さて気分も落ち着いてきて、旅行中撮りためていた写真の整理整頓を進めてきていますが、気にはなっていた写真を再度、じっくり見ていて新発見させられております。
　それは、5/22に九州宗像の宿泊地から電撃の日帰りで訪れていた広島県東広島市河内町入野の、わが家系の故地の寺院「順教寺」訪問時に別に探訪していた小野篁生誕地伝説の地での撮影写真。先日のブログでこの「小野篁産湯の池」に碑が建てられていて、その「施主」として家系に繋がる可能性のある人名として「原 庄左衛門」という名前を確認していましたが、実はその小野篁「産湯川神社」には石造の鳥居が建てられていて、その年紀として、上の２枚目の写真のような刻文が確認できていたのです。そこには「文永二紀」と一瞬読み取れる年代表記があった。常識的に考えると鳥居の建立年は文永２（1265)年と読み取れたのですね。
　そして「施主」として刻印された碑の制作年代もそれと同一である可能性が高い。
　ちょっと想像を超える年代が突然、目の前に出現してしまった。先日のブログ記載時には「要確認」としてこの年代表記には触れなかったのですが、文永２（1265)年を歴史年代照応すれば有名な「文永の役」〜蒙古襲来の直前期、モンゴル帝国から国書がもたらされた年にあたる。
　「え、その当時からこの地域の有力者として、碑文に名を記すほどだったの？」であります。


・・・ということでこの写真解析についてさらに調査を進めていたら、文永とみえた部分が実は「文政」であることが徐々に判明してきた。
　この年代は1819年に相当する。この当時は日本中が旅や観光、郷土の歴史ブームに沸いた「化政文化」全盛期にあたる。この解析結果はこの入野村の庄屋・原庄左衛門が「わが村の偉人・小野篁」をブランド化し、観光振興（地域プロデュース）を仕掛けるには最高のタイミング。またこの時期は同時に広島藩の公式歴史書『芸藩通志』発表（1825年）の直前期にあたっていて、目的と非常に整合するタイミングと思えるのだ。
　う〜む。ご先祖さまの「知恵」の無敵ぶりに惑乱させられてしまった（笑）。しかしこの事実はさらなる大きなテーマを必然的に浮かび上がらせてくる。まったく手に負えない重低音の連鎖。・・・

追記：読者の方からこの年紀表記は「文久二年（1862）」干支も壬戌（みずのえいぬ）でこれは碑文解釈としても自然。う〜む、歴史は二転三転であります。本文も含めて再構成したいところですが、その再修正の痕跡も含めてこのままとしておきます。あす以降、再度触れます。

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[Takahira Ono, “Uyukawa Shrine”: Confused by the Date Inscribed on the Torii]
I calmed myself down and sorted through the photos I’d taken during my research in a quiet, serene setting, but inwardly, I was flustered by an unexpected new discovery. …

　Now that I’ve settled down a bit, I’ve been organizing the photos I took during my trip, and as I’ve been taking another close look at some photos that had caught my eye, I’ve made some new discoveries.
　Specifically, these are photos I took at the site associated with the legend of Ono no Takamura’s birthplace—a location I visited separately during my trip to Junkō-ji Temple in Irino, Kawachi-chō, Higashi-Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, on May 22. I had made a whirlwind day trip there from my lodging in Munakata, Kyushu. In a recent blog post, I mentioned that a monument had been erected at this “Ono no Takamura Birth Bath Pond,” and I had noted the name “Hara Shōzaemon” as the “patron”—a name that might be connected to my family lineage. However, I’ve since discovered that a stone torii has actually been erected at the “Ono no Takamura Birth Bath River Shrine,” and I was able to confirm an inscription, as shown in the second photo above, that serves as its date of construction. There was a date inscription that, at first glance, read “Bun’ei 2.” Based on common sense, the year of the torii’s construction could be interpreted as Bun’ei 2 (1265).
　It is also highly likely that the date of creation for the monument inscribed with the “patron’s” name is the same.
　A date that was somewhat beyond my imagination suddenly appeared right before my eyes. When I wrote my blog post the other day, I did not mention this date notation, marking it as “to be confirmed.” However, if we cross-reference the year Bun’ei 2 (1265) with historical records, it corresponds to the period immediately preceding the famous “Bun’ei Campaign”—the Mongol invasions—and the year a diplomatic letter was delivered from the Mongol Empire.
“Wait, was he already such an influential figure in this region back then that his name was inscribed on a monument?” I found myself wondering.

