金沢百景（神奈川県立金沢文庫） Hundred scenes of Kanazawa (Kanazawa Library)

金沢八景は鎌倉時代から風光明媚な場所として知られていたが、明治以降、横須賀軍港の後背地となったことから発展し、次第に自然が失われるようになった。

Kanazawa Hakkei has been known as a scenic place from the Kamakura period, but after the Meiji era, evolved from that was the hinterland of the Yokosuka naval base, became gradually as nature is lost.

地元に生まれ、画家を目指しながら果たせず教師を務めていた角田武夫は、そうした失われつつある金沢の地を後世に残そうと、昭和初期に多くの水彩画を描いた。

Born in local, the Takeo Tsunoda which had served as a teacher not fulfill while aiming the painter, and Leave the land of Kanazawa, which is becoming such lost to posterity, it drew a lot of watercolor painting in the early Showa era.

幸い、金沢文庫のすぐ隣にある称名寺の境内には、当時の風景がなんとかその姿を止めているが、その周辺は、すっかりどこにでもあるような住宅地になってしまった。

Fortunately, in the precincts of Shomyoji located right next to the Kanazawa Bunko, but the landscape at that time has managed to stop its appearance, its surroundings, it has become a residential area, such as a completely everywhere.

角田武夫の描いた数多くの風景は、これからも末長く、人々に郷愁の気持ちを起こさせていくに違いない。

A number of landscape drawn by the Takeo Tsunoda is, it must go now on forever, to cause a feeling of nostalgia to people.

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