Travel with Betty ベティとの旅 【空気のいい書斎で】In a good air study room

 There is a way for people to live in a livable place, and the villages are connected.  Infrastructure will be laid there as the number of visitors increases.  Conveniences are being introduced more and more, and more people gather there.

 People will be concentrated in the waterfront area, which has easy access to water and food, and a bay where trading is easy.  Land-specific landscapes are lost in exchange for the expansion of the living environment.

 Kyoto at heian-era secured fuel wood from a familiar place, so the Higashiyama neighborhood was the bald mountain.

 Kamogawa is a convenient garbage dump, and there is a boulder pond Oguraike beyond the flow of the Katsura River.

 In Kamakura, society is completed in the narrow land of the impervious horseshoe.  When Kencho-ji, Engaku-ji and the visiting monk were opened, the study abroad monk came to Japan to ask for teaching one after another, and became an international city.  But small towns were lined with mountains, so-called hollowed out decorated tombs on the slopes of the mountains, where upper class members slept, and commonmen were piled up in vertical holes near the coast.

 However, the ponds were buried in both old cities, and the landscape covered with grass changed completely.

 With the wifi network, there is no regional gap in information anymore.  The country is no longer a place to be avoided.  Rather, a rural environment with a better environment will be required if rural-oriented, as if a bourgeois in Paris will go to the countryside on a weekend.  When greed with contradictions such as stimulation and comfort, the city will be Weekday, but if you want to appreciate the smell of morning mist and wood stoves, the country will be an option in everyday life.

 The morning in the city wakes up in the air, the morning dew does not appear to wet the leaves in the window, and the morning light from the local area on the TV monitor is felt.  Even if you open the window, what comes in is something that is mixed with the smell of breakfast from somewhere while being inorganic.  I will count on virtual weekends and head for the countryside to the weekend.

 Bushcraft videos are comfortable to watch.  Step into the outback, spend several days while making shelter and instant reclining on fallen trees and peels of trees.  As it is a solo camp, only the sounds of birds, insects, winds and bonfires flow, and temporary housing is finished lightly.  So to speak, borrowing from nature.  There is no light other than the sky, and it becomes a completely natural member.  We collect water and collect firewood, sometimes we raise food and live only a few days.  The solo cast should probably be fighting against the chaos while continuing to move hand in hand to prepare ahead.  The norms, duties, hopelessness, jealousy, etc. that are supposed to have been put in the city, one by one and pretend to be silent.  It seems as if a mountain monk lays himself in nature and seeks the truth.  A study without temptation, that is natural.  When I leave, I return to the ground completely and return to the original state so there is no bonfire.  It is totally gone that someone has been cool there, and the original natural chain continues.

住みよいところに人が暮らし道ができ、集落が繋がる。往き来が増えるとそこにインフラが敷かれる。便利なものはどんどん取り入れられ、そこにさらに人が集まってくる。

水や食料を確保しやすい場所、交易に出やすい湾を有した臨海部に人が集中するようになる。自ずと生活環境の拡大と引き換えに 土地固有の景観が失われていく。

平安の京都は燃料の木材を身近なところから確保したことで、東山界隈はハゲ山だったとか。

鴨川は便利なゴミ捨場で、桂川の流れの先には巨椋池がありゴミ累々、暗黒のような様相だった。

鎌倉は難攻不落の馬蹄形の狭い土地の中で社会が完結する。建長寺、円覚寺と渡来僧が開山すると続々と教えを請うべく留学の僧が来日し、国際都市となった。が、小さな都につき山の斜面にはやぐら、いわゆるくり抜いて装飾を施したお墓が並び、そこには階級上層部が眠り、海岸付近には縦穴に平民が重ねられた。

しかしどちらの古都も池は埋められやぐらは草に覆われ様相は一変した。

もはやwifi網により情報に地方格差はなくなった。田舎は敬遠される場所ではなくなってきた。むしろパリのブルジョアが週末に田園を目指すかのような、ルーラル志向が高まれば環境のいい田舎が求められてくる。刺激と快適という離反するものを欲張る場合はウィークデイを都市に、となるが、朝靄と薪ストーブの匂いに価値を求めるなら日常に田舎が選択肢になる。

都会の朝は空中で目覚め、朝露が葉を濡らす様子も窓には映らず、TVモニターで地方からの中継で朝の光を感じる。窓を開けても入ってくるのは、無機的な中にどこかからの朝食の匂いが混じったものくらいだ。バーチャルなウィークデーを数え、ウイークエンドに田舎を目指すことになる。

ブッシュクラフト動画が心地いい。アウトバックに踏み込み、倒木や木の皮でシェルターや即席のリクライニングを作りながら数日を過ごす記録。ソロキャンプなので鳥や虫や風や焚き火の音しか流れず、淡々と仮の住まいが出来上がっていく。いわば自然からの間借り。天空以外には灯はなく、完全に自然の一員になる。水を汲み薪を集め、ときに食料を調達し、ひたすら数日を生きる。先々の備えに手を動かし続けながら、おそらくソロキャストは雑念と闘っているはずだ。都会に置いてきたはずのノルマや義務や絶望や嫉妬などなどがいちいち頭をよぎり、黙々と知らないふりをする。山岳修行僧が自然に身を置きひたすら真理を求めるかのようだ。誘惑のない書斎、それが自然だ。去る時には焚き火跡もないよう地中に還しすっかり元の状態に戻す。だれかがそこで悶々としたこともすっかり消え、元の自然連鎖が続くのである。