…So, as I continued my investigation into this photo analysis, it gradually became clear that the part that appeared to read “Bun’ei” was actually “Bunsei.”
This corresponds to the year 1819. This period marked the height of the “Kasei Culture,” when all of Japan was abuzz with a boom in travel, tourism, and local history. These analysis results indicate that this was the perfect timing for Hara Shōzaemon, the village headman of Irino Village, to brand “Ono no Takamura, the Great Man of Our Village” and launch a tourism promotion campaign (regional branding). Furthermore, this period coincided with the immediate run-up to the publication of the Hiroshima Domain’s official history, *Geihan Tsūshi* (1825), making it a timing that aligns perfectly with his objectives.
　Hmm. I’ve been completely bewildered by the invincible “wisdom” of my ancestors (laughs). However, this fact inevitably brings an even larger theme to the surface. A chain of deep, unmanageable bass notes…

Posted on 6月 20th, 2026 by 三木 奎吾
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　昨日書いた「住宅とメディア接触の変容・空間への反映」というテーマへの興味は、そこそこ多数のひとにリーチしてくれているようです。たぶん家づくりのひとつの現在地点の「座標軸」ではありそう。言い出しっぺとして、今後も深掘りしていこうと考えています。よろしく。
　さて、25日間に18日旅先で過ごしていたという体験から帰還して、本日でようやく５日。
　昨日から「心理の整理整頓」作業として、デジタル写真画像の整理整頓に着手できてきた。現代人にとってiPhoneなどのスマホで切り取り続ける写真は、その「場所性」と自分自身の「体験感」とが「立ち上ってくる」機縁なのではないかと思っています。
　わたしの場合は、いろいろな博物館・記念館でその地域を「まなぶ」ことが数寄になっていて、その「痕跡記録」としての写真撮影が多くを占めている。旅を楽しむということと、先人の生き様をたどる、想像力を活性化させることとがニアヒアなのであります。わたしの人生では高校での学生運動からの「離脱」の旅路として最初に、イタリアから始まったヨーロッパ旅行体験があるのですが、そこから帰ってきて「とにかく奈良・京都も浸りたい」と強く導かれていました。
　それなりに海外でも「感情移入」できるでしょうが、わたしの場合はより「日本」に惹かれているのだと強く思い知らされた体験。以来、ときどきは海外にも行ったけれど，それ以上に日本国内で、精神文化的に共通項の多い先人が、どのような「思い」を持って人生時間を過ごしていたか、に深く癒されるような気分がある。
　そういう多様性と「対話」できるためには、その先人たちがどのような生き様だったのか、さまざまな、これも先人たちの思索営為の結集である、博物館・記念館などの展示内容から「学ばされる」のですね。
　たくさんの訪問先があるので、こうした「機縁」は大量の写真画像としてストックされる。そしてそれを「整理整頓する時間」こそが無上の「静止時間」なのですね（笑）。
　その映像を痕跡として残したいと意思した自分自身の「思い」がその空気感と共に再生されてきて、同時にそれを丁寧に「仕上げる」Photoshopなどでの画像「編集」作業が、心理整理の静謐な時間。
　たぶん現代人の「デジタル画像」体験での新感覚ではありそうかと。・・・
　＜写真は吉野ヶ里遺跡での最新研究知見が反映の「地図」＞

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[5 Days After the Trip—Finally Shifting My Mindset to “Organizing Information”]
The “conversation” modern people have with digital selfies—this “new frontier” for humanity may even represent the spiritual evolution of our species. Hmm…

