323“the repellent kind.” Collected Works, XXIX, 1982, 232-34. A more recent version of the collected works than that cited elsewhere.
340“after a rain.” Op. cit., 197.
340“into the mirrors.’’ Collected Works, VIII, 236.
341“on their way.” Collected Works, Tokyo, Shinchosha, III, 1977, 14.
342“medical science marvelous?” Collected Works, II, 28-29.
343“just like Osaka.” Collected Works, III, 28.
343“not with dew.” Shōwa Ryūkōkashi, 51-52.
344“a chain store.” Op. cit., 14.
348“spring and autumn.” p. cxc.
355“for the dancer.” Shōwa Ryūkōkashi, 48-49.
353“into new ones.” Collected Works, II, 30-31.
354“song and legs.” Ibid., 31.
355“the Fourth District.” Ibid.
359“was really listening.” Collected Works, III, 356. The passage is a single sentence in the original.
360“stroll down Ginza.” Collected Works, II, 33.
362“bags of sweets.” Ibid., 128-29.
362 “quite radiates eroticism.” Ibid., 109.
363“world doesn’t have.” Ibid., 86.
365“only in Asakusa.” Collected Works, III, 75.
376“want to flee.” Chikamatsu Shūkō, quoted in Tōkyō Hyakunenshi, V, 1972, 900.
384“of a room.” New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1957, 483.
386“make haste, sing.” Collected Works, XII, 1963,402-3.
386“at my breast.” Ibid., 408.
386“make the sacrifice.” Ibid. ,413.
387“in the hall. Ibid., 422.
387“to be in.” Ibid., 430.
387“from human affairs?” Ibid., 432.
388“breaks the silence.” Ibid., 437.
389“together are removed.” Collected Works, Tokyo, Keisō Shōbō, 1, 1970, 153.
340“of their dream.” Ibid., 241.
392“letting things go.” Collected Works, XIX, 1974, 551-52.
392“going to ruins.” Collected Works, XXIII, 1964, 439.
393“moral from this.” Collected Works, XIX, 570.
393“neglect the place.” Asakusa, edited by Takami Jun, Tokyo, Eihōsha, 1955, 272.
408“that odd building,” p. 96.
418“a modest gift.” Collected Works, Tokyo, Chikuma Shobō, IX, 1978, 17.
452“how agreeable.” Shōwa Ryūkōkashi, 141.
458“a different route.” Collected Works, XXIV, 1964, 180.
463“with Edict 9.” Murata Hiroo, in Takami, Asakusa, 240.
465“of us Japanese.” Quoted in Shōwa no Sesō (Aspects of Shōwa), edited by Harada Katsumasa, Tokyo, Shōgakkan, 1983, 140. The Harada volume is an appendix to the Shogakkan history of the Shōwa Period.
494“came back again.” Akatsuka Yukio, quoted in Edo Tōkyō Gaku Jiten (The EdoTokyo Encyclopedia), edited by Ogi Shinzō et al., Tokyo, Sanseido, 1987, 239.
506“things a bit.” Quoted in Harada, op. cit., 254.
515“oversaw the destruction.” It may be a mistake to say that nothing else survives of Mitsubishi Londontown. Fragments of the Ginza Bricktown of early Meiji, thought to have been utterly lost, have turned up in the course of demolitions, excavations, and rebuildings.
523“helpful of police.” When a friend and I tried to photograph the mammoth police box we were told that regulations forbade it. Inquiry with police headquarters revealed that there are no such regulations.
527“villa of Kikugorō.” Collected Works, IX, 1964, 111-12.
530“use of space.” Arthur Koestler, as we were having a stroll.
535“Sanyūtei Kimba.” Quoted in Shōwa no Sesō (Aspects of Shōwa), edited by Iwasaki Jiro and Katō Hidetoshi, Tokyo, Shakai Shisōsha, 1971, 269.
542“had a point.” The lady, obviously American, winked and smiled and made the remark as she got off the riverboat from Asakusa. I was waiting at Shibaura to board the same boat in the opposite direction.
544“going to win.” Tamanoumi, in Bungei Shunjū ni Miru Shōwa Supōtsu shi (A History of Shōwa as seen in Bungei Shunjū), II, 1988, 526. The article is reprinted from the magazine Bungei Shunjū for April 1970. Tamanoumi became a Yokozuna in 1970 and died while still an active wrestler.
