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2024年07月30日
Recollection of my childhood in a rural Japanese town. ?U 118〜140
118
He is now 72 years and 6 months old.
Just before his 70th birthday, he took a job in a neighboring city.
He then quit his job in a neighboring town a few months later.
However, a while later, the employee who joined the company after him quit.
And he reluctantly returned to his old job.
119
After a few months of work, another employee joined the company to replace him.
He quit the company again.
This time he continued to spend a lot of time on his hobbies.
There were no health problems.
The only problem was that he often woke up to urinate at night.
120
One of his hobbies is fishing.
He has an ideal form of ``fishing.''
He lives in a cheap apartment about 50 meters from the coast.
The sea is closer than a farmer goes to his nearest farmland.
121
He thinks of the sea near his cheap apartment as if it were a field in his cheap apartment's garden.
Just as he would harvest a few vegetables for dinner from the small garden of his cheap apartment, he hopes to catch a fish in the nearby sea.
122
His ideal type of fishing would be to catch enough fish for himself to eat that day.
That's why he's bitter about recreational fishing, which is often seen on TV.
He believes that the recreational fishing that people watch on TV is a crime against nature.
His fishing doesn't cost much money.
That's why he can't catch fish.
But he thinks that's fine.
123
The sea near the cheap apartment where he lives is the sea at the back of the bay.
Many breakwaters have been built at the entrance to the bay, making it difficult for the seawater from the open ocean to reach.
In other words, the seawater is stagnant.
124
There is also a port where fishing boats arrive and depart, but recently the number of fishing boats has decreased significantly.
Why has the number of fishing boats decreased?
This seems to be caused by changes in the global environment.
It seems that fish cannot be caught due to changes in seawater temperature and ocean current routes.
They say the fishing industry is in decline because the amount of fish caught is decreasing.
125
Due to religious teachings, the Japanese people did not eat meat for a long time.
Therefore, the Japanese sought animal protein from fish.
The Meiji Restoration and defeat in the Showa era changed the eating habits of Japanese people.
In any case, he is sad to see the fishing port in decline.
126
When he walks around the fishing port in the morning, he sometimes comes across fish caught in fixed nets being unloaded.
It seems that they are landing relatively large fish such as yellowtail.
To keep the fish fresh, they stab the fish in its vital parts, and sometimes throw the internal organs into the sea.
At this time, a large flock of kites fly over the fishing boat.
127
Kites have learned that the work of humans produces their own sustenance.
However, when he sees this scene, fish parts that are not needed by humans are never released into the sea.
They understand that feeding kites is bad.
Fishermen work diligently.
128
One rainy morning.
He took an umbrella and went for a walk.
Then he came across a scene where fishing boats were docked at a port to bring the fish they had caught with set nets ashore.
A flock of kites was flying noisily in the sky.
129
Another flock of kites was flying low above the intersection of an old concrete road.
They were flying in circles and the atmosphere was ominous.
Then, near the center of the intersection, there was a small bird making loud noises.
It was a spot-billed duck whose color resembled that of the rain-soaked road surface.
130
There were two spot-billed duck chicks on either side of the spot-billed duck mother.
The kite was on the verge of attacking the chick.
He approached a family of spot-billed ducks, swinging the umbrella in his hand toward the sky.
He was seriously threatening the kite in the sky.
131
Later he calmed down and thought about it.
Spot-billed ducks usually have around ten chicks.
However, when he found the spot-billed duck family, there were only two chicks.
Perhaps it was after several chicks had already been sacrificed to kites?
132
There is a word called food chain.
When a kite finds a spot-billed duck, it attacks to save its life or for its partner or chicks.
So do cats and other animals.
Nature was created that way.
It is a crime against nature for humans to interfere with the laws of nature.
Of course he knows that.
Even if he knows this, if the lives of the cute spot-billed ducks and their offspring are "lights in front of the wind", that is beyond intelligence.
133
He sometimes goes to the beach with a plastic bag.
And he goes to the beach with tongs as well.
Since he is already an old man, his body is stiff and he cannot bend forward.
That's why he needs tongs.
134
He goes to the beach to pick up plastic trash, but his plastic bags aren't very big.
He picks up small pieces of plastic trash, commonly known as microplastic trash.
So even if the plastic bag is small, it can still accomplish his purpose.
The tool he uses at this time, as an old man, is tongs.
The length of the sandy beach is about 500 steps long he walked.
135
He was a smoker until a few years ago.
Sometimes he would smoke a cigarette while walking around town.
At that moment, he threw the cigarette out to the side of the road and snuffed out the flame with his foot.
He had thrown a filtered cigarette out onto the road.
136
There are a few things he notices when he picks up plastic trash on the beach.
One of them is a cigarette filter that he had thrown away in the past.
Cigarette filters are often found on the beach.
As he picks them up, he feels guilty for his past crimes.
137
This happened about a month before the spot-billed duck incident.
As I was walking along the beach, I came across a small bird that was acting strangely and not being able to move.
It was a small bird with a black and white pattern.
Even when he approached, the little bird did not run away.
He couldn't believe his eyes.
138
A fishing line protrudes from the end of its beak.
He caught the bird with his left hand and brought it in front of him to get a good look at the bird.
He determined that the bird had swallowed the fishing hook deep in its throat.
He pulled the fishing line a little.
The bird didn't show any signs of pain, but it definitely felt like there was a fish hook stuck in the back of its throat.
139
He hurriedly took the bird back to his cheap apartment.
Then he placed the bird on his desk and held it still with his left hand.
If this continues, this little bird will eventually die.
Death is inevitable, but is there anything I can do? I asked myself.
140
He stood up from his chair, holding the bird in his left hand again.
He then returned with a shochu glass of water and a toothpick.
He placed the bird on the desk again.
He dipped the tip of the toothpick into the water in the shochu glass and placed it against the bird's beak.
He gave the bird a very small amount of water.
Recollection of my childhood in a rural Japanese town. ?U
118〜140
He is now 72 years and 6 months old.
Just before his 70th birthday, he took a job in a neighboring city.
He then quit his job in a neighboring town a few months later.
However, a while later, the employee who joined the company after him quit.
And he reluctantly returned to his old job.
119
After a few months of work, another employee joined the company to replace him.
He quit the company again.
This time he continued to spend a lot of time on his hobbies.
There were no health problems.
The only problem was that he often woke up to urinate at night.
120
One of his hobbies is fishing.
He has an ideal form of ``fishing.''
He lives in a cheap apartment about 50 meters from the coast.
The sea is closer than a farmer goes to his nearest farmland.
121
He thinks of the sea near his cheap apartment as if it were a field in his cheap apartment's garden.
Just as he would harvest a few vegetables for dinner from the small garden of his cheap apartment, he hopes to catch a fish in the nearby sea.
122
His ideal type of fishing would be to catch enough fish for himself to eat that day.
That's why he's bitter about recreational fishing, which is often seen on TV.
He believes that the recreational fishing that people watch on TV is a crime against nature.
His fishing doesn't cost much money.
That's why he can't catch fish.
But he thinks that's fine.
123
The sea near the cheap apartment where he lives is the sea at the back of the bay.
Many breakwaters have been built at the entrance to the bay, making it difficult for the seawater from the open ocean to reach.
In other words, the seawater is stagnant.
124
There is also a port where fishing boats arrive and depart, but recently the number of fishing boats has decreased significantly.
Why has the number of fishing boats decreased?
This seems to be caused by changes in the global environment.
It seems that fish cannot be caught due to changes in seawater temperature and ocean current routes.
They say the fishing industry is in decline because the amount of fish caught is decreasing.
125
Due to religious teachings, the Japanese people did not eat meat for a long time.
Therefore, the Japanese sought animal protein from fish.
The Meiji Restoration and defeat in the Showa era changed the eating habits of Japanese people.
In any case, he is sad to see the fishing port in decline.
126
When he walks around the fishing port in the morning, he sometimes comes across fish caught in fixed nets being unloaded.
It seems that they are landing relatively large fish such as yellowtail.
To keep the fish fresh, they stab the fish in its vital parts, and sometimes throw the internal organs into the sea.
At this time, a large flock of kites fly over the fishing boat.
127
Kites have learned that the work of humans produces their own sustenance.
However, when he sees this scene, fish parts that are not needed by humans are never released into the sea.
They understand that feeding kites is bad.
Fishermen work diligently.
128
One rainy morning.
He took an umbrella and went for a walk.
Then he came across a scene where fishing boats were docked at a port to bring the fish they had caught with set nets ashore.
A flock of kites was flying noisily in the sky.
129
Another flock of kites was flying low above the intersection of an old concrete road.
They were flying in circles and the atmosphere was ominous.
Then, near the center of the intersection, there was a small bird making loud noises.
It was a spot-billed duck whose color resembled that of the rain-soaked road surface.
130
There were two spot-billed duck chicks on either side of the spot-billed duck mother.
The kite was on the verge of attacking the chick.
He approached a family of spot-billed ducks, swinging the umbrella in his hand toward the sky.
He was seriously threatening the kite in the sky.
131
Later he calmed down and thought about it.
Spot-billed ducks usually have around ten chicks.
However, when he found the spot-billed duck family, there were only two chicks.
Perhaps it was after several chicks had already been sacrificed to kites?
132
There is a word called food chain.
When a kite finds a spot-billed duck, it attacks to save its life or for its partner or chicks.
So do cats and other animals.
Nature was created that way.
It is a crime against nature for humans to interfere with the laws of nature.
Of course he knows that.
Even if he knows this, if the lives of the cute spot-billed ducks and their offspring are "lights in front of the wind", that is beyond intelligence.
133
He sometimes goes to the beach with a plastic bag.
And he goes to the beach with tongs as well.
Since he is already an old man, his body is stiff and he cannot bend forward.
That's why he needs tongs.
134
He goes to the beach to pick up plastic trash, but his plastic bags aren't very big.
He picks up small pieces of plastic trash, commonly known as microplastic trash.
So even if the plastic bag is small, it can still accomplish his purpose.
The tool he uses at this time, as an old man, is tongs.
The length of the sandy beach is about 500 steps long he walked.
135
He was a smoker until a few years ago.
Sometimes he would smoke a cigarette while walking around town.
At that moment, he threw the cigarette out to the side of the road and snuffed out the flame with his foot.
He had thrown a filtered cigarette out onto the road.
136
There are a few things he notices when he picks up plastic trash on the beach.
One of them is a cigarette filter that he had thrown away in the past.
Cigarette filters are often found on the beach.
As he picks them up, he feels guilty for his past crimes.
137
This happened about a month before the spot-billed duck incident.
As I was walking along the beach, I came across a small bird that was acting strangely and not being able to move.
It was a small bird with a black and white pattern.
Even when he approached, the little bird did not run away.
He couldn't believe his eyes.
138
A fishing line protrudes from the end of its beak.
He caught the bird with his left hand and brought it in front of him to get a good look at the bird.
He determined that the bird had swallowed the fishing hook deep in its throat.
He pulled the fishing line a little.
The bird didn't show any signs of pain, but it definitely felt like there was a fish hook stuck in the back of its throat.
139
He hurriedly took the bird back to his cheap apartment.
Then he placed the bird on his desk and held it still with his left hand.
If this continues, this little bird will eventually die.
Death is inevitable, but is there anything I can do? I asked myself.
140
He stood up from his chair, holding the bird in his left hand again.
He then returned with a shochu glass of water and a toothpick.
He placed the bird on the desk again.
He dipped the tip of the toothpick into the water in the shochu glass and placed it against the bird's beak.
He gave the bird a very small amount of water.
Recollection of my childhood in a rural Japanese town. ?U
118〜140
2022年10月03日
Recollection Episode 1 〜 Episode 69
Recollection Episode 1 〜 Episode 69
Episode 1
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 vulgar-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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
Episode 55
There was a community center near his house.
The model plane was flying in the open space of the community center.
Now when he sees it with the eyes of an adult, it is small, but at that time, the grounds of the public hall seemed large to the eyes of children.
He enjoyed a lot of play in the community center square.
One of them is baseball, which was called a triangular base.
The triangular base was devised so that it could be played with only the ball even in a small space or when the number of people was small, but they used a bat.
Although the yard of the community center is large, it is limited, and the ball that was hit by the bat often flew out of the yard, so the damaged adult got angry.
Episode 56
There was a shrine in a corner of the community center where it was not clear what was enshrined, and an old house where an old woman who seems to manage the shrine lived.
The house where the old woman lived was small, but it was surrounded by the old wooden fence and vegetation, and it had a very strange atmosphere.
The old woman occasionally came out of her house, but she seemed to live independently of the world, and the children in her neighborhood never approached her.
The ball could hit the old wooden fence and puncture it, or it could jump over the wooden fence and enter the premises of the old woman's residence.
After confirming that there was no old woman, the children quickly entered the wooden fence and vegetation of the old woman's house and took out the ball.
The boys occasionally played in a shrine where they didn't know what was enshrined.
The boys played innocently while singing a nursery rhyme with the lyrics "zouri kakusi tyunenbo".
He also remembers nursery rhymes with lyrics such as "rosia yabankoku kurobatokin".
Episode 57
He played a lot when he was a kid, but he thinks the one he played seriously was tops(=koma).
The size of the top was so large that it protruded from his palm at that time, and the shape was like crushing a lemon vertically.
The core was made of lead, and the part to be embedded in the top was a square pyramid.
The core was heated so that it would be embedded in the deep part of the top, and it was stabbed while hitting it with a mallet.
The core was thick, so when he hit it hard with a mallet, the top often broke.
The opposite side of the core, that is, the part in contact with the ground, had a cross section that was simply cut with a metal cutter.
So when he turned the top with a new core, the top turned awkwardly.
Episode 58
The top he played is a fighting top, in which he threw a top in the form of a baseball pitcher's underslow to defeat the enemy's top.
The top was heavy, and he threw the top so hard that the string that turned the top was made of sturdy hemp.
At that time, hemp that was no longer seen was sold in stores.
The hemp he had just bought was so hard that he couldn't twist it, so he first softened the hemp.
If the tip of the hemp string is not wrapped tightly around the core of the top, the string will come loose when the top is thrown, so it was necessary to make it thin.
And the other side of the hemp string gradually becomes thicker.
And he made a ball on the last part of the hemp string to prevent it from coming out of his hand due to the impact of throwing a top.
Furthermore, the tip of the hemp ball was made into a fluttering decoration by tearing the hemp into small pieces along the fiber.
He had unraveled it before making the hemp string, but the new hemp string was hard and difficult to use.
So he had to use it for the hemp string to fit snugly and comfortably.
When used, the hemp string became a texture like an old rag.
Then, it became a perfect top string, and eventually it broke.
His father helped him until he was able to make the hemp string to spin the top by himself.
Episode 59
As the lead core of the top was used, the tip became round and curved.
Not only was it curled up, but it was rolled up a little outward.
It became like a rivet.
When the top was turned, it turned without shaking, but when the energy of the rotation was low, it turned around like a drunken man.
At that time, the outer circumference of the lead core is gradually scraped by the soil.
The soil on the site of the community center was fine-grained soil, so the lead core of the top was polished by the soil to give it a smooth luster.
Some children also played in more radical fighting tops.
The children slammed their tops against the enemy's tops.
The tip of the lead core of the top was sharpened to crush the enemy’s top.
He didn't like this play and didn't.
Episode 60
Poor at the time may have been the cause, but he didn't have a habit of brushing his teeth.
Not just him, but the children around him as well.
Or maybe the adults didn't pay much attention because they still had baby teeth.
So there was a lot of tooth droppings around the children's teeth.
Children said that tooth droppings are also effective against insect bites.
He believes that children can't believe that without any information, and that it was due to the ignorant wisdom of irresponsible adults.
At one point, children were making noise as bees built a nest above the entrance to the community center and bees were flying around it.
He brought a ladder that was nearby, hung it, and then climbed up, and grabbed the nest and threw it away.
He was stabbed by bees in several places.
He still remembers the pain at that time, but he scraped the tooth droppings with his nails and smeared it on the stabs.
He doesn't remember if he told his parents that he was stabbed by bees.
The old children were strong.
Episode 61
Suddenly a Christian church was built on the other side of the road bordering the community center.
Looking at the church from the front, it was an extremely novel building with an isosceles triangle.
The family consisted of an American minister, his wife, and his son.
It may have been one of the American occupation policies, as it was only about ten years after the war.
Or maybe the Christian church thought it was an opportunity for missionary work.
People who were completely unrelated to Christianity went to the classroom on Sunday with curiosity.
He was invited by "Sho-cha" to go once, but not next Sunday.
The church was dismantled and disappeared before he knew it.
Episode 62
There were no picture books in his house, much less novels.
He probably learned hiragana naturally in kindergarten life.
He went to kindergarten at the age of five, when his mother started peddling vegetables in a rear-car.
His mother's vegetable peddler using a rear-car would have had to make a big decision to jump off "kiyomizu-no-butai".
But he has never heard her mother talk about her pain in her mind and body.
It was a job of loading a lot of vegetables and selling vegetables around the city while pulling a rear-car for several kilometers.
It must have been very painful both physically and mentally.
But she was doing the job silently every day.
It was a wonderfully strong figure of his mother.
His kindergarten was only for a year, but it must have been very burdensome for his parents' economy.
His sister, whose grades differed by only one year, did not go to kindergarten.
His parents must have thought that their son needed education.
But he doesn't remember much about kindergarten.
He was more into playing with the kids in his neighborhood.
Episode 63
Lunch was served at the elementary school.
Memories of school lunch are whale meat, powdered skim milk, and cod liver oil.
