わたしは「作家と住空間」という電子出版をこの４月初めに出版します。住宅にかかわって生きてきたことのNEXT領域感。徐々にご案内をしていきたいと考えております、ぜひよろしくお願いします。
　作家はその生きた時代が終わったあと、住んでいた住宅空間が「祈念碑」のように保存されたりする。きのうも友人たちとの終末期の交友心情について触れたけれど、人間各個の生死の領域のことまでを大きく深く含めた全存在として、作家という存在はわたしたちといわばこころの交友を重ねていくものだろう。
　わたしが生きてきたなかで、大きな影響力を持った作家の一人として三島由紀夫がいる。
　かれのあの最期の自決事件があって、現代世界での一種の「アンタッチャブル」としてあり続けている。
　その住空間はいまも東京に残され保存されているけれど公開はされていない。ただし、写真家・篠山紀信の発表した住宅写真集がいまも残されていてわたしも事後に購入してきている。
　そしてもう１ヵ所、その名を冠した文学館が山中湖畔にあるという情報を知っていた。
　わたし自身は政治的スタンスにおいてあの当時はむしろ、真逆の新左翼運動に近しかったので、事件の衝撃は十分に受けていたけれど心情においては距離感を持っていた。けれど加齢してきて、柳田國男的「民俗」という濾過を通り過ぎて来て、徐々に三島的な心情の基底旋律にも思いが至るようになってきた。
　今回、東京への移動出張機会があり少し時間にゆとりをもたせ、この山中湖畔にまで足を伸ばす機会を持てた。
　三島というセンシティブな人物の文学館は全国の自治体としては取り組みにくいことが容易に想像できるなかで、この山中湖では縁があったので果敢に手を上げた経緯のようだった。もちろん一般的文学館なので「住空間」についての臨場感はあり得ないだろうと考えていた。しかし、現地に来て見て、篠山紀信の写真集で見ていた「庭の彫像」レプリカが置かれている様子に接して強く臨場感が感じられた。
　正直、三島のこうした「庭への彫像設置」という感覚は写真集を見ていて違和感が強かったのだけれど、この写真のように置かれている様に接して、背景の自然の空気感もあってか三島個人の心象世界への「扉〜とびら」のように感じられた。三島由紀夫という人間と向かい合うひとつの空間的機縁。北海道人の「庭」の受け止め方、その本州人との相違を書いてきたけれど、こういう庭・彫像と「住み手」の関係性もあるのだという発見。
　こうした彫像と毎日向かい合い対話しながらかれ三島由紀夫は生きていたということに、ある蓋然性を感じさせられていた。本来はノーベル文学賞を受けるべき作家であった三島由紀夫の世界。いろいろなプロセスを過ぎて、やっぱりこの人物と対話してみたいという気分が沸いてきていた。空間のパワーだろうか。

English version⬇

[Visit the Yukio Mishima Literature Museum on the shores of Lake Yamanaka.
The sense of placing a statue in the garden, which is also of Mediterranean world sensitivity. Apparently, I felt a strong persuasive force as a boundary to the literary world of the writer Mishima. …

