【日本的「作庭」とHokkaidoの「雪かき」営為】

　きのうの続きです。日本的庭造りマインドと北海道での雪かきとの対比論。
　断熱気密などの住宅性能的な部分などへの「比重の掛け方」の北海道人のマインドからは、いわゆる和風庭園づくりマインドには距離感がある。その実感が強まってくるのですね。上の写真は神戸市の新神戸駅にほど近い「竹中大工道具館」のすばらしい庭。さすがに竹中「工務店」企業ポリシーの表現らしいみごとな建築と作庭で、行く度に打たれております。って、初参観以来、もう10回くらい訪問。公開している企業建築の庭、その「奥行き感」に魅了される。

　ところが、そういう夢想的な空間美から帰ってくると、職住一体のわが家では毎冬否応なく「雪との対話」が半年は継続する。公共事業による重機除雪と、住民側の自助・公共への奉仕のないまぜな雪かき作業、その「やるぞ」マインドの維持が不可欠なものになっている。
　これまではこうした両者の「関係論」というのを気付いたことがなかったのですが、北海道人は冬の間、いつもこうしたわが家とその周辺の雪対応・環境メンテナンスにこころの大きな部分が占領されているのだと最近強く気付かされている。これってより切実な「自然環境との対話」そのもの。
　そして上の写真の竹中大工道具館の庭も、この神戸の土地・場所のもつ環境との相関・対話であることはあきらか。こちらはもちろん日本人的感性「数寄」の表現で芸術的に訴えかけてくる。
　で一方、北海道人の雪との対話も、カタチはまったく違うし、数寄どころではない「ヤリキレナイ」心理がベース旋律ではあるけれど「自然環境との対話」そのものではある。
　こういう花鳥風月こころをはるかに超える強制的な対話を続けざるを得ない北海道人は、雪が融けたら、より広大で魅力たっぷりの北海道のナマな自然景観により大きな美感を見出していく。どうも「作庭」というような深遠な数寄心理には向かいにくい。違和感。北海道のアウトドア環境作りでは「ジンギスカンパーティ会場志向」的なマインドに向かいやすいと推測させられるのです。
　毎年の冬の雪かき営為を積み重ねてきた個人的実感なのですが、みなさんはさていかがでしょうか？


English version⬇

Japanese-style ‘gardening’ and Hokkaido's ‘snow shoveling’ activities
Hokkaido people, who are motivated to shovel snow by their ‘yarikirenai’ mentality that it will snow heavily again, are drawn to the charms of nature in the six months of the year when there is no snow. ...

　Continued from yesterday. A contrasting argument between the Japanese garden-making mindset and snow shoveling in Hokkaido.
　There is a sense of distance from the so-called Japanese garden-making mindset from the Hokkaido people's mindset of ‘putting more weight’ on housing performance aspects such as insulation and airtightness. This feeling is becoming stronger. The photo above shows a wonderful garden at the Takenaka Carpenter's Tools Museum near Shin-Kobe Station in Kobe City. I am struck every time I visit by the magnificent architecture and gardens, which are indeed an expression of Takenaka Corporation's corporate policy. Since my first visit, I have visited the Takenaka Taikogukan about 10 times. I am fascinated by the ‘sense of depth’ of the garden of the corporate architecture, which is open to the public.

　However, after returning from such a dreamy and beautiful space, we inevitably have a ‘dialogue with the snow’ every winter for at least half a year in our house, which is a combination of work and residence. The heavy snow removal by public works and the residents' self-help and service to the public are intertwined, and maintaining this “can-do” mindset has become indispensable.
　I have never been aware of the ‘theory of relationship’ between these two, but I have recently been reminded that a large part of Hokkaido people's minds are always occupied with such snow-related environmental maintenance in and around their homes during the winter months. This is a more serious ‘dialogue with the natural environment’ itself.
　And the garden at the Takenaka Carpenter's Tools Museum, pictured above, is clearly in correlation and dialogue with the environment of the land and place here in Kobe. This garden is of course artistically appealing in its expression of the Japanese sensibility of ‘sukiyaki’.
　On the other hand, the Hokkaido people's dialogue with the snow has a completely different form, and although the base melody is based on a psychology of ‘yarikirenai’, which is more than sukiyomi, it is a ‘dialogue with the natural environment’ itself.
　Hokkaido people, who have no choice but to continue this kind of forced dialogue that goes far beyond the Kacho Fugetsu (flower, bird, wind and moon) mentality, find greater beauty in the vast and attractive natural landscape of Hokkaido once the snow melts. Apparently, it is difficult for them to move towards a profoundly numerical psychology such as ‘Sakutei’. Discomfort. It is easy to assume that the creation of outdoor environments in Hokkaido tends towards a ‘Genghis Khan party venue-oriented’ mindset.
　This is my personal feeling based on the experience of shoveling snow every winter, but how about you?