鎌倉犬聞録 Kamakura morning memoirs from Japan

  From a distant country yet unseen A floating boat When I unraveled my hometown moyai Body and mind turned into floating weeds on the ocean "Pick me up" When the pestering little sister melts into the cape A plover landed on the bow Nights of Scorching Exhaustion The faint light will soon draw closer Duckweed is carried to the creek A dock made of cobblestone A series of iraka（roofs） and temple bells make my heart tremble When I made up my mind in my hometown My hometown turned into a pattern on a map "Watch your body" My mother, who repeats only that, made her hold I left a little change on the table Even if I change to a Mahayana robe The path to the root remains the same just go there believe so Towards a distant dream that has yet to reach Crawl and drag my own body

  If it is the hydrangea that colors the rainy season, then the azalea adds color to Kamakura after the cherry blossoms. Even Saeko had no objections. She somehow managed to rent this old private house in Omachi, but it is so open that even sitting on the sunny porch makes her uncomfortable. A good percentage of passersby look at this old private house. Eventually, she would like many people to enjoy this space, but she cannot allow this restlessness with her values. After living such a frustrating life, she took action to solve this vision problem after a year. She still need a blindfold. But a metal or concrete fence is not an option. Black charred cedar boards, bamboo branches, or rather, hedges that allow they to feel the four seasons and that passers-by can enjoy are good. She also want to make it as gorgeous as possible. Kamakura is a treasure trove of hedges. She traveled around the city for a while and witnessed the claims of various houses, such as masaki, witch hazel, boxwood

This fried food specialty shop is on the road from Zaimokuza to Zushi Marina.Standing cozy in the place where you entered the path beside the liquor store,There is always a flyer through the glass facing the path.I was storing bubbling bubbles.Pork cutlet, croquette, menchi, ham cutlet...Familiar all-star pops out of the foam with a brown color.It has a fragrant scent. If I buy croquettes here,I bought a can of beer at the liquor store on the corner and headed for Zaimokuza beach.In the summer when the sun is long, you can make it in time for sunset even on my way home from work.This sunset evening drink "Hama Beer" at a pace of about once every two daysenjoy. It's not just me, but similar silhouettes line the beach here and there.As a rule of thumb, everyone keeps deep-fried food close to their skin and bites it from the bag one bite at a time, so it's perfect to prevent black kites from overhead snatching. When the sun sets over Inamuragasaki and it gets dark,as we

 It is better to enter the forest than to look at it.Humidity and insects can be annoying, so try to keep it as light as possible choose a sunny day to go.Because it continues to create shade even after the sun rises, it's cool.Because trees respire instead of photosynthesizing, it emits a unique fragrance of its own ingredients and fills the space. The overwhelming siege network instinctively acts as a defense, looking up at the sky to find an escape. Finding the sky in the gaps between the branches and leaves that are strongly stretched, first of all, calm down. As I gradually become accustomed to the space, I will notice the details. The morning dew clinging to the moss growing on the old stock,with tall branches as if to care about me Little birds resting around. To the light that shines through from the sky without any obstruction floated water vapor, a winged insect hovering in front of me like a guide in the forest. It is right to turn myself into a wild animal there. I just

  Unexpectedly lost, I ended up wandering in the woods.These days, if I walk a little bit, I should look a private house, but if I walk on this gravel road from a while ago, I'll just continue to undulate through the same scenery. The slope on the side of the road is not very high, but since it is a vertical rock, I don't feel like climbing it and  looking over it. Well, it's still 1:00 pm, so I'm not in a hurry. By the way, do I have a smartphone? The location was easily found by GPS, but this rocky mountain is not shown on the aeronautical chart and is a thick green forest. When I switch to the contour screen, it seems to be a doughnut-shaped topography like the outer rim of a volcano. It's less than a few hundred meters around, so it feels like it was made by humans rather than natural terrain. This mountain is isolated from the hiking trails that crisscross the Kamakura mountains. Before I knew it, I wasn't lost, but I was walking along the outer rim of Mt.

   Yoritomo chose this place aiming for impregnability by perfect feng shui.As the map shows, the land where the shogunate was established was surrounded by mountains on three sides. In order to invade, if you control "Kobukuro" in the northwest, "Asahina" in the northeast, "Nagoe" in the east, and "Hase" in the west, then you can only attack from the sea. This is perfect feng shui. Suzaku to the south (Yuigahama sea), white tiger to the west (Hase no Oka), It has all the Seiryu (namerigawa river) in the east.This impregnable figure can be compared to a horseshoe. In this horseshoe, the food, clothing and shelter necessary for the capital developed, To the temples and shrines that were opened one after another after the opening and invited first-class monks. A lot of monks visit the master and use the Wakaejima boat dock in Zaimokuza beach. I came here for training. The richly colored temples and shrines of the time were, so to speak, a lively pl

  Both Betty and I were unable to take walks due to joint pain, so we decided to sit at my desk and write a story about the heartbeats of the morning that we have been writing about.  Please join me in my delusion that springs up in Kamakura, the ancient capital of Japan facing the sea!