　It seems my post yesterday on the topic “The Transformation of Housing and Media Exposure, and Its Reflection in Space” has reached a fair number of people. It probably represents a current “coordinate” in the process of homebuilding. As the one who brought this up, I plan to continue exploring it in greater depth. Thank you for your support.
Well, it’s finally been five days since I returned from a trip where I spent 18 out of the last 25 days traveling.
　Starting yesterday, as part of my “mental decluttering,” I’ve begun organizing my digital photos. I believe that for modern people, the photos we constantly capture with smartphones like the iPhone serve as opportunities for the “sense of place” and our own “sense of experience” to “emerge.”
　In my case, I’ve developed a passion for “learning” about a region by visiting various museums and memorial halls, and photography—as a “record of those traces”—makes up a large portion of my work. Enjoying travel, tracing the lives of those who came before us, and stimulating the imagination are all closely intertwined. In my own life, my first European travel experience—which began in Italy—served as a journey of “breakaway” from the student movements I’d been involved in during high school. Upon returning from that trip, I felt a strong urge to “immerse myself in Nara and Kyoto, no matter what.”
　While it’s certainly possible to “empathize” with places overseas to some extent, that experience made me keenly realize that, in my case, I am more deeply drawn to “Japan.” Since then, although I’ve traveled abroad from time to time, I find myself feeling even more deeply healed—especially within Japan—by contemplating the “thoughts” with which our predecessors, who share so many spiritual and cultural commonalities with me, spent their lives.
　To engage in such a “dialogue” with that diversity, I must “learn” from the exhibits in museums and memorial halls—which are, in themselves, a distillation of our predecessors’ intellectual endeavors—about the ways in which those predecessors lived their lives.
　Since there are so many places to visit, these “encounters” are stored as a vast collection of photographs. And it is precisely the “time spent organizing and tidying them up” that constitutes the ultimate “moment of stillness” (laughs).
　My own “intention” to preserve those images as traces is replayed along with the atmosphere of the moment, and at the same time, the careful “editing” work in Photoshop—meticulously “polishing” the images—becomes a serene time for psychological reflection.
　I suspect this might be a new sensation in the “digital image” experience for modern people. …
　

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Posted on 6月 18th, 2026 by 三木 奎吾
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　先日の仙台行きの帰路、長かった会議と視察から脳味噌を小休止させたいとのブラブラ。
　まぁ、そんな配慮はしなくても脳味噌は完全休止状態なのかも知れませんが（笑）一応疲れもあったので、巌美渓やこの蔵王などの自然造形の場所を彷徨いたくなっておりました。蔵王というのは、北海道人はあんまり馴染みはありませんが、東北中央にあっては一種の「神の領域」的な地域信仰の場なのでしょう。
　本当は遠刈田温泉の「神の湯」のじっと熱さに耐えるしかない湯に浸かって、呆然とするのが主な目的の道行き。午後には飛行機で札幌に帰還する予定だったので、その前にちょっと「どうだったかなぁ」とクルマを走らせ、蔵王の山頂付近を拝んでみようとしたのです。たしか以前にも一度向かった記憶があり、その「消去された風景印象」を追体験して見たかった次第。
　しかし、思った以上にクネクネの急坂道・急カーブの連続。対向車とのすれ違いに厳重注意の難所続き。「おっとっと」とこちら側車線にツッコミ気味の対向車も多数あって気がまったく抜けない。
　で、まだ奥には蔵王山神社があるけれど、高齢ドライバーにはもう限界ということで停まった噴火口。場所の名は賽の磧（さいのかわら）ということになるのかどうか、通りすがりの旅人なので不明。ですが、噴火口はまことに「大自然」そのものの迫力で、わが身の小ささを叩き込まれるような思いで過ごしておりました。
　で、その噴火口を見晴らす場所の山道脇に、ふと見ると「賽の河原」の光景が少々。
　親より先に亡くなった子どもが行くと言われる冥途の三途の川のほとりにある河原。子どもたちが父母供養のために小石を積み上げて塔を作ろうとするが、完成する前に鬼が来て崩してしまうという仏教地蔵信仰。
　150年程度の歴史積層しかない北海道では、まんま「地獄谷」というのが噴火口の代表地点ですが、さすがに蔵王にはこういう光景がマッチしているのでしょうか。つい手を合わさせていただいていた。
　まぁわたしはすでに父母を順序通り送らせていただき、振り向けば自分がNEXTになってきているので、賽の河原というのは本来違うのでしょうが・・・。しかしたくさんの先人がこうした石積みに託しただろう「思い」には自然と手が合わさってしまいます。合わさる、という他力「温顔」的な道産子的表現の方が適切か。

