天風会香里賛助会
小生は現在、天風会香里賛助会の代表を務めている。
人間、歳を重ね６５歳の壮年にもなると、何かと社会的な役を仰せつかるものである。小生もその例に漏れず、業界関係の団体役員や郷土会、出身校の同窓会に至るまで、両手に余る世話役をやらされている。ところが、正直自ら進んでと云うものは何一つ無く、出来ることなら、お役御免と逃げ出したい心境である。
ところが、天風会香里賛助会の代表だけは、正直今暫くは遣らせて頂きたいと思っている。それ故、昨年の越年会の挨拶でも、会員を前にハッキリと、「この会の代表だけはもう少し務めさせて欲しい・・・」と、自らお願いしたくらいである。
柔道連盟の会長では無いが、本部から、「お前いい加減に辞めろ」と云われても、直ぐに、「ハイそうですか・・」とは行かない心境である。何か利権が・・・、まさか・・・、決してそうでは無い。何の邪心もなく、ただただ純真にそう思っている。
何ゆえに？。何故もクソもない。ただそう思っているから・・・。そう、天風会、心身統一法は小生の生きる術であり、天風哲学を真理と信念するからに他ならない。
ところが、その本拠地、「天風会香里道場」を今年８月末で退去しなければ成らなくなった。何時か、この日が来るのは覚悟していたが、私が予測していたよりも２年も早まってしまい、正直テンヤワンヤと言う状況である。従って、今年のお盆は郷里、隠岐の島でゆっくりと、などと暢気な事を考えていたが、それも叶わなくなってしまった。
天風会香里道場は昭和４６年、財団法人天風会香里支部発足当初から京阪香里園駅前の藤田医院の２階に設けられ、藤田邸の庭に体操スペースを設け、毎週日曜午前９時から１２時まで、会員相互の修練の場として来た。しかし、平成１９年末に駅前再開発で立ち退きとなり、現在の地（寝屋川市東香里園町）に移り、庭付きの立派な道場（鉄筋３階建）で修練を続けて来たが、所有者の藤田一枝先生が３年前に他界。以後、相続権者との話し合いで何とか使用させて貰っていたが、この度道場の売却が決り、立ち退きを余儀なくされたと云う事であります。
道場からの退去は、無念の一語に尽きるが、これもいたしかた無し。 藤田先生が、この香里の天風会に捧げた情熱と、物心両面に亙るご支援に、ただただ感謝申し上げ、また、その意を受け、香里の灯を消す事無く継続しなければならないものと強く考えております。
ただ、専用の道場を持ち、４２年の長きに亙って活動して来ただけに、その歴史相応の書籍や道具類が山と有り、この処分や保管に頭を痛めていると云うのが実状であります。
尚、次の会場は、大阪府枚方市香里ケ丘8丁目 5-1に所在する「五常会館」（自治会館）を時間借りする事になりそう。そこは香里園地区の一番の高台に当たり、淀川から大阪の梅田付近を一望できる淀見公園を控え、体操も思う存分出来るスペースがあり、天風会の修練の場としては、非常に恵まれた地と思われ、個人的には新たな香里賛助会の成り行きを楽しみにしているところです。
過去、香里賛助会に縁を持たれた方、これから縁を持たれる方、９月１日（日曜日）以降は、香里の日曜行修は、上記「五常会館」にて行います。今まで通り、毎日曜の午前９時から１２時まで、休む事無く継続する予定ですので、宜しくお願いいたします。詳細は、香里賛助会のホームページをご覧下さいませ。
I am currently serving as a representative of the Tenpukai-Kori Support Society.
As we grow older and reach the prime of our lives at the age of 65, we are often called upon to play a role in society. I am no stranger to this kind of work, and I have been forced to take on more than my fair share of caretaker roles, including officers of industry-related organizations, hometown associations, and alumni associations of my school. However, to be honest, I don’t have anything that I would like to do voluntarily, and if I could, I would like to run away and be relieved of my role.
However, to be honest, I would like to be able to use the representative of the Tenpukai-Kori Support Group for a while. Therefore, in my address at last year’s New Year’s Party, I asked the members to let me serve as the representative of this association for a little longer.
Although I am not the president of the Judo Federation, I do not feel that I can immediately say, “Yes, I see…” when the headquarters tells me that I should quit. Something in the interest of… well, no… not at all. There’s nothing wrong with that, I just feel that way innocently.
What’s the reason? There is no reason or shit. Just because I think so…. Yes, the Tenpukai and the Unification of Mind and Body is my way of life and I believe in the Tenpourri philosophy as the truth.
However, I have to move out of the “Tenpukai-Kori Dojo” at the end of August this year. I had expected that this day would come someday, but it was two years earlier than I had predicted, and to be honest, it’s a tense situation. Therefore, I was thinking that I would spend this year’s Obon in my hometown, Oki Island, slowly, but that has not come true either.
The Tenpukai-Kari Dojo has been located on the second floor of the Fujita Medical Clinic in front of the Keihan-Karien Station since the establishment of the Tenpukai-Kari Branch in 1971, with a gymnastics space in the garden of the Fujita residence. However, at the end of 2007, they were evicted due to redevelopment in front of the station and moved to their current location (Higashi-Korizono-cho, Neyagawa City), where they have been practicing in a splendid dojo with a garden (3-story reinforced concrete building), but the owner, Kazue Fujita-sensei, passed away 3 years ago. After that, I was allowed to use it somehow through discussions with the right of inheritance, but the sale of the dojo was decided this time, and I was forced to evict it.
The departure from the dojo is a regrettable word, but there is nothing we can do about it. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Fujita for the passion he has dedicated to the Tenpukai in Shangri-la and for his extensive material and emotional support, and I strongly believe that we must continue to do so without turning off the light of Shangri-la.
However, since we have our own dojo and have been active for 42 years, we have a lot of books and tools that are appropriate to our history, and we are having a hard time disposing of and storing them.
The next venue is likely to be rented from Gotsune Kaikan (community center) located at 5-1, 8-chome, Korigaoka, Hirakata City, Osaka Prefecture. It is located on the highest hill in the Karien area, and there is a space where you can enjoy gymnastics as much as you like, with Yodomi Park overlooking the Umeda area of Osaka from the Yodo River, and it seems to be a very good place for the training of the Tenpukai.
For those of you who have been associated with the Kari Support Group in the past and those who will be associated with it in the future, after Sunday, September 1, Kari’s Sunday activities will be held at the above “Gokyo Kaikan”. We will continue to do so every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. without a break, so thank you very much. For more information, please visit the website of the Kori Supporters Association.
