# KOHO-CHI (12) <tr.> Site Proposed No.12 I came to sketch where I could not have put up a tent 2 days ago. "I don't like something troublesome." "I don't like someone passes by before my house." "The lane by the field belongs to my neighbor." He said so, but he said that it's o.k.to sketch. Merit is, there's shade, and it's dry. But before everything else, the view is great and it's comfortable.
Today is Saturday, when the 100 yen market is open.  The market is held at the foot of a slope by the park where I put up a tent.  I went to the market around 8:00, they said good things had been sold already and some ones would come to buy from 5:30.  They get up early.  I bought a tomato and a can of tea.  And when I drank tea there, AKIYAMA-SAN who lives in the neighborhood came to the market with her daughter and invited me for breakfast. AKIYAMA-SAN invited me for breakfast. AKIYAMA-SAN's mother-in-law (72) told me some stories when she was a child. Her father took good care of others well.  In her childhood, beggars came often.  They called beggars "Hoito".  The last beggar she saw was a one-legged person with a stick and a bag and he were in rags.  He hung a bag on his neck and they put food like rice in the bag.  He carried an old bambo fife on his back.  Though he blew it, as he might blow so light, the sound was not clear.  And she hear the sound as "Hachi ga saseba Bun-Bun (bee bites Bun-Bun)".  He came this town every fall.  She was scared of him so much. She also takes good care of others well like her father.  She helped a crow that could not fly with oil on its whole body.  She washed it with detergent.  But oil was not washed out completely.  She had it in the garden for 2 days and it could fly.  Even after it left hers, it cawed to her on the roof of a factory for a while.  And when she took a walk, it cawed to her, and she answered like a caw, it also answered to her. Many people immigrated to Hawaii from the era of Tiasho to early Showa.  Her father also worked there for 2 years and her husband was born in Hawaii.  They cultivated sugar cane and it carried big money.  Some ones stayed in Hawaii, some ones immigrated to Canada or Brazil.
This park had been an old mound once.  (they call the park an amusement park.)  And I wanted to know how it was when it was an old mound. Everyone told me TSUCHITANI-san knew well. And I visited him. TSUCHITANI-san is hard of hearing and walking, but his memory is good. He was on his guard against me, "You push me something, right?" Under the rock, there was a big hole that was 1.5 meters wide and so deep as he couldn't see the bottom.  It was called "Hizuka (fire mound)".  Perhaps it was a shelter in Tokugawa era.  There were holes like that in places.  In Meiji era, a bough of damson was broken by typhoon, and when it fell on the rock, the rock was also broken.  The rock got to be smaller.  About 20 men pulled it with a wire and set it where it is now.  And AKIYAMA HIROSHI-san who invested to construct park wrote words on the rock.  A ceder was so big.  Root of the ceder spread to the field (about 30 -50 cm), and as the root took nourishment crop on the root didin't grow well.  When my father was a child, they climbed up to the top of the ceder.  There were so many stones on the mound, and they took away stones and flatted it with free service.  One time, there's a meeting house.  There were festivel in spring and fall.  Boys would play sumo-wrestling and girls would play at house on the rock.
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# KOHO-CHI (12) <rep.> A Year Later This site is within 100 meters from Okuda-san's house.  They are on the same side, and there are paddy fields and the river on the opposite. Okuda -san's mother said, "We should have let him stay at ours..." This site and Okuda-san's house are on the same side, so they have the same structure, as there are fields on a mountain side and chestnut trees...  Though I don't know why, however,I feel at ease that he didn't stay at hers.
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