高齢化が進んできて病院に掛かることが増えてきています。まぁ仕方ないことと思う。
　で、病院について特定の「かかりつけ医」だけでお薬をもらっていた期間が長く、そこの「薬局」でお薬手帳アプリというのを勧められ、当然の「IT化」の動きとしてすぐにスマホにダウンロードし、それまでの「お薬手帳」のようにいちいち持参する必要がないと喜んでいた。
　こういうことについてはまったく情報に疎くこのあたりの詳細な情報には無頓着に「あ、これで投薬についてのわたしの情報は、全薬局で情報共有され、当然、病院にもその情報が共有される」ものとばかり、素朴に信じてしまったいた。
　ところが、段々複数の病院に掛かるようになって「あの、お薬手帳は？」と聞かれ「あ、スマホのアプリ使っているから」と答えていた。前記のように信じ切っていたからなのですが、そのときの薬局側の反応の微妙さ（？）については顧慮もしていなかった。
　それがつい最近、どうも「お薬手帳アプリ」というのは、特定の薬局チェーンごとに「ユーザー囲い込み」手段としてしか機能していなくて、薬局相互間はもちろん、肝心の病院側にもまったく情報共有されていないのだということが、わかってしまった。
　患者としては健康のこととか、医療・薬剤のことについては信じることしか、頭になかった。「IT化」の目的が情報の「囲い込み」だけだということには心底、恐れ入った。バカバカしい。
　わたしの場合は通常的に「かかりつけ」になっているのは２つの病院・医院ですが、これらですら情報は共有されていないのだということに愕然とした。
　そういうことで渡されたのが写真のパンフ。お薬手帳は紙のアナログのものを「災害時・緊急時」に備えて常に保持してください、と書いてある。オイオイというのが最初の感想。で、さらに24年４月という数字だけを見て、てっきり今年のことかと勘違いしていたら、平成24年なのだという。
　どうも病院側から、勝手な薬局チェーンの「お薬手帳アプリ」では肝心の患者の投薬状況が共有されないから、紙のものを使ってくださいというまさかのアナウンス。それもいまから14年前の紙のパンフ。そんな昔からIT化はこの領域ではまったく進展していないことになる。
　アタマの混乱がしばらく止まらなかった。
　マイナカードについて「反対反対」と叫ぶ一部のひとがいるくらいのことは情報で知っていたが、まさか、こういう現実に立ち至っているとは、驚きを通り越してしまった。いや、自分の「情報オンチ」ぶりにも呆れてものが言えなくなってしまった。
　・・・いい加減にして欲しい。
　IT化・情報化に全世界は突入し仕事環境でもまったくそのように進展してきたのに、肝心な健康領域についてすら反対運動の結果でか、IT化からアナログ化へと向かい続けているのだという。
　これは高齢者としても声を上げなければならないと感じた。

English version⬇

Nippon is moving back from IT to analog.
I was surprised to hear the announcement that people nowadays use paper medication registers. And this pamphlet is 14 years old. How much has the progress of IT in Japan been hampered? …

