文学の東京地図 文学の東京地図 文学の東京地図
私の浅草 幼少時代 明治大正
A literary atlas
Literary Maps
of Tokyo
文学の東京地図
Two memoirs · Two eras · One city
TAISHO ERA · 大正 · 1920s
私の浅草
My Asakusa
Sadako Sawamura
澤村貞子
A celebrated actress recalls her childhood in the shitamachi entertainment district — temples, theatres, restaurant kitchens, and the great Sumida fireworks.
MEIJI ERA · 明治 · 1890s
幼少時代
Childhood Years
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro
谷崎潤一郎
Japan's preeminent modernist novelist, writing in his seventies, traces the lost merchant world of Nihombashi — bridges, bookshops, a kidnapping, and the Kabukiza.