At that time, it was whales that supported the nutrition of many Japanese people.
The activity of the whaling ship was also reported in movie news.
But he never ate whale meat and found it delicious.
He thinks it was because he didn't like the red-black color of raw whale meat very much.
At that time, raw whale meat was always sold at fish stores.
He now thinks that school lunch was to cook whale meat into "Tatsutaage" and feed it to children.
As he grew up and whaling was criticized by foreigners, whale meat, a common ingredient, disappeared from the market.
The Japanese habit of eating whales has the same meaning as the Japanese being Japanese, and in a sense it is the human rights of the Japanese.
The Japanese are people who do not assert themselves so much that they accept the current situation, but people from other countries do not accept this situation.
Episode 64
Bread was always served for school lunch.
Probably because bread was easier than serving rice.
In other words, bread was the staple food instead of rice.
When he was absent from school due to illness, a classmate in his neighborhood delivered bread for lunch.
The value of food was high, and it was a mutual aid system to help the family economy even a little.
He ate all the bread in the elementary school lunch.
But he never bought and ate the bread of that time since he was an adult.
Episode 65
Elementary school lunch had side dishes besides bread, and powdered skim milk .
Aluminum tableware was used for all foods, but the tableware that could contain powdered skim milk was a little wider than ordinary glasses.
Some children disliked powdered skim milk.
He didn't dislike powdered skim milk.
So he was also drinking that of children who disliked powdered skim milk.
He has been thinking.
His body was made of powdered skim milk.
He then heard that powdered skim milk at that time was an American relief supply.
But then he also heard that the essence was a little different from what he had heard before.
It seems that those relief supplies from the United States were called "Lara supplies".
Powdered skim milk, which is a relief supply from the United States, was realized by the Japanese and Nikkei who had been forcibly detained as "enemy people" in order to send relief supplies to their homeland.
"Lara" is an acronym for "Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia", LARA.
Episode 66
Postwar school lunch was launched as a first aid measure to help children from economic hardship and food shortages.
Of course he was unaware of the dietary circumstances of other households, but sweet potatoes were frequently added to the rice in his home.
Of course, it was aimed at increasing the amount of staple food, not gourmet.
He hated the sweet potato rice inwardly, but he had no choice but to eat it because he had nothing else to eat.
After the war, his mother's older brother was married with the right to sell rice.
It's hard to imagine now, but at that time the right to sell rice was meaningful.
Japan was forced into a severe war economy and passed several food control laws, including the Rice Distribution Control Law (1939-1942) and the Food Control Law (1942-1981).
He saw the rice ration passbook several times at the rice store where his uncle was adopted.
The "rice ration passbook" was a passbook issued to receive rice rations under Japan's food control system from 1942 during the war.
According to his memory, rice store used this "rice ration passbook" until around the time of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
On his 1962 elementary school trip, he put rice in a plastic bag and took it to the inn.
His memory is vague, but he may have taken rice again to a junior high school trip in 1965, three years later.
In 1969, a self-distributed rice system was established.
At last, the rice passbook system was incapacitated.
Episode 67
There was no school lunch on Saturday.
He had no mother at home in the daytime and had to eat something on his own.
His mother always pulled a rear-car near his uncle's shop around noon.
There was a popular restaurant near his uncle's shop.
He sometimes ate "udon" at this popular restaurant at his mother's expense.
It was a delicious "Udon noodle" containing only "Tororo Kombu".
The origin of the taste of his "udon" is still in this popular restaurant.
Episode 68
He doesn't remember much about what he always ate except for "sparrow nuts" and "Tsugani" when he was a kid.
He didn't have any particular favorite.
Eggs were expensive, meat was expensive, bananas were expensive, and chocolate and chewing gum were unrelated.
He rarely asked his mother for anything, but at one point he said he wanted an apple (to sell to customers).
His mother went to the rear-car and brought him an apple.
The surprisingly easy gift of his mother led to the delusion that his mother was merciful to him because he was supposed to die soon for reasons he did not know.
Of course, there was no microwave oven at that time, so lunch without a mother was naturally always cold, but side dishes were often "agemi".
He used to sprinkle soy sauce on the cold "agemi" as a side dish.
A friend's house in the neighborhood bought an "oil stove" for cooking.
A friend in the neighborhood cooked stir-fried vegetables on his own using the oil stove for cooking as a side dish for lunch.
The family of the friend was cultural, albeit a little.
Episode 69
There was a dark kitchen down the dirt floor from the family dining room.
He now thinks that his mother's kitchen work must have been painful because her mother was using fire there, the walls and ceiling were soot-black and the lighting were unreliably weak.
Next to the oven was a sink made of something like stone, and next to it was a large unglazed water bottle.
The water bottle had a wooden lid on which a "cassotte" was placed.
The part of the "cassotte" that scoops water was made of aluminum and the handle was made of wood.
Water was pumped from a well, carried, and stored in a water bottle.
The well was outside the kitchen.
Continue
Episode 1
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 vulgar-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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
Episode 55
There was a community center near his house.
The model plane was flying in the open space of the community center.
Now when he sees it with the eyes of an adult, it is small, but at that time, the grounds of the public hall seemed large to the eyes of children.
He enjoyed a lot of play in the community center square.
One of them is baseball, which was called a triangular base.
The triangular base was devised so that it could be played with only the ball even in a small space or when the number of people was small, but they used a bat.
Although the yard of the community center is large, it is limited, and the ball that was hit by the bat often flew out of the yard, so the damaged adult got angry.
Episode 56
There was a shrine in a corner of the community center where it was not clear what was enshrined, and an old house where an old woman who seems to manage the shrine lived.
The house where the old woman lived was small, but it was surrounded by the old wooden fence and vegetation, and it had a very strange atmosphere.
The old woman occasionally came out of her house, but she seemed to live independently of the world, and the children in her neighborhood never approached her.
The ball could hit the old wooden fence and puncture it, or it could jump over the wooden fence and enter the premises of the old woman's residence.
After confirming that there was no old woman, the children quickly entered the wooden fence and vegetation of the old woman's house and took out the ball.
The boys occasionally played in a shrine where they didn't know what was enshrined.
The boys played innocently while singing a nursery rhyme with the lyrics "zouri kakusi tyunenbo".
He also remembers nursery rhymes with lyrics such as "rosia yabankoku kurobatokin".
Episode 57
He played a lot when he was a kid, but he thinks the one he played seriously was tops(=koma).
The size of the top was so large that it protruded from his palm at that time, and the shape was like crushing a lemon vertically.
The core was made of lead, and the part to be embedded in the top was a square pyramid.
The core was heated so that it would be embedded in the deep part of the top, and it was stabbed while hitting it with a mallet.
The core was thick, so when he hit it hard with a mallet, the top often broke.
The opposite side of the core, that is, the part in contact with the ground, had a cross section that was simply cut with a metal cutter.
So when he turned the top with a new core, the top turned awkwardly.
Episode 58
The top he played is a fighting top, in which he threw a top in the form of a baseball pitcher's underslow to defeat the enemy's top.
The top was heavy, and he threw the top so hard that the string that turned the top was made of sturdy hemp.
At that time, hemp that was no longer seen was sold in stores.
The hemp he had just bought was so hard that he couldn't twist it, so he first softened the hemp.
If the tip of the hemp string is not wrapped tightly around the core of the top, the string will come loose when the top is thrown, so it was necessary to make it thin.
And the other side of the hemp string gradually becomes thicker.
And he made a ball on the last part of the hemp string to prevent it from coming out of his hand due to the impact of throwing a top.
Furthermore, the tip of the hemp ball was made into a fluttering decoration by tearing the hemp into small pieces along the fiber.
He had unraveled it before making the hemp string, but the new hemp string was hard and difficult to use.
So he had to use it for the hemp string to fit snugly and comfortably.
When used, the hemp string became a texture like an old rag.
Then, it became a perfect top string, and eventually it broke.
His father helped him until he was able to make the hemp string to spin the top by himself.
Episode 59
As the lead core of the top was used, the tip became round and curved.
Not only was it curled up, but it was rolled up a little outward.
It became like a rivet.
When the top was turned, it turned without shaking, but when the energy of the rotation was low, it turned around like a drunken man.
At that time, the outer circumference of the lead core is gradually scraped by the soil.
The soil on the site of the community center was fine-grained soil, so the lead core of the top was polished by the soil to give it a smooth luster.
Some children also played in more radical fighting tops.
The children slammed their tops against the enemy's tops.
The tip of the lead core of the top was sharpened to crush the enemy’s top.
He didn't like this play and didn't.
Episode 60
Poor at the time may have been the cause, but he didn't have a habit of brushing his teeth.
Not just him, but the children around him as well.
Or maybe the adults didn't pay much attention because they still had baby teeth.
So there was a lot of tooth droppings around the children's teeth.
Children said that tooth droppings are also effective against insect bites.
He believes that children can't believe that without any information, and that it was due to the ignorant wisdom of irresponsible adults.
At one point, children were making noise as bees built a nest above the entrance to the community center and bees were flying around it.
He brought a ladder that was nearby, hung it, and then climbed up, and grabbed the nest and threw it away.
He was stabbed by bees in several places.
He still remembers the pain at that time, but he scraped the tooth droppings with his nails and smeared it on the stabs.
He doesn't remember if he told his parents that he was stabbed by bees.
The old children were strong.
Episode 61
Suddenly a Christian church was built on the other side of the road bordering the community center.
Looking at the church from the front, it was an extremely novel building with an isosceles triangle.
The family consisted of an American minister, his wife, and his son.
It may have been one of the American occupation policies, as it was only about ten years after the war.
Or maybe the Christian church thought it was an opportunity for missionary work.
People who were completely unrelated to Christianity went to the classroom on Sunday with curiosity.
He was invited by "Sho-cha" to go once, but not next Sunday.
The church was dismantled and disappeared before he knew it.
Episode 62
There were no picture books in his house, much less novels.
He probably learned hiragana naturally in kindergarten life.
He went to kindergarten at the age of five, when his mother started peddling vegetables in a rear-car.
His mother's vegetable peddler using a rear-car would have had to make a big decision to jump off "kiyomizu-no-butai".
But he has never heard her mother talk about her pain in her mind and body.
It was a job of loading a lot of vegetables and selling vegetables around the city while pulling a rear-car for several kilometers.
It must have been very painful both physically and mentally.
But she was doing the job silently every day.
It was a wonderfully strong figure of his mother.
His kindergarten was only for a year, but it must have been very burdensome for his parents' economy.
His sister, whose grades differed by only one year, did not go to kindergarten.
His parents must have thought that their son needed education.
But he doesn't remember much about kindergarten.
He was more into playing with the kids in his neighborhood.
Episode 63
Lunch was served at the elementary school.
Memories of school lunch are whale meat, powdered skim milk, and cod liver oil.
At that time, it was whales that supported the nutrition of many Japanese people.
The activity of the whaling ship was also reported in movie news.
But he never ate whale meat and found it delicious.
He thinks it was because he didn't like the red-black color of raw whale meat very much.
At that time, raw whale meat was always sold at fish stores.
He now thinks that school lunch was to cook whale meat into "Tatsutaage" and feed it to children.
As he grew up and whaling was criticized by foreigners, whale meat, a common ingredient, disappeared from the market.
The Japanese habit of eating whales has the same meaning as the Japanese being Japanese, and in a sense it is the human rights of the Japanese.
The Japanese are people who do not assert themselves so much that they accept the current situation, but people from other countries do not accept this situation.
Episode 64
Bread was always served for school lunch.
Probably because bread was easier than serving rice.
In other words, bread was the staple food instead of rice.
When he was absent from school due to illness, a classmate in his neighborhood delivered bread for lunch.
The value of food was high, and it was a mutual aid system to help the family economy even a little.
He ate all the bread in the elementary school lunch.
But he never bought and ate the bread of that time since he was an adult.
Episode 65
Elementary school lunch had side dishes besides bread, and powdered skim milk .
Aluminum tableware was used for all foods, but the tableware that could contain powdered skim milk was a little wider than ordinary glasses.
Some children disliked powdered skim milk.
He didn't dislike powdered skim milk.
So he was also drinking that of children who disliked powdered skim milk.
He has been thinking.
His body was made of powdered skim milk.
He then heard that powdered skim milk at that time was an American relief supply.
But then he also heard that the essence was a little different from what he had heard before.
It seems that those relief supplies from the United States were called "Lara supplies".
Powdered skim milk, which is a relief supply from the United States, was realized by the Japanese and Nikkei who had been forcibly detained as "enemy people" in order to send relief supplies to their homeland.
"Lara" is an acronym for "Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia", LARA.
Episode 66
Postwar school lunch was launched as a first aid measure to help children from economic hardship and food shortages.
Of course he was unaware of the dietary circumstances of other households, but sweet potatoes were frequently added to the rice in his home.
Of course, it was aimed at increasing the amount of staple food, not gourmet.
He hated the sweet potato rice inwardly, but he had no choice but to eat it because he had nothing else to eat.
After the war, his mother's older brother was married with the right to sell rice.
It's hard to imagine now, but at that time the right to sell rice was meaningful.
Japan was forced into a severe war economy and passed several food control laws, including the Rice Distribution Control Law (1939-1942) and the Food Control Law (1942-1981).
He saw the rice ration passbook several times at the rice store where his uncle was adopted.
The "rice ration passbook" was a passbook issued to receive rice rations under Japan's food control system from 1942 during the war.
According to his memory, rice store used this "rice ration passbook" until around the time of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
On his 1962 elementary school trip, he put rice in a plastic bag and took it to the inn.
His memory is vague, but he may have taken rice again to a junior high school trip in 1965, three years later.
In 1969, a self-distributed rice system was established.
At last, the rice passbook system was incapacitated.
Episode 67
There was no school lunch on Saturday.
He had no mother at home in the daytime and had to eat something on his own.
His mother always pulled a rear-car near his uncle's shop around noon.
There was a popular restaurant near his uncle's shop.
He sometimes ate "udon" at this popular restaurant at his mother's expense.
It was a delicious "Udon noodle" containing only "Tororo Kombu".
The origin of the taste of his "udon" is still in this popular restaurant.
Episode 68
He doesn't remember much about what he always ate except for "sparrow nuts" and "Tsugani" when he was a kid.
He didn't have any particular favorite.
Eggs were expensive, meat was expensive, bananas were expensive, and chocolate and chewing gum were unrelated.
He rarely asked his mother for anything, but at one point he said he wanted an apple (to sell to customers).
His mother went to the rear-car and brought him an apple.
The surprisingly easy gift of his mother led to the delusion that his mother was merciful to him because he was supposed to die soon for reasons he did not know.
Of course, there was no microwave oven at that time, so lunch without a mother was naturally always cold, but side dishes were often "agemi".
He used to sprinkle soy sauce on the cold "agemi" as a side dish.
A friend's house in the neighborhood bought an "oil stove" for cooking.
A friend in the neighborhood cooked stir-fried vegetables on his own using the oil stove for cooking as a side dish for lunch.
The family of the friend was cultural, albeit a little.
Episode 69
There was a dark kitchen down the dirt floor from the family dining room.
He now thinks that his mother's kitchen work must have been painful because her mother was using fire there, the walls and ceiling were soot-black and the lighting were unreliably weak.
Next to the oven was a sink made of something like stone, and next to it was a large unglazed water bottle.
The water bottle had a wooden lid on which a "cassotte" was placed.
The part of the "cassotte" that scoops water was made of aluminum and the handle was made of wood.
Water was pumped from a well, carried, and stored in a water bottle.
The well was outside the kitchen.
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2022年07月01日
Recollection from Episode 70 to Episode 117
Continuation of episodes 1 to 69
Episode 70
The upper part of the well was easily roofed to prevent rain and dew.
His mother and Mr. Sasaki's wife washed ingredients such as vegetables and fish around the well, washed the dishes after meals, and did the laundry there.
In the summer his mother put a laundry basin there and drew water from the well to make him "gyozui(=quick bath)".
Just a short distance away from the well where the water flows, there was a puddle just dug up the soil.
The water used to wash food and clothes was stored in the puddle.
Then, the drainage was naturally infiltrated into the soil.
For that reason, the water in the puddle was dirty water.
Therefore, many earthworms lived in the soil of the puddle.
He fished in the nearby river, but the bait was the earthworms that lived in this puddle.
There was always plenty of fishing bait beside the kitchen.
Episode 71
At that time, most households did not have a refrigerator, so it was not possible to store food for a long time.
Housewives at the time bought the amount of food they needed every day and used it up that day.
There was a smoke exhaust window on the wall of the kitchen that his mother used every day to cook her family's food.
The smoke exhaust window was made by sticking the boards vertically, but in order to create a space for the smoke to come out naturally, the structure was such that the boards were stuck and not stuck.
The smoke exhaust window had a simple structure in which the width of one board was staggered and smoke came out from there.
Of course, the smoke exhaust window was closed when the fire was not used, but the gap was still quite large, and the cold winter air came in mercilessly.
The winter heating of his house was a charcoal brazier and "chanchanko".
There was no ”kotatsu”.
There were gaps throughout the house where cold air came in.
The cold winter in that house must have been quite severe for his weak father.
Episode 72
To the east of his house was the Matsuo family's house on the other side of a field.
Mr. Matsuo's couple, two children and Mr. Matsuo's parents lived in the house.
Mr. Matsuo was a gentle person and was an employee working for one of the leading companies in Japan.
Matsuo's parents were also mild-mannered.
There was a big shepherd in Mr. Matsuo's house.
In the rural city where he lived, western dogs could be seen on TV but rarely in the real world.
