埋め立て地にできたニュータウン「シーサイドももち」の、前史から現代までをマニアックに深掘りした『シーサイドももち―海水浴と博覧会が開いた福岡市の未来―』（発行：福岡市／販売：梓書院）。

この本は、博多・天神とは違う歴史をたどってきた「シーサイドももち」を見ることで福岡が見えてくるという、これまでにない一冊です。

本についてはコチラ。

この連載では「別冊 シーサイドももち」と題して、本には載らなかった蔵出し記事やこぼれ話などを紹介しています。ぜひ本とあわせてお楽しみいただければ、うれしいです。

第1回はコチラ（「よかトピアに男闘呼組がやってきた！」）。

第2回は、さらに時をさかのぼり、昭和の時代にあった海水浴場でのお話です。

〈002〉ダンスフロアでボンダンス

お盆といえば、なんといっても盆踊りですよね！

ここ数年はコロナ禍ということもあり、人が集まるお祭りなんかは中止を余儀なくされましたが、今年は3年ぶりに行動制限のないお盆休みということで、開催されたところもあったようです。

盆踊りといえば、提灯が飾られたやぐらの上に太鼓やお囃子、そして歌い手が立ち、その周りをみんなでぐるぐる、一定のリズムに乗って同じ踊りを踊る…。

この音頭のリズム、もはやDNAに深く刻まれているのでは？ と思うほど、正確な振付を知らなくても、自然と身体が動いてしまいます。

盆踊りは日本に限らず、今ではハワイやマレーシアなどでも「ボンダンス」として広まっていて、時には数万人が集まって盛り上がるのだそうです。

そんな一体感も楽しい盆踊りは、今も昔もまさに夏の風物詩です。

ところで昭和初期、当時の福岡市内で初めて盆踊り大会が開催されたのは、実は百道だったという話があることをご存知ですか？

それは昭和3（1928）年のこと。会場は、当時百道にあった海水浴場でのことでした。

百道海水浴場を運営していた福岡日日新聞社（西日本新聞社の前身）はこの年、姪浜町の炭鉱から踊り手を呼んで、盆踊り大会を開催しました（姪浜は昭和8年まで福岡市ではなく早良郡でした）。

これが当時の新聞紙面で「福岡市内で最初の盆踊り」と報じられています（「福岡日日新聞」昭和3年8月15日夕刊）。

盆踊りはそもそも、村や町内など、ごく限られたコミュニティの人々による、死者の供養や地域の娯楽のための行事でしたが、西新で初めて行われた盆踊りは、別の地域から踊り手を呼んだ〝イベント盆踊り〟だったんですね。なんて都会的…。

盆踊りが普及していった背景には、レコードやラジオの存在が大きな意味を持っていました。

昭和8（1933）年に「東京音頭」が大ヒットしたことで音頭ブームが起こり、戦後は昭和23（1948）年に発売された赤坂小梅の「炭坑節」の大ヒットなどにより、民謡ブームが巻き起こります。そして、これらのヒット曲が盆踊りに採用され、広まっていきました。

こうして広まった盆踊りですが、昭和20年代後半になるとさらに大きな進化を遂げていきます。当時のレコード会社は、戦後に各所で設立された民謡（民踊）団体と提携し、制作した音頭や民謡に振付をして「踊る音楽」として売り出しました。今でいう、ダンスミュージックです。

そうしたダンスミュージックが求められた背景には、戦時中の厳しい抑圧から解放された若者の間でフォークダンスやスクエアダンスなど、みんなで踊る〝ダンス〟（レクリエーション）が流行していたこともありました。

その中で、盆踊りもレクリエーションの一環として広まり、年齢を問わず楽しまれたのでしょう。

さらに、レコード会社はプロモーションのため、また協会は民踊普及のため、新曲レコードを流して日本舞踊の一流の師匠が踊りを教えるという、その名も〝ボンダンス講習会〟を、全国各地で開催します。