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[The Psychology Behind Stacking Stones at “Sai no Kawara” on the Summit of Mount Zao]
As a traveler, I was unaware of Mount Zao’s reputation as a “sacred site,” but the human desire to stack stones around the crater—which is likened to a cauldron of hell—in the hope of erecting at least a “memorial for one’s parents”…

　On my way back from Sendai the other day, I felt like taking a leisurely stroll to give my brain a little break after a long series of meetings and site visits.
Well, my brain might have been in complete shutdown mode even without that (lol), but since I was actually feeling a bit tired, I found myself wanting to wander around places with natural formations like the Iwami Gorge and this Zao area. Zao isn’t a place Hokkaido locals are very familiar with, but in central Tohoku, it’s probably a sort of “sacred realm”—a site of local religious veneration.
My main purpose for the trip was actually to soak in the “God’s Hot Spring” at Togatta Onsen, where you have no choice but to endure the intense heat and just zone out. Since I was scheduled to fly back to Sapporo in the afternoon, I decided to drive up to the vicinity of Mount Zao beforehand, just to see what it was like and pay my respects. I distinctly remember having gone there once before, and I wanted to relive that “erased impression of the landscape.”
However, the road was a continuous series of winding, steep inclines and sharp curves—far more so than I had anticipated. It was one perilous stretch after another, requiring extreme caution when passing oncoming traffic. There were also numerous oncoming cars that veered slightly into my lane with a “Whoops!”—so I couldn’t let my guard down for a moment.
　So, although Zao Shrine lies further ahead, I stopped at a crater, deciding that this was the limit for an elderly driver. I’m not sure if the name of this place is “Sainokawara” or not—I’m just a passing traveler, after all. But the crater possessed the sheer power of “Mother Nature” itself, and I spent my time there feeling my own insignificance driven home.
　Then, as I looked around the mountain path overlooking that crater, I caught a glimpse of a scene that reminded me a bit of “Sainokawara.”
It’s a riverbank on the banks of the Sanzu River—the river of the afterlife—where children who died before their parents are said to go. It’s a Buddhist Jizo belief that children try to build towers by piling up small stones to honor their parents, but before they can finish, a demon comes and knocks them down.
　In Hokkaido, with only about 150 years of history, “Hell Valley” is the quintessential volcanic crater site, but perhaps this scene is actually a better fit for Mount Zao. I found myself instinctively folding my hands in prayer.
Well, since I’ve already seen my parents off in the proper order and am now the “next” in line, “Sai no Kawara” isn’t really meant for me… Yet, when I think of the “feelings” that countless predecessors must have entrusted to these stone piles, my hands naturally come together in prayer. Or perhaps the Hokkaido-style expression “warm-faced” (a sense of being supported by others) is more appropriate.

