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【最高気温７度さっぽろ・固雪の１日融雪状況】




　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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【さっぽろ今シーズンの固雪処理、最終の風景】


　ここ数日、札幌もようやくにして「雪割り」好適の天候が続いております。12月からの冬の間に積層していたわが家駐車場の雪は放って置いても融雪はするのですが、厚さ20cm超ほどの頑固に固い積雪面がそれでも10-15坪ほどは残っていました。春の陽射しとやわらかな雨にノンビリと任せるのが普通でしょうが、自分の健康チェックも含めてこういった残雪に対して、それを自力で処理する努力で立ち向かっておりました。雪割りって結構な「力仕事」なのです。
　先日来書き続けていますが、こういう「雪との対話」には、北国としての独特の「季節感」の感性が象徴的に込められているように思われる。一種の「庭仕事」的な思いがそこにあるのですね。そのように自覚的に取り組んでみると、季節感とシンクロする「努力目標」みたいなものが盛り上がってきて、いわば「最期を見届ける」みたいな感覚から、ことしの冬との別離を彩りたくなってくる。北国の春、の演歌が脳内に響いてくる（笑）。
　そういう気分と自分の体力との話し合いの結果、処分方法が固まっていく。今年の冬の一期一会。
　結果としてことしは家の周りの特定ヵ所に割り雪を集合させてみた次第。この場所は雨だれが落下してくる場所とその周辺なので、屋根雪の融雪水がさらに固雪解消の促進剤としても働いてくれるという判断。
　こんなふうに雪との対話を続けていると、通勤しているスタッフの多くから「固雪、すごいですね」と感動の声掛けしてくれる。やはり雪国人らしい「自然との対話」の共感。雪と人間との「対話記録」が心象に刷り込まれるのでしょう。
　さて、こうして今年の雪との対話を片付けたのは、週末に向けて東京出張を控えているから。カミさんからは冬の間、家の雪のことを考えて出張は控えて欲しい、という宣告を受け続けていた。少なくとも天候と相談して、大雪が予測されないときにだけ外出出張の許可が与えられていた（笑）。まぁそのキモチはよくわかるので従順に従っておりましたが、この写真のような段階になれば、そういう宣告期間は終了と考えられる。占領状態から自由への復帰。
　写真のような光景を見つつ、北国・雪国の「家守」管理からの戦後的解放をしみじみ感じております。やった！

English version⬇

The final scene of this season’s solid snow treatment in Sapporo.
The song ‘Spring in the North Country’ is hauntingly played in my brain. The scene of the commemoration of the end of the war with the winter of this year. Liberation from the oppression of occupation. …

　The past few days have finally brought good weather for breaking up the snow in Sapporo, and although the snow in our parking lot that had accumulated during the winter since December melted even if we left it alone, there was still a stubbornly hard snow surface of more than 20 cm thick, covering an area of about 10-15 pyeong (1.5-2.5 m2). It would be normal to leave it to the spring sunshine and soft rain, but I was making an effort to deal with this kind of remaining snow by myself, including checking my own health. Snow clearing is quite ‘hard work’.
　As I have been writing about since the other day, this kind of ‘dialogue with the snow’ seems to symbolise the unique ‘sense of the seasons’ that we have as a northern country. You have a kind of ‘garden work’ feeling there. When you try to work consciously in this way, something like an ‘effort target’ synchronised with the sense of the season rises, and you want to colour your separation from the winter of this year from a sense of ‘seeing the end of the season’, so to speak. The song ‘Spring in the North’ echoes in my brain (laughs).
　As a result of these moods and discussions with my own physical strength, the method of disposal becomes fixed. This winter was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
　As a result, this year I gathered the snow in specific places around the house. This is in and around the area where the raindrops fall, so I decided that the melting water from the roof snow would also act as a catalyst for further solidification of the snow.
　As I continue to interact with the snow in this way, many of the staff who commute to the office say to me, ‘The solid snow is amazing’, and I am very impressed. This is the kind of empathy in ‘dialogue with nature’ that is typical of people from snow country. The record of the dialogue between snow and people must be imprinted on their mental image.
　Now, the reason I have put away this year’s dialogue with snow is because I have a business trip to Tokyo coming up over the weekend. My wife kept pronouncing that I should refrain from business trips during the winter in view of the snow at home. At least she consulted with the weather and only gave me permission to go out on business trips when heavy snow was not forecast (laughs). Well, I understand that sentiment, so I obediently followed it, but once we reached the stage shown in this photo, such a period of pronouncement was considered to be over. Return from occupation to freedom.
　While looking at scenes like the one in the photo, I am deeply feeling the post-war liberation from the ‘house-keeping’ management of the northern and snowy country. Yay!
　

