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Rei Morishita from Japan: Environmentalist, poet, essayist. Everything, various things will be taken up. Originally, it was a blog about disasters, and expanded to say romance, for example, is a kind of disaster because it is a problem of one’s survival.

Various Karuta: Shouzou Tanaka Karuta, Jyoumou Karuta , Hyakunin Isshu Karuta

Various Karuta: Shouzou Tanaka Karuta, Jyoumou Karuta , Hyakunin Isshu Karuta


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Shouzou Tanaka(wiki)


In the Meiji era, it refers to a series of turmoil that occurred due to the operation of Ashio Copper Mine. Ashio Copper Mine is a mine on the Tochigi side of the border between Gunma and Tochigi prefectures, and was discovered in the early Edo period, but full-scale operation was supported by the Meiji government with Furukawa Ichibei's national policy of breeding industry and wealthy soldiers. It was after the beginning of the Meiji era, when modern facilities were built. ( Ichibei Furukawa:市兵衛 古河)

Pollution had two sides. One is the annihilation of forests accelerated by smoke damage, air pollution and private felling caused by sulfurous acid gas emitted in the process of producing copper from raw ore. Therefore, slag (residue) flows out to the middle and downstream every time a large number of floods occur, and harmful copper, zinc, cadmium, etc. make the fields and mountains barren. This is another side.

This damage affected not only Tochigi, Gunma, and Saitama, but also Tokyo, Ibaraki, and Chiba's five prefectures, including the Watarase River basin. When this problem became clear in 1890, Shouzou Tanaka (正造 田中: elected by Tochigi Prefecture), who became a member of Parliament in the same year, took it up in the Diet. In 1900, farmers who were trying to petition the government of Tokyo ("Extrude Tokyo") collided with the government (The Kawamata incident).


Shouzou Tanaka, who gave up on collecting the mine poisoning problem in the Diet, resigned as a member of the Diet in 1901. In the same year, he appealed directly to Emperor Meiji. In 1905, farmers and Shouzou Tanaka objected to the plan to abandon Yanaka Village in Tochigi Prefecture to make it a vast retarding basin with the intention of concealing the problem of mine poisoning, but Yanaka villagers are in neighboring towns and villages, far away in Hokkaido. In 1918, Yanaka Village was destroyed and settled the problem.

And the Ashio copper mine problem comes to see a tentative solution. Shouzou Tanaka took the form of having a hard time before the enormous power of the state, but the words of Shouzou such as the diary, letters, and articles recorded in the 20 volumes of "Complete Works of Shouzou Tanaka" (Iwanami Shoten) are still in the country. It is used for reading both inside and outside of Japan.


This is the description of "Hatena Keyword" about "Ashio Copper Mine" that I made. The following is also a description of "Shouzou Tanaka" from "Hatena Keyword".


A statesman and environmental protection activist in the Meiji era. Born December 15, 1841 in Konakamura, Tochigi Prefecture.

Build a generation of wealth in the market and step into the world of politics. He devoted himself to the Freedom and People's Rights Movement from time to time and was elected in the 1890 House of Representatives election to become a representative. When the Ashio copper mine incident occurred in the same year, the Diet asked for a solution, but he resigned as a representative and devoted his life to solving the Ashio copper mine incident as an activist in the field. It is famous that he directly appealed to Emperor Meiji in 1901 when he resigned. This was the eve of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).

Died September 4, 1913. At the time of his death, his fortune was gone, and there were only old Bible, accessories, and three "pebbles" in the cloth.

After the war, pollution problems occurred all over the country, and he came to be regarded as the forerunner of the environmental protection movement.


The "Ashio Copper Mine Incident: Shouzou Tanaka Karuta" was created with the intention of keeping the history of such a terrible incident and the indomitable information of Shouzou Tanaka. Published by "NPO Ashio Mineral Poisoning Incident Shouzou Tanaka Memorial Hall" in 2006. (If you would like to obtain it, please call 0276-75-8000.)



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Shouzou Tanaka Karta


• Location 374-0023 6-50 Otemachi, Tatebayashi City, Gunma Prefecture
About a 15-minute walk from Tatebayashi Station on the Tobu Isesaki Line
• Opening date and time: Open every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, from 10 am to 4 pm (free admission, commentary by curators and members)
Wiki (Ashio Copper Mine Incident Shozo Tanaka Memorial Hall)


Next is "Jyoumou Karuta," which is still published as "Local Karuta." This kind of karuta was produced and sold in various parts of Japan after the war, but only a few survived, and the sophisticated phrases (reading cards) and patterns (picture cards) of this "Jyoumou Karuta" were widely accepted. I think it was a factor. To give two examples of reading cards, it is like "Ko: Lighthouse of the heart, Kanzou Uchimura" and "He: Use of peace, Joe Niijima
". (These people are famous as Christians.)


You can purchase it at bookstores nationwide as well as in Gunma prefecture.
In the prefecture, it is also sold at some mass retailers, souvenir shops, general stores, etc.
If it is not at the store, please check with the counter of each store.
It is also sold at the following prefecture agencies and prefecture-related organizations.
• Prefectural Office Prefectural Citizens Center (mailable)
• Gunma-chan House (Gunma General Information Center: External link)
Book name Jyoumou Karuta
Selling price 762 yen + tax
Gunma Prefectural Office HP



A word of the day: However, in the case of two karuta, it has the purpose of cultivating historical facts and local love that I really want to convey, and what is Hyakunin Isshu Karuta that contributes to the improvement of the athlete's national language ability? I think the purpose of the competition is different. I don't remember playing Hyakunin Isshu Karuta, and it's a bit complicated considering that the reading and picture cards of Jyoumou Karuta are engraved in my mind.