百道海水浴場は夜も営業していたので、こうしたボンダンス講習会や、またフォークダンスなどのダンスパーティの会場として頻繁に利用されました。百道の浜は、夜な夜な若者が集まる場所でもあったようです。

最近話題になる、Bon Joviやサカナクションの曲に合わせて盆踊りを踊るという、いわば〝盆踊りアップデート〟ですが、実は昨日今日に始まったものではなく、約50年前の若者も同じように、盆踊り会場をダンスフロアにして、みんなでボンダンスを楽しんでいたんでしょうね。

ところで、戦後の〝民謡ブーム〟ではさまざまな「音頭」が作られますが、今でも知られている「サザエさん音頭」もその一つです。

「サザエさん音頭」は昭和29年にキングレコードから発売。B面は「かっぱ踊り」で、歌詞カードには2曲の振付解説が付いていました。

そして発売から5年後、百道で開催された「海浜フォークダンスパーティと盆踊り」では、ついに百道でも「サザエさん音頭」が踊られたのです！（昭和34年8月4日、キングレコード・日本ビクター・講談社協賛）

ご存知の方も多いでしょうが、百道の浜は長谷川町子さんがサザエさんの構想を練った「サザエさん誕生の地」としても有名です。

町子さんが「サザエさんうちあけ話」（昭和53年「朝日新聞」日曜版で連載、翌年に姉妹社より刊行）で百道のお話をするずっと前に、百道の浜ではサザエさん音頭が踊られていた…そう考えると、偶然にもサザエさんは思ったよりも早い時期に、百道に〝里帰り〟を果たしていたのでした。

＃シーサイドももち　＃海水浴場　＃盆踊り　＃ボンダンス　＃サザエさん音頭

［Written by かみね／illustration by ピー・アンド・エル］

『シーサイドももち―海水浴と博覧会が開いた福岡市の未来―』（発行：福岡市／販売：梓書院）の販売が始まりました。

July 12th (Tue.) ~ October 23rd (Sun.), 2022

Feature Exhibition Room 3

While most ruins in Japan are underground, the Nata Dune B Ruin, located in the middle of Uminonakamichi in Higashi Ward of Fukuoka City, is a rare site that is partially exposed above ground and can be observed in its original state.

Because the ruin faces the Genkai Sea, it is affected by crashing waves and winds, and the topography of the site changes rapidly.

The area around the ruin is constantly changing as the sand is scraped away and deposited again. What has been found at the Nata Dune B Ruin are paleolithic tools from around 20,000 years ago and earthenware from around 1,800 years ago.

If you walk along the coast near the ruins, you can feel the strength and intensity of the wind and waves. But what kind of environment did Uminonakamichi have all those years ago, and how did people live there?

In this exhibition, we will look back at the changes in nature beyond the power of humans to control through photographs, as well as introducing materials collected during excavation of the site.

The Hakata Traditional Craft Museum and the Fukuoka City Museum Collaboration Project: The Beauty and Technique of Handicraft 2 －Magemono

Feature Exhibition Room 4

June 14th (Tue.) ~ August 15th (Mon.), 2022

Magemono are wooden containers made by boiling boards of cypress or cedar, bending the planks while they are still hot, and then binding the edges of the planks together with cherry bark.

Akita, Tochigi, and Nara prefectures are well known for of production of Magemono. In Fukuoka, they are mainly produced in Maedashi in Higashi Ward and they are called ‘Hakata Magemono.’ Hakata Magemono are made from straight-grained timbers without knots which are used without lacquer or any other coating. The beauty of the straight grain of the wood is one of its notable characteristics.

Since ancient times in the town around Hakozaki Shrine in Maidashi, Magemono were used to deliver ritual items to make offerings in Shinto rites. The products gradually became more popular and more widely used as common people began to use similar manufacturing methods to make rice boxes, Sushi Oke (wooden bowls for sushi rice), and other daily items.

