親孝行したいときに親はなし

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　今日は旧暦(太陰太陽暦)で８月３０日ですから、空に月は出ず、中秋も今日で終わり、明日から晩秋です。群馬県でも奥山は紅葉が始まり、いよいよ寒冷の季節に向かいますが、運動を励行し、低栄養を避けて、体力の充実を図ります。

　ところで、今日は鉄道の日。ウォーキング中に鏑川を渡る上越新幹線を見つけましたが、速度があまりにも速く、カメラに収めるのが難しかったです。それでも、どうにか先頭車両から後続車両まで写すことができました。

　先日、書きました通り、この辺一帯は今は亡き母の生まれ故郷で、鏑川の近くの木部町です。子供の頃はこの川の近くで遊んでいたのでしょう。まさか、未来に夢の超特急が走るとは思わなかったことでしょう。

　ウォーキングしつつ、青春時代には母にいろいろ心配かけたことが思い出されます。親孝行したいときに母はなし。

Dear my friends abroad who love mother

　Today is August 30th according to the lunar calendar (lunisolar calendar), so there is no moon in the sky today, and mid-autumn ends today, then the late autumn begins tomorrow. Even in my Gumma Prefecture, the leaves have started to turn red in mountainous region and we Japanese are finally heading into the cold season, but it is important to exercise hard, avoid malnutrition, and improve our physical strength.

　By the way, today is Railway Day in Japan. While walking, I spotted the Joetsu Shinkansen crossing the Kabra-River, but it was moving so fast that it was difficult for me to capture it on camera. Even so, I was able to take pictures from the leading vehicle to the following vehicle.

　As I wrote the other day, this area was my late mother's birthplace, Kibe-town near the Kabra-River. She must have played near this river when she was a child. She never thought that a dream super express would run in the future.

　While walking, I remembered many times that my mother worried about me during my youth. Mother is already in Heaven when I want to do filial piety.

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ＩＴ化 日本語までも 横書きに

　暑い暑いと言ってる間に、もう今年もあと幾日と数えられる頃になりました。今年も残すところ１３６日です。令和４年の過ぎ去った三分の二は、どれほど自らを成長させたか甚だ疑問が残ります。

　それはそうと、ＩＴ時代にあっても日本文を「手書きすること」に努めてますが、昔のように日本文を縦書きすることがなくなり、横書きが多いです。本来、日本の文字は漢字でも平仮名でも縦書きが美しいです。また、縦書きであってこそ草書体になります。

　３４年前に他界した母の文章がたくさん残ってますが、便せんに書いてあるので、すべて縦書きの草書体で、その文字には当時の母の心境まで滲み出てます。

　その点、英文は必ず横書きですから、私は英文の筆記体の方が上手くなってしまいました。日本文の方が見難いです。これからは可能な限り、昔のように、日本文を手書きで縦書きに努めます。

Dear my friend who are good at Japanese and English

　During we say it's hot, it's already time to count the days left this year. There are 136 days left in this year. I have doubts about how much I have grown in the past two-thirds of 4th year of Reiwa.

　Not change the subject, but even in the IT age now, I'm trying to "handwrite" Japanese sentences, but generally we no longer write Japanese sentence vertically like in the past, and most of them are written horizontally now. Originally, Japanese characters are beautifully written vertically, whether they are kanji or hiragana. In addition, if we write vertically, it becomes cursive style.

　There are a lot of writings left by my mother who passed away 34 years ago, but because her writings were on a letter paper in vertical cursive style, and the letters ooze out my mother's feelings at the time.

　In this respect, English is always written horizontally, so I have become better at cursive writing in English. On the other hand, I am not good at Japanese sentences due to more difficult to write horizontally. From now on, as much as possible, I am intended to write Japanese sentences vertically by hand, just like in the old days.

※For the Japanese people 　　

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１２月１５日は我が家の屋敷祭り

　東の庭に南向きにお稲荷様があります。およそ９０年前の昭和初期に亡父が石屋に手彫りで作ってもらったと言ってました。御影石でできています。裏面には建設者の父の名前と日付が掘られてますが、約一世紀の風雨に晒され、辛うじて読めても解読は次第にできなくなりつつあります。家内安全と家屋敷の守護神です。

　私の時代になって家を建て替え、東側に土地を２０坪ほど運良く広げることができました。亡き母の言葉「昔の人は地続きの土地は価値があり、借金しても買えと言っていた。」の言葉を私が覚えていたので、借金はしませんが手にしました。昨日は屋敷祭りで、家で一人でお祝いしました。

 There is an Inari shrine facing south in the eastern garden. Allegedly, my late father had stone craftsman make it by hand in the early Showa period about 90 years ago. It is made of granite. The father's name and date of construction were engraved on the back, but it has been exposed to the wind and rain during about a century, and even if it is barely readable, it is gradually becoming undecipherable. It is the guardian deity of family safety and the premises.

 In my generation, I rebuilt my house 20 years ago and could lucky expand the land of about 60 m² to the east. I remembered the words of my late mother, "Old people said that the connected land was valuable, so we should buy it even if we borrow money." I didn't borrow money, but I got it. Yesterday was the premises festival, and I celebrated alone at home.