昨年の11月23日、やっと金沢春友さんの著作（手持ち5冊目『黒風白雨九十年』）を読み終えました。塙町や矢祭町のこんにゃくで得たお金が、水戸藩の勤皇の志士を支援する資金にあてられていたとか、とくに矢祭町はこんにゃくの出荷拠点として発展し、今日に至っていることを知りました。
On November 23rd of last year, I finally finished reading Kanazawa Harutomo's book (my fifth, "Kokufu Hakuu Ninety Years of Black Wind and White Rain").
I learned that money earned from the konjac of Hanawa-cho and Yamatsuri-cho was used to support loyalists in the Mito domain, and that Yamatsuri-cho in particular developed as a shipping base for konjac, a position it continues to hold to this day.
また、金沢春友さんの奥様（愛子さん）は、留守がちな夫との暮らしの中で、たくさんの短歌を密かに書き溜めており、愛子さんの死後、夫である著者がその短歌と向き合い『山桑の花』として出版するのです。
歌集の中で、私が感動したの短歌を紹介させていただきます。
・あら土を ぬきて萌え出し 蕗のとう とびとびながら 日に青く冴ゆ
・夏山も また面白し 矢まつりの 奥久慈川に 影うつすなり
・人前に 見する歌には あらずとも 心にかなふ ひとふしもかな
・ゆらゆらと かけづり登る 朝霜白し 麦ふみに行く
・鍬さばき いつしか慣れて 一かどの 宿世なるらし 農婦となりぬ
・後手して 麦踏み進む 畝隣り 二人並びて 行くが親しき
・雪に明け 年改まれども 夫居らず 雪の一日を 炬燵に篭りぬ
・夏の夜の 更くるも知らで 歌作る 気兼ねする人なし 歌ありき
・かたくなの 夫に事へて 幾年ぞ さからわぬほどに 我は老いしか
・才能も 趣味も相合う 妹背（いもせ=夫婦のこと）なるに いさかひ続けしと 誰が思ふべき
In addition, Kanazawa Harutomo's wife (Aiko) secretly wrote many tanka poems while living with her husband, who was often away.
After Aiko's death, her husband, the author, faced the tanka and published it as "Yamakura no Hana."
I would like to introduce some tanka poems from the collection that moved me.
・Pulled out of the rough soil, the butterbur sprouts fly about, blue and clear in the sunlight.
・Summer mountains are also interesting, their shadows cast on the Okukuji River during the Arrow Festival.
・Even if they are not poems to be shown to the public, every moment of them touches my heart.
・Swaying and climbing, the morning frost is white, I go to tread on the wheat.
・Before I knew it, I had gotten used to using the hoe, and I felt like I was destined to be a farmer.
・Behind the scenes, We trample the wheat, side by side, walking side by side, so intimate
・The snow dawns, the new year comes, but my husband is not there, so I spend a snowy day holed up in the kotatsu
・Not realizing that the summer night is turning, I compose songs, there is no one to bother me, so I sing
・How many years have I served my stubborn husband, and have I grown old enough to no longer oppose him?
・We share the same talents and hobbies, and as a married couple, who would have thought we would continue to argue?
そんな奥様は、夫が何度も滞在した鎌倉の大仏次郎さん宅をご夫妻で訪れたり、歌舞伎座で大仏次郎さん原作の舞台を観劇したり、塙町の自宅に大仏次郎さんが来訪された時には誠心誠意ご歓待されたのです。
愛子さんが永眠された後、大仏次郎さんが塙町を訪れ、百合の花を墓前に供えた写真も残っており、水戸のお嬢様として育ち金沢春友さんと結婚したものの、常豊村議〜常豊村長〜塙町長にして、福島県内はもとより、遠方まで駆けずり回った郷土史家を支えた愛子さんのご苦労は、並大抵のことではなかったと思います。
Kanazawa Harutomo's wife would visit Osaragi Jiro's home in Kamakura, where her husband had stayed many times, and she and her husband would watch plays based on Osaragi Jiro's original works at the Kabuki-za, and she gave Osaragi Jiro a warm welcome when he visited their home in Hanawa-cho.
After Aiko passed away, there is a photograph of Osaragi Jiro visiting Hanawa-cho and laying lilies at her grave.
Although Aiko grew up as a young lady from Mito and married Kanazawa Harutomo, she served as a village council member, mayor of Tsunetoyo, and mayor of Hanawa-cho, and supported the local historian who traveled all over Fukushima Prefecture and even to far-flung places, and I imagine the hardships she endured were no mean feat.
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