a prostitute, a puppet show, and a public bath were created there. ・... It can be said that the entertainment district is equivalent to the east side of the current Kuyasu Bridge, as depicted on the Edo map screen.

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There are various theories about the time of making the Edo famous place folding screen, and in this interview, the production time is assumed to be the Kanei era (from 1632). According to Haruo Suwa, who carefully considered painting expressions of Edo famous folding screens, this folding screen was produced in the first half of the Kanei era (1624-1644) (1624-1633?). It's a work. In 1624 (1624), Kansaburo Saruwaka (later Nakamuraza) of Saruwakaza (later Nakamuraza) raised a turret in Nakahashi Minamichi, and moved to Negimachi in Kanei 9 (1633). It is a delicate place to think about whether or not it is reflected in the folding screen or not, but the time to move to Negimachi? 。 The flag of Yamamura-za in Kibiki-cho was launched in 1642 and Morita-za was in 1660, so it is not reflected on folding screens. Therefore, the birthplace of Kabuki = "Nakahashi Minami" was determined to be Kuyasubashi Higashi.

Note:　Hideo Kuroda, Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and Honorary Director of the Gunma Prefectural Museum of History, judges that it was produced during the Great Fire of the Meiryaku era (1657) from the Masayasu period (1644-1652)."

The next time you cross Kuyasu Bridge, let's secretly step on "Rokukata"!　Just...

Reference:

1.　“Edo Famous Folding Folding Folding Folding Folding Folding Folding Folding Folding Folding Folding Folding Folding Screen” and the City of the Idemitsu Museum of Arts.

2.　Chuo-ku History Chart (Nihonbashi, Kyobashi)

3.　News from Local Room No. 71 and No. 72 (Edited and published by Kyobashi Library, Chuo-ku, Tokyo)