2010-9-19
Overwhelmed by what I felt, I started a blog first on FC2 on July 16, and on Ameba on July 24… I had never imagined that I would begin writing on the Internet.
On both of the sites mentioned above, about 150 people were reading my writing every day.
MIKIO KISARA 木皿幹雄, who was endowed in the fifth grade of elementary school with the mind of a third-year high school student… in exchange for writing a certain book, I believe… broke forty years of silence and finally appeared before the world.
My classmates, who are now at the heart of Japan, will recognize me, although my whereabouts have been unknown for so long.
Some years ago, when I thought none of them were nearby, I was surprised to learn that as many as three were, and we promptly celebrated our reunion after more than thirty years…
When I declared that I would soon begin writing, S sent me a postcard saying, “I eagerly await the arrival of a new writer who is a little past the bloom of youth.”
I think it is the same for all of you: the friends of our youth are ours forever.
Fortunately, I was able to have classmates who were all gentle, wonderful intellectuals.
…At the time, I was tormented by… misfortune in my family, the first ordeal God had given me…
In our graduation anthology, it was written that there were three Ks… this K would someday leave a great mark on Japan’s literary world…
Despite its having been a year in which I had abandoned the path of study.
That K… although I have no interest whatsoever in the literary world, has begun writing.
I wanted this “The Turntable of Civilization” to be read by as many people as possible.
In this world of the Internet, without any publicity whatsoever… I think the mere fact that this writing… is being read by 150 people every day is remarkable.
Of the population of 120 million, would sixty million be able to read the printed word?
Just as the circulation of the weekly Asahi is only 260,000… I had felt that, naturally, this might be no more than a spring in the desert… and so I posted here on goo as well,
What had been two visits on the first day became as many as 87 readers, with 570 page views!
I am both surprised and grateful.
In place of an acknowledgment, I will add a few lines to yesterday’s writing.
Please do read it.
September 19, 2010
I will bring Japan’s mountain ranges　Japan’s forests　Japan’s rivers
Japan’s seas　back home
So that in this country　true freedom of speech
And true intelligence　may bloom in profusion　and flourish
Japan’s mountain ranges　left forsaken　while only they themselves found happiness
Japan’s forests　Japan’s rivers　Japan’s seas　I will bring them　back to their homes
Having exploited them for all they were worth　they turned the mountain ranges of elegance　into mountain ranges of war
The forests of literature　into forests of war　the rivers of play　into rivers of war
The seas of freedom　into seas of power
I will free them　from those coarse men　and bring them back　to mountain ranges of elegance
To forests of literature　to rivers of play　to seas of freedom
The women of Japan　who have become　so very beautiful　over these twenty years
Together with　their radiance
September 18, 2010