　I am publishing an e-publication early this April called ‘Writers and Housing Spaces’. The NEXT area of my life involved in housing. I will gradually be making announcements and would be grateful for your support.
　After the artist’s time is over, the residential space in which he or she lived is sometimes preserved like a ‘monument of remembrance’. Yesterday I mentioned the feelings of friendship with friends at the end of life, but as a whole being that includes the realm of life and death of each individual human being, the existence of a writer is a kind of spiritual companionship with us all.
　One of the most influential writers in my lifetime is Yukio Mishima.
　His final suicide has remained a kind of ‘untouchability’ in the modern world.
　His living space is still preserved in Tokyo, but is not open to the public. However, a collection of photographs of the house published by the photographer Kishin Shinoyama still remains, and I have purchased a copy after the fact.
　I also knew that there was another museum of literature named after him on the shores of Lake Yamanaka.
　In terms of my own political stance at the time, I was rather close to the New Left Movement, which was the complete opposite of the New Left Movement, so although I was fully shocked by the incident, I was emotionally distant from it. However, as I have grown older, I have passed through the filter of Yanagida Kunio’s ‘folklore’ and have gradually come to think about the underlying melody of Mishima’s sentiments.
　This time, I had the opportunity to travel to Tokyo for a business trip, which gave me a little more time to spare, and I had the chance to extend my visit to the shores of Lake Yamanaka.
　It was easy to imagine that it would be difficult for local authorities throughout Japan to build a museum of the sensitive figure of Mishima, but Lake Yamanakako had a connection with Mishima, so it seemed to be a bold step to take. Of course, as a general literature museum, we thought it would be impossible to have a realistic sense of ‘living space’. However, when I visited the site and saw a replica of the ‘garden statue’ that I had seen in Kishin Shinoyama’s photo collection, I felt a strong sense of realism.
　To be honest, I had a strong sense of discomfort when I saw Mishima’s ‘statues in the garden’ in his photo books, but when I saw them placed as in this photo, I felt as if they were ‘doors’ to Mishima’s personal world of imagination, partly because of the natural atmosphere in the background. A spatial opportunity to confront the human being Yukio Mishima. I have written about the differences in the way I perceive the garden as a Hokkaido resident compared to people from Honshu, but I discovered that there is also this kind of relationship between the garden/statue and its ‘inhabitants’.
　The fact that Yukio Mishima lived in daily dialogue with these statues made me feel a certain probability. The world of Yukio Mishima, a writer who should have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. After passing through various processes, the feeling of wanting to dialogue with this person had been aroused. Is it the power of space?
　
　

Posted on 3月 31st, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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　昨日は東京であちこち打合せ。で、無関係ながら街角を歩いているとふとスーパーではない野菜屋さんの店頭風景に目が泳いでしまった。なんとわが家ではしばらく買っていない（泣）キャベツが１玉200円を切って販売されていた。「おお」であります。東京なのに！ わたしは、カミさんと週末必ず買い物に一緒に行くライフスタイルを続けております。自分で料理するのが好きなので、オモシロそうな季節感を反映した魚を品定めするのが日課なのですね。最近ではニシンのありがたい豊漁ぶりをこのブログでも書いていますが、わが家ではここ２ヶ月くらい豊漁を反映しての安値のニシンの焼き魚が朝の定番化していることはご報告済み。
　一方で、ご多分に漏れず最近の憂うべき「キャベツ」を初めとする野菜類の価格高騰ぶりには苦悩。最高の価格時期には日頃通うスーパーで１玉400円を上回っていた。連動して白菜までもが超値上がりして、しばらくわが家の食卓からはこれらの野菜類が消滅しております。まぁ野菜なので、ごく普通の価格で流通している種類のもので代用させて工夫してつつましやかな食生活を、という庶民の生活防衛で戦ってきております。
　そのキャベツの価格で198円という、まぁ手を伸ばしても良いかなぁという価格が、なんと街角の野菜店で目に飛び込んできたのであります。しかしいまは旅の空なのでまさか、旅行バッグに詰め込んで札幌に持って帰るワケにもいかず、これが春先を迎えての価格低下のさきがけかと胸を膨らませていました。同じ店では大根もごらんのように200円を大きく切ってきていた。
　キャベツは「週刊女性PRIME」というサイトで1/28記事で「農林水産省が1月21日に食品価格動向調査の結果を発表しまして、キャベツの1キロあたりの小売価格が全国平均で553円になりました。これは平年の3・37倍です」という記事。
　この記事の情報に即すると、１キロ当たり158円程度が普通の価格となる計算。さて、この写真のキャベツ、そこまで「大玉」ではないので、まだ割り引く必要があるけれど、今後の価格の正常化方向性を表しているのかもと期待しております。それにしてもコメの価格高騰など庶民生活への打撃は昂進してきている。経済こそがすべてに優先する大問題。なんとか、庶民の生活苦が解消されて欲しい。

