Peoples lives are like a fallen maple leaf in Autumn. The leaf falls from the branch, wind blow the leaf into the neaby stream, the leaf dances on the surface of water like a 5 years old girl with her favorite music turned on. The water carries the leaf down stream , the leaf keeps dancing.
The leaf does not know how far it is from where the maple tree stood. In the leaf's mind she has never left the tree "I am just dancing , I will be right back (to the branch)"
Well.... Human life sometimes like this maple leaf. Miwako had no intention of leaving her home. She loved the town ,actually the place was more like a villege than town. It took at least good 10 minutes of walk one way to the nearest store which was by the way "Tofu" maker.

Before I go any furthur I really should start from the births, birth of Miwako and his brothers.

Labels: Life 命

The story goes back many hundreds, thausand years...and goes to the future.
お話は　何百年　何千年以前にもどり　また未来にも続くのです。
The land called Yamato is today's Japan. In one theory, Yamato was in Kyushu.
大和、日本のはじまりは　九州だという説もあります。
Hitoyoshi, Itsuki ...main place of this story is in the middle of large island, called kyushu (kyu=9,
shu= state...nine states)
このお話の中心となる　人吉や五木という所は九州のまん中位に位地しています。

My first post.
River flows from high mountain. It start as a trickle of snow melt down the creak ,down down water runs between pine trees and white rocks. The water is cold and clear, so clear that it looks as though the water is not present. Oh what a sight to see those river stones and pebbles in rainbow color!

Labels: shii no mura 　椎の山