570“have a home.” Shōwa Bungaku Zenshū (a uniform edition of Shōwa writing), Tokyo, Shōgakkan, IX. 1987, 44.
573“edge of bankruptcy.” Fukuda Shintarō, president of the Jiji News Service, in conversation.
599“goes on developing.” Tōkyōjin (The Tokyoite), March-April 1988, 134-35.
600“not be easy,” Tōkyōjin, special issue, July 1988, 22-23.
INDEX
Note: Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
ABCD encirclement, 404
Abe family, 239
Abe Sada (O-sada), 402
addresses, 228-29
Adults’ Day, 144
advertising, 118, 271, 213, 558
air raids, 416, 418
Aishinkakura Eisei, 534
Akasaka, 511-12
Akasaka Detached Palace, 40, 230, 236
Akasaka Ward, 228, 232, 249
akasen (red line), 532
Akihabara district, 211
Akihabara electronics market, 471
Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, 24, 110, 214, 321
Alcock, Sir Rutherford, 81, 221, 224
alleys, 96; broad, 163, 568
American Occupation, 420-94; end of, 473; housing and, 439-40; pleasure quarters and, 457; street stalls and, 433; theaters and, 449; wards and, 443-45; see also postwar period
ameshon, 451
Ameya Yokochō (Ameyoko), 426, 427
Anchūha, 536
Angoha, 536
anti-Americanism, 459
Anti-Japanese Armed East Asian Front, 585
Aoyama Avenue, 499-500, 507, 508
Aoyama Gakuin (missionary school), 202, 488
Aoyama Gakuin University, 488
Apple Song, The,” 452
“apres-guerre,” 405
aqueducts, 95, 275
Arakawa Drainage Channel, 72, 219, 257, 308, 386, 408, 415, 419, 542
Arakawa River, 180, 257
Arakawa Ward, 376, 379, 380, 441, 545, 579, 603
“arbeit salon,” 462
architects, 81
architecture, 81-89, 231, 252, 519-20, 345; aesthetics and, 603; brick buildings, 74-75, 90; Edo (Tokugawa period), 81; following 1923 earthquake, 312-13; government buildings, 228-31; 1930s, 406-08; of department stores, 316; skyscrapers, 550-51; Western buildings, 81-82; Yoshiwara, 532 and illus; see also individual buildings
Arishima family, 234, 242
Arishima Ikuma, 242
aristocracy, 32, 186, 187, 242, 244
Ark Hills, 563-64, 603, 605
Arnold, Sir Edwin, 129
art, see prints; woodcuts
artists, 209, 244, 345
Art Theater (Geijutsuza), 266, 556
Asahi Shimbun (newspaper), 283, 309, 356, 559
Asakusa Kannon Temple, 138, 205, 312
Asakusa opera, 261-64, 353-54
“Asakusa Mynah Bird, The,” 365
Asakusa park, 128, 163, 342, 255, 356, 379, 397, 434-35, 456
Asakusa Twelve Storys (Ryōunkaku), 84-86
Asakusa Ward, 52, 99, 152, 191, 206, 209-10, 376, 456, 545; character of, 363-65, 390-92; decline of, 456, 566; Ginza compared to, 390-92; literature and, 668-70; new, 207-08; rebuilding of, 455; reviews, 353-67, 361, 365; as sakariba, 324-25, 353; during Taishō, 260-64, 2
61; temples and cemeteries in, 206; theaters, 566, 567; World War II and, 385-89, 394; see also Kawabata Yasunari; Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
assassinations, 146, 308, 405, 586
Asuka Hill, 138, 579
Asukayama Park, 128, 134, 135, 136, 579
automobiles, 34, 64, 294, 302, 334, 422, 433, 466, 474, 492, 513, 537, 581
Azabu Ward, 325, 563
Azuma Bridge (Azumabashi), 71, 72, 216
Azuma Ryūtarō, 496, 525-26
Baldwin (balloonist), 117
balloons, 117
Banchō district, 235
Bandō Mitsugorō, 478
Bandō Tamasaburō, 449
bankara (style of dress), 111
Bankers’ Club, 514, 515, 577
Bank of Japan building, 87-88, 90, 188, 192, 196
Bank of the Big River, The (Okawabata) (Osanai), 69-70, 160
Bank of Tokyo, 515
banzai, shouting of, 105
