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From Yumeji Takehisa's Tanka Collection, "Go to the Mountains"

On the Nihonbashi River, where you can see the new building of Mitsukoshi far away. Is it Yumeji to look at the waterside and stand up as if you were telling something? 。 In the foreground, you can see Ichiishibashi's "Wandering Children's Sign Stone".

In the Edo period, this stone marker, which functioned as a contact plate for searching for lost children, seems to have not been able to solve his troubles.

Yumeji seems to have liked this stone very much. He seemed to be lamenting that it would eventually disappear, but fortunately, 100 years later, it still remains in this Ichiishibashi.

　The article of "Wandering Children's Stone" ⇒ Click here

By the way, who was the one who continued to bother this Yumeji, is a woman raised in Nihonbashi called Hikono Kasai. In general, it is referred to as "Yumeji's beloved woman", but since he met Yumeji and died in a few years, he became an "eternal woman" for Yumeji It is a person.

Okame Cherry Blossom on Hongin Street (2023/03)

Hikono is the only daughter of a paper wholesaler in Honshirogane-cho in Nihonbashi, so to speak, a young lady like a downtown girl. She wanted to paint, and visited Yumeji's shop, Minatoya Esoshi Paper Store, which had just opened in Gofukumachi, saying, "I want you to see the picture." Hikono-san 19 years old, Yumeji 30 years old, autumn of 1914.

It's about 10 minutes on foot to get to Minatoya Esoshi Paper Store. This female student, who was a dream fan, went to the harbor generously, but since Yumeji also came to the nearby banks of Kamakura, the area around Ichiishibashi and Jobanbashi in the back of the harbor became the places of Ose, gradually becoming intimate. It became a close relationship.

On the right side, you can see Ichiishibashi Bridge

However, she was expected to take over the store with her son-in-law, and there was also Fianse. At that time, it was still difficult to be forgiven, such as free love, so in the great opposition of my father, I became a hiding relationship with Yumeji.

A lot of love patterns between these two people are left in letter exchanges and diarys. In particular, when Yumeji moved to Kyoto and became a long-distance love across the Tokaido between Nihonbashi and Kyoto, Hikono was called "mountain" and Yumeji was called "river" so that his father would not be disappointed. I continued to communicate until I called it. There are records of the subtleties of the mind, such as the passing of common long-distance love and the innocent anxiety.

If you read a book in which the relationship between the two was studied based on those remaining sentences, you can see that dramatic events like a novel story somewhere continued from encounters to eternal separation.

And she will be a sad lover.

Yumeji is often referred to as a "lovely painter", but among the women he met, Hikono's different place was that she first liked Yumeji. There was a slight age difference, so Yumeji sometimes hesitated, but Mr. Hikono just wanted to follow Yumeji. Probably, I felt the infinite possibilities that I wanted in dreamy.

●I'm going to see Yumeji in Minatoya to see the picture.
　　→You will be a friend of love.
⇩⇩
●Even if Yumeji goes to Shimoochiai
　　→I'm sorry
⇩⇩
●Even if it is prohibited to go out due to his father's opposition
　　→Keep going with Yumeji with his friends.
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●Even though Yumeji began to live in Kyoto to escape from his ex-wife, Tamaki-san.
　　→I go to Kyoto to false my father and live with Yumeji.

The autumn of 1917, when I lived in Kyoto and visited Kanazawa, seems to have been the happiest time for them.

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I thought Yume-san was a favorite person forever. I thought he was a person who could not be better than a person he liked. I don't know how happy I am than a woman who has been married to a quiet good man, and more than a man wants me flesh.
(Hikono's Diary, October 13, 1917 (Daisho 6))

Her amazing place is that while she was on the side of Yumeji, she continued her own dream of "I want to paint" and left a neat work. And even though he did not have a family register, did he take care of Fujihiko, the child of former wife Tamaki-san, Chico-chan?

From the mountains of Uno (currently Tamano City) "Go to the mountains"

But after this, she was sick and gradually became unable to follow Yumeji.

●My father appears in Kyoto and she is taken back to Tokyo.
　　→After a month and a half, I will return to Yumeji. And draw a "hydrangea woman" in a short period of time.
⇩⇩
●When Yumeji goes on a sketch trip to Nagasaki
　　→Even though I can't heal my illness, I will leave later
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●I managed to get to Beppu
　　→I couldn't go to Nagasaki, and I was hospitalized there
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●Hikono Under surveillance at a hospital in Kyoto
　　→Yumeji, I can't meet her freely.
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●My father comes to Kyoto
　　→Yumeji, I'm going to be pushed out twice from the stairs
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●Yumeji, I can't see her and start living in Tokyo

In the fall of 1918, when I couldn't meet him, Yumeji, who was at a loss, returned to Tokyo and read Hikono's diary for the first time. At that time, I realized that I was loved more than I had expected, and I started writing a ridiculous book if I came up with something.

"Let's go to the mountains,"

This book, at first glance, is a collection of short songs with no strangeness, and perhaps only two people who can only understand, are scattered in tanka poetry and illustrations. "Mountain" means Hikono-san. It's a book that Yumeji wrote for Hikono.

