Clothes and shoes are almost dry by morning.
It is a very calm day, walking along the river in a daze, looking sceneries. Why the river is so blue, although it is not so deep?
Under the forest, where there is constant flow of water, concrete wall was cover by green, it looks beautiful. Looking at them with bit more attention, I see different kinds of vegetation competing each others, not only on the concrete wall but actually everywhere. For living, place is essential and we all have to eat.
An old tunnel, by walking in, gradually I was covered by darkness and soon no more site to my feet, having feeling of melting into darkness. I could see the entrance and the exit but it felt very very long. During pilgrimage, I loose sense of time. It is like dreaming, traveling through long period of time, but in reality it is only few days.
Darkness gradually coming off, then coming out of the tunnel, and the forest, I reached Saga Kuroshio town. In Tosa, people view cherry blossoms and sea. Is it because of the sound of wind and ocean which mutes everything else? It was some how very quiet.
After passing an artificial peaceful park, then to Tosashirahama, a just small fishing village. In splashes of waves, a person sitting on a pier and waiting fishes to come, looks like almost praying. It is probably their daily life but it seems to me a fundamental way of living with severe but giving mother nature.
Rice field next to the ocean with salty wind blows, even there are many small stones in the field, that is why rice in Kochi is some how bit different, but tasty and much more wilder.
After checking in the accommodation, I wanted feel the ocean to my swollen feet. wave draws my tiredness and gives me soft energy.
02.04.2016
海坊主
29km
洗濯物も靴も朝までにはほぼ乾く。穏やかな一日
ただひたすらぼおっと景色を見ながら起伏もあまりない川沿いを行く。
川はそれほど深くもないがなぜこれほど青いのだろうか。
森の下の水の流れが常にあるコンクリートの壁も緑で覆われていた、とても美しいよく見ると数種類の植物がせめぎあっているように見える、至る所で青く美しい生存競争と共存、生きるためには場所が必要で、そして食べなければならない。
古いトンネル、中に入るとすぐに足元が見えなくなり徐々に体が闇に包まれる、そして溶けていく。出口と入口は見えているのに長く感じる、お遍路をしているとどのくらい時間がったのかよくわからなくなる。
夢のようで非常に長く感じるが実はほんの数日だったりする。
闇が徐々に解け森を抜けると佐賀、黒潮町。土佐の花見は海も見る。風と海の音に消されてか妙な静けさがある。
平成の人工的なのどかな公園を回って土佐白浜、風で黒潮の水しぶきが上がる中カッパを着て正座して釣りをする。彼らにとっては日常のことかもしれないが、何とも言えない凄まじさを感じる、根源的な生活。
高知で食べる米は少し違う、荒々しい素朴な美味しさは砂利混じりの田んぼに黒潮風が吹くからだろうか。
宿に着いてから堤防を越えて冷たい砂利の上を裸足で歩き火照った足を黒潮にさらす、引く波に疲れを持って行かれ、来る波に新たな気を補充されるようだ。