Posted on 3月 26th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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【東大・前真之先生講演で突如わたしの画像が再登場（笑）】


　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。

English version⬇

[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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【群来が続くニシン「3尾399円」捌くよろこび】




　ことしはニシンの「群来」の様子が北海道西岸に見られているほど豊漁のようです。北海道民として喜ばしい限り。ながく不漁が続いてきていたので、わが家でもニシンを食べる食習慣、それも自分で捌いて焼き魚として食べるということはほとんど絶滅していました。人生を遡って考えても母の手料理でもニシンの焼き魚の食事記憶はほとんどない。
　それが、この冬には馴染みのスーパー鮮魚コーナーでゴロンと生さかなとして販売されている。さすがにアニサキスが怖いので刺身や寿司ネタとして挑戦しようとは考えませんが、毎朝の焼き魚としてすっかり馴染んできています。それも店頭価格が「3尾399円」というお値頃価格。１尾あたり133円ということになるのでコスパ最強。
　味わいは淡白でしかも青さかななのに独特のコクがあって適度な油分も感じさせてくれる。なにより飽きのこない風合いであります。朝食についてはわが家の健康維持作戦のキモと位置づけていて、多品種少量のおかず類としているのですが、その要の位置にニシンがどっしりと坐ってくれている。北海道民であるよろこびを毎朝、堪能させてもらっているのですね。３尾も捌いておくと、たっぷり10日分ほどにもなっている。
　捌いているとニシンは小骨が多いと実感しますが、適時包丁で小骨を処理すれば味わいには影響しない、というか、むしろその小骨丸ごと味わうことで、カルシウム分まで摂取できるとも思えてくる。白子については冷凍保存はさせているけれど、まだ調理の挑戦はしておりません。包丁仕事でいちばん難しいのはおなかの部分の「小骨」の除去なのですが、この部分と背骨部位はアラ汁としても楽しめる。骨回りのさわやかな煮込みも野趣満点であります。
　わが家では捌くのはわたしの専属業務ですが、カミさんもここのところの食習慣化で、その味わいにすっかり魅了されています。
　ニシン漁は4/5までというようなアナウンスがありましたので、もうあと２週間ほどの「期間限定」で、そのあとは加工食品として味わうことになるのでしょうが、地元への深い愛情を込めて、たのしく「春の味覚」を味わい続けたいと思います。ありがとうね。

English version⬇

The joy of handling herring, ‘3 fish for 399 yen’, which continue to arrive in large numbers.
Herring have played a major role in Hokkaido’s unique place in Japanese history, but as residents of Hokkaido, the custom of eating grilled fish has been far from common. Thanks to the herring. …

　This year, the catch seems to be so plentiful that a ‘shoal’ of herring has been seen along the western coast of Hokkaido. As a resident of Hokkaido, I am delighted. Because the fishing had been poor for so long, the custom of eating herring in my family, and even of processing it and eating it as grilled fish, had almost died out. Even when I think back over my life, I have almost no memory of eating grilled herring, even in my mother’s home-cooked meals.
　This winter, however, it is sold as raw fish in the fresh fish section of the supermarket I am familiar with. As expected, I am afraid of anisakis, so I don’t think of trying it as sashimi or sushi material, but I have become completely familiar with it as a grilled fish every morning. The price in the shops is a reasonable 399 yen for three fish, which is 133 yen per fish, making it the most cost-effective.
　The taste is light and blue, but it has a unique richness and just the right amount of oil. Above all, it has a texture that you will never get tired of. Breakfast is the cornerstone of our family’s health maintenance strategy, and we have a wide variety of side dishes in small quantities, but herring sits solidly at the heart of it all. When I process three herring, I have enough for about ten days.
　When you process them, you realise that herring have many small bones, but if you deal with the small bones with a knife in a timely manner, they do not affect the taste, or rather, you can even consume the calcium content by tasting the whole of those small bones. As for the milt, I keep it frozen, but I have not tried cooking it yet. The most difficult part of the knife work is removing the ‘small bones’ from the belly, but this part and the backbone part can be enjoyed as ara soup. The fresh stew around the bones is also full of wild flavor.
　In our house, it is my exclusive job to handle the fish, but my wife has recently become a habitual eater and is completely fascinated by the taste.
　There was an announcement that the herring fishing season ends on 5 April, so it will only be available for about two more weeks, after which it will probably be enjoyed as processed food, but I would like to continue enjoying the ‘taste of spring’ with deep affection for the local area. Thank you.