The land of Mr. Matsuo's house was not large, but there was a sturdy kennel on the land.
The front of the shepherd kennel had a metal grid.
He didn't approach Mr. Matsuo's house because he was afraid of the ferocious shepherd, but when he had no choice but to go, the shepherd barked and moved violently to the right and left in the kennel, making him very nervous.
He didn't know why the mild-mannered Mr. Matsuo had a ferocious shepherd, or whether it was Mr. Matsuo's wife's favorite.
He had never seen Mr. Matsuo take a walk with a shepherd.
Episode 73
Mr. Matsuo's wife always performed a dance at the "keirokai(=meeting to show respect for the aged)" held at the community hall every year.
The "keirokai" was, of course, a place for entertainment with respect for the aged in the area, but it was also a place for presentations by amateur entertainers in the area.
Therefore, there were many people on the stage of the keirokai, and there were many spectators, old and young, men and women, and it was a very lively event.
Mr. Matsuo's wife was not dancing in the category of ordinary Japanese dance, but was dancing "matatabimono" (= people who were gamblers and entertainers who traveled all over Japan during the Edo period).
Mr. Matsuo's wife's stage costumes were wig (= tyonmage), dotyukappa (= rain gear, winter clothes, cloak used by samurai, etc.), huriwakenimotsu (= small bag for travel used in the Edo period), kyahan (=gaiter) and warazi (= straw sandals), and there was a sword on her waist.
Mr. Matsuo's wife danced a powerful man's dance that could not be imagined from her small body.
Mr. Matsuo's wife danced in a cool man's appearance, and a shout flew from here and there.
The combination of Mr. Matsuo and his wife still has some strange feeling in him.
Episode 74
Free movies were sometimes shown at community center.
Of course, the movie was a monochrome movie.
Color movies were just beginning to appear, but at that time color movies were called "sotenensyoku eiga (= total natural color movies)".
However, "total natural color" was soon replaced by the word "color".
The contents of the free movies at the community center were also mostly "matatabimono(= people who were gamblers and entertainers who traveled all over Japan during the Edo period)".
His father had a deep knowledge of music, but his father liked the popular singer "Taro Shoji".
"Taro Shoji" was an intelligent singer who was well-versed in Marxian economics, although he had distinctive features such as wearing Lloyd's glasses and a tailcoat, and singing in an upright and immovable posture.
Among the many hit songs of "Taro Shoji", there was a song of the story of a yakuza boss called "Akagi no Komoriuta".
Somehow we can see the tendency of Japanese entertainment tastes at that time.
? Akagi-yama where the man's righteousness feels the man's righteousness and the spirits hit each other.… ?
The song of the story of the boss of the yakuza, which is not suitable for the identity of "Taro Shoji", was such lyrics.
Episode 75
He remembers that the free movie at the community center was a movie by a beautiful actor named Kokichi Takada.
The crowd at the community center gladly applauded as the film began to spin, making a peculiar noise of "chili chili chili".
Kokichi Takada was a star of the Shochiku movie.
At the opening of the Shochiku movie, the "Shochiku movie" logo appeared against the backdrop of the divine Mt. Fuji covered with snow above the clouds.
Also, in the case of Toei movies, the Toei logo gradually became larger from the distance of the angry waves that rushed to the rough shore.
As a kid, he watched free movies at the community center as something unusual and special.
The community center had an old wooden floor, and the audience sat on the floor to watch the movie, so there was no fixed number of people, so many people enjoyed the movie.
He also remembers a free movie in a nearby reinforced concrete public housing, using the concrete walls instead of screens.
They were just a little entertainment when many Japanese lived hard at the time when there was no entertainment other than radio.
Episode 76
The community center would have literally functioned as a place for local residents to interact.
Calligraphy class were also held once a week at the community center.
The teacher always came to the community center with his calligraphy tools on his bicycle.
The teacher was a kind person, and he did not give strict guidance, and he attended the calligraphy class without being particularly conscious of his progress.
The teacher silently corrected the letters written by the students with a red ink brush.
His sister didn't even attend this calligraphy class.
However, it seemed that his sister had no desire to attend calligraphy class.
The picture-story show came to the community center.
The picture-story show also came to a nearby public housing.
The picture-story show was selling Japanese cheap candy before the performance.
The uncle who plays a picture-story show covered the living expenses of selling this candy.
He always bought starch syrup.
The uncle of the picture-story show sold starch syrup attached to the tips of two sticks.
When the starch syrup was mixed with two sticks, the transparent starch syrup took in air and became muddy.
Episode 77
There was Mr. Yoshida's house near the community center.
Mr. Yoshida had three sons, and he often played with them.
Mr. Yoshida was a quiet person, and he looked like an adult who was serious about his work.
Mr. Yoshida's house was built facing Bus Street, but at one point Mr. Yoshida added a small square building using civil engineering formwork in front of his house.
Mr. Yoshida must have found a bathtub for Goemon bath somewhere and bought it or got it for free.
Then he assembled the civil engineering formwork that he used for his work and made a bathroom in no time.
He had never taken Mr. Yoshida's bath.
He went to a public bath a little away from his house.
He remembers only once when he went to the public bath with his father.
Actually, he may have been to the public bath with his father more than once, but he remembers only once.
It was winter.
He washed his body with soap and finally tried to soak his body in hot water, but his father said, "It's not good yet," and told him to warm up more.
He wanted to get out of the hot water early, but his father wouldn't forgive him.
The scene still comes to his mind 60 years later.
He remembers his father at that time when he is taking a shower.
And he guess why his father told him to warm his body so much and then get out of the bath.
He somehow now understands the reason.
Episode 78
He has only one memory of the public bath with his father, but since his father died early, there are several other events of one-time memory.
One of them is his father's words in the futon.
His father had tuberculosis and seemed to keep away from him.
At one point his father invited him into his father's huton
Perhaps his father was quite sad and invited him into the futon at this time.
"I can't always do this because I have a chest illness ..."
His father hugged him and sneaked into the huton and whispered.
" I want to do this for a while today.
Son, understand my thoughts.
Son, remember this time with me. "
Even now, 60 years later, he still holds in his heart the words of his father's regrets.
Is it a poor household because his father can't work with a sick body?
Is it painful for his father to die and part with his wife and children?
It's beyond imagination.
Episode 79
His mother was a person who had little "educational guidance" with one exception.
His mother wanted a smart child, so she married a smart man (his father).
But his mother gave little "educational guidance" to him or his sister.
It's easy to imagine that she lived a life she couldn't afford to support her sick husband and her two children.
One day he quarreled with an older boy in the neighborhood and returned crying.
His mother said, "Don't lose the fight and cry and come home."
And she once scolded him violently, saying, "Go back again to win the fight and make your opponent cry."
Episode 80
She may have been angry with her son who came home crying after losing the fight, even though she was fighting so hard in her hard life that she cried in her heart every day.
He thinks it was a strong message from his mother's life, saying, "Son, be a stronger person."
He hasn't lost a fight ever since.
After that, he quarreled with his classmates a couple of times before graduating from elementary school.
It was a series of victories.
There is no doubt that the strong guidance of his mother at that time had an effect.
And even now, the teaching of his mother at that time is deep in his soul.
Episode 81
After that his mother did not preach to him at all.
His mother was born in 1923 and died in 2014.
She passed away at the age of 91.
He was undoubtedly loved by his mother.
Episode 82
He rarely talks to anyone about his mother.
He connected the words, saying that he wouldn't talk about it in the future.
And he also said that this was the last.
"One day, when four family members were eating, his mother suddenly shouted and threw the bowl in her hand.
She was definitely angry with her husband and threw the bowl, but she threw the bowl fairly violently in the direction that the bowl did not hit her husband.
His mother's voice was only once, only for that moment.
I have no memory of how the couple's relationship was restored after that. "
Since he was a boy like "Yumeno Kyusaku (mentioned above)", he had not heard the story between the couple before the incident, so he says that only the event at that moment was strongly remembered.
"Fortunately, I have no memory of my parents' quarrels other than this incident (probably there were several others just because he didn't know ...)," he said, and then he shed tears.
Episode 83
The entrance of Mr. Sasaki's rental house was unsightly.
There was a sliding door where the family went in and out.
When they opened and closed the sliding door, it made a rattling noise and moved awkwardly.
When they opened the sliding door and stepped into the house, it was a dirt floor.
They had to go up to the tatami room from the dirt floor, but the underfloor was directly connected to the dirt floor, and the underfloor was structured so that they could go in and out at any time.
No one went under the floor, but some of his and his sister's milk teeth were thrown under the floor.
The lower teeth were thrown on the roof and the upper teeth were thrown under the floor.
It was a superstitious act of hoping that the missing milk teeth would have strong permanent teeth.
Above the space where he and his sister threw their teeth, there was a room that the family used as a living room.
Episode 84
There was a large piece of paper on the wall of the so-called living room above the space where he and his sister threw their missing milk teeth.
It was written by his father summarizing a small part of the "musical grammar" so that his younger sister could understand it.
His father did not write the scale as "Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do", but as "Ha-ni-ho-he-to-i-ro-ha".
In Japan, the name of the sound of music is generally called " Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do".
However, the name of this sound is not unique to Japan.
" Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do" was originally an Italian note name.
In fact, historically, different note name have been used in Japanese.
That was "Ha-ni-ho-he-to-i-ro-ha".
In other words, "Ha-ni-ho-he-to-i-ro-ha" is a Japanese version of " Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do ".
Episode 85
There was a handwritten staff notation on the paper.
Tadpoles were swimming in the staff notation, but tadpoles were swimming in an orderly manner.
In the "Summary Musical Grammar" written by his father, there were academic explanations such as 1-point C-sound, 2-point C-sound, or C-sound.
To put it simply, the one-point C sound is the first sound we learn in Japanese elementary school music classes.
The two-point C sound is one octave higher, and the C sound is one octave lower.
Looking at what his father wrote, he and his sister could understand the meaning of the treble clef and understand both G major and F major.
Furthermore, both a major key and a minor key were explained.
Of course, a quarter note and a eighth note were also explained, covering the academic and rudimentary knowledge of music for his sister.
There were no picture books or novels in his house (as mentioned above), so what was written on the paper was indeed a part of his father's head edited for his sister who is now learning music.
Episode 86
His father seemed to like music a lot and was probably studying.
He was born in 1920, living 100 years ago, so the world must have been much more feudal and closed.
It is difficult for modern people to imagine discrimination and prejudice against art and the kind of artists.
His father was born in that era, but there is no doubt that he had a keen interest in music.
At one point his father told him this.
"One day I heard that a playhouse was built in the town and an orchestra would come there, so I went there with my notebook and pencil.
I recorded the rhythm played by the orchestra in a notebook beside the stage. "
His memory is inaccurate, but it may have been a "melody" rather than a "rhythm", or both.
He couldn't remember the scene properly and still doesn't know the exact meaning of his father's words.
However, his father was quite interested in music, and his father probably listened to professional music, which is rarely heard in the countryside.
His father also played musical instruments on a daily basis and must have studied musical grammar.
Episode 87
At one point, it was in his memory that his sister was not yet in elementary school, his father bought a xylophone and brought it home.
Even though it was a xylophone, it had a metal tube (resonance pipe) under the keyboard to improve the quality of the sound.
He thinks his father was in the final game of his life.
With all the life left of his father, a fierce lesson of xylophone to his sister began.
It was in the category of ordinary children's lessons at the beginning.
Of course it was clear that his father had given proper guidance to his sister's age and skill level.
However, as his sister improved, his father became less satisfied with the xylophone itself, and his father's guidance to his sister became even more enthusiastic.
Episode 88
At one point, a "luxury xylophone" arrived that was not very suitable for the house where his family lived.
It wasn't a xylophone, but a marimba, which was totally different from the xylophone his sister was playing before.
In Japan, both xylophone and marimba are called "Mokkin", but they are the same type of instrument, but they are completely different instruments.
The xylophone makes a high-pitched tree sound, so audience can hear the sound even if performers play it mixed with an orchestra or brass band.
On the other hand, the marimba is an instrument with a soft and rich sound, so it is intended for solo performance.
His father said that the material for the keyboard was the roots of the native roses of the Rocky Mountains.
The marimba was such a magnificent instrument that he couldn't believe it was so common in Japan at that time.
The money needed to buy a marimba must have been given by his father's mother.
At that time, ordinary households didn't have a piano, but he still thinks that his father must have been able to buy a good piano with the money he paid to the marimba.
Episode 89
Why did his father choose "marimba"?
The reason must have been that the piano is a widely used instrument and the teaching method is established, but marimba can be taught by his father himself because the teaching method is not established.
Buying a piano is a temporary expense, but his father may have thought that his economy wouldn't be able to cover the monthly fees and other expenses.
His younger sister at the time was a girl like "Yumeno Kyusaku (mentioned above)" more than him, and the newly given expensive instrument was totally disproportionate to her.
The height of the marimba's keyboard was the height of his sister's face, and it was physically impossible for her to play the marimba.
His father ordered a carpenter to make a wooden stand with a width of marimba and a height of about 30 cm.
It had a smooth surface like foreign wood, but it was made of a thick piece of wood, and it was a sturdy platform that wouldn't break easily even if his sister moved violently while playing.
From this time on, a fierce special training by his father like Ashura began.
Episode 90
A special training for his sister was carried out every night after a meal.
Many homes did not have air conditioners at the time, so on summer nights the windows of the house were opened to let in the cool breeze outside the house.
So the sound of the marimba played by his sister every night was heard by many of his neighbors.
In addition, it was always a quiet night as there were no cars running at night.
So many people in the neighborhood knew about the marimba played by his sister.
Episode 91
At that time, his sister was in the second grade of elementary school.
Great classical music such as "For Elise", "Turkish March" and "Ren of the Donau River" played by such a girl continued every night.
He also wonders if classical music scores for marimba solos were on the market at the time.
In his imagination, his father had arranged the score written for the piano for the marimba.
His father's face when he was teaching the marimba was scaryly serious and devilish.
He thinks his father had an extraordinary determination to make his daughter a player of this instrument while he was alive.
His younger sister sometimes suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and played the marimba in a state of falling asleep.
She was nervous and practicing hard until just before her bedtime, so the uplifting state must have continued after she fell asleep.
Episode 92
His father had a Bengalese finch when his father was teaching his sister marimba.
A Bengalese finch with a mixture of white and black feathers, with a tiny object shaped like a white flower on its head.
From another point of view, there was such a cute object on the bird's head, like a plate on the head of a Kappa(=River imp).
The Bengalese finch was so accustomed because his father loved it so much.
The Bengalese finch flew around the house, making the sound of its feathers.
And when his father extended his finger into the air, the Bengalese finch flew to that finger and grabbed it.
Episode 93
The food for the Bengalese finch was millet.
His father put the millet with thin skin in an empty 1 sho bottle (=1.8 liters) and inserted the drumstick upside down to poke the millet.
The drumstick was used by his father as a tool to hit the desk to get the rhythm when his sister practiced the marimba.
But his father later bought a metronome.
His father used the drumstick, which was no longer needed, as a tool for preparing bird food.
When the millet was struck by a drumstick, it made a "crispy" sound.
The millet was not crushed and only the thin skin was conveniently peeled off.
Occasionally, the millet with skin was fed to the Bengalese finch as it was, but a lot of millet skin accumulated in the cage, and every time the Bengalese finch flapped, the millet skin flew out of the cage.
Bengalese finch dexterously used a bill to peel the millet skin and ate only the fruit.
The millet skin was removed while spinning around in the bill of the Bengalese finch.
Episode 94
His father lost his own father early and was unable to enroll in (prewar) middle school for financial reasons.
So he went to a short-term private school specializing in office work and became an employee of the Japanese National Railways.
His father was drafted by the Japanese Army when he was an employee of the Japanese National Railways.
There was a picture of his father wearing military uniform and laughing in front of a tank.
His father didn't talk about the war other than his " passing the physical examination as a Grade One conscript ".
His father in the picture certainly had a good body.
It was far from the image of a lean Japanese living during the war, when food was scarce.
His father didn't talk about the specific war, but it may just be that he doesn't remember.
Episode 95
His father was disappointed that when he returned from the battlefield, the fine Japanese sword he had at home was gone.
It is doubtful that his father's mother, who had been married from another family, certainly understood the meaning of the Japanese sword that has been passed down from ancient times.
His father's mother was a serious Japanese, so she seems to have offered the Japanese sword at home for the emperor.
It was due to the Metals Recovery Ordinance that his father's mother offered the treasure sword of the house.
The Metals Recovery Ordinance was an edict enacted for the purpose of recovering metals owned by the public and private sectors in order to make up for the shortage of metal resources required for weapons production from the Sino-Japanese War to the Pacific War.
In other words, it was the command of the emperor, the god.
His father said that his father's ancestors were warriors of the Heike clan, who fled to this land after losing the battle between the Genji clan and the Heike clan.
"In the Edo period, my ancestors were shoya(=village headman), and my family was a branch of that," his father said.
There was a fine sword that proved the history of the family, but it seemed that his father's mother offered it to the army while his father went to war.
Episode 96
And his father met and married his mother, who was introduced by a classmate after the war.
His mother's ideal marriage partner was a "smart person," but perhaps his mother also liked the appearance of his father.
His father had been steadily promoted to work for the Japanese National Railways while enjoying baseball and music during his newlywed era, but at one point he retired.
His father, who left the Japanese National Railways, built a new house on a part of his wife's parents' land.
His father boasted that the new house was entirely made of hinoki cypress lumber.
The cost of building the house seemed to be covered by severance pay.