barbershops, 103-04
barracks, 296; military, 242
bars, 309, 311, 338, 339, 341, 386, 460, 493, 558, 560, 567, 593
Barton, William, 84
baseball, 105, 169-71, 274, 303, 347-49, 398-99, 450, 463, 464-67, 544, 545, 590; night games, 466, 478; World War II and, 398-99, 364-65
bataya (ragpicker), 380
bathhouses, 103
baths, public vs. private, 103
Bauduin, E. A. F., 126
Baxter, Anne, 507
bay front, 603-04
bazaars (kankōba), 123
beaches, 114
Beard, Charles, 51, 268-69, 276, 297, 561
Beatles, 589
beauty school, 104
beef, eating of, 111-12
beer, 105
beggars, 379
benshi, 351-52
Bird, Isabella, 74, 81, 205
Bird Fair (Tori no Ichi), 140, 176
birds, 137
Black, JR., 203
black markets, 425 and illus., 426, 569
blossom-viewing, see cherry blossoms; peach blossoms; pear blossoms; plum blossoms
“Boatman’s Song, The,” 277
boats, pleasure, 38, 68
bombings, 585; see also air raids
Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands, 47
boundaries of Tokyo, 47-48
Boys’ Day, 142
bread, 111
brick buildings, 74, 75, 90, 515, 540
Bricktown (Ginza), 61, 74 and illus., 86, 90, 122, 188, 197, 198
bridges, 68, 69, 71-72, 313-14; see also specific bridges
British embassy, 228-29, 231, 235
British legation, burning of (1863), 31
broad alleys (hifokōji), 163, 568
brothels, 55, 174-75, 177, 487, 530, 532
Buddhism, 408
Buddhist clergy, 317
Bummei Kaika, see Civilization and Enlightenment
Bungei Kyōkai (Literary Society), 266
building, 540; see also architecture
bunka jūtaku (cultural dwelling), 328
Bunkyō Ward, 441, 528
buses, 61, 332, 333, 369, 402-03, 493, 563
bureaucracy, Edo, 3
business girl, 533
butchers, 112
cafés, 309, 310, 311, 324, 336, 337, 338, 339-45, 386, 396, 460-61; see also bars; coffee houses; tea shops
calling cards, 106
canals, 59, 68-69, 96, 190, 197, 298, 314, 408, 423, 497, 498, 542
Capital District, 48, 409, 540-41
cartoons (comics), 397-98, 594
“casino,” 323-24
Casino Folies, 355-67, 378, 390
cemeteries, 39, 125, 131, 139, 171, 205, 206, 209, 222, 327, 417
chairs, 110
Chamberlain, Basil Hall, 106, 162, 214, 258
chanoyu (tea ceremony), 36, 37
censorship, 410, 447, 450
Chaplin, Charlie, 346, 347
Chaplin caramels, 267
“Charleston,” 323, 366
cherry blossoms, 125, 126, 127, 135, 138, 139, 168, 176, 579
Chiba Prefecture, 52, 456, 458, 501, 596, 597
chikan (masher), 597
children, 142; reviews and, 356, 362
Children’s Day, 142
China Incident, 381
Chinese cuisine, 112
Chinese people, 429, 568
Chiyoda Ward, 440-41, 472, 498, 568, 596
cholera epidemics, 40, 94, 114, 116
Christianity, 40, 244
Christmas, 318
chrysanthemums, 109, 135, 138, 176
Chūō University, 212
Chūō Ward, 186, 440, 498, 542, 558-59, 568, 592, 593
Citizens’ Day, 48
city council, 48, 368, 375, 442
City Hall, 90
Civilization and Enlightenment (Bummei Kaika), 34 38, 49, 93, 102-03, 105; meaning of, 52, 53
clams, 134, 137, 219, 223
class distinctions, 97, 190, 233
clock tower, Hattori, 199, 203
clothing: footwear, 315; men’s, 509; women’s, 319, 326, 510; see also dress
cod, 432, 433
coffee houses, 113, 461-62; see also cafés
colleges, 601; see also universities
comic monologues, 37
comics, see cartoons
communists, 514, 526, 572
commuting life, 597
Conder, Josiah, 81-82, 83-84, 90, 124, 231, 239, 240, 312, 577
conformity, 549
conservatism, 36, 141, 145, 190, 196, 363, 392
constitution, Meiji, 35-36, 49, 105, 202, 404, 462
cooking, 345-46
corporate offices, 600-01
