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"Edogiri-ezu" Kaei era 2 National Diet Library Digital

Let's check the position with a cut-out map (map). The right is north and the left is south. Baba is surrounded by green square. Mannen Bridge stretches just east of Baba. When you cross Mannen Bridge, you will find Tsukiji Honganji, which is painted red on the map. There is a large land surrounded by fine walls beyond Baba at the famous spot show. If you check it on the map, you can see that it is the residence of Hosokawa Echinakamori. The site of the residence of Hosokawa Echinaka Mamoru is currently around the Kabukiza Theater.

If you look at the famous sights, there are samurai who are losing horses. It's a horse practice, so I think it's going to fall, but it can be said that this is a good representation of the samurai at that time.

Even samurai were allowed to equestrian horses only for more than 200 stones, and equestrian training was required. When Taihei's world continued and he no longer rode horses in battles, the horses were only to show his status and status. In addition, since the middle of the Edo period, prices have risen, samurai have become financially distressed, and fewer samurai who can keep horses with 200 stones have decreased. So, I went to Baba, rented a horse, practiced, and got on horses during public use to improve my appearance.

It may have been that the villagers who are higher than they are supposed to ride to correct the dignity, but they are not accustomed to riding, so they may have written on a picture that they fall down, and the townspeople may have seen and smiled quietly .

Bunko Baba was the instructor who worked as a lecturer for two years until the woman died in 1757 (1757). Twenty years have passed since the Edo Famous Zoukai was drawn, and the scale of Baba has been reduced. As a result, the number of shops in the huts was decreasing. And yet the huts of Mamezo and Joruri remained. One of them was the hut of Bunko's talks.

Bunko Baba was born in Iyo no Kuni in 1718 (1718). I once stopped the ronin, went home, and became a monk. After that, he returned to Edo and came out to Edo, lived in Matsushimacho (now Nihonbashi Ningyocho) in Nihonbashi, and became a lecturer calling himself Bunko Baba. He must have been a highly motivated person to learn and have a good memory. He has authored various books, including classics, Buddhist scriptures, Chinese books, etc. However, the content of the book seems to be that Bunko's own likes and dislikes and poisonous tongues were noticeable.

In a talk in Hara, the servant satirated the minds that were frightened at the time (the teaching of plain practical morals that preached to learn good and correct the mind), and an angry mental scholar dismissed the controversy in writing, but the reputation increased and the hut became full because there was no defeat.

Bunko sometimes rented a hall in an ordinary house to hold night lectures. The biggest and last major incident for him in his life was in 1758 (1758) at a merchant's house called Buzo, a booth wholesaler in Kuremasa, Nihonbashi (now Nihonbashi 3-chome). .

This Hibunko gave a lecture entitled "Rain no Shizuku". The content was about the Gujo riot that occurred in the Minokuni-gunkami clan. The peasant uprising against the increase in annual tribute led to illegal bribery of officials, and not only the peasants who caused the revolt, but also the feudal lord Yorikane Kanamori, the Shogunate's account magistrate, and the elderly were punished. It is a big incident. It was also called Kanamori uproar from the name of Yorikane Kanamori feudal lord.

Bunko summarized this incident on a grass paper entitled "Hiragana Mori no Shizuku". Based on this book, concentrics from magistrate's office Minamicho were infiltrated into the talk venue. At this point, the trial of the Gujo riot was not concluded during the deliberation stage. Nevertheless, it was an infiltration investigation for the reason that it would not be possible to predict the trial and write a book as if imagining the secrets of the courtroom.

There were more than 200 audiences on this day. After the talk was over and the audience was dissolved, Kobun was drinking tea at a waiting place. magistrate's office's conscience said, "Yes," and tried to put a rope. When Bunko said that she wouldn't escape or hide, wait until she finished eating, the concentric heard it rants that she was confused. It is reported that each of them was knocked down as a ridiculous young man, assuming that they were crazy (concentric and Bunko's remarks remain as Bunko Baba Shu). Even after magistrate's office's interrogation, he critiqued politics. It is said that what might have been Toshima if it was only the contents of books and talks, was rolled around the city and became the upper bow gate due to the behavior of the court. For the first time in 2012, the woman was in Hara. He was 41 years old. It seems that it was an unusual guilty as a lecturer.

The center of the screen is Harumi-dori St. It's against Mannen Bridge. You can see the gable of Kabukiza (triangular roof) on your right. The area around the building, including the burnt brown building in front of the street tree (which looks dark in the photo) across Harumi-dori St. is where Baba was located.

The Baba shrinks year by year and disappeared at the end of the Tokugawa period.

Bunko Baba is serializing the main character's historical novel "Calendar no Shizuku" in the Asahi Shimbun Saturday version of Beet. If you are interested, please.

[References]

"Ginza Poetry 2" Imao Hirano Shirakawa Shoin

"Edo Tokyo Customs Geography No.2" Eitaro Tamura Yuzankaku Publishing

"Discipline and Child Care in Edo" Katsumi Nakae Shodensha Shinsho

"Living Edo" Enko Sugimura Kodansha Bunko (in this, "The Death of Bunko Baba")

"Caughter Meiden" Inoue Hisashichikuma Bunko ("Bunko Baba")

 Sosho Edo Bunko 12 "Bunko Baba Shu" Kokusho Publication Society