English version⬇

[Change in the soaring vegetable prices that afflict the general public? in Tokyo Street Corner]
The price of cabbage has an impact in terms of daily food shopping prices. Will shredded cabbage be restored to our dining table this spring? …

　Yesterday, I had meetings here and there in Tokyo. And as I was walking along a street corner, my eyes suddenly swept over a vegetable shop that was not a supermarket. To my surprise, cabbage, which we haven’t bought for a while (I cried), was on sale for less than 200 yen per ball. I was surprised. Even though we live in Tokyo! My wife and I continue to live a lifestyle where we always go shopping together on weekends. I like to cook for myself, so it’s a daily routine for me to pick out fish that reflect the season and look interesting. Recently, I’ve written about the thankful abundance of herring in this blog, and I’ve already reported that in my family, grilled herring has been a morning staple for the past two months or so, at a price that reflects the abundant catch.
　On the other hand, as is usual, we have been distressed by the recent alarming price hikes of cabbage and other vegetables. At its best, the price was over 400 yen per ball at the supermarket I go to every day. In conjunction with this, even the price of Chinese cabbage has risen so much that these vegetables have disappeared from our dining table for a while. We have been fighting in defence of our daily life as a commoner, trying to substitute them with the kinds of vegetables that are distributed at a very normal price, and to eat modestly and ingeniously.
　The price of cabbage was 198 yen, a price that I could reach out for, and I saw it at a vegetable shop on a street corner. However, as I was currently travelling, I couldn’t possibly pack it in my travel bag and take it back to Sapporo, so I was excited to see if this was the first of many price drops to come in the early spring. At the same shop, daikon radishes were also coming in well under 200 yen, as you can see.
　As for cabbage, a 28 January article on the Shukan Josei PRIME website reported that ‘The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries announced the results of a food price trend survey on 21 January, and the national average retail price per kilogram of cabbage was 553 yen. This is 3.37 times the normal year’.
　The information in this article immediately leads to the calculation that the normal price is around 158 yen per kilometre. Now, the cabbage in this photo is not that ‘big’, so it still needs to be discounted, but I am hoping that it may indicate the direction of price normalisation in the future. Nevertheless, the impact on the lives of ordinary people, such as the soaring price of rice, has been escalating. The economy is the major problem that takes precedence over everything else. I hope that somehow the difficulties of the common people’s lives will be resolved.

Posted on 3月 29th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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　本日は昨日のブログテーマの続き。この時期のさっぽろ市民の興味は家の周りの融雪状況。わが家はほぼ正面は北面していてなお角地なので公的除排雪でも前面道路の堆雪が除去されにくい。固い結氷雪が積層せざるを得ない。春の融雪も黙っていては融けにくい悪条件立地。で、出張前に雪割りしそれを建物側に積み上げて時間を掛けて融雪させようという作戦です。
　昨日の札幌は午前中は雨がかなり強く降って、気温は一昨日と比べて２−３度ほど低下。写真の一番下がその気温状況。午後からはおおむね晴れ間も覗く天気でした。こうした天候条件での１日の融雪状況についてきわめて対比的に写真撮影できたので比較してみました。
　目視的には総量は３割以上減ったように思われます。とくに写真手前側では明確に凍結雪氷が融けて、そのラインが後退していることがわかる。また雪山の高さも低くなっている。三寒四温というコトバがありますが、いまの時期の札幌は「二寒五温」くらいの感じなので、この調子でいけば来週月曜までの東京移動中におおむね消雪しそうであります。ほっとひと安心。
　わが家は本当はこの写真のレンガ床面にはロードヒーティングを敷設してあって34年前の新築当時には、降雪があったらすぐにセンサーが働いて融雪のため加温させるように装置してある。しかしその後の灯油燃料の価格高騰もあり、稼動させることに徐々に気分が重たくなってきて、いつしかスイッチを切ってきていました。そういう心理の一方、前向きな冬場の健康維持行為として除雪作業の意義が自分の中で高まっていった。案外除排雪って、無心に取り組める体動営為なのです。
　ただそうすると堆雪ぶりはその年その年の降雪具合に振り回されて千変万化する。そういう戸建て住宅の外部への対応がいつか、北国人として独特の感性を涵養する機会だと思えるようになってきた。たぶん温暖地域で庭の草木といろいろに語りかけ対話するのと、まったく違うけれどある意味通じているように思えてくる。わたしの場合、庭づくりはレンガの敷込み床面造作・その美感で建築的に完結しているのかも知れません。
　写真のような光景もその対話の最終形として、得がたい印象的なエンディングだと思えるのです。単なる高齢生活者の詠嘆かなぁ（笑）。
　

