さてここのところの雪割り作業で、筋肉痛がジワジワと感じられてきました。10坪超の結氷層、約20cm超を雪割りし続けるのは「良い運動」ではあるのですが、やや年寄りの冷や水か（笑）。出張移動で６kg弱ほどのリュックを背負って歩きまわっていると、筋肉痛に目覚めてしまった。まぁ、そう重症でないのが救い。本日から東京都内での移動ですが、重たい荷物は回避して、基本的には地点間はレンタカー移動で体を労りたいと思います。
　で、新千歳空港を経由。ここのところいろいろな機会があり３日に１回くらいは空港施設に来ています。活発な海外旅行客の北海道流入があり、また年度末での国内移動の集中ということで、札幌都心以上の混雑ぶり。昨日はとくに国内線エリアでは家族揃っての北海道転勤移動の姿が目立っておりました。やはり子どもさん連れの様子には深く癒される。日本人の国内移動の活発化、普遍化というのは戦後以降の社会変化の中でも特筆すべきことでしょうね。
　子どもさんたちが国内の各地を小さいときから経験することで、あたらしい日本人としての「民俗」を体感してやがて新文化を生み出してくれそうな気がする。そういう時代に北海道という地域はどのような位置付けになっていくのか、今後の「関係人口」概念の普遍化のなかでの地域価値、要注目ですね。
　なんですが、空港に来る度に「来道者」の目線としての食慣習比較・ウォッチするのがわたしのクセ。自分で魚を捌いて寿司を握ったりが大好き人間にしてみると、北海道以外から来られる人たちのさかな系・和定食目線に合わせた客引きメニューが気に掛かる（笑）。
　上が新千歳空港での和食の値付け。下はわたしがよく握る寿司。たまたま生ホッキ、ホタテ、シャケに本州産のウナギなどのメニュー構成の皿ですがこのほかに３皿ほど７−８種のネタを握る。合計で10種以上。ネタ買い出しはあちこちと行脚している。で、このお店のコスパと比較対照してみると、わが手握り寿司は１人前3,000円ははるかに突破しそう（笑）。っていうか、１回にひとり２−３人前は食べているし、手土産で２食分くらいは持ち帰らせていることも考え合わせると、１人につき10,000円以上に相当するのかなぁと、食事店舗経営目線を学習させてもらっていました（笑）。すごいドヤドヤ。あ、でも最近はシャリの値段の急上昇が嘆かわしいですね、悲しい。
　ごった返す出会いと別れの空港で、こういう楽しい家庭の味を普段から味わえる北海道のよさを多くの人が暮らして楽しんで欲しいなぁと、思っておりました。シン「民俗」。

English version

[Fish-based, Japanese set menus and homemade food costa…
The frontline of domestic and international population flow. Seafood is Hokkaido’s strongest food culture. The imposing leading role in the inter-regional fusion sin ‘folklore’. …

　Now, with all the recent snow-clearing work, I’m starting to feel muscle aches and pains, and although it’s ‘good exercise’ to keep clearing snow from a layer of ice over 10 pyeong, or about 20 cm, it’s somewhat old cold water (laughs). After walking around with a backpack weighing just under 6 kg on my back on a business trip, I woke up with muscle aches. Well, it is a relief that it is not so serious. I’ll be travelling in Tokyo from today, but I’d like to avoid heavy luggage and basically work on my body by renting a car to travel between points.
　So, via New Chitose Airport. I’ve been coming to the airport facilities about once every three days recently due to various opportunities. With the influx of active overseas travellers to Hokkaido and the concentration of domestic travel at the end of the financial year, the airport is even more crowded than Sapporo city centre. Yesterday, especially in the domestic flight area, the sight of families relocating to Hokkaido together was conspicuous. I am still deeply comforted by the sight of people with their children. The increasing activity and universalisation of domestic migration among Japanese people is probably one of the most notable social changes since the end of World War II.
　I feel that if children experience different parts of the country from a young age, they will experience a new Japanese ‘folklore’ and eventually create a new culture. In such an era, it will be interesting to see how Hokkaido will be positioned in terms of its regional value in the universalisation of the concept of ‘related populations’.
　Whenever I visit an airport, I have a habit of comparing and watching food customs from the perspective of a ‘visitor to Hokkaido’. As someone who loves to process fish and make sushi myself, I am concerned about the menus that cater to the fishy and Japanese set menus of people from outside Hokkaido (laughs).
　Above: Japanese food prices at New Chitose Airport. Below is the sushi I often make. It happens to be a plate of raw hokki, scallops, salmon and eel from Honshu, but I also make about three other plates with 7-8 different kinds of ingredients. In total, there are more than 10 kinds of sushi. The neta purchases are made by going from place to place. So, when I compare and contrast the cost performance of this restaurant, my hand-rolled sushi is going to be far more than 3,000 yen per person (laughs). I mean, if you consider that each person eats 2-3 servings at a time, and that I let them take home at least 2 servings as souvenirs, it would be equivalent to more than 10,000 yen per person, and I was learning the meal shop management perspective (laughs). Great do-ya-do. Ah, but it’s lamentable that the price of rice has skyrocketed recently, sadly.
　I was thinking that I wish many people would live and enjoy the goodness of Hokkaido, where you can usually taste this kind of enjoyable home-taste in the crowded meet-and-greet airports. Sin ‘folk’.

Posted on 3月 28th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
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　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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　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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　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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　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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