パンの店・高木

仙人のような人。

農家の友人にそう聞いて、高木雅宏さんに出逢ったとき、私はその濃密な生活に酔ってしまった。

挨拶をする間もなく「これはブルーベリー、鳥避けしなきゃ、ね。胡桃の木。ライ麦、これで酵母を起こす。

柿。上手い剪定が、まーだまだわかんないんだ。これパクチー。好き？パクリ・・」

文字通り道草を食い、堆肥の山を通り抜けて、家庭訪問は続く。

かまど。土壁。4万円でできたという部屋。

通路脇に何気なく在る瓶には熟成途中の酢。餡子を炊く七輪・・。

その密度！家の周りに一つのデッドスペースなく生きている、食べ物。生活を作る道具達。

何だって作ってしまう。

野菜、調味料、お茶、それらを載せるダイニングテーブル。全てを包み身を守ってくれる家さえも。

高木さんは奥さんの喜美恵さんとの沖縄・久高島での年収２０万円の生活から
～野生の生活力と喜捨の心～
を得たという。

そして現在、篠山で自家栽培のライ麦とレーズンからおこす天然酵母のパンを売りながら、ほとんど自給自足の生活を25年間続けている。

目の前にあるものは全て誰かが作ってくれたもの。何だって、作れるのだ。

だけど生活の中に、目の前に溢れるものに対し私達は、“誰かが作ってくれたものだ”と意識することって少なくなったのじゃないだろうか。思わず、自分の手からは今まで何が生まれただろうと思い出そうとする。

私には何が出来たんだっけ。

自分は何かだという定義や、範疇に収まらないから、屋号は持たない。ただ日々をとび回って、生きている。

そんな高木さんの夢を聞くと
「生活の中を周遊しておきたい」のだと言う。

そして「やりたがりなんだよ」と実に楽しげに笑うのだ。

2016 5月
提供：丸瀬家
援助：パンの店・高木、うおくに商店
後援：サンセイドウギャラリー

A man living like a hermit.

This was how a farmer friend of mine introduced Mr. Masahiro Takagi to me, and I was captivated by his rich life.

Even before saying hello, he began to talk like this: ”This is blueberry, and I need to put a bird net over it, don't I? This is a walnut tree. This is rye, which I use to raise yeast.

This is a persimmon tree. I still haven't got the hang of how to prune it. This is coriander. You like it? Munch-munch...“

He literally ate grass growing on the pathway, walked through a compost heap, and I followed him to see more of his house.

A cooking stove. Mud walls. He said that the room had cost only ¥40,000 to build.

Bottles that seemed to have been abandoned on the sidewalk were brewing vinegar. There was also a small charcoal grill for making sweet bean paste.

The richness of it all! There was no wasted space around the house, surrounded by food and tools for living.

He grew or made anything.

He grew vegetables, spices, tea leaves, and made a dining table to serve them on, and even his house that protects him from rain and wind.

Mr. Takagi said that his life with his wife Kimie on an annual income of ¥200,000 on Kudaka Island in Okinawa

had given him ~ wild survival skills and a mindset of alms-giving. ~

He has been living a self-sufficient life for the past 25 years,

currently selling homemade bread made from his rye, raisin, and natural yeast at his home in Sasayama.

Everything you see in front of your eyes were made by someone. This means that everything can be made.

However, I think we no longer get to realize that often in our lives now,

overloaded with things in front of our eyes. I find myself trying to recall

the last object that my hands produced.

What could I do and make?

Mr. Takagi says that he does not have a business name because he does not fit into any definition or category. He simply busies himself with

what he needs to do to live.

I asked him what his dream was.

His answer was ”to keep touring in my life.“

”I am someone that really wants to do things,“ he added with a big smile.

2016.MAY
Sponsored by MARUSE KE
Assisted by Bakery Takagi・Uokuni Shoten
Suppoted by Sanseido Gallery