Posted on 3月 24th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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【さっぽろ住宅街、春の「雪割り」サンデー】


　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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【忙中閑・さっぽろ琴似の空中回廊壁画】



　昨日は久しぶりの「住宅取材」で午前中いっぱい興味津々。すっかりあれこれのポイント満載でツッコミどころのあまりの多さに驚かされておりました。「作家と住空間」の取材も自分的には非常に刺激的なのですが、イマドキの住宅建築最前線事情もまた、いまの経済社会をすべて投影しているので分析しがいがある。
　で、帰ってきたら今度は電話連絡で東京の「中央省庁」とのやり取り。最近強く思っているのですが、政策についての申請〜やり取りが電子化してきてからどんどん「複雑化」してきていて、非常にナーバスな対応力を必要とされるようになってきた。むしろ書面と対面での作業の方がはるかに簡便なのではないかと思います。
　こういう困難はたぶん、電子化という情報交換手段の進化に対して人間社会の側の「常識化」がまだ追いついていないということのように思えます。官僚システム世界の言語感覚の厳密さををそのまま一般人に強制していると思える。それ自体は間違っているとは言えないのだけれど、一般社会常識では「え、そこまで厳密にやんなきゃいけないの？」という反応を持たざるを得ない。電子化によって官僚システムそのままが投影されてきていると思うのです。
　もう少し、行政の電子化も一般言語化される必要があると思うのですが、そういう進化プロセスというのは直接に政治判断の領域でもないので、選挙で止揚発展させていくものでもなさそう。できれば有識者による情報システム「民主化」というようなテーマで論議されて欲しいと思います。孫子の世代の日本のために。（おお！）
　・・・そんななか、夫婦での冬の散歩道探究の結果、さっぽろ琴似の空中回廊〜ビルとビルの連絡通路空間が２階のレベルで散歩歩数距離にして5000歩くらいになる通路散歩〜にたどりついています。北国の人間の知恵とも言える。で、そこにいくつかの「壁画」が展示されていて、毎日癒されております。
　どうも最近、こういう「やさしさ」にまったく参っておりまして（笑）、小さい子とか、各所で見かける動物たち、空を飛んでいる鳥たちなどに深く癒される。さっぽろの場合、多雪都市らしく地下歩行空間などたくさん人工通路があるので、こういった壁画という公共文化も大いに発展させて欲しい。いかがでしょうか？

English version⬇

The mural on the aerial corridor in Sapporo Kotoni.
I’m getting melancholy about this kind of gentle expression (laughs). Artificial building corridor space is a new ‘public space’. It is a stage for a culture of gentleness. …

　Yesterday, after a long time, I spent the whole morning in a ‘housing interview’ and was very interested. I was surprised at how many points of interest there were. The coverage of ‘Writers and Living Space’ is very stimulating for me, but the situation at the forefront of current housing construction is also worth analysing, as it projects everything that is happening in today’s economy and society.
　And when I came back, this time I had a phone call with the ‘central ministries’ in Tokyo. Recently, I have strongly felt that the application and exchange of information on policies has become more and more ‘complicated’ since they have been computerised, requiring a very nervous response. Instead, it is much easier to work in writing and face-to-face.
　It seems to me that these difficulties probably mean that ‘common sense’ on the part of human society has not yet caught up with the evolution of the information exchange means of computerisation. It seems to me that the rigour of the language sense of the bureaucratic system world is being forced on the general public as it is. That in itself is not wrong, but the general public’s common sense is to respond, ‘Oh, do we have to be that strict?’ The electronic system has allowed the bureaucratic system to remain as it is. I think that the electronic system is projecting the bureaucratic system as it is.
　I think that the digitisation of public administration needs to be more generalised, but this kind of evolutionary process is not directly in the realm of political decision-making, so it is not something that can be stopped and developed through elections. If possible, I would like to see a discussion on such a theme as information system ‘democratisation’ by experts. For the sake of Japan’s grandchildren’s generation. (Oh!)
　In such a situation, as a result of the exploration of winter walking paths by a couple, we have arrived at the aerial corridor in Sapporo Kotoni – a corridor walk where the connecting passage space between buildings is at the level of the second floor and the walking distance is about 5000 steps. It can be said to be the wisdom of the people of the North. So, some ‘murals’ are exhibited there, and I am healed every day.
　I have recently been completely overwhelmed by this kind of ‘gentleness’ (laughs), and am deeply healed by small children, animals seen in various places, birds flying in the sky, etc. In the case of Sapporo, as a city with a lot of snow, there are many man-made pathways, such as underground walking spaces, so I would like to see the public culture of murals like this develop. What do you think?

