二人旅ＮＯ２
翌日曜日は早々に朝食を済ませ、ＡＭ９時には熊野本宮の大鳥居（日本一）の下に立っていた。そこを出発点に本宮にお参りし、
そのまま往復約８キロの熊野古道を歩くことにした。鬱蒼とした杉林の中をただただ黙々と歩く。聞こえるのは野鳥と虫の声だけ、
都会の喧騒を忘れ、古代人のごとく自然の中に遊んだ２時間半であった。
本宮前の小奇麗な食堂で昼食を済ませ、岐路に着く。途中、文武館があったという十津川高校に立ち寄ったが既に文武館は無く、
高校のグラウンド横に中沼了三先生の立派な碑が建っていた。幕末の頃、戸津川郷士の血気盛んな若者が尊皇攘夷、
勤皇の心に燃え立ち上がった旨が記されていたが、隠岐騒動（明治元年、松江藩の隠岐郡代を追放し、自治政権を行う。無血革命による隠岐維新）
の思想背景ともなった中沼了三先生の凄さを改めて思い知らされた。
十津川高校を後に暫く走ると、玉置山１２キロの看板が目に入った。エッ、１２キロで玉置山、それならとＵターンして玉置山へ、
ところがこれが大変、急勾配のＳ字カーブを延々３０分、やっと駐車場についたが、玉置神社にはそこから未だ徒歩３０分。しかし、
標高千メートル以上の玉置山に創建された玉置神社は霊気に包まれた幻想的な眺めであった。往復２時間を要した大変な寄り道であったが、
２時間で１年程命が伸びたかも・・・。
そんなこんなで帰宅したのは２０時近くなっていた、２０数年ぶりの楽しい二人旅であった。
The next Sunday, I finished my breakfast early and was standing under the Great Gate of Kumano Hongu (the largest gate in Japan) at 9:00 am. From there, you can visit the main shrine and
We decided to walk the Kumano Kodo, which is about 8 km round trip. I just walk silently through the dense cedar forest. All I can hear is birds and insects.
It was two and a half hours of forgetting the hustle and bustle of the city and playing in the nature like an ancient man.
We had lunch at a neat diner in front of the main shrine and came to a crossroads. On the way, we stopped at the Totsukawa High School, which was said to have had a Bunbu-kan, but there was already no Bunbu-kan, and it was the only place where we were able to go.
There was a splendid monument of Ryuzo Nakanuma next to the high school ground. Towards the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, a young and energetic Totsukawa samurai made the case for the reverence of the emperor and the expulsion of the foreigners.
It was written that he had risen to his feet in the spirit of the emperor, but the Oki Disturbance (in the first year of the Meiji era, the Oki county head of the Matsue clan was expelled and an autonomous government was imposed. (Oki Restoration through Bloodless Revolution)
I was once again reminded of the greatness of Ryuzo Nakanuma, who also became the background of the thought of “I’m going to do this.
As we drove after Totsukawa High School for a while, we saw a sign for 12 km from Tamaki Mountain. Tamaki in 12 km, then I made a U-turn and went to Tamaki.
However, this was very difficult. It took us 30 minutes to reach the parking lot on the steep S-curve, but we still had 30 minutes to reach Tamaki Shrine on foot. However.
The Tamaki Shrine, built on the 1,000-meter-high Mt. Tamaki, was a fantastic view surrounded by spirituality. It was a hard detour that took two hours for a round trip, but
Two hours could have added about a year to your life…
It was nearly 20 o’clock when we came home, and it was the first time in more than 20 years that we had enjoyed our trip together.
