He turned 70 in April this year.
It is "Koki".
He started going to work in the next town shortly before his birthday.
It's a work only in the morning.
He wasn't very enthusiastic about his work, but he was asked by a person and was a little happy to be asked, so he received the request.
He lives alone in an apartment near the sea.
He moved here at the age of 65 and has lived here for five years.
Almost, if not at all, he's not interested in television, where programs featuring thin-smiling talents are the mainstream.
So he doesn't have a TV show to watch at night, and as a result he often goes to bed early.
Episode 2
He was born in 1951.
He was born six years after Japan unconditionally surrendered in the last war.
He feels that the memory has been around since he was three or four years old.
The memory is like a single photo, and it remains in a thin, uncoordinated composition in the depths of the brain, and there is no story.
Memories as words are relatively clear from around the age of five.
The memory of the father's words is overwhelmingly large, but the memory of the mother's words is quite small.
At the age of five, when the memory became clear to some extent, that is, about 10 years after the surrender, Japan had been at war recently, so the remnants of the wartime culture remained strong.
He was naturally childish at the time, so he lived as if he were in a dream, albeit in reality.
Needless to say, he thinks there were various cultures during the war.
He wasn't born in the world during the war, so he felt that way from his knowledge of wartime affairs he knew after he was born.
Episode 3
In his father's words, there is "Yume no Kyusaku".
From his father's point of view, he would have been an unreliable child, just like living in a dream.
His father sometimes ridiculed him as "Yume no Kyusaku."
One day after he became an adult, he found the word "Yume no Kyusaku" while looking at the spine of a book on the shelf of a bookstore.
"Yume no Kyusaku" was the author's name, and the title of the book was "Dogra Magra".
At this time, he felt that his father's words "Yume no Kyusaku" and the title of the book "Yume no Kyusaku" must be connected.
However, that imagination was a little off.
Episode 4
The word "Yumeno Kyusaku" as the author of "Dogra Magra" was originally a dialect of the Fukuoka region and meant "dream-seeker".
At that time, he was just a "sleeping" boy, not as high-class as a "dream-seeker"
But that made him imagine a part of his father's short life.
He didn't think his father had read "Dogra Magra" by "Yumeno Kyusaku", but he encountered the word "Yume no Kyusaku" somewhere in his father's life.
A long time ago, his father was an employee of the former Japanese National Railways, and he must have been to various parts of Kyushu because of his work, and he must have had some relationships with people from all over Kyushu.
Episode 5
His father was promoted when he was young, but he was a hobbyist, especially fond of baseball and music, and he seemed to be better than others because he took it more seriously than others.
In honor of his father, his father seems to have been talented in many ways.
The word "dexterous poverty" is for his father.
When his father died, a uniform of the non-professional baseball team "KOKUTETSU" and a guitar were placed beside the body in the casket.
He remembers his father proudly telling his friends when he played against Kawakami, a professional baseball player who had been suspended during the war.
Kawakami is a legendary person who means "Tetsuharu Kawakami".
Kawakami is from Kumamoto prefecture and later raised the Yomiuri Giants into an invincible corps, but he was an active player during his father's life and died without knowing his subsequent activities.
His father probably met "Kawakami" somewhere in Kyushu as well as "Yume no Kyusaku".
He remembers that the uniform in the casket had vertical stripes on a white background.
Episode 6
His father in his memory was very sick and thin.
His father was tall, had big eyes, and had a tall nose.
It wasn't as dignified as a eagle nose, but it had a beautiful nose with a moderately curved nose in the profile.
His mother was feeding a nourishing diet in a poor household in an attempt to nourish her sick husband.
His mother used to cook hot soup dishes so that her husband wouldn't get cold in a cold winter house.
His father ate the hot soup dish deliciously and made a runny nose ball at the tip of his beautiful nose.
He remembers the scene at that time well.
The scene was a common sight in everyday life, and he always liked the sight in his memory.
His nose, by all means, was given to him by his mother, and although it wasn't ugly, he never thought it was beautiful.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, but his childhood home was poorer than the average Japanese family.
It was, of course, due to his father's illness, a pillar of the family's economy.