Posted on 3月 22nd, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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【道東海産珍味「タコまんま」初体験】



　先日の握り寿司パーティの前に、北海道積丹半島・余市の名物鮮魚店・新岡鮮魚店に買い出しに行ったのですが、そこで驚かされたのが、この「タコまんま」。Wikiで調べたら以下のよう。
　〜タコまんまとは北方系のタコ・ヤナギダコの卵巣を呼ぶときの北海道太平洋沿岸地域における呼称。マダコの卵である海藤花に相当するが小卵型のタコで幼生が長期間プランクトン生活を送るマダコと違い、ヤナギダコはイイダコと同様の底生生活の幼体が直達発生する大卵型のタコであるために、ずっと大粒の卵である。ヤナギダコの卵は長径5mm、短径3mm程度と、マダコの卵の2倍以上の大きさの回転楕円体型で、色は白色がかっている。生のままだと透き通っているが、茹でると炊いた米状（まんま、まま）になるためこう呼ばれる。 〜
　ということだったのですが、これはあとでわかった知識。店頭では、下の写真のような状態で販売されていまして、皮に包まれて見るからにぽよよーんとした風体。で、これを茹でて表皮を突いてやると内側からムクムクと卵が出現するのだ、という説明をされた。話を聞いていてもまったくわからない。よしわかった、と購入したのですが、写真のヤツはちょっと大型過ぎるので、もう少し小さめの300円で売られていたモノを購入。
　で、実際に茹でて突いてみたのが上の写真。薄めの塩水で茹でてみた。突いた瞬間に「おお」と驚かされるムクムク開きっぷり。食べる興味よりも、この変身ぶりに視覚的快感を感じてしまった。
　実際に中身が展開したあとの状態はまことに「まんま〜ご飯」そのまま。道東産ということなので、その風体と食味を日本民族が感じ始めてからそう永くはないように思いますが、形状はまことに米粒状。おにぎりの特殊形状とでも言える。
　で、恐る恐る口に運んで食してみると、濃厚な風合いの卵感。ひとりあたり、この写真の1/100程度の少量をぽん酢などで「付け合わせ」として食べるのが常道と思われました。300円でしたがわが家では１日１食の頻度で食すとしても、たぶん１ヶ月以上の量はある。当然、これを少量ごとに切り分けて冷凍保存させることにいたしました。500円のヤツだと、優に２−３ヶ月相当か。メッチャなコスパ食品であります（笑）。
　あんまり一般には流通していないのではないかと思いますが、花開く瞬間の驚きはオススメ。

English version⬇

First experience of the delicacy ‘octopus manma’ from the East Sea of Hokkaido.
Aside from the taste, the moment of transformation during the boiling process is astonishing. It transforms from an ovary into a rice-grain-like aggregate. Moreover, you can enjoy about 100 servings for 300 yen at a super-cosy price. Oh, my… …

