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The first place of service for Ikenami Shonen, who has no distinction between "Kabu" and "stock," is a small spot trading shop in Kayabacho. From here, my first job was to use the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the predecessor of the current Tokyo Stock Exchange. Unlike now, the inside of the witness hall is a noisy shuraba with voices and enthusiasm of a place to play with ears. The thirteen-year-old boy dressed in dark blue collars would have been a strong stimulation.

Matsushima Shoten used to work in the white building in the center seen over the torii gate of Kabuto Shrine was located.

In less than a year, I went to Matsushima Shoten, a larger stock brokerage house. Next to the exchange, it is a building opposite the Kabuto Shrine across the road, and this time it is not a resident, but a commuting from Asakusa home.

One of the most enjoyable things at that time was around a company that went to Marunouchi or Ginza by bicycle to change the name of a stock certificate. The boy, who is dreamy of the elegant cityscape in the center of Tokyo, is shocked by the sophisticated taste of Pork Cut Let's at Shiseido Parlour, which is a foolish girl.

Since then, between work, the gourmet highway goes to "Prunnier", "Brick-tei", and "Heaven" in Tokyo Kaikan. "The food that my grandmother can handle and the croquette riddles of the butcher's croquettes are no longer looking at."

Photo: The writer, who awakened to the joy of gastronomy in Shiseido Parlour on a young age, loved the shop for a lifetime.

At that time, the customers and seniors at the store had tips, and the total amount was two or three times the salary. With more than 10 "military funds," the theater shows, including Kabukiza Theater and East Theater, do not go down ten times a month, and there are a few movies. I sometimes try to sign the fifteenth generation Hazaemon, who happened to see him in Mitsukoshi, which I am used to.

In addition, he practiced Nagauta, read late at night, and enjoys his hobbies while sleeping. Still, "I rarely rested the store except for a fixed holiday," he said, "It seems that the line was passing through the pale.

However, there is a resident of Kabuto-cho who pulls out the eyes of living horses. When it comes to 16 or 7, I learned the taste of the market, and eventually crossed the armor bridge almost every day, where I can reach it.……。 Yes, at a brokerage shop in Kakigara-cho, I was secretly focused on my employer and set up my own market. And finally to Yoshiwara, where the red light shines.

It was a lot of money to make money, earn money to play again, and it was a terrible day, but Shosen is still half a person. There was a fight with his childhood friend for trivial matters, and the yanchia, such as hitting each other on the balustrade of Kabuto Bridge over Kaede River before reclaiming and falling Zambry water, was the same.

Photo: I did "full" on the balustrade of Kabuto Bridge beside Kabuto Shrine.

However, the smell of the Sino-Japanese War began to drift in Kabuto-cho, and finally the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The boy suddenly decides to leave this town, which is boiling in stock prices. The gold in the market is "gold, not gold." Did the hindness, which was not obtained by sweating, raise his head?

In anticipation of the expedition that will come soon, I changed to a mechanic quickly, and after the war, I went to the writing path I knew.

Knowing the taste and fear of money, and witnessing the back and forth of people's hearts, how the Kabuto-cho experience projects in stories such as `` Onihei '' and `` Umeyasu '', it is also exciting to strengthen fantasy It will be.

Source:

"Youth forgotten things" Nakakou Bunko

"I want to eat something when I walk," Shincho Bunko

"Edogiri picture walk" Shincho Bunko, etc.

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