His father wasn't mandatory retirement, so the severance pay was high enough to build his parents' new home, but it's still questionable.
His mother's parents' home was burned by the American air raid, so there must have been enough ground to build his parents' home.
Episode 97
His mother started running a popular dining hall there.
His mother cooked and served herself.
He wore "Kintaro's bib", which was often used to prevent the baby's belly from getting cold at that time, and sat in a corner of the popular dining hall to watch his mother and customers.
The toddler who always wore "Kintaro's bib" was so lovely that the customers were very happy and he was the mascot of the popular dining hall.
His mother was so enthusiastic about her work that she didn't seem to be able to take care of him and was injured by the rubber ring holding his socks digging into the flesh of his leg.
The wound was noticed by the time he was conscious and asked his mother to find out the cause.
He doesn't confirm the scar because it's about himself, but it's still clearly below the knee of his left foot.
Right in front of his mother's popular dining hall was the city's most advanced and large-scale "central hospital," so the popular dining hall thrived with its inpatients, their families, or hospital personnel.
Episode 98
The popular dining hall run by his mother was so prosperous that the household was good enough to live.
However, his father, who left the Japanese National Railways, did not find a job in a local city, and even if he did, it was not the company he wanted.
Although the family economy is fine, he speculates that his father, still in early thirties, wasn't happy with the situation.
His family stopped the thriving popular dining hall and headed for Osaka.
His sister was born in Osaka.
His sister was born 22 months after him, but maybe his sister was already in her mother when the family headed for Osaka.
Episode 99
His father named his younger sister, born in Osaka, "Miho".
He heard from his father that there was a fine musician named "Miho" when his sister was born.
It is clear that his father wanted his sister to have a future like that musician .
The character "mi" is a composite Chinese character of "sheep" and "large", meaning "beautiful" because ancient Chinese people felt that a large sheep was beautiful.
The character "ho" is a composite Chinese character of "rice" and "grace", which means the part where the fruit of the stem of the grain bears.
Therefore, "Miho" brings to mind the image of "beautiful rice ears".
This is a new sensation as a girl's name in post-war Japan, giving a glimpse of his father's feelings for his own daughter.
Episode 100
The misfortune of the family began in Osaka.
His father worked for a company in Osaka, where he got tuberculosis.
He hasn't heard the cause clearly, but imagines it was probably overwork, malnutrition, or both.
Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in Japan during the 15 years from 1935 to 1950.
The disease, also known as "Illness of the exiled country" has declined dramatically since then, but tuberculosis was the greatest failure of his father's life.
And four of him, his parents and his sister, leave Osaka.
His memory begins shortly after his family returned from Osaka.
Episode 101
His words when he came back from Osaka seemed to be completely Osaka dialect.
He heard that he found a dragonfly that he had never seen in the city of Osaka and shouted "a small helicopter is flying" in the Osaka dialect.
His memory of his father begins in the hospital bed, but is a rather vague memory.
He imagines that his father had been hospitalized and discharged repeatedly.
And his father was riding a "Batabata" when he was discharged from the hospital.
As the name suggests, "Batabata" was a powered bicycle that made a "batabata" sound.
"Batabata" was a reliable companion to his father who had lost his strength.
His father wore a thick brown leather jumper in the winter and was riding a "Batabata".
Episode 102
No doubt his father thought he couldn't live long.
His father was worried about the life of his wife and child after he died.
The Japanese National Railways was a large company run by the Japanese government at the time, so it had a welfare pension system, but his father's working period was not enough to qualify for the "survivor's pension".
His father joined the Asahi Shimbun to meet the shortage period.
He doesn't know what his father was doing in the Asahi Shimbun, but at that time his father was riding a "Batabata".
The "Batabata" was probably the "Batabata" owned by the Asahi Shimbun.
Episode 103
The motorized bicycle Batabata, which was developed by Honda's founder Soichiro Honda in the 1945's and became a big hit, was manufactured using the generator engine of the old military transceiver.
This Batabata was the beginning of the history of "Honda," which became a major company in the world.
In 1946, a bicycle ran through the city of Hamamatsu with a loud noise.
There was a woman in Monpe on the bicycle, who was Mr. Honda's wife.
A hot water bottle was attached to the rear of the bicycle, which contained pine oil instead of gasoline.
This is the first "vehicle" made by Soichiro Honda.
This bicycle with an engine became very popular in the burnt field, and the engine made a loud "batabata" sound, so it got its name.
Batabata that his father was riding also made a loud engine noise, but it was nice.
The appearance of his father wearing a leather jacket and going to work on a Batabata was cool.
However, his father was already weak, so he must have endured the cold of winter.
His father must have endured the cold to make up for the shortage of the "survivor's pension".
Episode 104
It was around 4 o'clock in the early morning of January 7, 1962, when he was 10 years old.
He was awakened by his mother.
"Go to the hospital and bring Dr. Tanimura," his mother said.
His father lay suffocating in the futon.
He saw the situation and understood his mother's order.
The distance from his house to Tanimura Hospital was about 2km.
There was no phone in his house or in the neighborhood.
At that time, cars were still unpurchasable to the common people, so roads were undeveloped and there were almost no traffic signal.
He was a timid boy who was afraid of darkness like other boys.
His sense of mission outweighed his cowardice because of his mother's an unusual attitude.
Under the pitch-dark night sky, he left the house on a bicycle.
Episode 105
He called out to the nurse in the building from the small courtyard of the hospital.
He thought there was a nurse there because only one room was lit in the hospital.
Two nurses on the night shift opened the window and listened to him.
The two nurses were clearly confused as they listened to the child's speech.
He has no memory of how he communicated the crisis to the two nurses.
Dr. Tanimura came to his house shortly after he returned home.
In fact, he felt that he had been waiting for a doctor for a long time, and he was really worried about whether doctor would really come.
Episode 106
Dr. Tanimura came.
His hard-working request was passed on to the two nurses, who also told the doctor who was supposed to be sleeping.
The doctor gave a camphor injection.
After that, the doctor only looked at his father, and he didn't seem to be enthusiastic about his efforts.
Perhaps his father was in a critical situation that even a doctor couldn't handle
His father didn't say anything at the time of his death.
His father must have had a lot to say, but at the time of his death he had no words.
Even his father had already lost that power.
His father died.
Episode 107
The funeral was attended by his parents' brothers and sisters and their spouses.
He suspects that they gave kind words to his poor mother and her poor two children.
But soon the harsh life of her mother and her two children began.
Meanwhile, a relative of Mr. Sasaki, a name fortune-teller (mentioned above), fortune-telled his father's name.
And the bogus fortune-teller concluded that his father's name was ominous and short-lived.
And the fortune-teller said that his sister's name was also ominous.
He is a relative of that "Sho-chan" who was renamed from "Naoki" to "Shoich".
His mother, who had just lost her husband and was feeling weak, changed the name of her daughter as recommended by the fortune-teller.
Episode 108
No one knows if his sister was due to the name change, but 60 years after that, she is still alive and well.
On the other hand, the result of fortune-telling about his name was that it was not bad enough to change his name.
Naming a baby born in this world is called "meimei" in Japanese.
It is literally the name of life.
Rather, he thinks it is the name of the soul based on his experience of living for 70 years.
In Buddhism, "Dharma name" is given as the posthumous name.
Being given a Dharma name means "become a disciple of the Buddha and go to the Paradise Jodo without hesitation."
And the Dharma name is also written on the mortuary tablets and tombstones.
He follows the Buddhist tradition of his parents' Dharma names, but thinks that if the soul of a person is immortal, the name after death should also use the name of this world.
He doesn't think that many modern Japanese people will be happy in the afterlife with the Dharma name.
However, as a 10-year-old child, he accepted even the meaning of his sister's name change with little understanding.
Episode 109
A year after his father died, he was in fifth grade in elementary school.
At the graduation ceremony that year, he read "Soji(=Words to send graduates)" as a representative of current students.
That meant that the purpose of his mother's marriage to his father became a reality.
However, his mother worked hard every day, she never came on his or his sister's sankanbi(=the day parents observe their children at school).
His homeroom teacher complained to him when he was in the fifth grade of elementary school.
"What an indifferent parent your parent is," said the female teacher.
This female teacher loved him so much that she had invited him to a newly-married family with her husband.
She holds a stake in a bus company that currently dominates the local transportation industry because of the promising future, and she talked about the economy, assuming he had the same knowledge as her.
Even so, his mother was doing her best to support the family's household budget.
So he didn't complain to his mother, nor did he convey the words of his teacher to his mother.
The female teacher would have frankly vomit her heart to him.
At that time, the women were at home, and there was no place for women to work except for a bar for men.
Episode 110
Due to such a musical environment, he has always had the highest evaluation of music at school, from elementary school to his final education.
Of course he didn't study for the exam, but the paper exam for music until the final school was almost perfect.
When he was in sixth grade, he was called by a music teacher.
The teacher ordered him to join the chorus club and play the contrabass in the instrumental ensemble club.
The teacher was single but enthusiastic about music education, and the instrumental ensemble club of the elementary school where he works won the prefectural competition every year.
The instrumental ensemble club of the elementary school at that time had a large number of harmonica, and was composed of inexpensive musical instruments as a whole.
Among them, the contrabass was a prominent and a little expensive instrument.
Episode 111
During the summer vacation of his sixth grade, a music teacher ordered him to attend a violin class.
The teacher paid for the class.
Of course he didn't have a violin and never played.
The violin was prepared for him by his teacher.
He thinks the teacher wanted him to study more music.
He was already vaguely thinking about going the musical path at that time.
At the entrance ceremony, the brass band club of the junior high school played "Kimigayo" and "School song".
He was very disappointed to hear it.
He decided that he couldn't spend the next three years after school in junior high school in this brass band.
Very ephemeral, his path to his own music was cut off at this entrance ceremony.
Episode 112
He began writing this memoir on August 12, 2021.
He had a new thought while writing his memoirs.
It's an idea of what would have happened to the lives of him and his sister if his father had bought a piano instead of a marimba at that time.
He was disappointed with the brass band club in junior high school and closed the way to music.
His sister was completely cut off from being a marimba player due to the death of her father.
He then spent his childhood hoping to play the piano several times.
He bought a piano when he grew up and had a family.
The purpose was to have his two daughters learn the piano, but at the same time he taught himself the piano.
Piano pieces played by the two daughters were heard every day around the altar where his father's soul was enshrined.
One of his daughters won the highest award at a junior high school piano competition in the prefecture.
He was thinking of sending his two daughters to a music college, but in an interview with a local newspaper when his daughter received the award, she said, "I want to be a veterinarian in the future."
He thought that the days of requiescats prayer for his father were over at this time.
He himself finished practicing the piano instruction book (Bayer).
Now he is the same as the average person when it comes to music.
In fact, he had another daughter after that.
He didn't want his youngest daughter to learn the piano.
In him, "the music memorial service" to his father was completely over.
Episode 113
He got to work in the next town at the beginning of April this year, shortly before his 70th birthday.
It's a job only in the morning.
He was asked to work by a certain person, and he was a little happy to be asked, so he received the request.
It was a promise of half a year's work, so he quit his job at the end of September and lived leisurely in an apartment near the sea.
However, his successor soon quit, and he was asked to work again.
So he has been going to work again from the beginning of December to the next town.
In fact, for the past two months he hasn't had a car and has been biking for various errands of his own.
But he thought it would be a little unreasonable for his age to commute to the next town in the north wind or in the cold rain.
So he bought an old, small and cheap car and started commuting in that car.
The duration of his work this time is expected to be two to three months, but he sincerely hopes that the term will end sooner.
He doesn't have much physical strength or energy anymore.
Episode 114
There is a chair beside his bed in the apartment room where he spends his days.
There are always seven books and a magazine on the chair.
The seven books and one magazine are his zayunosyo(=desk-side book).
The magazine was bought at a popular second-hand bookstore for 200 yen, and is a digest of news published by a famous American broadcaster, with a CD of about 70 minutes.
He doesn't know how many times he listened to the CD, but he always listens to it when he wakes up in the middle of the night or early in the morning, so he sleeps again while listening to the CD, so he rarely listens through the 70-minute content.
One of the seven books is an old book about the ancient history of the area where he lives.
A book published long before he was born, the paper quality is poor, the quality of the printing ink is poor, and there are some unreadable parts, but it is a book that has been studied from a broad perspective and scientifically.
In addition, since the Chinese characters is the old Chinese characters and not the "Toy? kanji(=regular-use Chinese characters)" currently used, it takes a little energy to read.
He finds great value in the history book and wants the people in the area where he lives to know what is written in it, so he uses the difficult Chinese characters as they are and distributes them over the Internet.
Of course he is sure that the book is not copyrighted.
Episode 115
This history book is a book compiled and published long ago, and since he reads it frequently, it puts stress on the body of the book.
He treated the book carefully so that it wouldn't be destroyed, but one day the history book was finally disassembled.
He got this book as a secondhand book because this history book was published long before he was born.
This secondhand book was priced at a justified value for this book
He hadn't fully used the value of the book when it broke.
So he somehow thought about reviving the body of the book.
He searched for paper of similar quality to the paper used in book.
Using paper and glue, he patiently regenerated from one detail to the next.
Repairing and refurbishing books was something he had never thought of before.
Episode 116
The other of the seven books is an English-Japanese dictionary that he bought at a second-hand bookstore (He bought the magazine mentioned above) for 500 yen.
Even if it is a book that someone bought once, we can buy the enormous amount of human knowledge and work written in the dictionary for only 500 yen.
The English-Japanese dictionary looked like new when he bought it, but now it's dirty and there are a lot of underlines drawn with a red pen when turning the page.
Just the other day, the spine of this English-Japanese dictionary came off, and several sheets of paper came off the main body of the dictionary.
He thought about going to a second-hand bookstore again to buy another English-Japanese dictionary, but now that it has become a very attached dictionary, he decided to repair it in the same way as a history book.
The repair of the dictionary was completed immediately because it was not difficult to repair than the history book.
When he picked up the dictionary, it was heavy and revived into a well-shaped dictionary.
He was very satisfied.
It seems that he wants his English-Japanese dictionary to be placed in his casket, just as his mother put the non-professional baseball uniform of the Japanese National Railways in his father's casket.
He thinks that even in the afterlife, if there is an English-Japanese dictionary, he can live without getting bored.
Episode 117
He studied at a national technical college a long time ago.
At that time, there was a young teacher who lectured on Western philosophy.
The teacher always carried an English-Japanese dictionary with him when he lectured on Western philosophy.
The teacher used the English-Japanese dictionary like a Japanese dictionary to show off his English ability.
For example, when the teacher described Socrates' wife, he opened Xanthippe in an English-Japanese dictionary.
And the teacher said, "She was the wife of Socrates, very noisy in legend, she was always supposed to be swearing at her husband, and she was said to be a bad wife."
"Christianity" was a big theme in the Western philosophy that the teacher lectured.
He actively read Western classic novels at the time.
At that time, "Christianity" was still a big issue.
He is reading the Bible now.
He wants to finish reading the Bible once by the time he dies.
The Bible is one of his seven books.
His mother often described his character as "yakan-tagiri".
"Yakan-tagiri" means that it gets hot quickly but cools down quickly.
He remains "yakan-tagiri" from an early age to the present age.
Will his enthusiasm cool down first, or will his life run out first?
Finally
Soon the death anniversary of his father, his sister's father, and his mother's husband will come.
It's been 60 years since that day.
That's all.
Recollection from Episode 70 to Episode 117
Episode 70
The upper part of the well was easily roofed to prevent rain and dew.
His mother and Mr. Sasaki's wife washed ingredients such as vegetables and fish around the well, washed the dishes after meals, and did the laundry there.
In the summer his mother put a laundry basin there and drew water from the well to make him "gyozui(=quick bath)".
Just a short distance away from the well where the water flows, there was a puddle just dug up the soil.
The water used to wash food and clothes was stored in the puddle.
Then, the drainage was naturally infiltrated into the soil.
For that reason, the water in the puddle was dirty water.
Therefore, many earthworms lived in the soil of the puddle.
He fished in the nearby river, but the bait was the earthworms that lived in this puddle.
There was always plenty of fishing bait beside the kitchen.
Episode 71
At that time, most households did not have a refrigerator, so it was not possible to store food for a long time.
Housewives at the time bought the amount of food they needed every day and used it up that day.
There was a smoke exhaust window on the wall of the kitchen that his mother used every day to cook her family's food.
The smoke exhaust window was made by sticking the boards vertically, but in order to create a space for the smoke to come out naturally, the structure was such that the boards were stuck and not stuck.
The smoke exhaust window had a simple structure in which the width of one board was staggered and smoke came out from there.
Of course, the smoke exhaust window was closed when the fire was not used, but the gap was still quite large, and the cold winter air came in mercilessly.
The winter heating of his house was a charcoal brazier and "chanchanko".
There was no ”kotatsu”.
There were gaps throughout the house where cold air came in.
The cold winter in that house must have been quite severe for his weak father.
Episode 72
To the east of his house was the Matsuo family's house on the other side of a field.
Mr. Matsuo's couple, two children and Mr. Matsuo's parents lived in the house.
Mr. Matsuo was a gentle person and was an employee working for one of the leading companies in Japan.
Matsuo's parents were also mild-mannered.
There was a big shepherd in Mr. Matsuo's house.
In the rural city where he lived, western dogs could be seen on TV but rarely in the real world.
The land of Mr. Matsuo's house was not large, but there was a sturdy kennel on the land.
The front of the shepherd kennel had a metal grid.
He didn't approach Mr. Matsuo's house because he was afraid of the ferocious shepherd, but when he had no choice but to go, the shepherd barked and moved violently to the right and left in the kennel, making him very nervous.
