Kashima Etsu ( Jap. 鹿 嶋 恵 津 , November 20, 1880 , Shinagawa - April 22, 1925 ) [1] - the famous geisha from the Tokyo quarter of [2] . Her pseudonym was Pontus ( ぽ ん 太 ) . Due to its beauty, Kashima often appeared in beer chain and postcards . Kashima became the second wife of the merchant and famous photographer and repeatedly posed for him [3] . A pair of Etsu and Seibei served as prototypes for Mori Ogai’s book, One Hundred Tales ( 百 物語 ) [4] .
Biography
Ponta was born in 1880 in the Shinagawa district of Tokyo and received the name Tanida Etsu (ko) ( 谷 田 恵 津 （子） ) [2] [5] . Following her older sister, Ezu went to Okya Tama-no-ie ( 半 玉 ) , where she became a hanyoku under the professional pseudonym “Ponta”. Ponta's career was very successful, she became the star of Shimbashi. She had many admirers, among them the poet Mokichi Saito , who delightfully described the elegance of Ponta's dance in his poems and dedicated her the essay “Misuji-mati District” ( Japanese я 筋 町 界 隈 misuji-mati kaiwai ) [6] .
It was assumed that she would become the heiress of the mistress of Oki, but one of her regular customers, Seibei Kashima, bought her from the geishas in 1897, when she was 17 years old, and married her [2] . Etsu was the constant heroine of his photographs.
Seibei closed his Tokyo photo studio and left with Etsu in Osaka , where for some time the family lived on money from selling photographs, but they could not make enough money from it. Returning to Tokyo, Seibei again opened a photo studio. During careless handling of gunpowder, the photographer was injured, which did not allow him to continue photographing, and since then earned money as a master of playing the flute [7] , and Etsu worked as a instructor of Nauthout and Japanese dance , for which she received the nickname “Pontus’s faithful wife” ( Japanese. 貞女 ぽ ん 太 teijo ponta ) [2] . Thanks to Etsu's skill, the family earned 500 yen per month (the average salary of an office worker in those years was 150 yen) [8] [6] .
Etsu gave birth to 12 children from Seibei [6] , of whom two died in infancy. One of the sons of Etsu became an actor but . Etsu's eldest daughter, , was adopted by director Tsubouti Shyou [9] and became a specialist in English literature and a dancer.
In 1924, Seibei died a natural death. A year later, Etsu died of a liver tumor at the age of 44 years [10] . Ezu is buried in . Saito Mokichi regularly visited her grave [11] .
Notes
- ↑ The name is often spelled hiragana as ゑ つ; modern spelling named - え つ
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 鹿島 ゑ つ . 日本人 名 大 辞典 . Kodansya .
- ↑ Bennett T. Photography in Japan 1853 - 1912 . - Tuttle Publishing, 2013 .-- ISBN 9781462907083 .
- ↑ 江 戸 東京 怪 談 文学 散 歩 . - 角 川 学 芸 出版, 2008. - S. 34. - (角 川 選 書). - ISBN 9784047034280 .
- ↑ 鹿 嶋 ゑ つ 歴 史 が 眠 る 多 磨 霊 園
- ↑ 1 2 3 Matsuda Tamotsu. 能 の 笛 方 鹿島 清 兵衛 を め ぐ る 人 々 . Archived May 13, 2013 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ 鹿 嶋 清 兵衛 歴 史 が 眠 る 多 磨 霊 園
- ↑ 新橋 名 姑 、 ぽ ん 太
- ↑ 小野 賢 一郎 著. 女 、 女 、 女 (Japanese) . Date of treatment April 13, 2014.
- ↑ 千 谷 道 雄 「明治 百万 長者 物語」 『歴 史 と 人物 人物』 第 6 巻 、 第 1 ～ 3 号 央 央 出 春秋 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 出 出 出 出 出 出 出 出 出 出 出 出 出
- ↑ “三 筋 町 界 隈” 斎 藤 茂 吉 , Aodzor-bunko library
Literature
- : "近代 美人 論", 1936
- : "明治 の 女", "明治 の 男"
- : “明治 を 彩 る 女 た ち”, , 1985
- : “遊 鬼 わ が 師 わ が 友”, Shintesya , 1989
- : “ぜ い た く 列 伝”, Bungei-shunju, 1992