His father seems to have lived a little richer life on the old Japanese National Railways when he was young, but at one point his father left the company.
Episode 7
I must mention here his mother's parents' home.
His father died when he was 10 years old, so there is less information about his father's ancestors, and overwhelmingly more information about his mother's ancestors.
His mother's parents ran a rice shop.
He heard from his mother that his mother's ancestors were priests who served the Takahashi family of the "lord" in Hyuga-no-kuni during the Edo period.
He visited the tomb of one of his mother's ancestors several times, but was surprised when he read the text on the back of the tombstone of his mother's grandfather.
The lesson of Ieyasu Tokugawa, who opened the Edo Shogunate.
"A person's life is like going on a long slope with a burden on your back.
Don't hurry.
If you are always inconvenienced, you will not feel shortage.
If you wish in your heart, remember the time when you are in need.
Patience is the basis of security, and anger is the enemy.
If you know only to win and not to lose, harm will come to you.
Even if you blame yourself, don't blame others.
Lack is better than too much. "
Although the expression of the first half of the sentence was slightly different, the sentence was engraved with almost this meaning.
The time when this mother's grandfather lived is probably from the late Edo period to the Taisho period, or until the early Showa period.
His mother occasionally talked about her grandfather, so her grandfather would have been alive in her childhood and she would have been loved by her grandfather.
Episode 8
He heard that his maternal grandmother came from the Fukuoka region with her family.
He hasn't heard why she moved with her family so long ago and from the Fukuoka region, hundreds of kilometers away.
However, it turned out that his grandmother was born into a wealthy family.
Currently there is a junior high school in the center of the city.
The junior high school is also the school he graduated from.
He heard from his grandmother that the predecessor of the junior high school was a prewar high school for girls, but before that it was a private school run by the "lord" who ruled the region.
The "lord" was no longer a "lord" in the Meiji era, but when his grandmother was a child, "lord" sometimes appeared in school run by the former "lord", and his grandmother saw him.
His grandmother also used the word "free love" in front of him.
Although his grandmother was old enough, he understood that "free love" was an important value for his grandmother.
He hasn't heard if his grandmother was "free love" with his grandfather.
But he felt that she could think that her life with her husband was in that spirit.
Episode 9
His grandmother once told him about the "rice riot."
Since July 1918, rice prices have skyrocketed, and people's living difficulties and anxieties have deepened.
And finally an unprecedented riot broke out.
His mother was born in 1913 (Taisho 12), so at this time his mother is 5 years old.
His grandmother was attacked by a "rice riot" with her young children, her father-in-law, her mother-in-law, and her husband.
His grandfather's rice shop at the time was the closest to Shiroyama, and his business was big, so his shop was the first target.
The people who participated in the "rice riot" held a rally in Shiroyama and ran down the mountain with that momentum.
His grandmother didn't talk much about the "rice riots," but said, "It was scary because the people who broke out in Shiroyama rushed down to the store with the same momentum."
After somehow overcoming the rice riots, his grandmother and his grandfather's couple moved further into the city centre.
The people who ran the rice shop at that time seemed to have lived a rich life.
His grandfather had many "holdings".
Episode 10
After the war, GHQ Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur began "farmland reform" in 1946, buying land from landowners and selling it to "Peasant" at low prices.
And GHQ confiscated all farmland from landowners who did not live in villages with farmland.
His grandfather falls into this category.
The land was paid in government bonds that could not be redeemed for 10 years, but the land was sold almost for free because the value of the government bonds was almost lost due to the severe inflation at that time.
As a result, many of the landowners fell.
And because the land was sold to peasants at a low price (almost for free), the number of self-produced farmers increased, and the landowner system was virtually abolished.
Episode 11
His aunt once showed him a local newspaper when his grandfather was young.
The newspaper featured a group photo of his grandfather, one of the founding members of the Chamber of Commerce and a director.
His grandmother gave birth to eight children.
The two children from the end were exceptions to the reform of the school system after the defeat, but the first six all graduated from the old system of junior high school or girls' high school.
"The old system of junior high school or girls' high school" is divided into "medium" and "high" in the prewar school system, but they are actually of the same grade.
