Nagai Kafū ni okeru hanjōki juyō no shosō―zasshi “Kagetsu” o shiza to shite―

This article examines Nagai Kafū’s reception and reworking of the hanjōki tradition of urban writing, focusing on the eight issues of «Kagetsu», the journal he co-edited in 1918. Through close readings of its editorial statements and the “Tōkyō gyōji” column, alongside Kafū’s diaries and fiction, it argues that early Meiji hanjōki provided a framework for reconstructing urban memory and critically interpreting Tokyo’s modernization. These texts combined sensory observation, intertextual reference, and historical recollection, recording the city through sounds, bodily rhythms, seasonal customs, and local practices. In «Kagetsu», Kafū adapted this approach by organizing urban experience around recurring annual events and juxtaposing contemporary observations with earlier textual representations. The article traces this practice into "Shinkyō yawa", "Udekurabe", "Okamezasa", and "Bokutō kidan", where the depiction of particular neighbourhoods illuminates the relationship between urban transformation and individual identity. Shinbashi and Tamanoi emerge as distinctively modern spaces marked by solitude, exclusion, and the pressures of commercial and political life. Kafū’s engagement with hanjōki thus constitutes a deliberate literary method for restoring historical depth to a changing city and articulating a critique of modernization that extends beyond nostalgia for Edo.