Yesterday I watched the awfulness of the torrential rain that hit the Kyushu district and wrote that I remembered my hometown that was forced out by the tsunami.
A friend who read this paper handed out an article that was widely posted on the last page of the Nikkei newspaper yesterday, the cultural section.
For a moment, I thought what was going on, but in my marvel, my homeland post was published.
About Yuriage's culture, keeping promises, it is published as a book.
Record the remaining dialects and events in the disaster-stricken fishing village of Miyagi · Natori.
Owaki Hyoshichi
The Yuriage district of Natori, Miyagi prefecture flourished as a fishing village before the Edo period.
Under Sendai clan rule, using the longest canal in Japan "Teizan canal" that Masamune Date made, it delivered the fish to castle town.
However, the historic district was washed away by the 2011 Tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, the city was lost.
I am doing activities to hand the cultures and customs that have been inherited in the Yuriage district down to posterity.
I was born in 1939 as a farmer and I spent most of my life with this district.
At an early age, annual events that appreciate our ancestors and nature and deepen the ties of the region still remained firm.
Fishermen / farmer's words mixed
Although customs was gradually being lost, aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami happened, I felt a sense of crisis as to whether they would end up breaking away.
Since I was studying the history of local history before it happened, I decided to publish books on annual events and dialects at my own expense.
One of the characteristics of the district is that it is also a fishing village and it is also a rural village because it is located in the Sendai plain.
It is known as the production center of an ark shell and bok-choy.
Therefore, both fishermen and farmers' words are mixed.
The fisherman's words are short and reasonable to use on the ocean, and the farmer's words are polite.
During the Edo period, Yuriage was a port under the direct control of the Sendai clan.
For that reason, many fishing villages had been going to sell fish and exchanged with other clan, but Yuriage did not have such interaction.
As a result, it seems that it was easy for the region's distinctive culture to remain.
This draft continues.