His grandfather gave all his children some education because of the wealth of the economy, but his grandfather thinks that the children should have the education they need as a merchant. Probably.
And it seems that the children did not have a particularly good brain.
I have never heard of his grandfather where and what kind of education he received.
As he imagined, his grandfather was not very interested in scholarship.
However, since his grandmother studied at a private school run by the former feudal lord, she probably had a "some degree" of value in education.
Episode 12
Today is August 13, 2021.
It is “obon”.
He lit a "mukaebi" and invited his ancestors to his house.
On the first day of the “obon”, people burn pine branches to create flames that allow their ancestors to return home without hesitation.
Many ancestors are returning from the world of “yomi” to the houses all over Japan at the same time, so at this time, a lot of souls are rushing home in a space invisible to the people of this world.
The soul has no weight, volume, color, or smell, so we don't need the image of a crowded train ...
And now, he has successfully welcomed his ancestors, lit the candles and incense sticks on the altar, and is writing this page now.
Episode 13
His mother was the fourth of the eight siblings, but the earliest of the three girls.
Although his mother grew up in a wealthy family, his mother was born into a merchant, so his mother was given a role at home.
There were several maids living in her parents' house, and it seems that his mother did not support the work that the maid did, but his grandmother was a "wife" and was not very good at housework.
It was quite difficult to imagine because he had only seen his old grandmother, but his grandmother had only the role of his grandfather's wife.
That was vaguely understood by him.
His mother apparently studied "housework" at the old high school for girls and was asked to make up for her mother's lack of housework.
After graduating from the old high school for girls, his mother enrolled in a private school in Tokyo with the aim of becoming an early childhood educator.
It can be seen that as a woman at that time, she had extremely advanced thinking.
However, his mother is asked by his grandmother to return to her parents' home in the middle of her schoolwork.
Parents' orders at the time were absolute, so his mother abandoned her dream and returned to her parents' home.
His grandmother studied at a private school run by the former feudal lord when she was a girl, so she might have had some value in education, but it didn't seem to be very certain.
Episode 14
His mother had two younger brothers.
And the son of his mother's older brother (second son) -who had divorced his real mother early-was about the same age as her younger brothers.
The three boys said his mother played the role of their mother in the process of growing up.
This indicated that his grandmother was not involved in the growth of at least these three boys.
His mother, who returned from Tokyo, seems to have replaced the mistress of a rice merchant who had a big business.
His mother's mouth first mentions the name of her younger brother, but she soon realizes it's a mistake and rephrases it.
But the second name she calls is the name of her other younger brother.
So my name was called third.
That happened on a daily basis.
He could understand what the atmosphere of the time was when his mother raised two younger brothers and one nephew in place of their mother during and after the war.
So he never complained about it.
Episode 15
His mother didn't talk much about World War II.
Originally his mother wasn't the type to talk to others.
He only heard from his mother about evacuation and air raids during World War II.
He heard the story of "evacuation" multiple times.
The place where his mother evacuated was a place called "Katada", only about 5 kilometers from her family's residence.
Evacuation is generally a distant place, such as from Tokyo to Yamanashi prefecture, where we have to take a train, and once we go, we cannot easily return. There is such an image.
So he felt that the evacuation that his mother said was different from the general evacuation.
It is true that Katada is a small village at the foot of Mt. Atago, where ancient human bones and ancient tombs are scattered, and it seems that it was quite rural during the last World War.
His mother said there was a villa owned by her father in Katada.
He imagines that there are many holdings owned by her father around Katada, and that her father owned a villa for the purpose of managing those holdings.
Unfortunately, the place where his mother was born was an important industrial city in the region, so it was the target of an attack by the US Air Force.
Like other cities, it was indiscriminately attacked by the incendiary bombs dropped by the B29.
Seen from the B29 in the sky, Katada is a geography that was ignored because incendiary bombs would be wasted even if it attacked there.
Episode 16
While having a villa to evacuate to Katada, my mother is hit by an air raid in the center of the city.
Immediately north of his mother's parents' residence, there was a river with abundant water, where a geisha-playing boat floated, and there was a dock for ships carrying goods from the Keihanshin region.