He didn't know why the mild-mannered Mr. Matsuo had a ferocious shepherd, or whether it was Mr. Matsuo's wife's favorite.
He had never seen Mr. Matsuo take a walk with a shepherd.
Episode 73
Mr. Matsuo's wife always performed a dance at the "keirokai(=meeting to show respect for the aged)" held at the community hall every year.
The "keirokai" was, of course, a place for entertainment with respect for the aged in the area, but it was also a place for presentations by amateur entertainers in the area.
Therefore, there were many people on the stage of the keirokai, and there were many spectators, old and young, men and women, and it was a very lively event.
Mr. Matsuo's wife was not dancing in the category of ordinary Japanese dance, but was dancing "matatabimono" (= people who were gamblers and entertainers who traveled all over Japan during the Edo period).
Mr. Matsuo's wife's stage costumes were wig (= tyonmage), dotyukappa (= rain gear, winter clothes, cloak used by samurai, etc.), huriwakenimotsu (= small bag for travel used in the Edo period), kyahan (=gaiter) and warazi (= straw sandals), and there was a sword on her waist.
Mr. Matsuo's wife danced a powerful man's dance that could not be imagined from her small body.
Mr. Matsuo's wife danced in a cool man's appearance, and a shout flew from here and there.
The combination of Mr. Matsuo and his wife still has some strange feeling in him.
Episode 74
Free movies were sometimes shown at community center.
Of course, the movie was a monochrome movie.
Color movies were just beginning to appear, but at that time color movies were called "sotenensyoku eiga (= total natural color movies)".
However, "total natural color" was soon replaced by the word "color".
The contents of the free movies at the community center were also mostly "matatabimono(= people who were gamblers and entertainers who traveled all over Japan during the Edo period)".
His father had a deep knowledge of music, but his father liked the popular singer "Taro Shoji".
"Taro Shoji" was an intelligent singer who was well-versed in Marxian economics, although he had distinctive features such as wearing Lloyd's glasses and a tailcoat, and singing in an upright and immovable posture.
Among the many hit songs of "Taro Shoji", there was a song of the story of a yakuza boss called "Akagi no Komoriuta".
Somehow we can see the tendency of Japanese entertainment tastes at that time.
? Akagi-yama where the man's righteousness feels the man's righteousness and the spirits hit each other.… ?
The song of the story of the boss of the yakuza, which is not suitable for the identity of "Taro Shoji", was such lyrics.
Episode 75
He remembers that the free movie at the community center was a movie by a beautiful actor named Kokichi Takada.
The crowd at the community center gladly applauded as the film began to spin, making a peculiar noise of "chili chili chili".
Kokichi Takada was a star of the Shochiku movie.
At the opening of the Shochiku movie, the "Shochiku movie" logo appeared against the backdrop of the divine Mt. Fuji covered with snow above the clouds.
Also, in the case of Toei movies, the Toei logo gradually became larger from the distance of the angry waves that rushed to the rough shore.
As a kid, he watched free movies at the community center as something unusual and special.
The community center had an old wooden floor, and the audience sat on the floor to watch the movie, so there was no fixed number of people, so many people enjoyed the movie.
He also remembers a free movie in a nearby reinforced concrete public housing, using the concrete walls instead of screens.
They were just a little entertainment when many Japanese lived hard at the time when there was no entertainment other than radio.
Episode 76
The community center would have literally functioned as a place for local residents to interact.
Calligraphy class were also held once a week at the community center.
The teacher always came to the community center with his calligraphy tools on his bicycle.
The teacher was a kind person, and he did not give strict guidance, and he attended the calligraphy class without being particularly conscious of his progress.
The teacher silently corrected the letters written by the students with a red ink brush.
His sister didn't even attend this calligraphy class.
However, it seemed that his sister had no desire to attend calligraphy class.
The picture-story show came to the community center.
The picture-story show also came to a nearby public housing.
The picture-story show was selling Japanese cheap candy before the performance.
The uncle who plays a picture-story show covered the living expenses of selling this candy.
He always bought starch syrup.
The uncle of the picture-story show sold starch syrup attached to the tips of two sticks.
When the starch syrup was mixed with two sticks, the transparent starch syrup took in air and became muddy.
Episode 77
There was Mr. Yoshida's house near the community center.
Mr. Yoshida had three sons, and he often played with them.
Mr. Yoshida was a quiet person, and he looked like an adult who was serious about his work.
Mr. Yoshida's house was built facing Bus Street, but at one point Mr. Yoshida added a small square building using civil engineering formwork in front of his house.
Mr. Yoshida must have found a bathtub for Goemon bath somewhere and bought it or got it for free.
Then he assembled the civil engineering formwork that he used for his work and made a bathroom in no time.
He had never taken Mr. Yoshida's bath.
He went to a public bath a little away from his house.
He remembers only once when he went to the public bath with his father.
Actually, he may have been to the public bath with his father more than once, but he remembers only once.
It was winter.
He washed his body with soap and finally tried to soak his body in hot water, but his father said, "It's not good yet," and told him to warm up more.
He wanted to get out of the hot water early, but his father wouldn't forgive him.
The scene still comes to his mind 60 years later.
He remembers his father at that time when he is taking a shower.
And he guess why his father told him to warm his body so much and then get out of the bath.
He somehow now understands the reason.
Episode 78
He has only one memory of the public bath with his father, but since his father died early, there are several other events of one-time memory.
One of them is his father's words in the futon.
His father had tuberculosis and seemed to keep away from him.
At one point his father invited him into his father's huton
Perhaps his father was quite sad and invited him into the futon at this time.
"I can't always do this because I have a chest illness ..."
His father hugged him and sneaked into the huton and whispered.
" I want to do this for a while today.
Son, understand my thoughts.
Son, remember this time with me. "
Even now, 60 years later, he still holds in his heart the words of his father's regrets.
Is it a poor household because his father can't work with a sick body?
Is it painful for his father to die and part with his wife and children?
It's beyond imagination.
Episode 79
His mother was a person who had little "educational guidance" with one exception.
His mother wanted a smart child, so she married a smart man (his father).
But his mother gave little "educational guidance" to him or his sister.
It's easy to imagine that she lived a life she couldn't afford to support her sick husband and her two children.
One day he quarreled with an older boy in the neighborhood and returned crying.
His mother said, "Don't lose the fight and cry and come home."
And she once scolded him violently, saying, "Go back again to win the fight and make your opponent cry."
Episode 80
She may have been angry with her son who came home crying after losing the fight, even though she was fighting so hard in her hard life that she cried in her heart every day.
He thinks it was a strong message from his mother's life, saying, "Son, be a stronger person."
He hasn't lost a fight ever since.
After that, he quarreled with his classmates a couple of times before graduating from elementary school.
It was a series of victories.
There is no doubt that the strong guidance of his mother at that time had an effect.
And even now, the teaching of his mother at that time is deep in his soul.
Episode 81
After that his mother did not preach to him at all.
His mother was born in 1923 and died in 2014.
She passed away at the age of 91.
He was undoubtedly loved by his mother.
Episode 82
He rarely talks to anyone about his mother.
He connected the words, saying that he wouldn't talk about it in the future.
And he also said that this was the last.
"One day, when four family members were eating, his mother suddenly shouted and threw the bowl in her hand.
She was definitely angry with her husband and threw the bowl, but she threw the bowl fairly violently in the direction that the bowl did not hit her husband.
His mother's voice was only once, only for that moment.
I have no memory of how the couple's relationship was restored after that. "
Since he was a boy like "Yumeno Kyusaku (mentioned above)", he had not heard the story between the couple before the incident, so he says that only the event at that moment was strongly remembered.
"Fortunately, I have no memory of my parents' quarrels other than this incident (probably there were several others just because he didn't know ...)," he said, and then he shed tears.
Episode 83
The entrance of Mr. Sasaki's rental house was unsightly.
There was a sliding door where the family went in and out.
When they opened and closed the sliding door, it made a rattling noise and moved awkwardly.
When they opened the sliding door and stepped into the house, it was a dirt floor.
They had to go up to the tatami room from the dirt floor, but the underfloor was directly connected to the dirt floor, and the underfloor was structured so that they could go in and out at any time.
No one went under the floor, but some of his and his sister's milk teeth were thrown under the floor.
The lower teeth were thrown on the roof and the upper teeth were thrown under the floor.
It was a superstitious act of hoping that the missing milk teeth would have strong permanent teeth.
Above the space where he and his sister threw their teeth, there was a room that the family used as a living room.
Episode 84
There was a large piece of paper on the wall of the so-called living room above the space where he and his sister threw their missing milk teeth.
It was written by his father summarizing a small part of the "musical grammar" so that his younger sister could understand it.
His father did not write the scale as "Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do", but as "Ha-ni-ho-he-to-i-ro-ha".
In Japan, the name of the sound of music is generally called " Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do".
However, the name of this sound is not unique to Japan.
" Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do" was originally an Italian note name.
In fact, historically, different note name have been used in Japanese.
That was "Ha-ni-ho-he-to-i-ro-ha".
In other words, "Ha-ni-ho-he-to-i-ro-ha" is a Japanese version of " Do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti-do ".
Episode 85
There was a handwritten staff notation on the paper.
Tadpoles were swimming in the staff notation, but tadpoles were swimming in an orderly manner.
In the "Summary Musical Grammar" written by his father, there were academic explanations such as 1-point C-sound, 2-point C-sound, or C-sound.
To put it simply, the one-point C sound is the first sound we learn in Japanese elementary school music classes.
The two-point C sound is one octave higher, and the C sound is one octave lower.
Looking at what his father wrote, he and his sister could understand the meaning of the treble clef and understand both G major and F major.
Furthermore, both a major key and a minor key were explained.
Of course, a quarter note and a eighth note were also explained, covering the academic and rudimentary knowledge of music for his sister.
There were no picture books or novels in his house (as mentioned above), so what was written on the paper was indeed a part of his father's head edited for his sister who is now learning music.
Episode 86
His father seemed to like music a lot and was probably studying.
He was born in 1920, living 100 years ago, so the world must have been much more feudal and closed.
It is difficult for modern people to imagine discrimination and prejudice against art and the kind of artists.
His father was born in that era, but there is no doubt that he had a keen interest in music.
At one point his father told him this.
"One day I heard that a playhouse was built in the town and an orchestra would come there, so I went there with my notebook and pencil.
I recorded the rhythm played by the orchestra in a notebook beside the stage. "
His memory is inaccurate, but it may have been a "melody" rather than a "rhythm", or both.
He couldn't remember the scene properly and still doesn't know the exact meaning of his father's words.
However, his father was quite interested in music, and his father probably listened to professional music, which is rarely heard in the countryside.
His father also played musical instruments on a daily basis and must have studied musical grammar.
Episode 87
At one point, it was in his memory that his sister was not yet in elementary school, his father bought a xylophone and brought it home.
Even though it was a xylophone, it had a metal tube (resonance pipe) under the keyboard to improve the quality of the sound.
He thinks his father was in the final game of his life.
With all the life left of his father, a fierce lesson of xylophone to his sister began.
It was in the category of ordinary children's lessons at the beginning.
Of course it was clear that his father had given proper guidance to his sister's age and skill level.
However, as his sister improved, his father became less satisfied with the xylophone itself, and his father's guidance to his sister became even more enthusiastic.
Episode 88
At one point, a "luxury xylophone" arrived that was not very suitable for the house where his family lived.
It wasn't a xylophone, but a marimba, which was totally different from the xylophone his sister was playing before.
In Japan, both xylophone and marimba are called "Mokkin", but they are the same type of instrument, but they are completely different instruments.
The xylophone makes a high-pitched tree sound, so audience can hear the sound even if performers play it mixed with an orchestra or brass band.
On the other hand, the marimba is an instrument with a soft and rich sound, so it is intended for solo performance.
His father said that the material for the keyboard was the roots of the native roses of the Rocky Mountains.
The marimba was such a magnificent instrument that he couldn't believe it was so common in Japan at that time.
The money needed to buy a marimba must have been given by his father's mother.
At that time, ordinary households didn't have a piano, but he still thinks that his father must have been able to buy a good piano with the money he paid to the marimba.
Episode 89
Why did his father choose "marimba"?
The reason must have been that the piano is a widely used instrument and the teaching method is established, but marimba can be taught by his father himself because the teaching method is not established.
Buying a piano is a temporary expense, but his father may have thought that his economy wouldn't be able to cover the monthly fees and other expenses.
His younger sister at the time was a girl like "Yumeno Kyusaku (mentioned above)" more than him, and the newly given expensive instrument was totally disproportionate to her.
The height of the marimba's keyboard was the height of his sister's face, and it was physically impossible for her to play the marimba.
His father ordered a carpenter to make a wooden stand with a width of marimba and a height of about 30 cm.
It had a smooth surface like foreign wood, but it was made of a thick piece of wood, and it was a sturdy platform that wouldn't break easily even if his sister moved violently while playing.
From this time on, a fierce special training by his father like Ashura began.
Episode 90
A special training for his sister was carried out every night after a meal.
Many homes did not have air conditioners at the time, so on summer nights the windows of the house were opened to let in the cool breeze outside the house.
So the sound of the marimba played by his sister every night was heard by many of his neighbors.
In addition, it was always a quiet night as there were no cars running at night.
So many people in the neighborhood knew about the marimba played by his sister.
Episode 91
At that time, his sister was in the second grade of elementary school.
Great classical music such as "For Elise", "Turkish March" and "Ren of the Donau River" played by such a girl continued every night.
He also wonders if classical music scores for marimba solos were on the market at the time.
In his imagination, his father had arranged the score written for the piano for the marimba.
His father's face when he was teaching the marimba was scaryly serious and devilish.
He thinks his father had an extraordinary determination to make his daughter a player of this instrument while he was alive.
His younger sister sometimes suddenly woke up in the middle of the night and played the marimba in a state of falling asleep.
She was nervous and practicing hard until just before her bedtime, so the uplifting state must have continued after she fell asleep.
Episode 92
His father had a Bengalese finch when his father was teaching his sister marimba.
A Bengalese finch with a mixture of white and black feathers, with a tiny object shaped like a white flower on its head.
From another point of view, there was such a cute object on the bird's head, like a plate on the head of a Kappa(=River imp).
The Bengalese finch was so accustomed because his father loved it so much.
The Bengalese finch flew around the house, making the sound of its feathers.
And when his father extended his finger into the air, the Bengalese finch flew to that finger and grabbed it.
Episode 93
The food for the Bengalese finch was millet.
His father put the millet with thin skin in an empty 1 sho bottle (=1.8 liters) and inserted the drumstick upside down to poke the millet.
The drumstick was used by his father as a tool to hit the desk to get the rhythm when his sister practiced the marimba.
But his father later bought a metronome.
His father used the drumstick, which was no longer needed, as a tool for preparing bird food.
When the millet was struck by a drumstick, it made a "crispy" sound.
The millet was not crushed and only the thin skin was conveniently peeled off.
Occasionally, the millet with skin was fed to the Bengalese finch as it was, but a lot of millet skin accumulated in the cage, and every time the Bengalese finch flapped, the millet skin flew out of the cage.
Bengalese finch dexterously used a bill to peel the millet skin and ate only the fruit.
The millet skin was removed while spinning around in the bill of the Bengalese finch.
Episode 94
His father lost his own father early and was unable to enroll in (prewar) middle school for financial reasons.
So he went to a short-term private school specializing in office work and became an employee of the Japanese National Railways.
His father was drafted by the Japanese Army when he was an employee of the Japanese National Railways.
There was a picture of his father wearing military uniform and laughing in front of a tank.
His father didn't talk about the war other than his " passing the physical examination as a Grade One conscript ".
His father in the picture certainly had a good body.
It was far from the image of a lean Japanese living during the war, when food was scarce.
His father didn't talk about the specific war, but it may just be that he doesn't remember.
Episode 95
His father was disappointed that when he returned from the battlefield, the fine Japanese sword he had at home was gone.
It is doubtful that his father's mother, who had been married from another family, certainly understood the meaning of the Japanese sword that has been passed down from ancient times.
His father's mother was a serious Japanese, so she seems to have offered the Japanese sword at home for the emperor.
It was due to the Metals Recovery Ordinance that his father's mother offered the treasure sword of the house.
The Metals Recovery Ordinance was an edict enacted for the purpose of recovering metals owned by the public and private sectors in order to make up for the shortage of metal resources required for weapons production from the Sino-Japanese War to the Pacific War.
In other words, it was the command of the emperor, the god.
His father said that his father's ancestors were warriors of the Heike clan, who fled to this land after losing the battle between the Genji clan and the Heike clan.
"In the Edo period, my ancestors were shoya(=village headman), and my family was a branch of that," his father said.
There was a fine sword that proved the history of the family, but it seemed that his father's mother offered it to the army while his father went to war.
Episode 96
And his father met and married his mother, who was introduced by a classmate after the war.
His mother's ideal marriage partner was a "smart person," but perhaps his mother also liked the appearance of his father.
His father had been steadily promoted to work for the Japanese National Railways while enjoying baseball and music during his newlywed era, but at one point he retired.
His father, who left the Japanese National Railways, built a new house on a part of his wife's parents' land.
His father boasted that the new house was entirely made of hinoki cypress lumber.
The cost of building the house seemed to be covered by severance pay.
His father wasn't mandatory retirement, so the severance pay was high enough to build his parents' new home, but it's still questionable.
His mother's parents' home was burned by the American air raid, so there must have been enough ground to build his parents' home.