　The other day, before a nigirizushi party, I went to buy some fish at Shinoka Fresh Fish Store in Yoichi, Shakotan Peninsula, Hokkaido, and was surprised to see this octopus mamma.
　〜The name ‘octopus manma’ is used to refer to the ovaries of the northern octopus, the willow octopus, in the Pacific coastal region of Hokkaido, Japan. Unlike the Madako, which is a small-egg octopus whose larvae live on plankton for a long period of time, the Willow Octopus is a large-egg octopus whose larvae develop directly from the benthic larvae, similar to the Iidako, and therefore its eggs are much larger in size. The eggs of the willow octopus are 5 mm long and 3 mm short, more than twice the size of those of the Japanese sea cucumber, and are oval in shape and white in colour. They are transparent when raw, but become cooked rice-like when boiled, hence the name. 〜The name is derived from the fact that it is a kind of rice.
　This was knowledge that I found out later. In shops, they are sold in the state shown in the photograph below, wrapped in the skin and looking very poyoyo-like. I was told that if I boiled them and poked the skin, eggs would appear from the inside. I had no idea what he was talking about. I thought I understood and bought one, but the one in the picture was a bit too large, so I bought a smaller one that was sold for 300 yen.
　I actually boiled them and poked them in the photo above. I boiled them in lightly salted water. The moment I poked it, I was surprised to see it open up. I felt more visual pleasure from this transformation than from the interest of eating it.
　After the contents had actually developed, it was just like ‘mamma – rice’. Since it is from the east of Hokkaido, it seems not so long since the Japanese people started to feel its style and taste, but the shape is truly rice-grain-like. It can be called the special shape of an onigiri.
　And when you take it to your mouth and eat it, you will find that it has a rich texture and egginess. It was 300 yen, but even if my family eats one meal a day, there is probably more than a month’s worth. Naturally, we decided to cut it into small portions and store them frozen. 500 yen ones would be equivalent to 2-3 months at most. It’s a very cosy food (laughs).
　I don’t think they are generally available, but I recommend it for the surprise at the moment when they bloom.

Posted on 3月 21st, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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【道庁「民間住宅施策推進会議」に参加】


　きのうは表題のような会議に参加しておりました。で、写真は北海道開拓の初源期の移住民による住宅建築の記録写真。
　北海道はほかの日本列島地域とは違ってその積雪寒冷条件から、江戸期までは「米作不適地」として移住は促進されていなかった。明治期に至って、むしろ国防的な主要因から急速に移民促進政策が政府によって開始され、この写真のような入植移住が進行していった。こうした経緯から北海道の開拓政策と移住促進の政策にとって「住宅政策」はもっとも核心的なこととして追究されてきた。最初は「北海道開拓使」という名前の「中央政府官庁」がその政策を主導してきたが、その後は地方政府自治体としての「北海道庁」が主体となって、その政策的DNAを受け継ぎ、地道に住環境の寒冷地対応研究を進めてきた歴史を持っている。
　ほかの地域ではこうした行政側の強い姿勢というのはあまり見られない。基本的には住宅政策というのは国土交通省の政策部局のコントロール下で地方自治体は従属的に担うに過ぎない。であるのに北海道では継続的に地域自治体が住宅業界を「先導」するような施策を打ち出し続けている。
　そしてその住宅施策について開かれた会議を開催し、公開的に論議を重ねてきている。北海道開拓初源期からのこうした「伝統」を守って表題のような会議が開かれてきている次第。こうした道の姿勢が他の自治体にも波及を見せていて鳥取県などが地域住宅施策を打ち出しはじめても来ている。住宅はその建てられる地域の気候風土・民俗に大きく影響を受けるし、また、その地域らしさの根幹にもなる。
　北海道のこうした取り組みは徐々に広がっていく可能性がある。現に住宅性能的な取り組みについては新住協などの活動が全国に波及し、北海道で始められた「革命」が全国に広がっている。
　そういった先導的な北海道の未来的住政策の方向性を形作っていくのがこの会議といえるでしょう。
　わたし自身は国交省の関連した住宅施策会議参加の経験もありますが、リアリティ・迫真性において北海道の会議は隔絶している。会議の方向性はやがて政策として開示されていきますが、会議はまことに実践的な内容で展開している。わたしは自身の経験も踏まえてできるだけ「ユーザー目線」的スタンスでの発言を心がけて参加していますが、全体としてもそういった熱気に満ちていると思います。今後の道の住宅施策にご注目ください。

English version⬇

[Participation in the Hokkaido Government’s ‘Conference on Promoting Private Sector Housing Policies’].
Hokkaido has been at the forefront of overcoming the difficulties of ‘living’ in Japan because it is the most difficult region in the country. This is a policy conference to deeply consider ‘housing’, the cutting-edge of regional character. …