English version⬇

The highest temperature is 7 degrees Celsius in Sapporo, and the snow melts in one day.
The last thing to do in winter is to watch the quiet conversation between the frozen snow and the rising temperature. The last thing you want to do in winter is to watch the quiet conversation between the freezing snow and the rising temperatures. …

　Today we continue with yesterday’s blog theme. At this time of year, the interest of the citizens of Sapporo is the state of snow melting around their houses. Our house faces north and is on a corner plot, so it is difficult to remove the snow from the front road even with official snow removal. The hard icy snow has to be piled up. The location is in a bad condition, which makes it difficult to melt the spring snow if we don’t do anything. So the strategy was to break up the snow before the business trip, pile it up on the side of the building and let it melt over time.
　Yesterday in Sapporo, it rained very hard in the morning and the temperature was 2-3°C lower than the day before yesterday. The bottom of the photo shows the temperature situation. The weather was generally sunny in the afternoon. We were able to take very contrasting photos of the daily snowmelt under these weather conditions and compared them.
　Visually, the total amount of snow seems to have decreased by more than 30%. Especially in the foreground of the photo, it can be seen that the frozen snow and ice has clearly melted and the line has receded. Also, the height of the snow mountains is getting lower. There is a saying that there are three cold and four warm days, but at this time of year Sapporo feels like it is two cold and five warm days, so at this rate it is likely that the snow will generally disappear during the trip to Tokyo until next Monday. It’s a relief.
　Our house is actually equipped with a road heating system on the brick floor shown in this photograph, which was installed 34 years ago when the house was newly built, so that when snow falls, a sensor is immediately activated to heat the floor to melt the snow. However, due to the subsequent rise in the price of paraffin fuel, the feeling of having to operate the system gradually became heavy, and the system was switched off at some point. On the other hand of this mentality, the significance of snow removal work as a positive winter health maintenance activity grew in my mind. Surprisingly, snow clearing is a physical activity that can be done mindlessly.
　However, the snow composting process is subject to change depending on the snowfall conditions from year to year. I have come to think that this kind of response to the outside of a detached house is an opportunity to cultivate a unique sensitivity as a northerner. It is probably quite different from, but in a way similar to, talking and communicating with the plants and trees in the garden in warmer regions. In my case, the creation of a garden may be completed architecturally with the laying of bricks and the construction of the floor surface and its aesthetics.
　The scene shown in the photo is the final form of this dialogue, and I think it is an impressive ending that is hard to obtain. Is this just the lamentation of an elderly person (laughs)?
　