At that time, there was no dam for hydroelectric power generation in the river, so it seems that the river had a considerable amount of water.
It seems that his mother's father used to eat and drink with a local geisha on a houseboat floating there, and his mother recounted her father's memories one day.
Episode 17
His mother's parents' home was affluent, and she was educated herself, so she was asked to marry someone of a certain status.
However, she didn't seem to like the marriage.
His mother once told him how to get used to his father.
She says she wanted her spouse to be smart.
He asked his mother why.
The reason was "I wanted a smart child."
And her "smart person" was his father.
Episode 18
The older brother just above his mother introduced her to his father.
The older brother just above his mother knew well that his father was an elementary school classmate and his father was very smart.
Her older brother, who is just above his mother, goes to old junior high school after finishing elementary school, but his father couldn't go to junior high school.
Because his father's father died early and his father's house was not very financially capable of going to junior high school.
It was quite economically difficult not only for widows but also for ordinary households to go on to the old junior high school and the old high school for girls at that time.
It is said that the enrollment rate at that time was less than 8% for the former and less than 5% for the latter.
His father was clearly recognized for his talent in elementary school.
It seems that there was a person who offered to help the son of a widow who had the ability but could not go on to junior high school.
His father's mother declined the offer.
His father regretted that time.
Episode 19
His father's mother was from the countryside just a little bit.
She had thin and beautiful skin and a nice face.
She was an urban, well-balanced and beautiful figure overall.
Her later years, perhaps after her husband's death, seemed to have been a nightcap habit every night.
He has never seen her drink before going to bed, but she had that kind of skin, like when she drank and her skin turned cherry-colored.
Although there are differences between men and women, he actually feels that his skin is close to her.
It is exposed on human skin, and the back of the hand, which is the most noticeable next to the face, and the feeling of the skin are very similar.
She was arguably "beautiful" in appearance compared to his maternal grandmother.
His father's appearance was undoubtedly an inheritance of her genes.
Episode 20
He remembers riding the back of his father's bicycle to his paternal grandmother's hometown.
He and his father stayed there overnight.
He hardly remembers that night, but quite clearly remembers his father catching a spider on their way home.
He thinks that remembering clearly was a shocking event in its own way.
The spider is called "Syorokumo" in this region.
The standard language is "Zyorougumo", which is a large spider in two colors, black and gold.
His father broke a tree branch by the side of the road and caught "Syorokumo" with a spider web and put it in a paper bag.
Thinking back now, it can be thought that his father knew that there was a fine "Shorokumo" there and caught it on their way home.
Episode 21
His father's mother was from a place far from the city, where it would take half a day to ride a bicycle, so he probably had a paper bag with the spider on his way home.
The outer wall of the wooden building at that time was a construction method called "yoroibari", in which wooden boards were stuck from bottom to top, and rainwater flowed down from above on the boards, preventing rainwater from entering.
Since the wooden board warps due to sunlight and rain, there was a gap for inserting the branch.
The next morning, when prompted by his father, he went out and saw a shiny, brand-new spider web.
And he saw "Syorokumo" sitting in the middle with dignity.
Episode 22
His father sometimes caught insects such as mantis and threw them into spider web.
"Syorokumo" quickly approached an insect trapped in a spider's web and splendidly wrapped a spider's thread into white food.
"Syorokumo" sometimes renewed its nest.
He had seen a big, beautiful and new nest in the morning.
There was a persimmon tree right next to the outer wall of the house, but maybe the spider blows a long thread in the wind to reach the persimmon tree.
When the end of the spider's thread got entangled somewhere in the persimmon tree, the spider taut the thread and set about building the nest.
There was a lightning-like jagged pattern in the center of the spider's web.
It was like drawing a round DRAGONS around the home base of the Chunichi Dragons franchise stadium, which was dignified.
Episode 23
The spider laid a large egg at the end of summer.
The egg soon reached an important moment.
And the spider cubs scattered like "kumonoko-o-tirasu".
Before being eaten by natural enemies, the spider children all fled hard to themselves as soon as they were born.
They left with the wind.
