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A fish shop with a stick hand judges the bonito that came to the tenement shop for sale. There are smiling women with dishes around them.

The first bonito was expensive at that time. Do you buy one together and share it with everyone? Everyone seems happy to be able to eat the first bonito, a spring tradition.

Mr. Chochi, who has forwarded that the dog is excited and noisy is suppressing it. There is something that seems to be on the way to grated radish in the back room at the upper left of this child. Does this house use grated radish as the condiment of bonito?

What are the condiments of bonito sashimi used in your house? Is it grated ginger, wasabi, or green onions? Is garlic common in Kochi?

In contrast to this happy picture, there is a sad phrase about bonito and condiments.

・It's a tear because it doesn't come from the pine fish.

・The first bonito of tears

The person who received the above phrase returned the following phrase as a return phrase.

Those who were on the island of Miyakejima Island, where they were exiled, probably could have obtained bonito more easily than when they were in Edo. You can eat bonito, but it is sad that there is no conspicuous mustard. When he wrote the sadness in the exiled area as a phrase and sent it to a friend, the friend thought of the loneliness of his friend in the exiled area, and returned the tears over the tears with a mustard. These people used a mustard as a condiment, right?

So who wrote this phrase? Thank you, there seems to be two theories.

"Shinsen Higashi Nishiki-e Shoshojima Shingoro no Tale" Yoshitoshi Tsukioka　

Digital Archive of the Tokyo Metropolitan Library (pictured by Eshima and Shingoro Ikushima)

Gekkoin was a concubine of the sixth Shogun Ienobu, the real mother of the seventh Shogun Ietsugu, and held real power in Ooku. It was Eshima (Ejima) who served the Gekkoin. Eshima goes to Zojoji Temple for worship at the name of Gekkoin Temple. On the way back, I watched Shingoro Ikushima's Kabuki at Yamamura-za in Kibiki-cho (present-day Higashiginza and Kabuki-za in the vicinity of Kabuki-za) for entertainment from Goyo-cho (who wanted to gain interest in Ooku). After that, Eshima and her ladies and Shingoro Ikushima went to the banquet. The feast is exciting, and Eshima is late to the curfew of Ooku. In this case, Eshima and Ikushima are suspected of misconduct. There is a theory that this was a conspiracy aimed at destroying Gekkoin by Teneiin, the lawful wife of Ienobu.

Eshima is sentenced to Toshima, but it was deposited by Kiyokazu Naito of the Takato clan due to a petition from Gekkoin. Even though it is said that the imprisonment in a narrow and enclosed mansion with a lattice in the window seemed to be harsh. The townspeople who had deprived their interests in Ooku, the women who participated in the banquet, the brothers of Eshima, and the members of Yamamuraza were also severely punished, and Yamamuraza was abolished.

Shingoro Ikushima is a remote island to Miyakejima Island. Therefore, the phrase "Hatsubonito" was written. There is a theory that the return phrase is the second generation Danjuro Ichikawa.

[Source of the theory of Shingoro Ikushima and Danjuro Ichikawa]

"Phantom Restaurant Nihonbashi 'Hyakukawa'" by Takeo Koizumi Shinchosha

 Column of Kabukiza Theater Sachiko Matsushita Professor Emeritus, Chiba Univ.　　　　　

"People Miscellaneous Painting Volume Ohara Nyozu" by Iccho Hanabusa　

Integrated search system of the National Cultural Properties Organization

In the picture above, Ohara woman is on her way to peddling with a bush on her head. A young woman rides lightly on the bush of the product as a stepping stone and is trying to fold plum branches. I watch it slowly without a little older woman scolding it. The people in Ichii in the picture of one butterfly are light and feel like they are living a relaxed time.

Itcho Hanabusa, a painter of the Genroku era. At one time, he studied under Yasunobu Kanou, the head of Kano school Nakahashi (next to Kyobashi 1-chome Hiroshige Utagawa residence), but later worked in urban secular paintings like the above picture.

At the same time, we will deepen exchanges with Matsuo Basho and his disciple Kikaku Takarai in Haiku.

"Musashi-kyoku" In the collection of phrases, Basho, Ichicho (haigo Kyoun), and the phrases of the corner are listed side by side. (link p8) The publication between famous poets would have been very proud.

Why is he on Miyakejima Island?

One butterfly was also a talented drummer in Yoshiwara. I was good at taking in daimyo and Australian merchants, and coming out to Yoshiwara to spread gold and silver. At one point, it was a problem that the general's relatives were encouraged to hire a courtean. In addition to this, Yoshiyasu Yanagisawa created a problem of drawing a satirical picture of a gossip, which gave his wife to the concubine of Shogun Tsunayoshi for his success, and became an island.

When sent to Miyakejima Island, a butterfly is at its corner

"Dried dried fish from Miyakejima Island will be sent to Edo, so let's put bamboo leaves on dried ela. If you find a dried fish with bamboo leaves, think it's safe. "

At the fish shop, the corner found a kusaya with bamboo leaves in Ella and cried and was glad to be safe. I'm talking about it.

The friendship between the two continued during the Toshima period, and Iccho Hanabusa wrote the phrase "Hatsukatsuo" and Kikaku Takarai sent a return phrase.

His life on Miyakejima Island ended in 12 years due to the amnesty of Tsunayoshi's death. However, since the horn died in the tenth year, the reunion of the two could not come true.

[Source of the theory of Iccho Hanabusa and Kikaku Takarai]

"Iccho Hanabusa Exhibition catalogue" Itabashi Art Museum, 1984

"Iccho Hanabusa Exhibition Catalog" Suntory Museum of Art, 2024

"The Exile of Edo" Fusako Koishi Heibonsha Shinsho

After reading so far, what do you think?

In fact, I think that there are times when the story tells a phrase that the person does not write as if it was written in the story, and excites the story.

The master, Matsuo Basho, was a style of honoring wabi and rust, and reciting natural climate, but his disciple's horn was different from that, he was a style that made the subtleties of the people of Ichii and humanity. The subject looks like a familiar and easy-to-understand phrase, but there are actually many difficult phrases because it incorporates a wide range of knowledge into phrases, including waka, Chinese poetry, Chinese books, and subordinate stories.

The following is a very easy-to-understand phrase that is said to be the phrase of the corner.

・　Umegaka and Ogiu Souemon next door

The corner that lived around Yakushi Kayabacho, where the famous Sorai Ogyu-sensei lives next to us! It is a clear phrase like pride.

However, this phrase is questioned whether it is not the phrase of the corner, "Edo Famous Places" Vol. 1 "Haisenho Shinsai Sokakuno no Yado" . I don't know if the phrase of the horn is written, but I know that the horn and Sorai Ogyu were close to the house. It's an explanation. It may have been made as a phrase for that horn when someone later talked about Sorai Ogyu.

Even if you do not clarify who wrote the first bonito phrase, it will be a condiment that will survive the lives of Shingoro Ikushima and Iccho Hanabusa, who were on the island of Miyakejima Island, so I wonder if that's okay.

On the back of the monument, there is "Takashi Yokota, President of the Japan Kangyo Bank".

[The site of the residence]

(Access) Tokyo Metro Kayabacho Exit 8 Mizuho Bank Kayabacho Branch Office

※　When you enter the narrow road at the corner of the monument, you will find Chisenin (Kayabacho Yakushi) and Nihonbashi Hie-jinja Shrine (auxiliary shrine).