切り立った崖の上に立つ旧日本料亭カフェ。
店内に入って目に飛び込むのは、窓一面広がる日本海の景色。
横一文字の借景の襖絵と言うべきか。
開け放たれた窓から流れ込む9月の心地よい海風が肌を撫でる。
ただただ感動するばかり。驚いた。
帰省の折。なぜか父親を連れてやって来た。
窓際に坐り、日本海を眺めて、珈琲を味わう。
カフェなど。。。
老人となった父親は落ち着かない様子。
口数は多くない父親。話すことはさしてない。
「海は好きだ」と。
それはボクも同じだ。
風が気持ちいい。
父親の姿を写真に撮ってみた。
白髪頭に土気色の顔。
額には幾つもの皺を刻み、手肌はゴツゴツとした松皮のよう。
電気工事士の彼はいつだって作業着だ。
全身に衰えと重ねた齢を示しながら彼は
窓辺にうつむき、深い思索をしている。
いや。実際にはただのおじいさんで。
たまたま深い思索をしてそうな写真が撮れただけなのだが（笑
しかし、その一枚を見るに。
人生の終焉期に入った彼。
そう長くない先の未来のうちにやってくるであろう彼との今生の別れのことがふと頭に浮かぶ。
彼の人生、彼という存在。そしてその息子たる自分。
など。
そのような関係性や実存二人について。
「そうか」と思いながら、同時に、少し離れた所から遠巻きに眺めているような気がした。
諸行無常の内にあるか弱き事象として居る、今この瞬間なのだなと。。。
ぼんやりと思いに耽った。
崖の上の旧日本料亭カフェ。
わざわざ行くカフェです。
A former Japanese restaurant cafe standing on a steep cliff.
When you enter the cafe, what catches your eye is the view of the Sea of Japan that spreads out from the window.
Should it be called a fusuma painting of a borrowed landscape of one horizontal character?
The pleasant September sea breeze that flows in through the open window caresses your skin.
I’m just impressed. surprised.
On my way home. For some reason I brought my father here.
Sit by the window, look out over the Sea of Japan, and enjoy a cup of coffee.
such as cafes. . .
The father who became an old man seems to be restless.
A father of few words. He don’t mind talking.
“I love the sea,” he said.
Me too.
The wind feels good.
I took a picture of my father.
White hair and earthy face.
There are many wrinkles on his forehead, and the skin on his hands is like rugged pine bark.
As an electrician, he is always in work clothes.
With all his body showing signs of decay and age, he
Looking down at the window, deep in thought.
no. Actually just an old man.
I just happened to be able to take a picture that could express it.
But look at that one.
He is nearing the end of his life.
The thought of parting with him in the not so distant future comes to mind.
his life, his existence. and myself as his son.
Such.
About such a relationship and existence of two people.
While thinking, “I understand”, at the same time, I felt like I was watching from a distance.
I think that this is the moment when everything is in impermanence or as a weak phenomenon. . .
I lost myself in vacant thought.
Old Japanese restaurant cafe on the cliff.
It’s a cafe I go to.
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