Episode 24
By the way, there was a space like a flower bed along the outer wall of the house where "Shorokumo" was released.
In the summer, it was a field of "Aoi", "Asagao" and "Hosenka".
The "Asagao" was the flowerpot "Asagao" he planted in his elementary school class.
When it was summer vacation and he brought the flowerpot home, his father replanted it in the soil.
Asagao fully opened its power and quickly made itself taller.
It grew like "Jack and the Beanstalk", but never reached the sky.
Still, it bloomed wonderful flowers.
The secret weapon his father used at this time was "chicken droppings."
At that time, "chicken droppings" was often used as a reasonable fertilizer.
The smell was a little strong, but at that time "human dung" was also popular, so the smell of chicken dung was well tolerated.
Episode 25
There was farmland between his house and the house next to the south.
There were a lot of cabbage in the spring.
Many white butterflies were flying in the cabbage field, and there were many white butterfly larvae.
The fertilizer for cabbage was human dung.
Of course, farmers do not use raw human dung as fertilizer for vegetables.
They once put human dung in "Koedame" and then fermented human dung over time.
The farmer dug a hole in the field beside the agricultural road to make "Koedame".
And they put human dung in it and had a simple wooden lid.
Therefore, many "koedame" lids were exposed to rain and wind and decayed.
He broke through the rotten board and plunged his foot into the "Koedame", which was filled with human dung.
A truly indescribable feeling was transmitted to his brain.
He doesn't remember how he washed his feet, but he still remembers the feeling of breaking through the board at that time, more than 60 years later.
Episode 26
According to the Joseon Tongsinsa during the Muromachi period, "Japanese people use human feces as fertilizer, and the production of agricultural products is very high."
The history of using human feces by Japanese people is so long.
Even in the Meiji era, human feces were a valuable fertilizer and were bought and sold at high prices.
After World War II, GHQ, led by Douglas MacArthur, ordered the Japanese government to discontinue human fecal fertilizer because Japanese salads contained a large number of human fecal bacteria and parasites.
However, even around 1955, there was still a poster in the school infirmary, "Let's avoid eating raw vegetables for good children."
Human feces used as fertilizer are usually used after being stored in Koedame and fermented because the crops will rot if used as they are.
However, parasites lurking in vegetables grown with human feces fertilizer became a problem.
He was born in 1951.
He, of course, ate vegetables grown on manure fertilizer every day.
Sometimes he wiped the vegetables in the field with his clothes and ate them as they were.
At one point, his anus became itchy and he complained, "Mom, itchy anus."
His mother put him in a down position and took off his pants.
When she said, "Kaityu is here," she picked up Kaityu, who had a slight appearance in his anus, with her fingers and pulled it out.
The feeling that Kaityu was being pulled out was like a small poop coming out.
It's a very nostalgic memory, and it's a trivial matter, but this incident at that time is an episode that feels the very reliable affection of his mother.
Episode 27
In the summer, "Aoi（hollyhock）" and "Hosenka（rose balsam）" bloomed every year in addition to "Asagao（morning glory）" on the side of the house.
"Aoi" and "Hosenka" are especially meaningful flowers in his life.
It doesn't mean that the flowers are beautiful, but it is a special flower that overlaps with the memories of his father and mother who spent his childhood.
The flowers of "Hosenka" were pale and small, but in the fall, they had cute seed shells that suitable for"Hosenka".
It was a closed shell of a pleated skirt made of wide fabric.
When he picked the shell while feeling the small protrusions on his fingertips, it popped and a small black seed popped out.
It was a much smaller seed than "Asagao", but the splattering phenomenon made him feel something strange, and he often mischievously picked the shell and let the seed pop.
Episode 28
The flowers of his three memories died in the fall.
From autumn to winter his mother sometimes used the place for "araihari".
His mother used to sew Japanese clothes to help her family before he was old enough to go to kindergarten.
His mother was always sewing by the brazier.
It seems that his mother had some customers, and she was always sewing their kimono.
That said, the whole of Japan was poor at that time.
So his mother's sewing was often re-sewing of old kimono.
However, it was a wise tradition of the Japanese people from ancient times, and it was derived from the spirit of "mottainai" that values things.