With the aging of the population, we are seeing more and more hospital visits. Well, I think it is inevitable.
　I had been receiving my medication at a particular “family doctor” for a long time, and the “pharmacy” there recommended a medication notebook application, which I immediately downloaded to my smartphone as a natural “IT” move, and was happy that I did not have to bring it with me every time like my previous “medication notebooks”.
　I was not familiar with this kind of information and was ignorant of the details of this area. I naively believed that all pharmacies would share my medication information and that the information would naturally be shared with the hospitals as well.
　However, as I began to see patients at more and more hospitals, I was asked, “Um, do you have your medication book? I answered, “Oh, I use an app on my smartphone. I had no idea about the subtlety (?) of the pharmacy’s reaction at that time. I had not given any thought to the pharmacy’s reaction.
　Recently, however, I have come to realize that the “Medication Notebook App” only functions as a means of “user retention” for each specific pharmacy chain, and that information is not shared at all, not only between pharmacies, but also with the hospitals, which is the important thing.
　As a patient, all I could think about was what I believed about my health, medical care, and drugs. I was truly horrified to learn that the only purpose of “IT” was to “enclose” information. That’s ridiculous.
　In my case, I have two hospitals/clinics as my regular “family practice,” and I was shocked to find out that even these hospitals/clinics do not share information.
　That is why I was given the pamphlet pictured. It says to always keep a paper analog version of your medication handbook in case of “disasters and emergencies. My first thought was, “Oi oi oi. I had mistakenly thought that it was for this year, but it turns out that it is for the year 2012.
　The hospital had announced that the “Medication Record Book App” of a self-serving pharmacy chain did not share the important information about the patient’s medication status, and that the paper version should be used. This was a paper pamphlet from 14 years ago. IT has not progressed at all in this area for such a long time.
　My mind was in turmoil for a while.
　I knew from information that there were some people who were “against” the MyNa card, but I was beyond surprised to find out that we have come to this kind of reality. I was so stunned by my own “information-impairedness” that I couldn’t even say anything.
　I wish I could say enough.
　The whole world has been plunging into IT and information technology, and even the work environment has been progressing in this way, but even in the important area of health, the trend has been from IT to analog, perhaps as a result of opposition movements.
　As a senior citizen, I felt I had to speak out against this.

Posted on 6月 21st, 2024 by 三木 奎吾
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　体調がようやく半月ぶりくらいに回復してきて、ここのところ朝の散歩習慣が復元しつつあります。いくつかのコースがある中で、やはり最初は北海道神宮とその周辺に敬意を表して、歩き始めております。ことしは札幌のこの周辺ではヒグマの目撃情報はないようなので、やや安堵しておりますが、南区などでは確認されているようですし、北海道全域で見れば、各地でかれらの活動状況が確認されている。要注意であります。
　さて、この時期になると札幌円山の里山的な一帯で、アイヌの人びとのソウルフードとされるオオウバユリの開花までのライブショーが開幕致します。
　写真は昨日さっそく確認できた一輪に芽生えてきた花芽。
　ここから開花までの生態はまことに劇的で、自然のパワーをわたしのなかに強くメッセージしてくれるのです。アイヌの人びとは狩猟採集の生活の中で、この花芽のサインが重要なランドマークだったに違いない。この花芽の球根部分にかれらのソウルフードが生成される。アイヌの人びとの「よろこび」の視線のなにがしかが伝わってくる部分があって、体調が優れないなかでも、いまどんなだろうか、もう開花したのではないか、ことしは目にすることが出来ないのかも、などと杞憂を巡らせていた。
　しかし「おう、ひさしぶりだな」みたいな強いメッセージで目に飛び込んできた。
　人間、加齢とともにこういう「対話」が無上にうれしくなっていくのだろうか。最近、娘からイヌを飼えと勧められているけれど、散歩道で出会うかれらとのこころの会話も、なにか熱を帯びてきている感じがする。カミさんからは「絶対ムリ」とわたしの出張中の面倒など勘弁して欲しいと脅迫されているので、諦念している。それもよく理解できる。
　そういうなかで野生の植物との対話には、そういった不安・心配はない。
　これから１ヶ月ちょっとくらいだろうか、かれらオオウバユリの全体力を掛けた命の輝きの全容を感受させていただきたい。「ことしもよろしく、命を感じさせてもらいます、よろしく」といったあいさつを内語でさせていただいた次第。

English version⬇

Hello again, Ouba lily.
Wild plants live their lives in all their glory without the need to interact with humans. Let me be a source of energy by observing the beauty of their appearance on a daily basis. ・・・・.