cosmetics, 326
courtesans, 171-72, 174-75, 337; see also geisha
crime, 401-03, 573, 584-88; gangs, 429-30, 556; and criminals, 43, 102-03, 165-68, 203-4; in Olympic years, 524-25; organized, 429-30, 584; political, 584-87; postwar period, 475-76, 478-82; sōkaiya, 524-25, 587; white-collar, 524-25, 587
crosswalks, overhead, 582
cultural center, Tokyo as, 99
Daiei Building, 87
Daiichi Hotel, 407, 437
Daiichi Insurance Building, 421
Daiichi Kangyō Bank, 192-93
Daimaru store, 62, 63, 187
dairy products, 111, 271
dances, Niwaka, 176
dancing, 109, 113, 320-21, 432, 447
danchi, 540, 605
Dangozaka, 138, 238
Danjūrō (Kabuki actor), 27, 116, 155-57, 159, 167, 416
Dazai Osamu, 493
de Beauvoir, Simone, 589
democracy, Taishō, 255, 276
department stores, 118-19, 119-20, 314-15, 516, 559; fires in, 318-19, 533; Ginza district, 559-60; see also specific stores
detectives, private, 105
depression, economic (1930s), 378-79
Diary of a Mad Old Man (Tanizaki). 514
diet, changes in, 111-12
Diet building, 228, 508
DiMaggio, Joe, 451
diving girls, 363
dollar, value of, 547
Doolittle, James A., 413
doraibu (pleasure driving), 537
“double life,” the, 101, 118, 145
doughnut effect, 329, 492
drainage channel, 219, 257
drama, see theater
dress: Meiji, 103, 104, 107, 109, 111, 120, 174; Taishō, 252, 270
Dream Island,
526, 542, 573, 574
Drifting Clouds (Hayashi), 569
drug problem, 494, 573
During the Rains (Kafū), 309-10, 338, 340, 344
Earthquake Memorial Hall, 299 and illus., 417
earthquake of 1855, 26, 40
earthquake of 1923, 23-27, 33-34, 295-99, 296, 319-23
East Ginza, 425, 528
Ebara, 327
Echigoya (store), 193
economy, 300-01, 377-80, 547
Edo (the pre-Restoration city), 24-44; architecture of, 81; aristocracy of, 32; as capital and bureaucratic center, 31; demise of, 28, 184-85; foreigners in, 40; literature of, 245-46; pleasure quarters of, 30, 36, 37, 38-39, 150-51; population of, 32, 42; renamed Tokyo (1868), 44; rice riots in (1866), 41-42; stores in, 118; streets and alleys of, 96; theaters of, 37-38; transportation in, 37-38; Yose (variety or vaudeville halls) of, 37
Edo castle, 46, 498, 500, 517
Edo culture, 30, 36-39, 49-50, 98, 150-51, 245-46
Edogawa, 440
education, 99, 202; during Taishō, 272-73; see also colleges; schools; universities
Eight Ginza Blocks (Takeda), 341-42, 344
Einstein, Albert, 267-68
Ekōin Temple, 163, 214
elderly people, 425
Electricity Hall, 128, 566
electric lights, 93
electric power companies, 94
elevators, 120, 519, 547
Elocution Hall (Enzetsukan), 76
embassies and legations, 53, 228-29
emperors: Shōwa, 307, 308, 420, 445-46 and illus., 475, 546-47; Taishō, 301-06, 304, 305
Enchō (Yose performer), 160-61
English period in architecture, 81
enkashi (street minstrels), 167-68, 168, 171
Ennosuke (Ichikawa Ennosuke), 446, 449
Enomoto Kenichi (Enoken), 356-57, 358, 393, 394 and illus., 456, 487
epidemics, 33, 35, 40, 482
era names, 40, 305
Ernie Pyle, 395, 449, 451, 453, 560
eroguro (erotic-grotesque), 341-43, 362, 378-79
Essence of National Polity, The, 404
ethnological museum, 566
“event”, 508-09
exchange rate, 547, 595-96
exports, 547
expositions, 93, 123-24, 126, 127, 251, 487
factories, 98, 114, 115, 212, 214, 328, 604
fads, see vogues
fairs, see expositions
Faltering of the Virtues, The (Mishima), 536
farmland, 99, 231-32, 328
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