　Yesterday, I was at the meeting as shown in the title. The photograph is a record of house construction by immigrants in the early days of Hokkaido’s pioneering period.
　Unlike other parts of the Japanese archipelago, Hokkaido’s snowy and cold conditions meant that until the Edo period, emigration was not promoted as ‘unsuitable for rice cultivation’. In the Meiji period (1868-1912), the government rapidly initiated a policy to promote emigration, mainly for reasons of national defence, and the settlements shown in this photograph were developed. This is why ‘housing policy’ has been pursued as the most central aspect of Hokkaido’s pioneering and immigration policy. Initially, a central government agency called the Hokkaido Kaitakushi (Hokkaido Development Office) took the lead in this policy, but later the Hokkaido Government took over the policy DNA of the central government and has a history of steadily advancing research into cold-weather living environments.
　In other regions, such a strong stance on the part of the government is not often seen. Basically, housing policy is only a subordinate responsibility of local authorities under the control of the policy department of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT). In Hokkaido, however, local authorities have been continuously putting forward measures to ‘lead’ the housing industry.
　They have held open meetings and openly discussed these housing policies. The meetings are being held in keeping with this ‘tradition’ from the early days of Hokkaido’s pioneering period. This attitude of the Hokkaido Prefectural Government is spreading to other municipalities, with Tottori Prefecture and other prefectures beginning to introduce local housing policies. Housing is greatly influenced by the climate and folk customs of the region in which it is built, and is also the basis of the character of the region.
　Such initiatives in Hokkaido may gradually spread. In fact, the activities of the Shinjyukyo and others in terms of housing performance initiatives are spreading throughout the country, and the ‘revolution’ started in Hokkaido is spreading throughout the country.
　This conference can be said to be taking the lead in shaping the direction of Hokkaido’s future housing policy.
　I myself have experience of participating in housing policy conferences related to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, but the Hokkaido conference is different in terms of reality and realism. The direction of the conference is eventually disclosed as policy, but the conference is developed in a very practical way. Based on my own experience, I try to speak from a ‘user’s perspective’ as much as possible, and I think the conference as a whole is filled with such enthusiasm. Please keep an eye on the future housing policy of the province.

Posted on 3月 20th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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【久しぶりに寿司握り、魚への忘我と三昧】


　先週末、やや疲れが溜まっていたので、寿司を握っておりました。家族が集まって食してくれた。
　わたしは料理が趣味でふつうの家庭料理が主なのですが、その延長線上で感じる好みとしてはこの寿司握りに向かいます。人によっては蕎麦打ちに向かう方も多いと思うのですが、これは「好み」なのではないでしょうか。人から勧められて蕎麦打ちのための準備はしてあるのですが、どうも「食わず嫌い」なのか、やる気はまったく出てこないのです。あ、食べるのは大好きなんです、単に食べるだけで、その清涼感にも似た食感、味わいは堪えられません。ただ、自分ではやる気が起きない。とくに「蘊蓄〜うんちく」系のテーマにはついて行けないし。
　一方、寿司の方はとくにネタの捌き、そのプロセスなどのさまざまに対して強く興味を持っている。魚へのこだわりが大きいのでしょうね。海彦・山彦の縄文社会以来の日本列島民族仕分けでは、圧倒的に「海彦」系なのだと自分で思っています。これはたぶん家系の「流れ」みたいな部分かも知れない。江戸期まで基本は商家として瀬戸内海世界で過ごしてきていたらしいのですね。それが北海道移住したときには「土地を耕す」という基本生業になったけれど、やはり一定時間が経過すると、父の代には商家としての生き様が完全に蘇った。
　どうもそういう決断の背景に血筋を感じざるを得ないのですね。だいたい瀬戸内海に面した地域を移動してきたようなので、海への愛着が血に結晶している。いま、さまざまな魚購入の機会で出会う魚たちの豊かな表情に目が釘付けになって堪らないのです。
　最近で言うとことしはニシンの群来が北海道日本海側で見られているということで、鮮魚コーナーが充実している近隣の食品スーパーでは大型のニシン３匹の山盛りが299円とかで売り出されたりしている。まぁ大部分がオスですが、たまに間違えて数の子入りのメスがこういう山盛りに入っていたりするのですね。すごい。
　まぁニシンは刺身にするのではなく焼き魚一択。小骨感もまたいい。その淡白で奥行きのある味わいには人生のいろいろが込められる、忘我する食感に誘ってくれる（笑）。もちろん錯覚ですが、非常にオモシロい。魚それぞれで、楽しい食感を感じさせてもらえる。その「一期一会」感が大好きなのですね。たぶんこの列島社会で人間が生きてきたなかで、こういう食感は連綿と受け継がれてきたことなのでしょう。
　そういう感覚の継承が意識できて、その心理も数寄につながっていると思っています。また今度、どんな魚と出会えるだろうかなぁ・・・。