My health is finally recovering for the first time in about half a month, and my morning walking habit is being restored as of late. Among several courses, I have started walking in honor of the Hokkaido Shrine and its surroundings. I am somewhat relieved that no brown bears have been sighted in this area of Sapporo this year, but they have been confirmed in Minami Ward and other areas, and their activities have been observed in various areas throughout Hokkaido. We need to be careful.
　At this time of the year, a live show of Oubayuri, considered soul food of the Ainu people, will be held in the satoyama-like area of Maruyama, Sapporo, until the blooming of the Oubayuri.
　The photo shows a budding flower bud on one of the flowers we were able to see yesterday.
　The process from this point to flowering is truly dramatic and sends a strong message to me about the power of nature. The Ainu people must have considered this flower bud signature an important landmark in their hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Their soul food is produced in the bulbous part of this flower bud. I could feel something of the Ainu people’s “joy” in their eyes, and even though I was not feeling well, I wondered how they were doing now, whether they had already bloomed, and whether I might not be able to see them this year.
　However, I was surprised to see a strong message like, “Oh, it’s been a while.
　As we age, I wonder if this kind of “dialogue” becomes infinitely more gratifying. Recently, my daughter has been urging me to get a dog, and I feel that my heart-to-heart conversations with the people I encounter on my walks are becoming more heated. My wife has threatened to tell me that it is “absolutely impossible” and that she does not want me to take care of them during my business trips, so I have given up on the idea. That is understandable.
　In such a situation, I do not have such anxiety and worry when I talk with wild plants.
　I hope that in the next month or so, I will be able to experience the full glory of the lives of these daylilies, which have put all their energy into their work. I would like to express my greetings to them in my own language, saying, “I look forward to working with you again this year and feeling the life of these plants.

Posted on 6月 19th, 2024 by 三木 奎吾
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　ここのところ「書く」仕事がメインになりつつあります。
　きのう１日でも約10,000文字分は書いている。出版に関わって生きてきた人間として当然なのですが、現代人としては昔の作家たちのようにビジュアル要素までも文章で表現する、というような志向性はない。谷崎潤一郎など、その文章において美感表現を追求していると感じる。そしてその「書く環境」について妥協なく追究して、ほとんど「引っ越し魔」とでも言えるように自分の感受性を刺激してくれる空間を求め続けた。
　たしかにかれの表現には、強い美への執着、視覚化という志向性を感じる。
　しかし現代人というのは典型的に「マンガ」世代であり、テキスト表現で「絵画性」を求めるよりももっと直接的な画像表現、そのクリップ・ピンナップの感覚のほうがわかりやすい。
　しかしビジュアルにもまた、わかりやすい表現とそうでないものが存在する。iPhoneの写真撮影でも瞬間的に「構図」とか、撮影意図に即した「直接力」があるかどうかが問われる。
　とくにわたしは住宅雑誌という表現手段の世界で生きてきたので、その写真にもあらゆる意味合いを込めて撮影するというクセが根強くついている。そして当然ですが、あるテキストを書いていくとき、空間についてイメージを作って行くときには、写真の典型、自分が撮影した「ポイント」というようなものに集中していくことになる。一枚一枚の写真にはその「撮影意図」があって、そのことに常に「記憶再生」スイッチが入ってくる。
　「そうだ、このときにはこういった意図が働いていた」ということが記憶再生されるのだ。
　なので文章は、そういう空気環境のようなものと対応する表現として考えて行く。
　たぶんその相関関係こそが、キモなのだと思っている。
　まぁ写真雑誌をメインとして生きてきた人間の「性〜さが」でもあるのだろう。しかしやはりマンガ世代としては、表現は大きくこのようにメイン領域が変わったのだと思っている。
　日本人は「鳥獣戯画」で宗教世界を表現するということにチャレンジした世界の中でも特異な民族。そしてその伝統、わかりやすくビジュアル化するということに長けているのではないか。
　ということなんですが本日の写真は、金比羅さんのどこかで発見していた立体模型図。行ってみたあとで「あ、こんな風になっていたんだ」と追体験させてくれてわかりやすい一枚。

English version⬇

The publisher’s book “Writing” & Organizing Photographs
I continue to explore every day. I am able to concentrate on my field of interest, or rather, my life as it is. I feel like my head is going to explode from all the blood rushing through my veins.

