Papa Wonderful 30 Reunion
Papa Wonderful
30 Reunion
The Tadokoro-san family travelled to Yamagata in late August. For four nights and five days, I moved the whole process by car, and Mr. Tadokoro and Mr. Tadokoro alternated driving. In order to reduce travel expenses, I used a self-catering town-run villa for the previous two days and a national residence for the latter two days.
On the first day, I entered the Kan-Etsu Expressway from the Ken-O Expressway, went north on the Tohoku Expressway to Murata, entered the Yamagata Expressway, got off at Yamagata North, and went up to Yamadera and Risshakuji. On that day, we stayed at a town-run vacation rental villa in Nishikawa at the foot of Mt. Gassan. On the second day, we climb Mt. Tsukiyama. It was a sunny day. I came down and stayed at the same place. On the third day, the Yamagata Expressway was partially unopened, so proceed northwest on National Highway 112, go straight while being attracted to Mt. Yudono, go out to the Shonai Plain, have lunch at Tsuruoka, and see the Tsuruoka Castle Ruins. .. Take National Highway 112 again, head north on the Sea of Japan side, and stay at the national lodgings in Yuza Town. On the 4th day, we went up to the 7th station of Mt. Chokai, had lunch there, and went down the mountain. After visiting the visitor centre, when I returned to the dormitory, it was a fierce evening. It was a good choice. On the fifth day, go south on Route 112, enter National Route 7 from the middle, and run along the Sea of Japan. Enter Niigata City, enter the Hokuriku Expressway from Niigata Airport, proceed from Nagaoka to the Kan-Etsu Expressway, while looking sideways at Yuzawa, which is visited every March by skiing, enter the Ken-O Expressway at Tsurugashima, and safely at home after 2:00 pm Arrival in. It was a long trip for the first time in a long time, crossing the entire journey from the Pacific Ocean side to the Sea of Japan side for 1150 km.
Mr. Tadokoro visited Yamadera on the first day on a summer trip to the company he first worked for, shortly after finishing college. It's been about 30 years ago. Of course, I was still single and hardly thought about marriage, so I was absorbed in the work of inventory management of electrical parts. In the early 1970s, immediately after the World Exposition was held in Osaka, the economy made a big leap, and many people, including Mr. Tadokoro, were swallowed up by the arrival of a mass consumption society. .. The word futurology was born, and there was an optimistic place where the future meal could be accepted with a certain sense of reality, such as drinking round whelk. On the other hand, the actual state of pollution represented by Minamata disease gradually became clearer, and the photograph of Minamata disease mother and child taken by Eugene Smith had a strong impact as if it foretold one aspect of the progress of the times. ..
When Mr. Tae started planning his summer trip as usual this spring, there were already several talks between the two of them that he wanted to take a look around Yamagata. The decision to go to Yamagata was soon decided. The location was decided without much hesitation about Yamadera, Gassan, and Mt. Chokai. Both of them loved the mountains, so when the mountain magazine featured beautiful pictures of the highlands of Mt. Gassan and Mt. Chokai, Mr. Tadokoro immediately purchased them and kept them in a safe place. Both of them were attracted to flowers, so the summer photos of Gassan's Midagahara and Nembutsugahara were no longer necessary. Clear sky, flowers and refreshing atmosphere. The picture of Lake Toriumi at the 7th station of Mt. Chokai was also wonderful.
Yamagata, who visited in this way, unexpectedly left many memories for the four family members. Among them, Mr. Tadokoro was deeply moved by Yamadera. It's been almost thirty years since I visited there. The passage of time was first and foremost mysterious. Thirty years have transformed a young man into a family of four. The inventory management work at that time was fulfilling, but I tried to study at university again because I wanted to look back on myself, and during that time my work changed to the present, and I moved my house several times to the present. I managed to calm down at the place. Takahiko-kun has already surpassed his father's back, and Yasuhiko-kun is likely to surpass Myo-san, even though the brothers who grew up in the nursery school when they were small because they were working. Time has definitely passed.
