Monday, November 16, 2009

Surprise visit of sunbeam

On Saturday and Sunday, I was in Shinjo village to attend a symposium. Shinjo is such a hidden treasure. There is a street with cherry trees on both sides. Hazy mountains surround the cozily small plain on which the human habitation finds itself. The houses stand in a quiet harmony. Shinjo is one of these best kept secrets.

Apart from a single Minshuku, there aren't any hotels or ryokans in Shinjo. Therefore the participants of the symposium stayed at private houses. I was staying with Mr. Katsuthoshi Shishido. Before going to bed, (or rather, futon), I strolled along the cherry street. It was an incredible night. There were several drinking parties going on, with people from the symposium gathering here and there.

I enjoyed chatting with people over beer and sake as well as finding solace in the solitude as I ventured into the night air from time to time.

Strolling the stretch among houses dimly lit by candles, I pondered why precious things are hard to give explicit expressions for. The practical and vulgar things get easily distributed. While the gentle and poignant suffer. People hardly gave a thought, for example, to the destruction of nature for a long, long time. Or the deterioration of conscience.

No wonder self-consciousness suffers in modern times. Each one us is bleeding internally from the effects of civilization. But then the fact that I am I have always suffered, the brutal forces of nature and society trespassing and degrading its sovereignty, while the comfort comes occasionally, like a surprise visit of sunbeam through a thick black cloud.

5 comments:

yuzu said...

Dear, Mr.Mogi
I was going to there,but some special person said
it is nothing in there. ?????
Anyway you had a good time,right?
I am so glad.
Well,I wanted to listen to that kind of atmosphere and stillness peace.

もっちー said...

Dear,Mr.Mogi
I read your dialy. And I read your book(Brain & Study).
My life will be better than before!

Thank you very much Mr.Mogi

(ma)gog said...

Although it was a brief stay in Shinjo, you seem to have had a moment of serene time. It was heartaching however, when you said "it's a little shame to be able to connect internet" in your Japanese diary.

I am wishing you more and more "Surprise visits of sunbeam".

Is said...

Dear,Mr.Mogi
nice to meet you.
I'm from Okayama!
so,I was very surprised to read your today's article.

sinjo is well-known as only villge that was opposed to the marger of towns and villages in okayama.

I may have got a little homesick.
but,I looked back on my dear home with nostalgia.

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