Episode 97
His mother started running a popular dining hall there.
His mother cooked and served herself.
He wore "Kintaro's bib", which was often used to prevent the baby's belly from getting cold at that time, and sat in a corner of the popular dining hall to watch his mother and customers.
The toddler who always wore "Kintaro's bib" was so lovely that the customers were very happy and he was the mascot of the popular dining hall.
His mother was so enthusiastic about her work that she didn't seem to be able to take care of him and was injured by the rubber ring holding his socks digging into the flesh of his leg.
The wound was noticed by the time he was conscious and asked his mother to find out the cause.
He doesn't confirm the scar because it's about himself, but it's still clearly below the knee of his left foot.
Right in front of his mother's popular dining hall was the city's most advanced and large-scale "central hospital," so the popular dining hall thrived with its inpatients, their families, or hospital personnel.
Episode 98
The popular dining hall run by his mother was so prosperous that the household was good enough to live.
However, his father, who left the Japanese National Railways, did not find a job in a local city, and even if he did, it was not the company he wanted.
Although the family economy is fine, he speculates that his father, still in early thirties, wasn't happy with the situation.
His family stopped the thriving popular dining hall and headed for Osaka.
His sister was born in Osaka.
His sister was born 22 months after him, but maybe his sister was already in her mother when the family headed for Osaka.
Episode 99
His father named his younger sister, born in Osaka, "Miho".
He heard from his father that there was a fine musician named "Miho" when his sister was born.
It is clear that his father wanted his sister to have a future like that musician .
The character "mi" is a composite Chinese character of "sheep" and "large", meaning "beautiful" because ancient Chinese people felt that a large sheep was beautiful.
The character "ho" is a composite Chinese character of "rice" and "grace", which means the part where the fruit of the stem of the grain bears.
Therefore, "Miho" brings to mind the image of "beautiful rice ears".
This is a new sensation as a girl's name in post-war Japan, giving a glimpse of his father's feelings for his own daughter.
Episode 100
The misfortune of the family began in Osaka.
His father worked for a company in Osaka, where he got tuberculosis.
He hasn't heard the cause clearly, but imagines it was probably overwork, malnutrition, or both.
Tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in Japan during the 15 years from 1935 to 1950.
The disease, also known as "Illness of the exiled country" has declined dramatically since then, but tuberculosis was the greatest failure of his father's life.
And four of him, his parents and his sister, leave Osaka.
His memory begins shortly after his family returned from Osaka.
Episode 101
His words when he came back from Osaka seemed to be completely Osaka dialect.
He heard that he found a dragonfly that he had never seen in the city of Osaka and shouted "a small helicopter is flying" in the Osaka dialect.
His memory of his father begins in the hospital bed, but is a rather vague memory.
He imagines that his father had been hospitalized and discharged repeatedly.
And his father was riding a "Batabata" when he was discharged from the hospital.
As the name suggests, "Batabata" was a powered bicycle that made a "batabata" sound.
"Batabata" was a reliable companion to his father who had lost his strength.
His father wore a thick brown leather jumper in the winter and was riding a "Batabata".
Episode 102
No doubt his father thought he couldn't live long.
His father was worried about the life of his wife and child after he died.
The Japanese National Railways was a large company run by the Japanese government at the time, so it had a welfare pension system, but his father's working period was not enough to qualify for the "survivor's pension".
His father joined the Asahi Shimbun to meet the shortage period.
He doesn't know what his father was doing in the Asahi Shimbun, but at that time his father was riding a "Batabata".
The "Batabata" was probably the "Batabata" owned by the Asahi Shimbun.
Episode 103
The motorized bicycle Batabata, which was developed by Honda's founder Soichiro Honda in the 1945's and became a big hit, was manufactured using the generator engine of the old military transceiver.
This Batabata was the beginning of the history of "Honda," which became a major company in the world.
In 1946, a bicycle ran through the city of Hamamatsu with a loud noise.
There was a woman in Monpe on the bicycle, who was Mr. Honda's wife.
A hot water bottle was attached to the rear of the bicycle, which contained pine oil instead of gasoline.
This is the first "vehicle" made by Soichiro Honda.
This bicycle with an engine became very popular in the burnt field, and the engine made a loud "batabata" sound, so it got its name.
Batabata that his father was riding also made a loud engine noise, but it was nice.
The appearance of his father wearing a leather jacket and going to work on a Batabata was cool.
However, his father was already weak, so he must have endured the cold of winter.
His father must have endured the cold to make up for the shortage of the "survivor's pension".
Episode 104
It was around 4 o'clock in the early morning of January 7, 1962, when he was 10 years old.
He was awakened by his mother.
"Go to the hospital and bring Dr. Tanimura," his mother said.
His father lay suffocating in the futon.
He saw the situation and understood his mother's order.
The distance from his house to Tanimura Hospital was about 2km.
There was no phone in his house or in the neighborhood.
At that time, cars were still unpurchasable to the common people, so roads were undeveloped and there were almost no traffic signal.
He was a timid boy who was afraid of darkness like other boys.
His sense of mission outweighed his cowardice because of his mother's an unusual attitude.
Under the pitch-dark night sky, he left the house on a bicycle.
Episode 105
He called out to the nurse in the building from the small courtyard of the hospital.
He thought there was a nurse there because only one room was lit in the hospital.
Two nurses on the night shift opened the window and listened to him.
The two nurses were clearly confused as they listened to the child's speech.
He has no memory of how he communicated the crisis to the two nurses.
Dr. Tanimura came to his house shortly after he returned home.
In fact, he felt that he had been waiting for a doctor for a long time, and he was really worried about whether doctor would really come.
Episode 106
Dr. Tanimura came.
His hard-working request was passed on to the two nurses, who also told the doctor who was supposed to be sleeping.
The doctor gave a camphor injection.
After that, the doctor only looked at his father, and he didn't seem to be enthusiastic about his efforts.
Perhaps his father was in a critical situation that even a doctor couldn't handle
His father didn't say anything at the time of his death.
His father must have had a lot to say, but at the time of his death he had no words.
Even his father had already lost that power.
His father died.
Episode 107
The funeral was attended by his parents' brothers and sisters and their spouses.
He suspects that they gave kind words to his poor mother and her poor two children.
But soon the harsh life of her mother and her two children began.
Meanwhile, a relative of Mr. Sasaki, a name fortune-teller (mentioned above), fortune-telled his father's name.
And the bogus fortune-teller concluded that his father's name was ominous and short-lived.
And the fortune-teller said that his sister's name was also ominous.
He is a relative of that "Sho-chan" who was renamed from "Naoki" to "Shoich".
His mother, who had just lost her husband and was feeling weak, changed the name of her daughter as recommended by the fortune-teller.
Episode 108
No one knows if his sister was due to the name change, but 60 years after that, she is still alive and well.
On the other hand, the result of fortune-telling about his name was that it was not bad enough to change his name.
Naming a baby born in this world is called "meimei" in Japanese.
It is literally the name of life.
Rather, he thinks it is the name of the soul based on his experience of living for 70 years.
In Buddhism, "Dharma name" is given as the posthumous name.
Being given a Dharma name means "become a disciple of the Buddha and go to the Paradise Jodo without hesitation."
And the Dharma name is also written on the mortuary tablets and tombstones.
He follows the Buddhist tradition of his parents' Dharma names, but thinks that if the soul of a person is immortal, the name after death should also use the name of this world.
He doesn't think that many modern Japanese people will be happy in the afterlife with the Dharma name.
However, as a 10-year-old child, he accepted even the meaning of his sister's name change with little understanding.
Episode 109
A year after his father died, he was in fifth grade in elementary school.
At the graduation ceremony that year, he read "Soji(=Words to send graduates)" as a representative of current students.
That meant that the purpose of his mother's marriage to his father became a reality.
However, his mother worked hard every day, she never came on his or his sister's sankanbi(=the day parents observe their children at school).
His homeroom teacher complained to him when he was in the fifth grade of elementary school.
"What an indifferent parent your parent is," said the female teacher.
This female teacher loved him so much that she had invited him to a newly-married family with her husband.
She holds a stake in a bus company that currently dominates the local transportation industry because of the promising future, and she talked about the economy, assuming he had the same knowledge as her.
Even so, his mother was doing her best to support the family's household budget.
So he didn't complain to his mother, nor did he convey the words of his teacher to his mother.
The female teacher would have frankly vomit her heart to him.
At that time, the women were at home, and there was no place for women to work except for a bar for men.
Episode 110
Due to such a musical environment, he has always had the highest evaluation of music at school, from elementary school to his final education.
Of course he didn't study for the exam, but the paper exam for music until the final school was almost perfect.
When he was in sixth grade, he was called by a music teacher.
The teacher ordered him to join the chorus club and play the contrabass in the instrumental ensemble club.
The teacher was single but enthusiastic about music education, and the instrumental ensemble club of the elementary school where he works won the prefectural competition every year.
The instrumental ensemble club of the elementary school at that time had a large number of harmonica, and was composed of inexpensive musical instruments as a whole.
Among them, the contrabass was a prominent and a little expensive instrument.
Episode 111
During the summer vacation of his sixth grade, a music teacher ordered him to attend a violin class.
The teacher paid for the class.
Of course he didn't have a violin and never played.
The violin was prepared for him by his teacher.
He thinks the teacher wanted him to study more music.
He was already vaguely thinking about going the musical path at that time.
At the entrance ceremony, the brass band club of the junior high school played "Kimigayo" and "School song".
He was very disappointed to hear it.
He decided that he couldn't spend the next three years after school in junior high school in this brass band.
Very ephemeral, his path to his own music was cut off at this entrance ceremony.
Episode 112
He began writing this memoir on August 12, 2021.
He had a new thought while writing his memoirs.
It's an idea of what would have happened to the lives of him and his sister if his father had bought a piano instead of a marimba at that time.
He was disappointed with the brass band club in junior high school and closed the way to music.
His sister was completely cut off from being a marimba player due to the death of her father.
He then spent his childhood hoping to play the piano several times.
He bought a piano when he grew up and had a family.
The purpose was to have his two daughters learn the piano, but at the same time he taught himself the piano.
Piano pieces played by the two daughters were heard every day around the altar where his father's soul was enshrined.
One of his daughters won the highest award at a junior high school piano competition in the prefecture.
He was thinking of sending his two daughters to a music college, but in an interview with a local newspaper when his daughter received the award, she said, "I want to be a veterinarian in the future."
He thought that the days of requiescats prayer for his father were over at this time.
He himself finished practicing the piano instruction book (Bayer).
Now he is the same as the average person when it comes to music.
In fact, he had another daughter after that.
He didn't want his youngest daughter to learn the piano.
In him, "the music memorial service" to his father was completely over.
Episode 113
He got to work in the next town at the beginning of April this year, shortly before his 70th birthday.
It's a job only in the morning.
He was asked to work by a certain person, and he was a little happy to be asked, so he received the request.
It was a promise of half a year's work, so he quit his job at the end of September and lived leisurely in an apartment near the sea.
However, his successor soon quit, and he was asked to work again.
So he has been going to work again from the beginning of December to the next town.
In fact, for the past two months he hasn't had a car and has been biking for various errands of his own.
But he thought it would be a little unreasonable for his age to commute to the next town in the north wind or in the cold rain.
So he bought an old, small and cheap car and started commuting in that car.
The duration of his work this time is expected to be two to three months, but he sincerely hopes that the term will end sooner.
He doesn't have much physical strength or energy anymore.
Episode 114
There is a chair beside his bed in the apartment room where he spends his days.
There are always seven books and a magazine on the chair.
The seven books and one magazine are his zayunosyo(=desk-side book).
The magazine was bought at a popular second-hand bookstore for 200 yen, and is a digest of news published by a famous American broadcaster, with a CD of about 70 minutes.
He doesn't know how many times he listened to the CD, but he always listens to it when he wakes up in the middle of the night or early in the morning, so he sleeps again while listening to the CD, so he rarely listens through the 70-minute content.
One of the seven books is an old book about the ancient history of the area where he lives.
A book published long before he was born, the paper quality is poor, the quality of the printing ink is poor, and there are some unreadable parts, but it is a book that has been studied from a broad perspective and scientifically.
In addition, since the Chinese characters is the old Chinese characters and not the "Toy? kanji(=regular-use Chinese characters)" currently used, it takes a little energy to read.
He finds great value in the history book and wants the people in the area where he lives to know what is written in it, so he uses the difficult Chinese characters as they are and distributes them over the Internet.
Of course he is sure that the book is not copyrighted.
Episode 115
This history book is a book compiled and published long ago, and since he reads it frequently, it puts stress on the body of the book.
He treated the book carefully so that it wouldn't be destroyed, but one day the history book was finally disassembled.
He got this book as a secondhand book because this history book was published long before he was born.
This secondhand book was priced at a justified value for this book
He hadn't fully used the value of the book when it broke.
So he somehow thought about reviving the body of the book.
He searched for paper of similar quality to the paper used in book.
Using paper and glue, he patiently regenerated from one detail to the next.
Repairing and refurbishing books was something he had never thought of before.
Episode 116
The other of the seven books is an English-Japanese dictionary that he bought at a second-hand bookstore (He bought the magazine mentioned above) for 500 yen.
Even if it is a book that someone bought once, we can buy the enormous amount of human knowledge and work written in the dictionary for only 500 yen.
The English-Japanese dictionary looked like new when he bought it, but now it's dirty and there are a lot of underlines drawn with a red pen when turning the page.
Just the other day, the spine of this English-Japanese dictionary came off, and several sheets of paper came off the main body of the dictionary.
He thought about going to a second-hand bookstore again to buy another English-Japanese dictionary, but now that it has become a very attached dictionary, he decided to repair it in the same way as a history book.
The repair of the dictionary was completed immediately because it was not difficult to repair than the history book.
When he picked up the dictionary, it was heavy and revived into a well-shaped dictionary.
He was very satisfied.
It seems that he wants his English-Japanese dictionary to be placed in his casket, just as his mother put the non-professional baseball uniform of the Japanese National Railways in his father's casket.
He thinks that even in the afterlife, if there is an English-Japanese dictionary, he can live without getting bored.
Episode 117
He studied at a national technical college a long time ago.
At that time, there was a young teacher who lectured on Western philosophy.
The teacher always carried an English-Japanese dictionary with him when he lectured on Western philosophy.
The teacher used the English-Japanese dictionary like a Japanese dictionary to show off his English ability.
For example, when the teacher described Socrates' wife, he opened Xanthippe in an English-Japanese dictionary.
And the teacher said, "She was the wife of Socrates, very noisy in legend, she was always supposed to be swearing at her husband, and she was said to be a bad wife."
"Christianity" was a big theme in the Western philosophy that the teacher lectured.
He actively read Western classic novels at the time.
At that time, "Christianity" was still a big issue.
He is reading the Bible now.
He wants to finish reading the Bible once by the time he dies.
The Bible is one of his seven books.
His mother often described his character as "yakan-tagiri".
"Yakan-tagiri" means that it gets hot quickly but cools down quickly.
He remains "yakan-tagiri" from an early age to the present age.
Will his enthusiasm cool down first, or will his life run out first?
Finally
Soon the death anniversary of his father, his sister's father, and his mother's husband will come.
It's been 60 years since that day.
That's all.
Recollection from Episode 70 to Episode 117
2021年10月09日
He Episode 1〜Episode 59
Episode 1
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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
Episode 55
There was a public hall near his house.
The model plane was flying in the open space of the public hall.
Now when he sees it with the eyes of an adult, it is small, but at that time, the grounds of the public hall seemed large to the eyes of children.
He enjoyed a lot of play in the public hall square.
One of them is baseball, which was called a triangular base.
The triangular base was devised so that it could be played with only the ball even in a small space or when the number of people was small, but they used a bat.
Although the yard of the public hall is large, it is limited, and the ball that was hit by the bat often flew out of the yard, so the damaged adult got angry.
Episode 56
There was a shrine in a corner of the public hall where it was not clear what was enshrined, and an old house where an old woman who seems to manage the shrine lived.
The house where the old woman lived was small, but it was surrounded by the old wooden fence and vegetation, and it had a very strange atmosphere.
The old woman occasionally came out of her house, but she seemed to live independently of the world, and the children in her neighborhood never approached her.
The ball could hit the old wooden fence and puncture it, or it could jump over the wooden fence and enter the premises of the old woman's residence.
After confirming that there was no old woman, the children quickly entered the wooden fence and vegetation of the old woman's house and took out the ball.
The boys occasionally played in a shrine where they didn't know what was enshrined.
The boys played innocently while singing a nursery rhyme with the lyrics "zouri kakusi tyunenbo".
He also remembers nursery rhymes with lyrics such as "rosia yabankoku kurobatokin".
Episode 57
He played a lot when he was a kid, but he thinks the one he played seriously was tops(=koma).
The size of the top was so large that it protruded from his palm at that time, and the shape was like crushing a lemon vertically.
The core was made of lead, and the part to be embedded in the top was a square pyramid.
The core was heated so that it would be embedded in the deep part of the top, and it was stabbed while hitting it with a mallet.
The core was thick, so when he hit it hard with a mallet, the top often broke.
The opposite side of the core, that is, the part in contact with the ground, had a cross section that was simply cut with a metal cutter.
So when he turned the top with a new core, the top turned awkwardly.
Episode 58
The top he played is a fighting top, in which he threw a top in the form of a baseball pitcher's underslow to defeat the enemy's top.
The top was heavy, and he threw the top so hard that the string that turned the top was made of sturdy hemp.
At that time, hemp that was no longer seen was sold in stores.
The hemp he had just bought was so hard that he couldn't twist it, so he first softened the hemp.
