堺に生まれ明治･大正･昭和を短歌とともに生きた｢情熱の歌人｣与謝野晶子。｢みだれ髪｣はその代表作、甲斐町の生家跡には｢海こひし潮の遠鳴りかぞへつつ少女となりし父母の家｣の歌碑があります。
与謝野晶子は菓子商駿河屋の三女として甲斐町に生まれてから、鉄幹に出会い家を出るまで堺ですごしました。明治･大正･昭和を短歌とともに生き｢情熱の歌人｣と呼ばれ、同じ文学者鉄幹の妻であり、11人の子どもたちの母でもありました。明治34年(1901年)に出版された｢みだれ髪｣は、鉄幹へのあふれる愛と青春のみずみずしさを歌いあげ、浪漫主義の代表作となりました。
また詩、評論、古典研究などさまざまな執筆活動を展開する一方、女性の権利に焦点をあてた評論も多く著し、当時の女性の地位向上に積極的に取り組んだことでも有名です。
その生家跡には｢海こひし潮の遠鳴りかぞへつつ少女となりし父母の家｣の歌碑があり、晶子と鉄幹を引き合わせたといわれる覚応寺、二人がはじめてデートした浜寺公園など、エピソードがつたわる地と晶子歌碑巡りを楽しむことができます。最近のリニューアルで生家の様子をビジュアルに表現、外国人観光客用に英語･中国語･ハングルの説明文も加えました。歌碑周辺の石組みは碑に刻まれている歌にちなみ、海の波をイメージして高低に配し、所々の青色タイルは光る水面を表現しています。
"Poet of passion" was living with tanka the Meiji, Taisho and Showa born in Sakai Akiko Yosano. "Disheveled hair" is the masterpiece, the ruins of the town birthplace Kai has tanka inscription of "House of Ki becomes a girl while parents to Kazo distant roar of the ocean tide this sebum".
Yosano Akiko Sakai spent in town worth as a woman from birth to three candy quotient Surugaya Co., Ltd., to leave the house to Tekkan encounter. Living with the Meiji, Taisho and Showa tanka called "poet of passion", is the wife of a literary Tekkan same, there was also the mother of eleven children. Sings the freshness of youth and the love overflowing to Tekkan, "disheveled hair" was published, became a masterpiece of romanticism in 1901 (1901).
It is also famous for while activities writing a variety of poetry, criticism, and classical studies, authored many critics that focus on women's rights, but actively working to improve the status of women at the time.
Such Hamaderakoen that Odera sense, which is said to have tanka inscription of "house parents Ki and girl while to Kazo distant roar of the tide sebum can sea", on the site of the birthplace is said to have brought together the Tekkan and Akiko, two people have been dating for the first time , you can enjoy a tour of the land and tanka inscription Akiko episode is transmitted. A visual representation of the state of the birthplace in the recent renewal, also added the description of English, Chinese, Korean for foreign tourists. Rockwork around tanka inscription is named after the song, which is engraved on the monument, arranged in height with the image of the waves of the sea, blue tile places is an expression of a shiny surface.