The “writing” work is becoming my main focus these days.
　Even in one day yesterday, I wrote about 10,000 words worth. As a person who has been involved in publishing for a long time, it is natural, but as a modern person, I do not have the same orientation as writers of the past, who expressed even visual elements in their writings. I feel that Tanizaki Junichiro, for example, pursues aesthetic expression in his writing. He pursued his “writing environment” uncompromisingly, almost as if he were a “mover and shaker,” continually seeking a space that would stimulate his sensibility.
　It is true that in his expression, we can sense a strong attachment to beauty and an orientation toward visualization.
　However, people today are typically of the “manga” generation, and rather than seeking “pictoriality” in textual expression, it is easier to understand the more direct expression of images and their clip-pinup sensibility.
　However, there are some visual expressions that are easy to understand and others that are not, and even in iPhone photography, one is asked whether or not there is “composition” or “directness” that is in line with the intent of the shot.
　Especially since I have lived in the world of housing magazines as a means of expression, I have a strong habit of putting all kinds of connotations into the photographs I take. And of course, when I write a text or create an image of a space, I concentrate on the typicality of the photograph, the “point” at which I took it. Each photograph has its own “photographic intent,” which always turns on the “memory reproduction” switch.
　The “memory replay” switch is always turned on by the fact that each photograph has its own “photographic intention.
　Therefore, I think of writing as an expression that corresponds to such an atmospheric environment.
　Perhaps that correlation is the key.
　Well, I guess that is the “nature” of those of us who have lived our lives mainly through photo magazines. However, as a member of the manga generation, I believe that the main domain of expression has changed dramatically in this way.
　The Japanese are unique among the world’s peoples in that they have taken up the challenge of expressing the religious world in their “Birds, Animals, and Caricatures. I believe that the Japanese are skilled at visualizing their traditions in a way that is easy to understand.
　So, today’s photo is a three-dimensional model drawing that I had found somewhere in Kompira-san. It is a piece that is easy to understand, making you relive the experience after you have been there and say, “Oh, I didn’t know it was like this.

Posted on 6月 17th, 2024 by 三木 奎吾
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　昨日までで今回のリフォーム工事、第１期の木工事関係は終了。引き続き、駐車場拡張のための土木関係工事と、室内の床研磨工事・電気関係の工事が続きます。
　ということで前から一度は、と思っていた近隣への訪問もさせていただいた。外部工事ではどうしても隣接する土地との絡みが生まれるので、ご挨拶の必要が生じる。結果として、ごく自然に対話することが出来て良かった。なんといっても相方は全国企業の北海道支店なので、通常「隣近所」的なお付き合いが難しいのですね。よかった、といったところ。
　人間が生きるというのには当然、住まいの条件が関わってくる。ただ単に「住むだけ」というのであればそれなりのことで済むけれど、わたしの場合は、生まれた頃から農家であったり商家であったりしたので、いわば生き様がそのまま家の表情に表れていると感じる。
　写真はわたしが３歳の時に、父が一生の決断で岩見沢市近郊での農家をやめて、札幌市中央区の北大植物園に東側が道路を挟んで向かい合っていた角地の建物を購入して、移転してきた住まい。
　２歳まで住んでいた農家住宅はあんまり記憶がないけれど、いまでもときどきクルマで近くに行くことがあり、そのときにはやはり「郷愁」のような感覚がある。しかし体験記憶とともに暮らしぶりなどが蘇ってくるのは、やはりこの古写真の家。
　父親は札幌での生業として、農家出身らしく「食品製造業」を志向していた。最初は納豆製造に取り組んでいたけれど、当時の取引先から別の食品の将来性を教えられて、そちらに転進を図っていった。そんな時期の記憶が再生されてくる住宅写真。
　当時の住宅入手方法は、おおむね建売一択だったそうで、そういった不動産業者が開発した「角地」用の商家向け物件だったようです。商品配送のためにすぐに購入した「オート三輪」の後ろ姿が記録されています。家の前にはたくさんの「配送用の木箱」が集積されている。建物内部に入りやすそうな、店舗向けと思われる玄関開口。硝子主体の引き戸。その右手にはこれも硝子主体のショーウィンドウ風のコーナーが角まで回っている。
　こういう住まいが、自分を育ててくれたという独特の感情が籠もっていて、ときどき見入っては、振り返る一枚の住宅写真です。たぶん、多くのみなさんにもそういう写真があるに違いない。