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Posted on 6月 16th, 2026 by 三木 奎吾
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　昨日夕刻午後６時過ぎに新千歳空港に着陸。そこからわが家まで約２時間で帰還。
　旅に出るとどうしてもあちこちと「飛び回る」性格をしているので、やはり日常生活よりもずっと「刺激的」な体験が積層してします。知らず知らずのうちにそれが「精神的疲労」として蓄積されてしまう。
　ということで、帰ってきてから若干の整理整頓をして即就寝、元気に目覚めであります。
　で、今回の旅行集中期間、計算してみたら5/20〜6/13までの25日間で18日間旅に出ていたことに気付かされた。チョットなぁ・・・であります。なんですが、今回の東北仙台行きでは、やはり長年の対人関係や地縁にいろいろと呼び止められ、呼び覚まされ、の連続。
　写真は帰りの飛行機から眺められた「雲海」ぶりですが、その下界の地形に目を向けると、そういった呼び覚まされが脳内に頭をもたげてきてたまらない。「あ、あそこのあの人、まだ元気にしているかなぁ」。
　そんな旅路でしたが、いろいろとてんやわんやも出来していた（泣）。
　旅先ではだいたいレンタカーのお世話になるのですが、そうするとカーナビ操作がほぼ日常の最大のヘルプ装置になる。最近のニッポンレンタカーでは、その店舗の電話番号も記載されていないケースが多い。っていうか、全国各地に移動しているので各支店ごとの連絡先などまったくアタマに入っていない。
　そんななか、今回は出発店舗と返却店舗が違ったので、出発店舗の方に最後の返却店舗を入力してもらって最後の「目的地」設定にしていた。その直前まである「てんやわんや」事件があってそれをアタマから整理した後、クルマを走らせたらその目的地はただの空き地。オイオイ。
　で、電話番号情報を必死で探して出発店舗に連絡。
　結果、そこからスタッフが飛行場まで来てくれてようやくレンタカー返却。
　どうも、ユーザーにはまったく不明な「マップコード」（合計11の数字・マーク入力）を利用しているので出発店舗のスタッフにそれを入力してもらっていたのです。どうもそれが入力ミスだった可能性。まぁ、飛行場周辺ではあったので、若干搭乗手続きがギリギリになった程度でなんとか危機はクリアできた。
　ふ〜、であります。この直前の別の「てんやわんや」事件についてはまた別記したい。
　ようやく帰還できたわが家の「庵」暮らしに復帰して、ありがたみにウットリであります。

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[Finally back from an 18-day/25-day intensive trip (phew)]
On a trip through Tohoku, it’s impossible not to end up adding more and more stops to the itinerary, thinking, “I want to see this and that, and go there too.” Unsurprisingly, things got pretty chaotic along the way (sob)…

　I landed at New Chitose Airport a little after 6:00 p.m. yesterday. It took about two hours to get back home from there.
Since I have a tendency to “flit around” all over the place whenever I travel, I inevitably end up with a much more “exciting” experience than in my daily life. Before I know it, that builds up as “mental fatigue.”
So, after getting back, I did a bit of tidying up and went straight to bed, and I woke up feeling refreshed.
　So, I calculated the duration of this travel period and realized that out of the 25 days from May 20 to June 13, I was actually traveling for 18 of them. That’s a bit much, isn’t it? However, on this trip to Sendai in Tohoku, I was constantly being called back and reminded of long-standing personal relationships and local ties.
　The photo shows the “sea of clouds” I saw from the plane on the way back, but when I looked down at the terrain below, those memories kept popping into my head, and I couldn’t help but think, “Oh, I wonder if that person over there is still doing well.”
It was a trip like that, but there were also plenty of chaotic moments (sigh).
　I usually rely on rental cars when traveling, and when I do, the car navigation system becomes my biggest lifeline. Lately, with Nippon Rent-A-Car, the branch phone number isn’t listed in many cases. Or rather, since I’m moving all over the country, I don’t have the contact information for each branch memorized at all.
　In this case, since the pickup and drop-off locations were different, I had the staff at the pickup location enter the drop-off location as my final “destination.” Right before that, I’d had a bit of a “chaotic” incident, and after sorting that out in my head, I drove off—only to find that the destination was just an empty lot. Come on.
　So, I frantically searched for the phone number and called the rental office.
As a result, a staff member came all the way from there to the airport, and I was finally able to return the rental car.
Apparently, they use a “Map Code” (a combination of 11 numbers and symbols) that’s completely unfamiliar to users, so I had the staff at the rental office enter it for me. It seems there was likely a typo in that entry. Well, since it was still in the vicinity of the airport, I managed to clear the crisis—though my check-in was a bit of a close call.
　Phew. I’ll write about another “chaotic” incident that happened right before this in a separate post.
Now that I’ve finally returned home and resumed life in my little “hermitage,” I’m utterly enchanted by how grateful I feel.