Among these magemono is the ‘Poppo-zen,’ which is small dining table. This table has a pine-bamboo-apricot design, a combination called Sho-chiku-bai, symbolizing happiness, and ‘the crane and the turtle,’ which symbolize longevity. These patterns are painted with a color wash. Poppo-zen are used in various rituals in young children's lives, such as ‘Okuizome’ (the weaning ceremony) , or ‘Ozen-zuwari’ in which three-year-old children are given their first adult meal and begin eating with chopsticks.

In this exhibition, we will introduce Magemono products that have been, and are still, used in various aspects of daily life.

Feature Exhibition Room 1

June 14th (Tue.) ~ August 21st (Sun.), 2022

On June 19th 1945, a large formation of B-29 long-range bomber planes from the United States flew over Fukuoka. Here they dropped a large number of incendiary bombs, between midnight and the early morning hours. This is known as the ‘Great Fukuoka Air Raid,’ which left the central part of the city as burnt-out ruins.

Since 1991, the Fukuoka City Museum has held this annual series exhibitions, ’War and Way of Living, ’ annually to commemorate the 'Great Fukuoka Air Raid.’ This year, we will introduce you to military mail, including letters and comfort items.

During the war, ‘home front citizens,’ who did not directly participate in the war, were incorporated into the war support system. The mail sent between the war front and the home front was called ‘military mail’ to distinguish it from ‘general mail.’ Military mail played a connecting role between the war front and the home front in that those involved could stay in touch with one another.

We hope that through the focus on the gathered military mail in this exhibition, you will use the opportunity to learn about this period of the war and how it affected those involved. We also hope this will be an opportunity for you to reflect on the importance of peace.

Feature Exhibition Room 2

June 21st (Tue.) ~ August 28th (Sun.), 2022

Hakata Gion Yamakasa is a festival dedicated to Kushida Shrine, Hakata ward, in Fukuoka City, and it is held between July 1st and 15th every year. During the festival, the tall decorated floats, the Kazariyama, are put on display at several places around the city, while men and boys run through the streets in Hakata carrying the shorter, more portable floats, called Kakiyama.

However, most of the events of this festival have had to be postponed over the last two years because of the pandemic, and last year only some Kazariyama could be displayed. But, this year preparations are underway to make Hakata Gion Yamakasa happen as usual.

The Fukuoka City Museum holds the ‘Hakata Gion Yamakasa Exhibition’ almost every year during the period of the festival. In what will be the 21st year of our annual Hakata Gion Yamakasa exhibition, we will be showcasing Yamakasa-zu, which are pictures depicting the decorative Yamakasa floats. These take the form of hanging scrolls and folding screens dating from the middle of the Edo period to the end of the Tokugawa shogunate (from the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century).

Though these artefacts, we will introduce the festivities as they were celebrated at that time, and what kind of subjects and themes were chosen for decorations for Yamakasa floats during the Edo period.

Feature Exhibition Room 4

April 19th (Tue.) ~ June 12th (Sun.), 2022

Grave goods excavated from the Yoshitake-Takgagi site

One of the things that characterizes the Yayoi period (c.800 BCE – 250 CE) is the bronzeware. Fukuoka boasts one of the largest quantities of bronzeware excavated in Japan.

Bronzeware was introduced to the Japanese archipelago, initially in very small quantities, not too long after the introduction of rice cultivation.

Then, in the second and third centuries BCE, it was fully introduced to the Japanese archipelago.

Much of the bronze introduced to Japan was used for making weapons, such as bronze spearheads, daggers, and halberds. First, these were made in the Korean peninsula, but it soon became possible to manufacture these artifacts in Japan.

After the first century BCE, the amount of bronzeware brought from China, such as mirrors and coins, began to increase. Various kind of bronzeware was also produced in Japan including Tomoe-shaped bronzeware, which were unique to Japan.

This exhibition brings together a collection of bronzeware produced during the Yayoi period and excavated in Fukuoka. As well as the fascinating bronze items currently on display in the Feature Exhibition Room, we hope you will take the time to enjoy the exhibits on display in the Permanent Exhibition Room.