If the tip of the hemp string is not wrapped tightly around the core of the top, the string will come loose when the top is thrown, so it was necessary to make it thin.
And the other side of the hemp string gradually becomes thicker.
And he made a ball on the last part of the hemp string to prevent it from coming out of his hand due to the impact of throwing a top.
Furthermore, the tip of the hemp ball was made into a fluttering decoration by tearing the hemp into small pieces along the fiber.
He had unraveled it before making the hemp string, but the new hemp string was hard and difficult to use.
So he had to use it for the hemp string to fit snugly and comfortably.
When used, the hemp string became a texture like an old rag.
Then, it became a perfect top string, and eventually it broke.
His father helped him until he was able to make the hemp string to spin the top by himself.
Episode 59
As the lead core of the top was used, the tip became round and curved.
Not only was it curled up, but it was rolled up a little outward.
It became like a rivet.
When the top was turned, it turned without shaking, but when the energy of the rotation was low, it turned around like a drunken man.
At that time, the outer circumference of the lead core is gradually scraped by the soil.
The soil on the site of the public hall was fine-grained soil, so the lead core of the top was polished by the soil to give it a smooth luster.
Some children also played in more radical fighting tops.
The children slammed their tops against the enemy's tops.
The tip of the lead core of the top was sharpened to crush the enemy’s top.
He didn't like this play and didn't.
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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
Episode 55
There was a public hall near his house.
The model plane was flying in the open space of the public hall.
Now when he sees it with the eyes of an adult, it is small, but at that time, the grounds of the public hall seemed large to the eyes of children.
He enjoyed a lot of play in the public hall square.
One of them is baseball, which was called a triangular base.
The triangular base was devised so that it could be played with only the ball even in a small space or when the number of people was small, but they used a bat.
Although the yard of the public hall is large, it is limited, and the ball that was hit by the bat often flew out of the yard, so the damaged adult got angry.
Episode 56
There was a shrine in a corner of the public hall where it was not clear what was enshrined, and an old house where an old woman who seems to manage the shrine lived.
The house where the old woman lived was small, but it was surrounded by the old wooden fence and vegetation, and it had a very strange atmosphere.
The old woman occasionally came out of her house, but she seemed to live independently of the world, and the children in her neighborhood never approached her.
The ball could hit the old wooden fence and puncture it, or it could jump over the wooden fence and enter the premises of the old woman's residence.
After confirming that there was no old woman, the children quickly entered the wooden fence and vegetation of the old woman's house and took out the ball.
The boys occasionally played in a shrine where they didn't know what was enshrined.
The boys played innocently while singing a nursery rhyme with the lyrics "zouri kakusi tyunenbo".
He also remembers nursery rhymes with lyrics such as "rosia yabankoku kurobatokin".
Episode 57
He played a lot when he was a kid, but he thinks the one he played seriously was tops(=koma).
The size of the top was so large that it protruded from his palm at that time, and the shape was like crushing a lemon vertically.
The core was made of lead, and the part to be embedded in the top was a square pyramid.
The core was heated so that it would be embedded in the deep part of the top, and it was stabbed while hitting it with a mallet.
The core was thick, so when he hit it hard with a mallet, the top often broke.
The opposite side of the core, that is, the part in contact with the ground, had a cross section that was simply cut with a metal cutter.
So when he turned the top with a new core, the top turned awkwardly.
Episode 58
The top he played is a fighting top, in which he threw a top in the form of a baseball pitcher's underslow to defeat the enemy's top.
The top was heavy, and he threw the top so hard that the string that turned the top was made of sturdy hemp.
At that time, hemp that was no longer seen was sold in stores.
The hemp he had just bought was so hard that he couldn't twist it, so he first softened the hemp.
If the tip of the hemp string is not wrapped tightly around the core of the top, the string will come loose when the top is thrown, so it was necessary to make it thin.
And the other side of the hemp string gradually becomes thicker.
And he made a ball on the last part of the hemp string to prevent it from coming out of his hand due to the impact of throwing a top.
Furthermore, the tip of the hemp ball was made into a fluttering decoration by tearing the hemp into small pieces along the fiber.
He had unraveled it before making the hemp string, but the new hemp string was hard and difficult to use.
So he had to use it for the hemp string to fit snugly and comfortably.
When used, the hemp string became a texture like an old rag.
Then, it became a perfect top string, and eventually it broke.
His father helped him until he was able to make the hemp string to spin the top by himself.
Episode 59
As the lead core of the top was used, the tip became round and curved.
Not only was it curled up, but it was rolled up a little outward.
It became like a rivet.
When the top was turned, it turned without shaking, but when the energy of the rotation was low, it turned around like a drunken man.
At that time, the outer circumference of the lead core is gradually scraped by the soil.
The soil on the site of the public hall was fine-grained soil, so the lead core of the top was polished by the soil to give it a smooth luster.
Some children also played in more radical fighting tops.
The children slammed their tops against the enemy's tops.
The tip of the lead core of the top was sharpened to crush the enemy’s top.
He didn't like this play and didn't.
2021年10月08日
He Episode 1〜Episode 58
Episode 1
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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
Episode 55
There was a public hall near his house.
The model plane was flying in the open space of the public hall.
Now when he sees it with the eyes of an adult, it is small, but at that time, the grounds of the public hall seemed large to the eyes of children.
He enjoyed a lot of play in the public hall square.
One of them is baseball, which was called a triangular base.
The triangular base was devised so that it could be played with only the ball even in a small space or when the number of people was small, but they used a bat.
Although the yard of the public hall is large, it is limited, and the ball that was hit by the bat often flew out of the yard, so the damaged adult got angry.
Episode 56
There was a shrine in a corner of the public hall where it was not clear what was enshrined, and an old house where an old woman who seems to manage the shrine lived.
The house where the old woman lived was small, but it was surrounded by the old wooden fence and vegetation, and it had a very strange atmosphere.
The old woman occasionally came out of her house, but she seemed to live independently of the world, and the children in her neighborhood never approached her.
The ball could hit the old wooden fence and puncture it, or it could jump over the wooden fence and enter the premises of the old woman's residence.
After confirming that there was no old woman, the children quickly entered the wooden fence and vegetation of the old woman's house and took out the ball.
The boys occasionally played in a shrine where they didn't know what was enshrined.
The boys played innocently while singing a nursery rhyme with the lyrics "zouri kakusi tyunenbo".
He also remembers nursery rhymes with lyrics such as "rosia yabankoku kurobatokin".
Episode 57
He played a lot when he was a kid, but he thinks the one he played seriously was tops(=koma).
The size of the top was so large that it protruded from his palm at that time, and the shape was like crushing a lemon vertically.
The core was made of lead, and the part to be embedded in the top was a square pyramid.
The core was heated so that it would be embedded in the deep part of the top, and it was stabbed while hitting it with a mallet.
The core was thick, so when he hit it hard with a mallet, the top often broke.
The opposite side of the core, that is, the part in contact with the ground, had a cross section that was simply cut with a metal cutter.
So when he turned the top with a new core, the top turned awkwardly.
Episode 58
The top he played is a fighting top, in which he threw a top in the form of a baseball pitcher's underslow to defeat the enemy's top.
The top was heavy, and he threw the top so hard that the string that turned the top was made of sturdy hemp.
At that time, hemp that was no longer seen was sold in stores.
The hemp he had just bought was so hard that he couldn't twist it, so he first softened the hemp.
If the tip of the hemp string is not wrapped tightly around the core of the top, the string will come loose when the top is thrown, so it was necessary to make it thin.
And the other side of the hemp string gradually becomes thicker.
And he made a ball on the last part of the hemp string to prevent it from coming out of his hand due to the impact of throwing a top.
Furthermore, the tip of the hemp ball was made into a fluttering decoration by tearing the hemp into small pieces along the fiber.
He had unraveled it before making the hemp string, but the new hemp string was hard and difficult to use.
So he had to use it for the hemp string to fit snugly and comfortably.
When used, the hemp string became a texture like an old rag.
Then, it became a perfect top string, and eventually it broke.
His father helped him until he was able to make the hemp string to spin the top by himself.
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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
Episode 55
There was a public hall near his house.
The model plane was flying in the open space of the public hall.
Now when he sees it with the eyes of an adult, it is small, but at that time, the grounds of the public hall seemed large to the eyes of children.
He enjoyed a lot of play in the public hall square.
One of them is baseball, which was called a triangular base.
The triangular base was devised so that it could be played with only the ball even in a small space or when the number of people was small, but they used a bat.
Although the yard of the public hall is large, it is limited, and the ball that was hit by the bat often flew out of the yard, so the damaged adult got angry.
Episode 56
There was a shrine in a corner of the public hall where it was not clear what was enshrined, and an old house where an old woman who seems to manage the shrine lived.
The house where the old woman lived was small, but it was surrounded by the old wooden fence and vegetation, and it had a very strange atmosphere.
The old woman occasionally came out of her house, but she seemed to live independently of the world, and the children in her neighborhood never approached her.
The ball could hit the old wooden fence and puncture it, or it could jump over the wooden fence and enter the premises of the old woman's residence.
After confirming that there was no old woman, the children quickly entered the wooden fence and vegetation of the old woman's house and took out the ball.
The boys occasionally played in a shrine where they didn't know what was enshrined.
The boys played innocently while singing a nursery rhyme with the lyrics "zouri kakusi tyunenbo".
He also remembers nursery rhymes with lyrics such as "rosia yabankoku kurobatokin".
Episode 57
He played a lot when he was a kid, but he thinks the one he played seriously was tops(=koma).
The size of the top was so large that it protruded from his palm at that time, and the shape was like crushing a lemon vertically.
The core was made of lead, and the part to be embedded in the top was a square pyramid.
The core was heated so that it would be embedded in the deep part of the top, and it was stabbed while hitting it with a mallet.
The core was thick, so when he hit it hard with a mallet, the top often broke.
The opposite side of the core, that is, the part in contact with the ground, had a cross section that was simply cut with a metal cutter.
So when he turned the top with a new core, the top turned awkwardly.
Episode 58
The top he played is a fighting top, in which he threw a top in the form of a baseball pitcher's underslow to defeat the enemy's top.
The top was heavy, and he threw the top so hard that the string that turned the top was made of sturdy hemp.
At that time, hemp that was no longer seen was sold in stores.
The hemp he had just bought was so hard that he couldn't twist it, so he first softened the hemp.
If the tip of the hemp string is not wrapped tightly around the core of the top, the string will come loose when the top is thrown, so it was necessary to make it thin.
And the other side of the hemp string gradually becomes thicker.
And he made a ball on the last part of the hemp string to prevent it from coming out of his hand due to the impact of throwing a top.
Furthermore, the tip of the hemp ball was made into a fluttering decoration by tearing the hemp into small pieces along the fiber.
He had unraveled it before making the hemp string, but the new hemp string was hard and difficult to use.
So he had to use it for the hemp string to fit snugly and comfortably.
When used, the hemp string became a texture like an old rag.
Then, it became a perfect top string, and eventually it broke.
His father helped him until he was able to make the hemp string to spin the top by himself.
2021年10月07日
He Episode 1〜Episode 57
Episode 1
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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
Episode 55
There was a public hall near his house.
The model plane was flying in the open space of the public hall.
Now when he sees it with the eyes of an adult, it is small, but at that time, the grounds of the public hall seemed large to the eyes of children.
He enjoyed a lot of play in the public hall square.
One of them is baseball, which was called a triangular base.
The triangular base was devised so that it could be played with only the ball even in a small space or when the number of people was small, but they used a bat.
Although the yard of the public hall is large, it is limited, and the ball that was hit by the bat often flew out of the yard, so the damaged adult got angry.
Episode 56
There was a shrine in a corner of the public hall where it was not clear what was enshrined, and an old house where an old woman who seems to manage the shrine lived.
The house where the old woman lived was small, but it was surrounded by the old wooden fence and vegetation, and it had a very strange atmosphere.
The old woman occasionally came out of her house, but she seemed to live independently of the world, and the children in her neighborhood never approached her.
The ball could hit the old wooden fence and puncture it, or it could jump over the wooden fence and enter the premises of the old woman's residence.
After confirming that there was no old woman, the children quickly entered the wooden fence and vegetation of the old woman's house and took out the ball.
The boys occasionally played in a shrine where they didn't know what was enshrined.
The boys played innocently while singing a nursery rhyme with the lyrics "zouri kakusi tyunenbo".
He also remembers nursery rhymes with lyrics such as "rosia yabankoku kurobatokin".
Episode 57
He played a lot when he was a kid, but he thinks the one he played seriously was tops(=koma).
The size of the top was so large that it protruded from his palm at that time, and the shape was like crushing a lemon vertically.
The core was made of lead, and the part to be embedded in the top was a square pyramid.
The core was heated so that it would be embedded in the deep part of the top, and it was stabbed while hitting it with a mallet.
The core was thick, so when he hit it hard with a mallet, the top often broke.
The opposite side of the core, that is, the part in contact with the ground, had a cross section that was simply cut with a metal cutter.
So when he turned the top with a new core, the top turned awkwardly.
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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
Episode 55
There was a public hall near his house.
The model plane was flying in the open space of the public hall.
Now when he sees it with the eyes of an adult, it is small, but at that time, the grounds of the public hall seemed large to the eyes of children.
He enjoyed a lot of play in the public hall square.
One of them is baseball, which was called a triangular base.
The triangular base was devised so that it could be played with only the ball even in a small space or when the number of people was small, but they used a bat.
Although the yard of the public hall is large, it is limited, and the ball that was hit by the bat often flew out of the yard, so the damaged adult got angry.
Episode 56
There was a shrine in a corner of the public hall where it was not clear what was enshrined, and an old house where an old woman who seems to manage the shrine lived.
The house where the old woman lived was small, but it was surrounded by the old wooden fence and vegetation, and it had a very strange atmosphere.
The old woman occasionally came out of her house, but she seemed to live independently of the world, and the children in her neighborhood never approached her.
The ball could hit the old wooden fence and puncture it, or it could jump over the wooden fence and enter the premises of the old woman's residence.
After confirming that there was no old woman, the children quickly entered the wooden fence and vegetation of the old woman's house and took out the ball.
The boys occasionally played in a shrine where they didn't know what was enshrined.
The boys played innocently while singing a nursery rhyme with the lyrics "zouri kakusi tyunenbo".
He also remembers nursery rhymes with lyrics such as "rosia yabankoku kurobatokin".
Episode 57
He played a lot when he was a kid, but he thinks the one he played seriously was tops(=koma).
The size of the top was so large that it protruded from his palm at that time, and the shape was like crushing a lemon vertically.
The core was made of lead, and the part to be embedded in the top was a square pyramid.
The core was heated so that it would be embedded in the deep part of the top, and it was stabbed while hitting it with a mallet.
The core was thick, so when he hit it hard with a mallet, the top often broke.
The opposite side of the core, that is, the part in contact with the ground, had a cross section that was simply cut with a metal cutter.
So when he turned the top with a new core, the top turned awkwardly.
2021年10月06日
He Episode 1〜Episode 56
Episode 1
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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
Episode 55
There was a public hall near his house.
The model plane was flying in the open space of the public hall.
Now when he sees it with the eyes of an adult, it is small, but at that time, the grounds of the public hall seemed large to the eyes of children.
He enjoyed a lot of play in the public hall square.
One of them is baseball, which was called a triangular base.
The triangular base was devised so that it could be played with only the ball even in a small space or when the number of people was small, but they used a bat.
Although the yard of the public hall is large, it is limited, and the ball that was hit by the bat often flew out of the yard, so the damaged adult got angry.
Episode 56
There was a shrine in a corner of the public hall where it was not clear what was enshrined, and an old house where an old woman who seems to manage the shrine lived.
The house where the old woman lived was small, but it was surrounded by the old wooden fence and vegetation, and it had a very strange atmosphere.
The old woman occasionally came out of her house, but she seemed to live independently of the world, and the children in her neighborhood never approached her.
The ball could hit the old wooden fence and puncture it, or it could jump over the wooden fence and enter the premises of the old woman's residence.
After confirming that there was no old woman, the children quickly entered the wooden fence and vegetation of the old woman's house and took out the ball.
The boys occasionally played in a shrine where they didn't know what was enshrined.
The boys played innocently while singing a nursery rhyme with the lyrics "zouri kakusi tyunenbo".
He also remembers nursery rhymes with lyrics such as "rosia yabankoku kurobatokin".
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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
Episode 55
There was a public hall near his house.
The model plane was flying in the open space of the public hall.
Now when he sees it with the eyes of an adult, it is small, but at that time, the grounds of the public hall seemed large to the eyes of children.
He enjoyed a lot of play in the public hall square.
One of them is baseball, which was called a triangular base.
The triangular base was devised so that it could be played with only the ball even in a small space or when the number of people was small, but they used a bat.
Although the yard of the public hall is large, it is limited, and the ball that was hit by the bat often flew out of the yard, so the damaged adult got angry.
Episode 56
There was a shrine in a corner of the public hall where it was not clear what was enshrined, and an old house where an old woman who seems to manage the shrine lived.
The house where the old woman lived was small, but it was surrounded by the old wooden fence and vegetation, and it had a very strange atmosphere.
The old woman occasionally came out of her house, but she seemed to live independently of the world, and the children in her neighborhood never approached her.
The ball could hit the old wooden fence and puncture it, or it could jump over the wooden fence and enter the premises of the old woman's residence.
After confirming that there was no old woman, the children quickly entered the wooden fence and vegetation of the old woman's house and took out the ball.