Posted on 3月 27th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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　昨日は「ソトダン21」という住宅団体と「住宅性能向上DXコンソーシアム」という団体の共催での合同セミナーをWEBで参観していました。わたしは住宅雑誌Replanの事業を譲渡した後、引き続き関連企業「リプランハウス株式会社」としての立場で個人的に住宅業界の情報世界に関わり続けています。譲渡してから１年半経過していますので、ようやくリアルタイム感からはすこし開放されてきたと思っております。
　が、ときどきリアルタイム感に引き戻される瞬間もある（笑）。
　昨日のセミナーでは東京大学の前真之先生の講演もあって、聞いておりました。先生の講演は3/13のReplanのセミナー札幌会場でもナマで聞いていましたので、ほぼ連続的に聴講できた次第。なんですが、会場にわたしの姿が見えなかった安心感からなのか、昨日の講演ではスライドのなかになんと、わたしの元気そうな姿が登場させられていたのであります。驚くとともに、なんともなつかしく感じられて先生に感謝しておりました。講演の流れの中ではしかし、いつものように「悪役」的な扱われ方で、電気ナマ炊き暖房についてディスられる「証言者」的な登場の仕方であります（笑）。
　悪名は無名に優るというコトバがあるので、先生の講演でのこうした「引き合い」の仕方は一種の諧謔表現と受け取らせていただいています。先生の講演で取り上げていただくことは光栄なこととこれまでも楽しく聞いていたのですが、久しぶりの講演でのナマの現場遭遇体験。先生にして見ると、3/13しばらくぶりにわたしの顔を確認したことで安心されて講演スライドのなかで再登場させられたのでしょうか。
　ということで急遽参加のZoomだったので、講演後の懇親会などでご挨拶ができなかったことが残念でありました。まぁしかし、前真之先生は現在でもReplan誌で連載記事を執筆いただいていますし、また、イベントなどでも講演を引き受けていただいてもいます。やや身を引いている立場とは言え、まだまだお役に立てるのであれば厭うものではありません。
　それともうすぐ電子出版「作家と住空間」も発売されるので、そのご案内なども時期を見てさせていただければと考えております。今後とも何卒よろしくお願い申し上げます。

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[My image suddenly reappeared in a lecture by Professor Masayuki Mae of the University of Tokyo.
My image appeared on a slide in a lecture after a change in my position. I was surprised, but grateful that he took up the issue as before. …

　Yesterday, I attended a joint seminar on the web, jointly organised by a housing organisation called Sotodan 21 and the Housing Performance Improvement DX Consortium. After the transfer of the Replan housing magazine business, I have continued to be personally involved in the information world of the housing industry in my capacity as an associated company of Replan House Ltd. A year and a half has passed since the transfer, so I think I am finally free from the real-time feeling.
　But sometimes there are moments when I am drawn back to the real-time feeling (laughs).
　At yesterday’s seminar, there was a lecture by Dr Masayuki Mae of the University of Tokyo, which I listened to. I had heard his lecture in person at the Replan seminar in Sapporo on 13 March, so I was able to listen to it almost continuously. I was surprised, and also felt nostalgic, as if I had been there for a long time. I was surprised and felt nostalgic at the same time, and was grateful to him. In the course of the lecture, however, I was treated as a ‘villain’, as usual, and appeared as a ‘witness’ to the dissing of the electric heating system (laughs).
　(Laughter) There is a saying that notoriety is better than obscurity, so I take this kind of ‘quoting’ in his lectures as a kind of humorous expression. I have always felt honoured to be featured in his lectures and have enjoyed listening to them, but this is the first time in a long time that I have had the experience of encountering the real scene in a lecture. I wonder if he was relieved to see my face for the first time in a while and made me reappear in his lecture slides.
　I was sorry that I could not greet him at the reception after the lecture because I had to attend Zoom on short notice. However, Dr Masayuki Mae still writes a series of articles in Replan magazine and has also given lectures at events. Even though he has stepped back somewhat, I would not mind if I could still be of service to him.
　Also, the e-publication ‘Writers and Living Space’ will be released soon, and I would like to give you information about it when the time is right. We look forward to working with you in the future.