English version⬇

The unity of housing and human life.
Photographs of houses provide us with a lot of “way of life” information. I think the range of such experiences expands with life experience. I think that the range of such reliving will expand with life experience.

As of yesterday, the first phase of the woodwork-related work for this renovation project was completed. Civil engineering-related work to expand the parking lot and interior floor polishing and electrical work will continue.
　So, I visited the neighborhood, which I had wanted to do at least once before. Since the outside construction work inevitably involves the adjacent land, it is necessary to greet the neighbors. As a result, we were happy to be able to have a very natural dialogue with them. After all, my partner is a Hokkaido branch of a nationwide company, so it is usually difficult to have a “neighborly” relationship with him. It was a good thing.
　Naturally, the condition of a residence is a part of human life. If you are simply “living” in a house, you can get away with a lot, but in my case, I was born into a farming family and a merchant family, so I feel that my way of life is directly reflected in the expression of my house.
　In the photo, I am three years old, and my father made a lifelong decision to quit farming near Iwamizawa City, and bought a corner house across the street on the east side from the Hokkaido University Botanical Garden in Chuo-ku, Sapporo City, and moved us to the new house.
　I don’t remember much about the farmhouse where I lived until I was two years old, but even now I sometimes drive by the house, and when I do, I still feel a sense of “nostalgia. However, it is the house in the old photo that brings back memories of the experience and the lifestyle of the family.
　His father, who came from a farming family, wanted to be a “food manufacturer” in Sapporo. At first, he was involved in natto (fermented soybeans) production, but when a business partner at the time told him about the potential of other food products, he decided to move in that direction. This photo of a house replayed the memories of such a period.
　It seems that the only way to obtain housing at that time was generally by building for sale, and the property was for a merchant family for a “corner lot” developed by such a real estate agent. The back view of the “auto tricycle,” which was immediately purchased for product delivery, is recorded. Many “shipping crates” are accumulated in front of the house. The front door opening, which appears to be for a store, which seems to provide easy access to the interior of the building. A sliding glass door. To the right of the sliding glass door is a show-window-like corner, also made mainly of glass.
　This is a photograph of a house that I sometimes look back on, filled with the unique feeling that this kind of house brought me up. Perhaps many of you must have such a photograph as well.