It is very surprising that such a book will be published, but when you turn around the page, you will notice that many memories of the current Chuo-ku are also recorded.

Is it Sugimori no shrine that can be seen in the distance on the Horidome riverbank?

You are far better than the stars reflected in the water of the moat.

The lights of the windows of Luke Hospital, which is Tsukiji, will be kept in the summer.

Joban Bridge (formerly Tokiwa Bridge)

The stone of Ichiishibashi is the stone of the stone bridge.

The willows in the city of Ginza sprout and meet old people again.

『
The following:
"Going to the Mountains" is a description of the love between HE and SHE, who lasted for five years from October 1914 to December 1918. It is also the prayer of their love.
Most have written over the last few weeks, and the illustrations are written for a certain reader, just an explanation of a sense.
For this book, I would like to thank Ito, Kayano, and Yosano for their generous support for the song of the beginning.
night of December 25, 1918
Yumeji Takehisa magazine in Nakano, Tokyo
』

At Christmas time when he wrote this book, Hikono returned to Tokyo and was hospitalized at Juntendo Clinic. On the other hand, "Kurofuneya", which is said to be Yumeji's masterpiece, was drawn around this time.

And at the beginning of the year, "Going to the mountains" came out to the world.

But Yumeji was not allowed to visit and couldn't meet easily, so I don't know if this book had come to her hands.

This last letter written by Yumeji with all his thoughts. A youth album for her, engraved with the trajectory of two living. Probably, I think Hikono read it. And I think he was happy.

But maybe you were sad?

No, Yumeji and Hikono are both artists. Hikono should have understood how hard Yumeji was to make this work and how much he felt. You must have been pleased.

About a year later, Hikono died. 23 years old and 9 months old.

From NDL Image Bank

This is a work called "Twelve Views of Nagasaki, Lantern Flowing", which is said to have been drawn by Yumeji for the first time after Hikono's death. It seems that the Ajiro pattern of the yukata represents Hikono-san. The cover of "I'll go to the mountains" is also designed with this pattern.

After this, Yumeji begins his life with the leaves, but he never forgets Hikono's features and loves the mountains, and the number of works depicting the mountains increases.

Finally, I like the Sumida River, so about Yumeji and Sumida River.

As the same "painter", Yumeji often talks to her about his artistic theory, but when they came to a restaurant in Yanagibashi from Tokyo Station, they talked while looking at the rainy Sumida River. Perhaps I was so happy that she was able to do that kind of story. The contents are described in detail in the diary.

I also sympathize with it, and I will introduce it in the same way.

The rain of the Sumida river in the lonely evening with a butterfly.

Yanagibashi (Ryogokubashi can be seen in the back) From 'Mountains'

"... (abbreviated)
"I'm going to Yanagibashi" and "Eh-" I went out with a riki. K was wearing clogs. I couldn't see the outside due to the rain, but I knew that I crossed Tokiwa Bridge from the hood and passed by the Bank of Japan. I crossed Yanagibashi and made a riki at the foot of the bridge.
The little room at the entrance, the river was muddy.
"I feel like looking at the Sumida River and I feel like a genius always sees anything for the first time. And it hurts so much."
"That's a bird," "Oh ... ... big ones," "I saw Narihira in the past. Today's Sumida River flows only with radish leaves, but the radish leaves are flowing, so it is not always necessary to put radish leaves when you draw the Sumida River. And human beings were obsessed with dirty, tranquil things. It's the artist to show it.
But it's preferable not to draw the Sumida River in blue, or yellow. But it's good if you don't float the bowl or radish leaves. You don't always have a bird, or that small steamboat.
This river in Kawahigashi Kyoto, which has been flowing for a long time in Tokyo, is rare at all, but if you look closely, this river is a good river, and the boat that flows quietly for the first time today This moment of feeling that looks at the world of humanity is precious.
... (Omitted)."
"Dec. 17, 1915 (Daisho 4) Dream Diary
　　※K ... Hikono Kasai

Sumida River and Ryogoku Bridge (from around the old restaurant in Yanagibashi)

<Information referenced>
★"The woman who changed her dream (Human) Hikono Kasai" Fumiyo Sakahara / Ronsosha / 2016
★"The 2nd special exhibition" Yumeji Eternal Women (Human) Hikono Kasai "Exhibition Catalog" Chuo-ku Board of Education, Chuo-ku Local Tenmonkan / 2007
★"Going to the Mountains" Yumeji Takehisa / Shinchosha / 1919
★"Deho," Written by Yumeji Takehisa / Commentary by Yoshimi Suekuni / Works Company / 2022
★"Yume 2 Diary 1 (Ming 40 to 4 years)" by Yumeji Takehisa / Mikio Nagata / Chikuma Shobo / 1987
★"Dream Two Diary 2 (Taisho 5-7)" by Yumeji Takehisa / Mikio Nagata / Chikuma Shobo / 1987
★"National Diet Library NDL Image Bank"
　　　(https://rnavi.ndl.go.jp/imagebank/)

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