Posted on 3月 25th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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　北海道札幌の戸建て住宅地では冬の間、12月から3月いっぱいまで４カ月間は雪の問題と向き合わざるを得ない。時々刻々と千変万化する気象状況と会話しながら、日常生活の重要な一部として、家の周りの戸外環境を整理整頓する作業が日常の大きな要素として居座っているのですね。
　ことしの冬との対話では新しい「気付き」として、こういう家の回りの環境コントロールは温暖地域の日本人がながく慣れ親しんできた「庭の整備整頓」と近似した営為なのではないかと思い始めています。もちろん庭仕事は余裕・ゆとりそのもののようであるのに対して、雪との対話・整理整頓には切羽詰まった必需性がある点がまったく違うのですが、日常的営為としては同質性を持っているように感じ始めている。
　温暖地では山水・自然への美的感受性が刺激されるのに対して、雪への対応はなによりも利便性確保という必要欠くべからざる営為ではあるのですが、自然との対話としては似つかわしいと思っているのです。逆に言うと、北海道の戸建て住宅で庭への美観的興味がそれほど盛り上がらないのは、この４カ月間ほどの役務が巨大すぎて、そこからさらに４月以降、家周辺の自然環境への興味がそがれ「やっと開放された」安堵感の方が強烈なのだと思う次第。ですが一方で、この雪との対話それ自体が、北国らしい「庭仕事」とも考えられると思えてきたのですね。
　そんな冬との対話からの「安堵感」までもうひと息、というメルクマールになるのが、春先の「雪割り」作業。冬の間の除雪については公共の除雪排雪が手助けしてくれるけれど、最後の雪割りではそういった補助はまったくない。孤立無援の中で春の陽射しを浴びながら、せっせことツルハシやスコップなどを使って戦い続けることになる。
　写真はわが家の向かいの堆雪場所の雪山に運んだ「割り雪」の様子です。お日様の暖気が最大の力であるなかで自力更生のか弱い努力を傾け続けることになる。その家ごとに日照条件に違いがあるので、戸別で作業量は大きく違いがある。わが家は北向きでしかも３階建てなので、日射条件は悪い。雪割り作業総量はこの割り雪の十数倍くらいある。お日様の様子を見ながら、春の開放感めざして淡々と頑張りたいと思います。さて、きょうも頑張るぞ。

English version⬇

Spring ‘snow-cracking’ Sunday in the Sapporo residential area.
In snowy cold-weather housing, the main area of interest is the dialogue with the snow that ensures the functionality of the house rather than the beauty of the garden. In the end, an epic battle with the stubbornly hard snow is waged (laughs). …

　In detached residential areas in Sapporo, Hokkaido, people have to face the problem of snow for four months during the winter months, from December to the end of March. So the task of organising the outdoor environment around the house sits as a major element of daily life, as an important part of everyday life, while conversing with weather conditions that change from time to time in a thousand different ways.
　As a new ‘realisation’ in this winter’s dialogue, I am beginning to think that this kind of environmental control around the house is an activity similar to the ‘tidying up of the garden’ that Japanese people in warmer regions have been accustomed to for a long time. Of course, the difference is that working in the garden seems to be a leisurely and relaxing activity, whereas interacting with the snow and tidying up is an urgent necessity, but as an everyday activity I am beginning to feel that they have the same qualities.
　In warmer climates, aesthetic sensitivity to mountains, water and nature is stimulated, whereas dealing with snow is an indispensable activity to ensure convenience above all else, but I think it is a similar way of interacting with nature. Conversely, the reason why aesthetic interest in the garden is not so high in detached houses in Hokkaido is that the service for the past four months or so has been so huge that, from April onwards, interest in the natural environment around the house has waned and the sense of relief at ‘finally being liberated’ is more intense. On the other hand, I have come to think that this dialogue with the snow itself can be considered as a kind of ‘garden work’ typical of northern countries.
　The snow-clearing work in early spring is the merkmal for the relief from such a dialogue with winter. Although the public snow removal service helps with snow removal during the winter, there is no such assistance at all for the final snow clearing. We have to fight on with pickaxes and shovels in the spring sunshine.
　The photo shows the ‘split snow’ carried to the snowbank at the composting site opposite our house. While the sun’s warmth is the greatest force, we have to keep putting in feeble efforts to rehabilitate ourselves. The amount of work varies greatly from door to door, as each house has its own unique sunlight conditions. Our house faces north and is a three-storey building, so the solar radiation conditions are poor. The total amount of snow-clearing work is about ten times more than this snow-clearing work. We will keep an eye on the sun and work hard to achieve a feeling of openness in spring. Now, let’s work hard again today.

Posted on 3月 23rd, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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