Posted on 6月 15th, 2024 by 三木 奎吾
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　最近、空き家などが大きな社会問題化してきています。調査では900万戸を超えるということですが、フルで活用されず、一時利用などのケースも合算されることから実際には本物の「放置物件」というのは350万戸程度とも言われる。
　しかし少子化と人口減少局面では、無視できない問題として浮かび上がってくることでしょう。
　わが家の場合は、そういう空き家問題ということではありません。より有効活用して家族の絆を強めたいというのが狙いでの既存住宅のメンテナンス型、有効活用型の「手入れ」であります。
　新会社・略称「ミキ住宅ジャーナル」の事務所として有効活用することで、室内外の各所を改修する工事に入ってもらったのであります。これまでは戸建て住宅としての利用だけで、クルマの駐車スペースは屋根付きのカーポート１台分だけだったのですが、やはりクルマ駐車スペースを３台分くらいは確保したいことと、室内に事務所スペースを作るのに若干のリフォームをすることに。
　事務所スペース自体は、いまの札幌市西区山の手にもあるのですが、まぁセカンドオフィス的に活用することでよりアクティブな使い方が出来ると考えている次第。ここからは北広島と札幌南のICが近いという立地条件。これからは高速アクセスはきわめて重要でしょう。
　最近は「執筆活動」が大きな部分になって来ているので、菜園もあって「晴耕雨読」も可能な敷地条件は、活用するのになかなか面白そうなのであります。
　こっちの方は敷地面積にゆとりがあり、将来的にもいろいろと活用することも考えられる。周辺にはCOSTCOの大型店舗もあって、市内有数の交通量の36号線の角地から２軒目という立地。家の前には新札幌方面に向かう幹線道路も交差するように走っている。駐車場３台分程度を確保しておけば、いろいろな活用方法が出てくるものと考えています。
　建物自体は新築時、施主として建築会社といっしょになって木造での合理的建築、省エネで優れたコストパフォーマンスを実現できた建物。築後20年近くですが、基本性能的には満足できるレベル。
　作家の谷崎潤一郎は引っ越し魔として有名だったようで、その住宅環境とかれの「作風」とは非常に強い関連性があったと言われます。もちろんそれとはレベルがまったく違いますが、環境にはしっかり配慮して、質のいい仕事に取り組みたいと思っております。

English version⬇

[House in Satozuka, Kiyota-ku to be used as an office, partial renovation work
Excited about “building construction” after a long absence (laughs). In an era when the number of vacant houses is increasing, effective use of buildings will become an important factor. …

Recently, vacant houses have become a major social problem. Although surveys indicate that there are more than 9 million units, it is said that the actual number of genuine “abandoned properties” is about 3.5 million units, since the number is not fully utilized and cases of temporary use, etc., are also added up.
　However, with the declining birthrate and population decline, this will emerge as a problem that cannot be ignored.
　In the case of our house, it is not that kind of vacant house problem. It is a maintenance-type, effective utilization-type “care” of existing houses with the aim of making more effective use of them and strengthening family ties.
　The new company, abbreviated as “Miki Jutaku Journal,” will make effective use of the house as an office, and we have asked them to begin work on renovating various parts of the house, both inside and out. The house had previously been used only as a detached house, with only one covered carport for car parking, but we wanted to secure at least three car parking spaces, and decided to remodel the house slightly to create an office space inside.
　The office space itself is located in Yamanote, Nishi-ku, Sapporo, but we think we can use it more actively by using it as a second office. The location is close to the Kita Hiroshima and Sapporo Minami interchanges. I think that highway access will be important from now on.
　Writing” is becoming a big part of my life these days, so the site conditions, which also have a vegetable garden and allow for “sunny days,” seem quite interesting to utilize.
　This one has a more spacious site area and could be utilized in various ways in the future. There is a large COSTCO store nearby, and the location is the second house from the corner lot on Route 36, one of the busiest roads in the city. In front of the house, an arterial road running toward Shin-Sapporo also intersects. We believe that if we can secure about three parking spaces, there will be a variety of ways to utilize the property.
　When the building itself was newly constructed, we, as the owner, worked together with the construction company to achieve rational construction with wood construction, energy conservation, and excellent cost performance. Although it is nearly 20 years old, the basic performance is satisfactory.
　The writer Junichiro Tanizaki was famous for his penchant for moving from one place to another, and it is said that there was a very strong relationship between his housing environment and his “style. Of course, the level of performance is completely different from that of Tanizaki, but we would like to work on high-quality work while paying close attention to the environment.
　
　

Posted on 6月 13th, 2024 by 三木 奎吾
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