Visiting to
the motif of the "Night of the Milky Way railway"
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I think there
are many peoples who choose Kenji Miyazawa with the graduation thesis.
I visited
Sakaehama where located in the middle southern part in Sakhalin that faced the
Okhotsk sea, where they said it was
the motif of Kenji Miyazawa's masterpiece "Night of the Milky Way railway" with
several friends in the middle of March.
When reading
his book everybody feel difficulty for Greek mythology name, story
development. It maybe caused due to
every peculiar aspect overlapped such as peculiar sentence style, peculiar
thinking on the world, and his special understanding of the
religion.
However, the
content that evokes one's sympathy than understanding might be a secret of his
popularity.
His attitude
always pursuing what is happiness might have made a fantastic Milky Way railway
with desire of Giovanni and
They can take
nature amber in Sakaehama and swan lake located near Sakaehama would became a
motif of the scholar dug up fossil in Perishing coast and the swan lake station
etc. and might have made the Milky Way railway run on this lake.
Miyazawa
Kenji made railway travel between Wakkanai and Oodomari with railway ferry and
train travel from Oodomari through Toyohara, Ochiai and Sakaehama in August of
Taisho Era.
It is said
that the purpose of the travel was job placement to the Oji Paper factory in
Ochiai near the Sakaehama for the his pupils at the
agricultural school.
However, the
railway between the Sakaehama and Ochiai is already a disused line.
Ochiai
is only one of station for two night trains for north Karafuto in one day.
It is an age
of the bus now.
The bus for
Ochiai Station was operated from the Toyohara station every one hour and from Ochiai Station to Sakaehama in
every 30 minutes.
It is a
small, old bus of 25 persons though it is called buses.
We can
available ticket from driver saying the destination.
No foreigner
in the bus except us.
I always feel
admiration for a fashionable hat of people in
When going
out from toyohara around bus is solid white and the
white birch woods are very beautiful.
There is no
signboard of the restaurant though we had plan to take
lunch at Ochiai.
It was
useless though we went to the restaurant at the hotel excluding the hotel guest.
We knew the
shop being written the cafe to be a restaurant.
It was
possible to eat while managing to indicate the menu by the brought illustrated
conversation collection.
It was very
delicious though it was lunch in the shop without the name not recorded in the
guide book such as the chaozu with the jar, borschts, and kabobs either.
We got on the
bus for the Sakaehama from Ochiai.
We saw the
paper mill by which Kenji would have come on.
It still
operated though it was becoming superannuated.
It arrived at
the Sakaehama about 20 minutes.
However, we
are surprised at all sea in
If Kenji came
not in August but March, "Night of the Milky Way railway" would not
be born.
March 11'08
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