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Posted on 6月 14th, 2026 by 三木 奎吾
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　人間が生きて行くのには、それぞれの個人の思いというものがあり、それが集積する人間社会のるつぼが存在する。そしてときにそういう営みをはるかに超える地球規模の「無常」が勃発する。
　そういう人間の力の及びえない巨大パワーの前で、人間は立ち止まらされ転身していくことになる。
　この東日本大震災は、わたしという人間の生き様にとって巨大な無常の事態だった。
　札幌の事務所のなかで「なにか遠くから波動が伝わってくるなぁ・・・」と意識が目覚めていた。やや静寂な時間が経過して、そこから一気に情報が飛び込んできて、信じられない光景が映像として、いろいろなメディアを通して爆発してきていた。わたしは翌々日に仙台出張予定で、幾人かとのビジネス上のアポイントを取っていたが、その仙台空港に巨大津波が押し寄せていた。
　「あ、こりゃぁムリ」というアラートが鳴り続けていた。

　今回、あの時間から15年を経て、現在時間との重ね合わせの中で、自分自身も大きな環境変化を経てきて、お誘いを受けたことで、各地を歩かせていただいていた。諸行無常の旅路。東北に来ると松尾芭蕉さんの「奥の細道」という民族精神資産を感じさせられるけれど、現代を生きる多くの人間は、芭蕉さんとはまったく異なった心象を抱き続けてきたに違いない。現代の奥の細道。
　また、そういう現代までの継続した時間を住宅建築の世界で営み続けてきたみなさんとの再会は、これもまた「諸行無常」感にあふれかえさせられた。みなさん元気にこの時間を生き抜いてきた様子が、言葉の端々から交感させられた。住宅建築を担っている現場の感覚とふれあうことで、さまざまに「覚醒」するものがあって、新生する部分も大きかった。
　こうした情報の整理整頓にはちょっと時間を掛けて、札幌の庵空間で取り組みたい。
　多くのみなさんとの道行きであり、さまざまに情報交換が積み上げられて得がたい時間を過ごさせていただいた。多少の飲酒による疲労感もあり、早めにホテルに戻るべく帰ってきたけれど、まったく初めての場所なのに結構正確に帰路選択できていた。まだまだ認知機能は元気そうであります（笑）。
　すこし東北ブラブラ時間を、過ごしていたいです。・・・

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[Fifteen Years Since That “Impermanence”: A Modern-Day Journey Along the “Narrow Road to the Deep North”]
Come to think of it, even though Hōsai considered Hiraizumi his ultimate destination, his descriptions of the journey through the surrounding areas were rather brief. Where will the epic travelogues of modern people end up? …

　For humans to live, each individual has their own thoughts and feelings, and there exists a melting pot of human society where these accumulate. And then, at times, a global-scale “impermanence” erupts that far surpasses such human endeavors.
Faced with such immense power beyond human reach, we are forced to pause and undergo a transformation.
The Great East Japan Earthquake was a massive event of impermanence for my own way of life.
　Inside my office in Sapporo, I became aware of a sensation: “I feel a vibration coming from far away…” After a brief moment of silence, information suddenly flooded in, and unbelievable scenes exploded onto the screen through various media outlets. I had a business trip scheduled to Sendai two days later, with appointments lined up with several people, but a massive tsunami was surging toward Sendai Airport.
　An alarm kept ringing in my head: “Oh, this is impossible.”

Now, 15 years have passed since that time, and as I overlay that past with the present—having undergone significant changes in my own circumstances myself—I accepted an invitation to travel to various places. A journey of impermanence. When I come to Tohoku, I feel the national spiritual heritage of Matsuo Basho’s *The Narrow Road to the Deep North*, but I’m sure many people living today have held mental images completely different from Basho’s. The Narrow Road to the Deep North of the modern era.
Furthermore, reuniting with everyone who has continued to work in the world of residential architecture through this continuous span of time up to the present day also filled me with a profound sense of “impermanence.” I could sense from every word you spoke that you have all lived through this time with vitality. Coming into contact with the sensibilities of those on the front lines of residential architecture sparked various “awakenings” within me, and I felt a significant sense of renewal.
I plan to take some time to organize and sort through all this information at my studio in Sapporo.
It was a journey shared with so many of you, and I was able to spend a truly invaluable time exchanging a wealth of information. I was feeling a bit tired from having had a few drinks, so I headed back to the hotel early, but even though it was my first time there, I managed to find my way back quite accurately. It seems my cognitive functions are still going strong (laughs).
I’d like to spend a little more time wandering around Tohoku…

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Posted on 6月 12th, 2026 by 三木 奎吾
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