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Let's check the location with a cut picture (map). To the right is north and to the left is south. The place surrounded by green 0 is Baba. Mannen Bridge is located just east of Baba. When you cross the Mannen Bridge, you will find Tsukiji Honganji, which is painted red on a map. There is a large land surrounded by fine fences beyond Baba at the famous spot map. If you check it on the map, you can see that it is the residence of Hosokawa Etsunakamori. The site of the residence of Hosokawa Etsunakamori is currently around Kabukiza Theater.

If you look at the famous spots, there are samurai who are falling horses. Because it is a horse practice, I think it will fall a horse, but it can be said that this is a good expression of the samurai at that time.

Even samurai were allowed to ride horses only by samurai with more than 200 stones, and equestrian training was required. As the Taihei world continued and no longer ride horses in battles, horses became only for showing their status and status. Moreover, since the middle of the Edo period, prices have soared, samurai have become financially distressed, and the number of samurai who can keep horses with 200 stones has decreased. Therefore, I went to Baba and borrowed horses and practiced horse riding on official occasions to prepare my appearance.

The samurai, who are higher than themselves, should ride to correct their dignity, but they are not accustomed to riding, so they may have written on pictures of falling horses, and the townspeople may have been laughing secretly.

Bunko Baba was active as a lecturer for two years until his death in 1757 (1757). Twenty years have passed since the Edo Famous Place Map was drawn, and the scale of Baba has been reduced. As a result, there were fewer shops in the huts. Still, the huts of Mamezo and Joruri remained. The hut of Bunko's talk was probably one of them.

Bunko Baba was born in Iyo Country in 1718 (1718). I once quit ronin and entered a priesthood. After that, he returned to secular life and came out to Edo, lived in Matsushimacho (now Nihonbashiningyocho) in Nihonbashi, and became a lecturer by calling himself Bunko Baba. He must have been a man who is eager to learn and has excellent memory. He has abundant miscellaneous studies, including classics, Buddhist scriptures, and Chinese books, and has authored various books. However, it seems that the contents of the book were noticeable by Bunko's own likes and dislikes and poisonous tongues.

In a talk in Hara, Uneme satirized the psychology (a simple practical moral teaching that taught to improve the good and correct the mind), and an angry psychologist stirred up a controversy on literature. However, there was nothing to overcome, so the reputation increased and the hut was full.

Bunko sometimes rented a hall in an ordinary house and held a night lecture. The biggest and last major incident of his life occurred in 1758 (1758) at a night lecture at a merchant's house called Buzo, a booth wholesaler in Nihonbashi Kuremasa-cho (now Nihonbashi 3-chome).

This Nichibunko had a talk entitled "The Drop of the Forest". The content was about the Gujo Ikki that occurred in the Gujo clan in Minokuni. The peasant uprising against the increase in annual tribute led to the corruption of high-ranking officials, and not only the peasants who caused the riot, but also the feudal lord Yorikane Kanamori, the shogunate's account magistrate, and the elderly were punished. It was also called Kanamori riot from the name of Yorikane Kanamori feudal lord.

Fumiko summarized this incident in a grass paper entitled "The Drop of Hiragana Forest". Based on this book, a concentric infiltrated the talk venue from magistrate's office Minamicho. At this point, the trial of the county uprising was not concluded at the stage of deliberation. Nevertheless, it was an infiltration investigation for the reason that it was irresistible to predict the trial and imagine the secret meeting of the court and write a book that seemed to imply the result.

The audience was over 200 people on this day. After the talk was over and the audience was dissolved, Fumiko was drinking tea at the waiting area. magistrate's office's concentric called out and tried to hang a rope. Bunko said that he would not escape or hide, so he would wait until he had eaten the meal, and heard it ranted that the concentric was mad. It is reported that each of them was mocked as a self-young by ridiculing themselves, as they were seen as madness (the statements of Doshin and Bunko remain in "Bunko Baba Shu"). He also critiqued politics against the subsequent investigation of magistrate's office. It is said that what might have been in Toshima if it were only the contents of books and talks, was turned around the city and turned into a prison gate by words and actions at the court. Uneme was the first to talk in Hara for two years. He died at the age of 41. It seems to have been an unusual felony as a lecturer.

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

Baba has been shrinking year by year and disappeared at the end of the Edo period.

Bunko Baba is serializing the historical novel "Reki no Shizuku" of the main character in Kotaro Sawaki in the Asahi Shimbun Saturday version be. If you are interested, please.

[References]

"Ginza's Poetry 2" Imao Hirano Shirakawa Shoin

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

"Edo discipline and child care" by Katsumi Nakae Shodensha Shinsho

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

"A playmaker's Meiden" Inoue Hisashichikuma Bunko ("Bunko Baba")

 Collection: Edo Bunko Bunko 12 "Bunko Baba Shu" Kokusho Publication Society