『断腸亭日乗』に描かれた電車、車 －大震災前の東京を中心として－

Abstract

This paper examines how the image of the train as it appears throughout Kafu Nagai's thirty-volume diary, Danchotei-Nichijou (1917-1959) provides an apt commentary on the appearance of Tokyo from the beginning to the Great Kant? Earthquake of 1923. First, he writes of the state of urbanization and suburbanization along with the expansion and improvement of the routes along the round trip, in contrast to the entry in "Sun Riding," which describes factories and rental houses in a disorderly, muddy, dirty landscape. Second, when he describes the appearance of a cool evening on the outer moat line, he gives us a foretaste of the later "Refrigerator Train," and similar vehicles to come, while making it clear that in the next year, maintenance and round-trip double tracking are signs of the future. Third, although "Sunflower" provides an excellent record of Tokyo at the time, the expression of the self's standard, the vertical axis, is more noticeable than the description of the occurrence of scenes and events, the horizontal axis. In "Ryuko," the horizontal axis holds meaning for the argument of the vertical axis. From the survey of this time, the above three points were confirmed.