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The other day I wrote a little about my maternal relatives, but my mother's family home was the home of the head priest of Shirahata Shrine in Senmaya Town, Ichinoseki City, Iwate Prefecture. The family lives in an environment where the shrine is next to the house. I didn't know this when I was a child, and it was always a fun place to visit. It was fine when my grandparents were healthy. But my mother's older sister (my aunt to me) used to say, "It's fine as long as our father and mother are alive, but when they pass away, we won't be able to go to that house," and it's true that after my grandparents passed away and my oldest uncle became the head of the tribe, we couldn't go to that house anymore.
My mother had many brothers and sister, but my uncle, the second youngest, was particularly talented in this family of many school teachers. Among the many relatives who were humanities majors, only he was good at science and math, and went on to study at the Faculty of Science at Tohoku University. At the time, in the 60s or 70s, when the student movement was in full swing, he also jumped into the movement and became a chairman. He was called "Marx of Kawauchi."
But don't you think that's strange? The son of a shrine priest was the chairman of a student movement. The Imperial Family is at the top of shrines all over the country. My father was critical of his partner's family, but he only accepted this uncle. My father said that the period when my uncle was active was "the time when he was at his most brilliant."
However, when the student movement in Japan failed and my uncle withdrew from it, my father was furious and said, "He was an opportunist." My uncle's life went on to be dull, and he eventually fell ill with an illness that made it gradually harder for him to breathe, and he died alone in Aomori. I went to his funeral. Two of his former friends who had probably been involved in the student movement with him came from Tokyo.
But when I hear that many of the people who were involved in the student movement later became company executives, I think my uncle was better off.
Thank you for reading.
先日、母方の親戚について少し書きましたが、母の実家は岩手県一関市千厩町にある白幡神社の神主の家でした。家の隣に神社があるという環境です。子どもの頃はそんなことも知らず、行くといつも楽しい家だったんですけどねえ。おじいちゃんとおばあちゃんが元気だった頃は良かったんです。でも母の姉にあたる人(私から見て伯母さん)が「父さんたちが生きているうちはいいけど、亡くなったら、私たち、あの家に行けないわねえ」と言っていましたが、たしかにおじいちゃんたちが亡くなって代替わりしてからあのうちに行けなくなりました。
母には兄弟姉妹がたくさんいましたが、下から2番目の叔父が学校の先生が多いこの一族の中でもとりわけ優秀でした。文系の親戚が多い中、1人だけ理数系が得意で東北大学の理学部に進学して、当時は60年代か70年代、学生運動華やかなりし頃で彼も運動に飛び込んで委員長になりました。「川内のマルクス」と呼ばれていました。
でもおかしいと思いませんか？神社の息子が学生運動の委員長。全国の神社の頂点が皇室です。私の父は母方の家族に批判的でしたが、この叔父だけは認めていました。叔父が活躍していた時期を父は「彼が最も輝いていた頃」と言っていました。
しかし日本の学生運動が挫折して叔父が運動から手をひいた時、父は激怒して「あいつは日和見を起こした」とか言っていました。この叔父の人生はその後、冴えなくて最後はだんだん呼吸ができなくなる病気にかかって、青森で1人寂しく亡くなりました。葬式に行きました。東京から学生運動をいっしょにやったと思われるかつての仲間が2人、来ました。
まあでも、学生運動をやっていた人々の多くがのちに会社の重役になったとか聞くと、私の叔父の方がまだましだと思います。
読んでくださってありがとうございます。