A few years ago, when Mr. Taro Yamamoto, a member of the Diet, got into the garden party and handed a "direct complaint" about the nuclear accident to His Majesty the Emperor, Hirofumi Shimomura of the Liberal Democratic Party said, "Is he supposed to be Shouzou Tanaka?" I leaked it, but with this one statement, I found out that Mr. Shimomura has a mentality that is little different from that of the conservative politicians of the Meiji era.

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In Japanese, original



かるた色々:田中正造かるた、上毛かるた百人一首かるた




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 明治時代、足尾銅山の操業が元になり発生した一連の騒動を言う。足尾銅山群馬県と栃木県の境界、栃木側にある鉱山で、江戸時代前期に発見されていたが、本格的な操業は古河市兵衛が殖産興業・富国強兵を国策とする明治政府の支援を受け、近代的な施設を整備した明治時代に入ってからである。

公害は2つの側面があった。ひとつは原鉱石から産銅する過程で排出される亜硫酸ガスによる煙害、大気汚染および私伐で加速された森林の全滅。そのため多発した大洪水のたびにスラグ(残滓)が中・下流に流れ出し、有害な銅、亜鉛カドミウムなどによって田畑・山野が不毛になる現象。これがもう一つの側面。

この被害は渡良瀬川流域をはじめ栃木、群馬、埼玉のみならず東京、茨城、千葉の一府五県に一部に及んだ。1890年、この問題が明らかになると、同年衆議院議員になった田中正造(栃木県選出)が国会で取り上げた。1900年、東京の政府などに陳情(「大挙東京押し出し」)に行こうとしていた農民が官憲と衝突する事件(川俣事件)が起こる。

国会での鉱毒問題の事態収拾に見切りをつけた田中正造は1901年、議員を辞職する。同年、明治天皇に直訴する。1905年、鉱毒の問題を隠蔽する意図で栃木県谷中村を廃村にして広大な遊水地にするという計画に対し、農民と田中正造は反対するが、谷中村民は近隣の町村、遠くは北海道に入植するという幕引きで、大正6年、谷中村は滅亡する。

そして足尾鉱毒問題は一応の解決を見るに至る。田中正造は、巨大な国家権力の前に苦杯を飲んだという形になったが、20巻に及ぶ『田中正造全集』(岩波書店)収録の日記、書簡、論考など正造の言葉はいまなお国の内外で愛読活用されている。

これは私が作成した「足尾鉱毒」についての「はてなキーワード」の記述です。次も同じく「はてなキーワード」より「田中正造」についての記述。


明治時代の政治家・環境保護運動家。1841年12月15日、栃木県小中村に生まれる。

相場で一代の財産を築き、政治の世界に踏み込む。折からの自由民権運動に身を投じ、1890年の第一回衆議院選挙で当選して代議士になる。同年足尾鉱毒事件が起きると、その解決を国会で求めるが叶わず、代議士を辞して在野の運動家として足尾鉱毒事件の解決に一生を捧げる。なお辞職した1901年に明治天皇に直訴したのは有名。これは、日露戦争(1904 - 1905)の前夜にあたる時代である。

1913年9月4日に死去。亡くなった際、財産は皆無になり、布のなかには古ぼけた聖書、小物や「いしころ」3個だけとなっていた。

戦後、全国各地で公害問題が起き、環境保護運動のさきがけと見なされるようになった。


このような凄まじい事件の経緯と、不屈の田中正造の情報を絶やすまいとの意図で作成されたのが「足尾鉱毒事件 田中正造かるた」です。2006年、「NPO法人 足尾鉱毒事件田中正造記念館」が発行しています。(入手希望の方は 0276-75-8000にどうぞ。)



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• 所在地 374-0023 群馬県館林市大手町6-50
東武伊勢崎線館林駅から徒歩約15分
• 開館日時 毎週火・木・土・日、午前10時から午後4時まで開館(入場無料。学芸員や会員が解説)
Wiki (足尾鉱毒事件田中正造記念館)

次に「郷土かるた」として現在も発行されている「上毛かるた」。この種のかるたは戦後日本各地で制作、販売されましたが、生き残ったのは数えるほどで、ひとえにこの「上毛かるた」の洗練された文句(読札)、絵柄(絵札)がひろく受け入れられた要因だと思います。読み札の例を2つ挙げると、「こ:心の灯台内村鑑三」「へ:平和の使い・新島襄」という感じです。(この人たちはキリスト者として有名です。)

群馬県内はもちろん、全国の書店で購入できます。
県内では、一部の量販店、土産物店、雑貨店などでも販売しています。
店頭にない時は、各店舗の窓口などにご確認ください。
また次の県機関及び県関係機関でも販売しています。
• 県庁県民センター(郵送可)
• ぐんまちゃん家(ぐんま総合情報センター:外部リンク)
 書籍名 上毛かるた
 販売価格 本体762円+税
群馬県庁HP

今日のひと言:ただ、↑二つのかるたの場合、どうしても伝えたい歴史的事実とか郷土愛の涵養などの目的を持ったものであり、純粋に、競技者の国語力の向上に資する百人一首かるたとは競技の目的が違うように思います。そういう私も百人一首かるたは、行った覚えがなく、上毛かるたの読札・絵札が脳裏に刻み込まれていることと考え合わせると、ちょっと複雑な思いです。

なお、何年か前、国会議員の山本太郎氏が園遊会に紛れ込み、原発事故に関する「直訴状」を天皇陛下に手渡したとき、自民党下村博文が「田中正造になったつもりか!」と漏らしましたが、この発言一つで、下村さんが明治時代の保守系政治家とすこしも違わぬメンタリティを持っていることが解りました。


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