The boys occasionally played in a shrine where they didn't know what was enshrined.
The boys played innocently while singing a nursery rhyme with the lyrics "zouri kakusi tyunenbo".
He also remembers nursery rhymes with lyrics such as "rosia yabankoku kurobatokin".
2021年10月05日
He Episode 1〜pisode 55
Episode 1
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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
Episode 55
There was a public hall near his house.
The model plane was flying in the open space of the public hall.
Now when he sees it with the eyes of an adult, it is small, but at that time, the grounds of the public hall seemed large to the eyes of children.
He enjoyed a lot of play in the public hall square.
One of them is baseball, which was called a triangular base.
The triangular base was devised so that it could be played with only the ball even in a small space or when the number of people was small, but they used a bat.
Although the yard of the public hall is large, it is limited, and the ball that was hit by the bat often flew out of the yard, so the damaged adult got angry.
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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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
Episode 55
There was a public hall near his house.
The model plane was flying in the open space of the public hall.
Now when he sees it with the eyes of an adult, it is small, but at that time, the grounds of the public hall seemed large to the eyes of children.
He enjoyed a lot of play in the public hall square.
One of them is baseball, which was called a triangular base.
The triangular base was devised so that it could be played with only the ball even in a small space or when the number of people was small, but they used a bat.
Although the yard of the public hall is large, it is limited, and the ball that was hit by the bat often flew out of the yard, so the damaged adult got angry.
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2021年10月04日
He Episode 1〜Episode 54
Episode 1
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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
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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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
Episode 54
Mayumi-chan's two older brothers were very enthusiastic about flying a model plane.
The two were, of course, older than him, but looked a little different in type from some other boys of the same age.
The two were serious about flying a model airplane, not just playing, but as if they were doing a science experiment.
The two made him feel that they were in solidarity with a model airplane.
He was turning the propeller with his finger to store energy in the power elastic cord, but the brother of the fishmonger's son used a tool called a "winder" to energize the elastic cord very efficiently.
Since they used the winder efficiently, adjustments such as the balance of the aircraft and the tilt of the wings for the flight were rational.
His model planes were not as good as that of the fishmonger's sons, as they flew model planes while studying with their close brothers.
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2021年10月03日
He Episode 1〜Episode 53
Episode 1
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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
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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.
Upon returning home, his father inserted a spider branch into a gap in the outer wall of the house.
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.
Episode 33
At his elementary school athletic meet, there was a boy who ran very fast, and the other children said that the cause was "Nakayama-kun's house feeds chickens and always eats eggs."
A mysterious old woman living next to a public hall once brought a basket full of eggs to his father.
At that time, the mysterious old woman was saying something to thank his father.
The basket full of eggs at that time still remains in his mind.
Of course the eggs was probably given to his father first, but he doesn't remember if he was given it either.
That's why chicken and eggs were precious at the time, but his father's aunt brought a live chicken from afar and the ingredients were thoroughly cooked.
And they were eaten as nutrition for his father.
Of course the chicken would have been his meal, but above all he remembers the delicious meal of chicken soup filled in a bowl and the chicken oil floating on it.
Episode 34
His family lived in a rented house.
Belonging to the oldest category of his memory, his father shared a room with a tatami mat craftsman who was hospitalized for the same illness when his father was hospitalized for tuberculosis.
A tatami mat craftsman who became close to his father during hospitalization suggested to his father.
"I hope you come because there is a vacant space next to my house."
And he imagines that his family has moved next to the tatami mat craftsman's house.
It was when his father had tuberculosis in Osaka and came home-town with his family of four.
So his family should have had almost no baggage.
The tatami mat craftsman had a big body, a loud voice, and no hair on his head, but his face was scary and he was a dashing person.
He thinks the tatami mat craftsman liked his father.
A tatami mat craftsman called his father nicknamed "Take."
He imagines that the tatami mat craftsman was a person called "Sasaki" who was very, very kind.
He remembers Mr. Sasaki sewing tatami mats.
When tightening the thread, Mr. Sasaki pressed his elbow against the tatami mat and pulled the thread, but Mr. Sasaki was pulling very strongly, and Mr. Sasaki's muscles from his shoulders to his arms were very strong.
He writes this article with gratitude to Mr. Sasaki and his wife, and praying for souls.
Episode 35
Mr. Sasaki had a girl named "Masako" and a boy named "Naoki".
"Masako-chan" was more than 10 years older than him, but at one point she disappeared.
As he knew later, "Masako-chan" left her hometown with "syudan-syusyoku = group employment" after graduating from junior high school.
"Group employment" began in Japan when the "Masako-chan" generation graduated from junior high school.
At that time, there were no companies in rural areas where young people who graduated from junior high school and wanted a job could find employment.
However, factories such as the textile industry in other prefectures needed such young human resources.
Episode 36
"Naoki-chan" was renamed to "Shoichi" by his father, Mr. Sasaki.
"Sho-chan" was renamed because of the unlucky number of strokes in his original name, "Naoki."
It was Sasaki's relative's uncle who said that the name "Naoki" was unlucky, and it seems that he was not a profession of fortune-telling, but just a person who was good at fortune-telling.
He called the renamed "Shoich" "Sho-chan"
"Sho-chan" was a few years older than him, so he wasn't a playmate.
When "Sho-chan" graduated from junior high school, he entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" used to go to school by steam locomotive every day.
At that time, there were three prefectural high schools in the hometown of "Sho-chan", but there were no private high schools.
"Sho-chan" was a post-war "baby boomer generation" and there were many students in the same grade who could not enroll in prefectural high school.
Therefore, if they failed the entrance examinations of the three schools, they either got a job or entered a private high school in the neighboring prefecture.
"Sho-chan" studied cooking at a private high school in the neighboring prefecture and later became a good cook on a ferry ship.
Episode 37
Mr. Sasaki actually had another daughter.
He thinks her name was "Sacchan".
"Sacchan" was a daughter born to Mr. Sasaki and his former wife.
Her voice was high and nice, and her face and body were round.
Perhaps she was working in a bar and the husband of "Sacchan" was a petite and beautiful man.
Even from the eyes of a child, "Sacchan" seemed to fall in love with her husband.
"Sacchan" has returned to her father's house to give birth to a child with her husband.
Mr Sasaki had another house next to his home.
"Sacchan" gave birth to a baby girl there.
Her midwife helped "Sacchan" give birth to a baby.
Mr. Sasaki's wife's attitude toward "Sacchan" was cold.
He has never seen "Sacchan" since then.
Episode 38
Beyond the house where Sacchan gave birth to a baby, the houses were lined up in a mess.
There was a narrow living road between the houses, and at the dead end there was a goat.
He tried to see if the goat really eats paper.
Unfortunately he doesn't remember the result.
It was just behind the workplace where Mr. Sasaki made tatami mats.
The house next to Mr. Sasaki's workplace had a dog named "Kuro".
Except for the shepherd at Mr. Matsuo's house, most of the dogs at that time were mixed breeds, and "Kuro" was also a black-haired mixed breed dog.
Rabies was commonly known at times when society as a whole was unhygienic.
There was also a scene in which a "dog killer" dispatched by a public institution such as a public health center caught a stray dog with a wire ring.
"Dog killer" was a professional worker, and the appearance of going toward the dog was amazing.
For unknown reasons, at one point he was running down the narrow living road behind Mr. Sasaki's workplace towards the goat.
"Kuro" ran after him and bit his thigh from behind.
He still remembers that horror.
He doesn't remember if "Kuro" was caught by "Dog Killer".
Episode 39
The kitchen of the rental house where his family lived was a dirt floor.
His mother cooked rice with a "kamado", but she also used a "shichirin" to cook.
The rental house was near a large river flowing through the region, but about a kilometer downstream was a harbor, and there was a pier for a small ferry to the island off the coast.
The pier was made of wood and was built using fairly large timber.
He went down to the beam of the pier, soaked his feet in the water up to his knees, and searched for river crabs.
The river crab was called "Tsugani" in the region, and it had soft hair on the scissors and was big.
He went down under the pier with a small harpoon called "kanatsuki".
He was catching crabs with "kanatsuki" to eat river crabs called "Tsugani".
Whenever he returned home, there was no family member.
He had set fire in the shichirin, and put water in the kettle, and boiled water, and put "Tsugani" in boiled water, and ate it.
The taste of that time is still engraved deep in his mind, and it is a very nostalgic memory.
But that meant he was catching the "oyatsu(=snack)" himself in the river because his parents didn't give him a oyatsu.
Episode 40
He got some pocket money from his mother, but he doesn't really remember much.
No, he thinks he got it, but he doesn't remember.
But he thinks he caught crabs in the river and dug up the potatoes in the fields, baked them, and ate them because his pocket money was small.
He went to a “dagashiya(=cheap candy store)” when he got some pocket money.
At that time, the whole of Japan was poor, so especially in the countryside, there was no custom of "oyatsu".
He thought "oyatsu" was a habit of a rich family.
"Oyatsu" had the image of a kind of fine sweets prepared by a housewife at home.
Unrelated to "oyatsu", he used to go to a cheap candy store with a small amount of money.
There were two cheap candy stores in his area.
One is a store run by an old man next to the graveyard.
The other store was run by a scary aunt, about 50 meters away from the store next to the graveyard.
He always went to a cheap candy store called "Shiraishi" next to the graveyard.
Episode 41
The cheap candy was in a large glass container, which had holes large enough for customers to put their hands in and take out the required number of candy.
And, for example, it was sold as 1 yen per piece.
He always bought "suzume-no-tamago(sparrow eggs)".
One was 0.5 yen.
The money he used was a ten-yen note and a one-yen note.
He could buy 20 "sparrow eggs" for 10 yen.
He thinks there were other types of cheap candy, but he only remembers "sparrow eggs" so much that he can't remember.
The old man's shop sold children's play equipment such as "koma (= tops)", "menko" and "bidama (= marbles)" and simple fishing gear.
Episode 42
Children need play equipment because they are alive to play.
He made his own play equipment, just as he caught and ate crabs himself.
Stilts, water guns, enomi guns, rubber guns, shrimp harpoons, bird traps, bamboo dragonflies, etc., all the play equipment was made by himself.
He didn't have anything, and it was too expensive to buy, so he made most of it himself.
He played in the river almost all day during the summer, but always with shrimp harpoons.
When he was six years old and went to school, the school obliged students to study at home until 10 am during the summer vacation.
He had no choice but to put up with it at home until that time, but at 10 am he went to the river as if he had been unleashed.
Episode 43
The shrimp harpoon was one of his proofs of being wild.
He removed the spokes of an old and unusable bicycle and bent one end of the spokes with pliers to "trigger" it.
The other side of the spoke was sharpened with a file to make it thinner, and a "Gagari(=Kaeshi)" was added to prevent it from coming off when it was stabbed by a shrimp.
It wasn't just the wisdom of children, it was based on the experience and wisdom of seniors.
Episode 44
And he cut one thick bamboo and one thin bamboo from the bush on the bank of the nearby river.
A thick bamboo with a diameter of about 10 mm is the main body of the harpoon, and a groove is dug in the direction of the bamboo fiber.
The length of the groove was the range of movement of the spoke harpoon.
Then, a thin bamboo was inserted into the tip of the thick bamboo to improve the accuracy of the direction in which the spoke harpoon pops out.
Energy was also a tube of worn-out bicycle tires
The tube was folded in half and one end of the tube was fixed.
It was fixed to bamboo with a wire.
Episode 45
The other end of the tube was hooked on the bent part of the spoke and the tube was pulled to apply tension.
Of course, the tension was potential energy.
This cheap handmade harpoon was a good friend of his summer vacation.
When the harpoon hit the shrimp, the shrimp rampaged and the feeling was transmitted to the hand holding the bamboo.
Between the bank stakes was a "Rakuma(=Long-handed shrimp)" that resembled the color of the shiny river stones.
"Rakuma" with its tactile sensation extended forward and with fine scissors was lurking.
"Rakuma" is the local dialect in which he was born and raised, two long-handed shrimp with scissors.
He is 70 years old and still calls the shrimp "Rakuma".
Episode 46
When he became an adult and became able to move by car, he once played "Chongake" in "Mimi-river" about 30 km south.
"Chongake" is one of the traditional sweetfish catch in the area where he lived.
While diving into the river with a mechanism that hooks a fishing hook on the tip of a thin and short bamboo, pull the bamboo toward the swimming sweetfish.
And it is a very primitive sweetfish catch that is hooked on a fishing hook.
Since "Chongake" is often performed in relatively shallow water, it was performed in the middle reaches and tributaries of the river.
He caught sweetfish brilliantly when he first tried "Chongake".
However, the technique of hooking sweetfish swimming in the river was very difficult.
He made many mistakes and finally succeeded in hooking the sweetfish.
Episode 47
Also, at one point he had caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" by hand when he went camping upstream of "Kitagawa".
He wore underwater glasses, dipped his face in the river at the depth of his knees, and slowly lifted a slightly larger stone looking for "Rakuma."
According to Archimedes' principle, stones in water are lightened by the weight of water equal to their volume.
However, the sound of stones hitting in the water is transmitted many times louder than in the air, so if we don't lift the stones carefully, "Rakuma" will escape.
Why is the sound of stones hitting stronger in water than in air?
He somehow understands that it is probably because the density of water as a fluid is many times higher than that of air.
Even if we are lucky enough to discover "Rakuma", of course, "Rakuma" will not be caught by humans without resistance.
"Rakuma" tries to escape before being caught, and if caught, uses the "Rakuma" scissors to make a final blow to the enemy.
He caught a bucket full of "Rakuma" in a short time, even though he was a little bit pinched and hurt.
Those things were based on his childhood wild play in the river.
Episode 48
He procured all the materials used to make those play equipment on his own.
The boys at that time were really strong.
The cause was definitely poor.
He was busy playing himself and rarely played with his younger sister, two years younger.
He had no idea where and what his sister was playing in the daytime.
He now thinks that his sister was playing "playing house" with Mayumi, the daughter of a nearby fishmonger.
I can't help but regret it in the future, but I needed underwater glasses in addition to the harpoon to catch the shrimp.
The children said "Ichigan(=single eye)" and "Nigan(=two eyes)", but he wanted a "single eye" but the "single eye" was too expensive for him to buy.
"Single eye" meant one lens glass, and "two eyes" meant two lens glasses, but after all, the performance of "single eye" was superior.
So he used "two eyes", but he wasn't dissatisfied.
The "two-eyes" wasn't as cool as the current swimming goggles, it wasn't easy to use, and it was a "two-eyes" with glass fitted on a very poor quality rubber base, and it quickly became cloudy in the water.
When he actually dived into the water, he rubbed the “Yomogi(=mugwort) against the glass to prevent it from fogging.
The mugwort was everywhere like air, so he tore the mugwort and rub it against the glass.
Episode 49
On the bank of the river, wooden stakes for the purpose of revetment called "bank stake" were pierced into the riverbed, and there were gaps of about 10 cm between the stakes.
Shrimps, eels, and fishes lurked in the gap.
Since the "bank stake" was constructed all along the riverbank, there were small fishing reefs as long as the "bank stake".
So he played with the fishes that lived in the "bank stake" from morning till evening.
He used to put his head in the water of the river and expose his back to the sun, so he had his back skin peeled about three times during the summer vacation due to sunburn.
He also fished.
He fished "gomokin" and "goby" and they are still nostalgic friends.
Episode 50
He fished and caught shrimp, which was also a place where seawater would come in at high tide, so there was also a "black sea bream".
He soaked in the river to his waist, stirred the sand at the bottom of the river with his feet, muddyed the water downstream, held nylon string in his hand, and fished " black sea bream ".
He still doesn't know why, but " black sea bream" came into the muddy water and bite into the bait.
Such fishing know-how was based on the teachings of seniors.
It wasn't " black sea bream ", but at one point he fished a nice little fish and brought it home.
His mother cooked the fish into "segoshi" and fed him.
The river fish that I ate with that vinegar miso was probably the most delicious fish of his life.
Episode 51
His father was dexterous (and poor), but he also made bamboo dragonflies well with a knife.
The bamboo dragonfly made by his father flew high above the roof.
He has also been taught by his father how to make a model airplane.
The model airplane flew in the sky powered by a rubber cord.
If an airplane powered by a jet engine is called a jet airplane, an airplane powered by a rubber cord should be called a rubber airplane.
He has never seen such a rubber cord used for a model airplane since that time.
Hook the propeller on your finger, rotate the propeller around to store energy, and when you are ready to launch the model airplane into the sky, remove your finger from the propeller to dissipate the energy.
The model plane flew very attractively to his eyes.
It flew with a beautiful wake when the aircraft was well-balanced even after the energy was used up.
Episode 52
The main structural part, which could be called the backbone of the model airplane, was made of light wood with a rectangular cross section, and the outline of the wings was made of thin bamboo sticks.
（rectangular：長方形 cross section：断面）
The tips of the wings were curved.
A small aluminum cylinder was used to connect the straight and curved parts of the bamboo sticks.
The model airplane kit had straight bamboo sticks but no curved bamboo sticks.
So the curved part was gradually bent by applying heat with a candle.
When he hurried to bend the bamboo sticks, the bamboo sticks were burnt and broke.
Episode 53
He thinks Mayumi-chan, the daughter of a fishmonger who was supposed to be his sister's playmate, was the same age as him.
She was a quiet girl who had no presence in elementary school.
Rather, he didn't care about her at all.
Mayumi-chan had two older brothers.
Mayumi-chan's family had the same name as the old powerful family in the area, but he didn't know it much later.
Mayumi-chan's family may have been a descendant of a venerable family.
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