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Thoughts for Akashi Elementary School
Akashi Elementary School opened in Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku in 1908 (Aji 41) with a wooden two-story building.
This picture is about 50 years ago.
In the Edo period, the area where the school was located was the upper residence of the Banshu-Ako clan, which was vast (8794 tsubo).
In 1701, the fourth head of the Banshu Asano family, Chonori Uchi Takumi, caused a blade wound incident in the corridor of Edo Castlematsu, and was lifted by the Shogunate three days later.
The following year, it seems that the Akaho Nanji, who revenge and achieved his revenge, passed the site of the mansion when heading to Sengakuji where the lord sleeps.
After that, it became the Nakayashiki of the Okudaira family of the Nakatsu clan, and Hoshu Katsuragawa who lived in Genpaku Sugita and Tsukiji gathered under Ryotaku Maeno, a clan doctor of the Nakatsu clan, and translated the Dutch anatomia. It will be the place where you did.
Genpaku leaves a dismantled new book in order to correctly preserve the difficulties of translation for future generations.
At the end of the Tokugawa period, clansman Nakatsu and Yukichi Fukuzawa became teachers at Langaku Juku, which became the origin of Keio University.
In 1869 (Meiji 2), Akashicho was designated as a foreign settlement by the Meiji government.
Unlike the way it develops into commercial cities like Yokohama and Kobe, many missionaries, teachers, and doctors live, Western-style buildings are lined up, and many schools are available.
There is a field at the end of the settlement, and a ranch branch that Eiichi Shibusawa and others started in Hakone Sengokuhara starts operating there. One of the only three Japanese houses in the settlement is that sells milk, and the boy born there is Ryunosuke Akutagawa.
It's a place related to history.
Akashi Elementary School burned down a wooden school building in the Taisho era by the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Then, in 1926 (Daisho 15), it will be completed as a reconstruction elementary school with a three-story reinforced concrete building.
Since then, we have continued to stand here until the 102th anniversary of our founding in 2010.
I had a building diagnosis before the 100th anniversary, but I heard that the strength was guaranteed.
This is the schoolyard of the old school building. In the back is the St. Luke's Tower when it was completed.
A writer with a father born in Odawara-cho (currently Tsukiji 6-chome) writes a scene of walking on the land where his father was born in an essay that talks about his last days with his father. Tour Akashicho
"Aside from Akashi Elementary School, it is surrounded by huge buildings related to St. Luke Hospital."
I'm talking about it.
I can't see it well, but it's a photo inside the entrance of Akashiko about 30 years ago.
It's the day of the festival. A round window came out.
It's inside the current entrance.
Although it is not a stained glass of the old school building, there was a lot of hope that the meeting at the time of the construction of the new school building would leave something close to the image of the old school building, and we asked them to leave the design.
Since it is a photo taken after 7 o'clock in the morning, the light of the morning sun is included.
The first lyrics of Akashi Elementary School's school song are
♪"The light of the sun on the banks of the eastern Sumida of the capital."
It was the entrance of the kindergarten at that time.
The entrance of the staff room and the entrance of the drawing room also climb the stone steps in the same way.
This is a photo of the corner of St. Luke Hospital, facing the road of the current schoolyard.
The granite used on the seat of this bench reuses the stones of the stairs of the old school building, and an explanatory version of that is embedded with the photos of the time.
On the back of the bench is a gas lamp pillar and a brick wall.
Both were symbols of Civilization and enlightenment, and they felt the first exotic atmosphere.
In particular, the remains of this brick wall have been restored with the real brick brick that was located in a foreign settlement in Akashicho.
A fence located on the border between Shinei Girls' School and St. Paulo Church in the settlement, and is a fence piled up on U.K.
It was left next to the old school building of Akashi Elementary School and was relocated for the construction of a new school building.
It is written in the explanation version that it is valuable that tells that there was a foreign settlement in Akashicho.
Although the image quality is poor, it seems to be a kindergarten classroom corridor because it has yellow bags and hats.
The hallway of Akashi Elementary School was wooden. I remember cleaning with a mop.
The stairs were stone stairs.
The handrails made to the height of the waist were also made of stone and embedding the wing plate on the stone.
I remember that the landing was also made round.
It is a wonderful staircase that gives you a cool feeling in summer and a calm atmosphere in winter.
Unfortunately, I didn't have any pictures of stairs or handrails in my album.
This picture is a chaise chair placed in the corridor in front of the current kindergarten classroom.
It is unfortunate that the paper marked with a bat that opens between the neighbors is a pity, but this board is a reuse of handrailed wing plate.
About 20 years ago, I heard from the vice-principal at that time.
"Last time, an elderly person who claims to be a graduate of Akashi Elementary School came to school. When I heard the story in response, I visited elementary school because I stopped nearby for the first time in decades, and when I guided a little about the school, I looked at the corridors and stairs.
"This landscape hasn't changed."
And stroking the floor of the corridor, touching the railings of the stairs, and crying."
It's the current Akashi Elementary School. It was 114 years old.
Four years ago, there was a commemorative ceremony for the 110th anniversary of the opening of the school, and I participated.
After the ceremony, we moved to the place and had a social gathering.
I was spoken to by an elderly woman sitting next to me.
"Is it a graduate of Akashi?"
"I went from kindergarten."
"Do you remember when you were in kindergarten?"
"It's just a memory full of next grass, but I remember my homeroom teacher and another, K teacher."
"Oh! I am the K."
At that time, I think there were about 250 people at that venue. I noticed that the lady was present at the ceremony, but it seemed that few people knew each other.
I told Mr. K because I had a classmate, but I didn't remember it.
Perhaps I was the only one who knew the teacher.
I thank Akashi Elementary School for giving me a very wonderful encounter.
When I contacted me to take a picture, it was a time when I did not want outsiders to enter the school due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and while I was busy preparing for the athletic meet the next day, I would like to thank the principal and vice principal who responded from 7:00 in the early morning if there were no students.