He thinks that the technique of "araihari" was one of the typical techniques.
His mother probably learned the technique in the "kaseika" of an old high school for girls.
It may have been one of the backgrounds of old Japanese society as a "good wife and wise mother."
Episode 29
In the process of re-sewing, which begins with unraveling the kimono, there is a process of washing the fabric of the kimono and drying it in the sun.
He didn't remember the scene very clearly because he was young and uninterested at the time.
His mother stuck a cloth soaked in glued water on a long plate to dry the cloth.
In the other scene, a bamboo strings was used to apply tension to the cloth in the side direction to dry it.
Bamboo sticks were used at regular intervals (was it about 10 cm apart?), And the cloth was stretched laterally to smooth out the wrinkles.
It was like a dragon's belly.
In the vertical direction of the cloth, both ends are sandwiched between pieces of wood, and he remembers that the tip of the string tied to the piece of wood was fixed to a tree or the like.
So the cloth with bamboo sticks was blown by the wind, sometimes spinning and fluttering.
Around 1955, many people still wore kimono as daily clothes, fashionable clothes, and official clothes.
He thinks it was a "mumps", but there was a picture taken at the "Araihari" place when he got sick with his sister.
Of course, the photo is monochrome, but both of them are wearing flannel kimono nightwear.
Episode 30
When his mother washed and dried the cloth and was able to re-sew the customer's kimono, she set about re-making the kimono by the hibachi(brazier).
Was the tool called "pincushion"?
Just as she sat on the tatami mat and sewed, there was a red round cloth ball at about the height of her elbow, and the red round ball had a sewing needle and a pin.
He thinks the tool was made of wood or bamboo, but he can't remember how the tool stood.
And as a nostalgic tool for his mother's sewing, there was a kote(trowel).
There was no iron.
Of course there was no sewing machine.
His mother used to make kimonos by traditional hand-sewn.
The metal part of the trowel holds the cloth and makes a crease there, but the crease should be made lightly, and the area held by the trowel was also very small.
Moreover, the metal part of the trowel was very small because the heat of the trowel was obtained from the charcoal in the hibachi(brazier).
Episode 31
His father had an aunt.
He thinks the aunt is probably the sister of his father's father.
His father's aunt came by bus from afar during the festival.
She always hung a chicken in her hand.
It was a gorgeous food in his house once a year.
The place where my father's aunt lived is now a residential areas in the region, an area lined with new homes, but at the time it was far from the center of the city.
His house was a little east of the city center, but his father's aunt's house was far west.
When he was able to ride a bicycle, his father planned a "touring" with him.
It is "touring" using a bicycle.
The destination was his father's aunt's house.
It is now a new residential area in the region, with new homes lined up, but at the time it was a countryside away from the city centre.
Since there was only one bicycle in his house, he rode behind his father's bicycle to his mother's brother's house in the center of the city.
His mother's brother ran a large store to some extent, so there were bicycles for business but rentable.
He toured with his father on an adult bicycle.
He rode his bicycle hard on the bumpy agricultural road to his father's aunt's house.
This was the only "touring" between him and his father, both in the past and in the future.
Episode 32
His father's aunt always came from afar with a chicken hanging in her hand.
It was a gorgeous food once a year in his home.
During the summer, "Asagao," "Aoi," and "Hosenka" were in bloom in the flowerbed, where his father stabbed two sticks and tied them with a string to tie the chicken legs.
The chicken was hung upside down and decapitated for human food.
There was a yellow round ball in the chicken's belly called "Kinkan", which was given especially as a nutritional supplement to his father's lean body.
Kinkan is an immature egg or egg source in the ovary or oviduct of a female that has finished its role as a spawning chicken.
Kinkan is an orange ball with a diameter of about 3 cm, so it is said to have been named because it looks similar to that of a mandarin orange.
At the time he didn't know what the kinkan was, but he knew that the golden round food was delicious.
At that time, chicken eggs were so expensive, at least for the economy of his home, that he rarely saw them at his home dining table.
Moreover, the golden ball taken from the chicken that was alive just before is still vividly remembered in his memory.
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