What I noticed when I went to Yamadera this time was that it was a monk named Ennin who opened Yamadera. For the first time, I also learned that the oldest building in Yamauchi is a small red hall built for Ennin at the tip of a small rock. Mr. Tadokoro is so particular about the Buddhist priest named Ennin because he was reading a book called "Ennin's Diary" written by Ennin while studying history. This book is a brilliant record of Ennin's trip to China in the Tang dynasty. Moreover, in the case of Mr. Tadokoro, the direct reason for learning about this book was based on the book "World History Enjin-Journey to Tang Dynasty China" written by Mr. Reischauer, the ambassador to Japan in the United States. is. Reischauer was taught about Ennin's book by Dr. Paul Domieville when he was studying at the University of Paris in France, and stated that he had devoted himself to translating and studying the book for 20 years. Mr. Tadokoro was deeply impressed by Dr. Domieville's eyes and Mr. Reischauer's research, but what impressed me most beyond that was that academics and culture continued to transcend time and borders. It was about being inherited as. Ennin, a Buddhist priest in the Heian period in Japan, the era of Tang in China, which he recorded in detail, Dr. Domierville in France, Mr. Reischauer in the United States, and Dr. Katsutoshi Ono, who summarized detailed research in Japan. It was connected so that it could be struck by an invisible thread.
This fact made Mr. Tadokoro understand the meaning of being international more deeply than anything else. After that, Mr. Tadokoro started to visit Nara in winter after taking a break from work. At that time, my thoughts were not the old capital of Japan. Nara, where the cold of winter has calmed down, fascinated Mr. Tadokoro as a base of big culture like Athens in Greece and Paris in France.
The Tadokoro-san family got off Yamadera, ate soba noodles, and after they were full, visited the newly built Yamadera Basho Memorial Hall on the opposite bank of the Tachiya River. In the brand new and beautiful memorial hall, many strips of Basho and modern Masaoka Shiki are exhibited. Again, when Tadokoro-san started learning Chinese, his identity fluctuated, to put it exaggeratedly. It was some of Basho's poems that played the role of reconstruction. Mr. Tadokoro's own youth wandering overlapped with Basho's own signature of "Hase" written in the strip. Even though Mr. Tae is reading "It's written here as well", he seems to be happy with his present, which is said to be "That's Basho" with a laugh. It was.
And the journey of reunion continued. When we all finished the tour of the Basho Memorial Hall and went outside, Mr. Tadokoro noticed that there was a beautiful small park-like place on the right, and a stone monument stood in the centre. Myo-san and his two brothers found a nobori swaying in the wind, and thought it might be delicious, so they went to the opposite shop. When Tadokoro-san approached the stone monument, it was Reischauer's monument.
There was a translation of Mrs. Reischauer's words, which was written by Mrs. Reischauer. Yamagata says, "It's a beautiful place that reminds me of the original appearance of Japan. It was what I saw when Matsuo Basho visited Yamagata on his famous trip 300 years ago, and I myself have been doing it for over 20 years. I felt it when I travelled to Yamagata before. "
The word Ennin does not appear here, but it is certain that Reischauer's greatest purpose in visiting Yamagata was to study Ennin. This is because Ennin was the monk who opened the mountain temple, that is, Kaisan.
Mr. Tadokoro didn't know about Ennin at all when he visited here thirty years ago. After that, re-learning history was still outside of life planning. Marrying Mr. Tae and having two brothers as children all belonged to the future.
And the facts have progressed as they are today.
While Mr. Tadokoro was standing in front of the stone monument, the three returned. It seems that there was nothing delicious that attracted the attention of the three. For dinner today, Mr. Tae is planning to have a barbecue outside the accommodation, and Mr. Tae is purchasing various ingredients. Fortunately, the sky is hot and clear, and the white clouds are dazzling. If this is the case, you will be able to eat under the starry sky today. As always, the two brothers will do the charcoal well.