English version⬇

Sushi nigiri after a long time, forgetfulness and samadhi for fish.
I meet fish without thinking, with my mind empty. The ‘response’ builds up with each encounter. The dialogue transmitted from the knife is the most interesting thing of all. …

　Last weekend, somewhat tired, I was making sushi. My family got together and ate it.
　I enjoy cooking, mostly ordinary home cooking, but my preference, which I feel is an extension of that, is towards this sushi nigiri. I think some people go for buckwheat noodle making, but I think this is a ‘preference’. I’ve been recommended to try buckwheat noodle making by others and I’m prepared for it, but I don’t know if it’s because I don’t like to eat, I don’t have the motivation to do it at all. Oh, I love eating it, I simply love eating it, and its cool, almost refreshing texture and taste is unbearable. But I just can’t bring myself to do it. In particular, I can’t keep up with ‘蘊蓄〜うんちく’ type themes.
　On the other hand, I have a strong interest in sushi, especially in the processing of the ingredients and the various processes involved. I guess they are very particular about fish. I think I am overwhelmingly of the ‘Umi-hiko’ type in the Japanese archipelago since the Jomon society of the Umi-hiko and Yamahiko. This may perhaps be a kind of ‘flow’ in the family lineage. It seems that until the Edo period, they basically spent their time in the Seto Inland Sea world as merchants. When they moved to Hokkaido, their basic occupation became ‘cultivating the land’, but after a certain amount of time, the way of life as a merchant family was completely revived in my father’s generation.
　I can’t help but feel the bloodline behind such decisions. It seems that we have generally moved around the area facing the Seto Inland Sea, so our attachment to the sea is crystallised in our blood. Nowadays, I can’t help but be drawn to the rich expressions of the fish I encounter on various fish-buying occasions.
　Recently, it has been reported that a shoal of herring has been seen on the Sea of Japan side of Hokkaido this year, and at a nearby food supermarket with a well-stocked fresh fish section, three large piles of herring are on sale for 299 yen or something like that. Well, most of them are males, but sometimes, by mistake, there are females with a few herring in these piles. It’s amazing.
　Well, herring are not made as sashimi, but only grilled. Its small-boned feel is also good. Its light and deep taste contains a lot of things in life, and it invites you to a texture that makes you forget (laughs). It is an illusion, of course, but very interesting. Each fish gives you a delightful texture. You love that ‘once in a lifetime’ feeling. Perhaps this sense of texture has been passed down from generation to generation throughout human life in this archipelagic society.
　I am aware of the inheritance of such sensations, and I believe that this psychology is also linked to sukiyori. I wonder what kind of fish I will encounter again next time…

　

Posted on 3月 19th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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【幼少年のときからの作家の「発想の仕方」痕跡】


　石ノ森章太郎生家探訪シリーズは本日で10回目になった。「作家」という名詞はわたしのような昭和中期生まれの人間には、どうしても芥川賞的な「文学」者がその対象という刷り込みが大きい。少なくとも文学が最上位という固定観念。AIによると作家という名詞は「文章や書画などの作品を創作する専門家」という概念規定。やはり「文章」が最初にある。
　こういう社会全体の考え方が、文化を学び始める子ども時代の心理の基底に折り重なって文筆者がその筆頭概念になっているのでしょう。わたし自身も「作家と住空間」という電子本を書き始めて最初に取り上げたのは芥川龍之介。そういう刷り込みの大きさが自明なのでしょう。コトバの最優位性。
　しかし一方で現代人として、テレビや映画などの映像表現世界のビッグバンを経験してきて、ビジュアル情報の方がはるかに「先験的」だとも思ってきている。戦後以降の「マンガ文化」とそこから発展しているアニメ文化領域の方が、人間の文化受容の基底領域として巨大になって来ている。自分自身に照らしてみたときマンガ文化は、芥川龍之介作品よりもはるかに「感性に身近い」存在だと思えるのですね。そして手塚治虫以降のマンガ家たちの作品発表に手に汗を握り続けてきた生き様のリアルタイム感がハンパない。
　文章表現には分析的な深み・多様性が仕込まれていくけれど、マンガ的表現にはコトバ化を超える「一挙把握」的なコミュニケーションパワーがあるのだと思う。
　そんなマンガ文化「作家」としての石ノ森章太郎の少年期の「手すさび」とも、遊び心とも取れるような作品と出会っていた。上の写真の作品は公開されているかれの部屋に無造作に置かれていた。松ぼっくりを素材としてそれを造形的に連結積層させて、たぶん「亀」を表徴、形作ったと思われるもの。この作品が無造作に展示されていたことは、少なくとも生家を保守してきた家族にとって、なによりも石ノ森章太郎の人物性全体がそこに表現されていると感じていたに違いない。
　わたしにはそう受け止められた。素材としての松ぼっくりを家の周りから収集してくる段階からだんだんこの造形をイメージしていたと思われる。石ノ森少年の「創作意欲」の根源部分が色濃く投影されていると感じられたのだ。
　こういう領域になってくると言語表現で明晰化することは困難で、かれ石ノ森少年の「内的なパトス」としか言いようがない。しかしさまざまなかれのマンガ作品に接してきた人間にして見ると、その表現意欲や手法のコアな部分に生々しく触れてしまった感があった。みなさんはどう思われるだろうか？

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Traces of the artist’s ‘way of thinking’ from his childhood.
Embodies the state of internal pathos of an artist who worked with a visual communicability that transcended language as his field of expression. Quietly surprising in its rawness. …

　Today marks the tenth in the series of visits to Shotaro Ishinomori’s birthplace. The term ‘writer’ is often associated with people like myself, who were born in the mid-Showa period (mid-1989s), with the idea that ‘literary’ writers, such as Akutagawa Prize-winning writers, are the target of the term, or at least the stereotype that literature is the highest rank. According to the AI, the noun ‘writer’ is defined as ‘a professional who creates works of writing, calligraphy or painting’. After all, ‘writing’ is first.
　This way of thinking about society as a whole is probably folded into the base of the psychology of childhood, when children begin to learn about culture, and the writer is the first concept. When I myself started writing the e-book ‘Writers and Living Space’, I first took up Ryunosuke Akutagawa. The magnitude of such an imprint is probably self-evident. Kotoba’s paramountcy.
　But on the other hand, as a modern person, I have experienced the big bang in the world of visual expression, such as television and film, and have come to believe that visual information is much more ‘a priori’. Since the post-war period, ‘manga culture’ and the animated cultural sphere that has developed from it have become more massive as a base area of human cultural reception. When you look at it in the light of yourself, manga culture seems to be much ‘closer to your sensibility’ than the works of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, doesn’t it? And the real-time sense of the way of life of the manga artists since Tezuka Osamu, who have kept their hands sweaty in the publication of their works, is not a lot.
　While analytical depth and diversity is built into written expression, I think that manga expression has a communicative power that goes beyond verbalisation and is ‘grasped in a single stroke’.
　I met a work that could be seen as a playful expression of Shotaro Ishinomori’s boyhood as such a manga culture ‘artist’ and ‘tesasabi’. The work in the photo above was placed randomly in his room, which was open to the public. It is made of pine cones, which are connected and stacked in a figurative manner to form the shape of a ‘turtle’. The fact that this work was displayed in such a careless manner must have been seen as an expression of Shotaro Ishinomori’s entire personality, at least by the family who maintained the house where he was born.
　That is how it was perceived by me. It is thought that he gradually began to imagine this form from the stage of collecting pine cones from around the house as a material. I felt that the roots of the Ishinomori boy’s ‘creative urge’ were strongly projected in this work.
　When it comes to this kind of area, it is difficult to clarify in verbal expression, and can only be described as Ishinomori’s ‘internal pathos’. However, as someone who has come into contact with a wide range of different manga works, I felt that I was exposed to the core of Ishinomori’s expressive ambitions and methods in a very raw way. What do you think?

Posted on 3月 18th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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