Author: ベルガーディア鯨山（英語版）

On October 8th, the rain on the previous day stopped and it was a perfect day for sports. The name of this gathering is a sports tournament for people with disabilities, but I accepted it because it was okay to take a walk around Bell Gardia KUJIRAYAMA.

It was my first time and I thought about what to do and spend half a day happily. Although visually impaired, other senses of hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting are the same as those of healthy people. If you think so, you should be able to play various games. Play that you can’t do anywhere else. Have fun listening to the “The Phone of the Wind” CD, try using “The Phone of the Wind”, babbling streams, singing birds, and being sensitive to the sound of the wind. Have them listen with good hearing. As for the touch, walk through the garden to check the feel of the lawn, the moss, and the fallen leaves. In the experience of sniffing, the scent differs depending on the type of rose, the scent of herbs and conifers, the strength of the scent, the sweetness, and the spicy scent. In the experience of tasting, all the people with disabilities and caregivers experienced the menu of sweetening coffee and cake, eating fig fruits, drinking hearty and enjoying each taste.

In particular, the experience of walking on moss made me feel like a carpet and was a surprise. As for the odor, it responded sensitively and sniffed out more subtle differences than we felt.

It is indescribable that visually impaired people also have different levels of understanding of Braille translation depending on whether they are congenital or acquired, and the degree of imagination differs greatly. Recently, he said that he often listens to read aloud books on his PC rather than Braille books. Even so, when I listen to it, I fall asleep on the way, so I also say that Braille books are better in such cases.

It was a short time of only half a day, but what pleased everyone is that it will add a new page to the activities of Bergadia Kujirayama in the future.

We want to be with you as long as time permits, “anytime, anyone”, which is the concept of Bell Gardia KUJIRAYAMA.

On September 6th, Mr. and Mrs. Kenzo Tsuda, Vice-Principal of Hachinohe Sei Ursula Gakuin Junior High School, visited Bell Gardia KUJIRAYAMA from Aomori Prefecture. His wife, Keiko, was a teacher at a regular school, but one year she applied for a transfer to a blind school and taught at a blind school for about two years. She says she studied Braille hard during that time. She then returned to regular school and she was retired.

She came up with the idea of ​​Braille translation from the time the picture book “Kaze no Denwa” was published in 2014, and she finally completed it after many failures. She wanted to donate her Braille picture book to the library in the forest, and she took a train from Hachinohe and delivered it for more than four hours.

She talked about her own experience, saying, “Blind children are very spiritual.” She enjoyed talking with Mr. and Mrs. Tsuda, and it was soothing.

It is often the case that “The Phone of the Wind” that are not connected to each other seem to be connected in the minds of many people. On September 19, I received a phone call from Mr. Ogasawara, a visually impaired person in Kamaishi City (visited about a year ago), and on October 8th, I was informed that he would like to take a walk in the garden as an event for the visually impaired. On the day of the event, he said, “We will go with 10 visually impaired people and 10 healthy people with us, for a total of 20 people.”

I am looking forward to seeing who and what kind of encounters will be on the day. Anyone who is interested in meeting should participate and enjoy themselves.

Book “The Phone of the Wind” Six years after the Great Earthquake, what you can see through “The Phone of the Wind”.

Why is the “The Phone of the Wind” made, what is seen and heard, what is he thinking, and where is he connected?

“Wind phone” has been taken up and introduced in many media to this day, but I thought that each description and video was just an introduction of some aspects. Therefore, I was always dissatisfied with the content of the report, saying, “It’s different.” In addition, there were many media people who visited “The Phone of the Wind” and made offers with false recognition. It’s been a year since I started writing, and I was finally able to publish it.

What were 25,000 people doing there in six years to a wind phone with no telephone line connected anywhere … everyone is calling. I wrote this with the idea that I should convey the activities from the “The Phone of the Wind” that connects the thoughts of the bereaved family and the deceased to the present.

Professor Yanaga, Clinical Psychologist, Keio University, who recommended this book, said, “I have been working as a psychologist for many years involved in the feelings of the bereaved family who lost a loved one. I felt a deep emotion without any feelings coming from the bottom of my heart. “

I think this book suggests one answer: where those emotions come from, why you feel healed by “The Phone of the Wind”, and why it leads to getting out of grief work. If you have any doubts about why it is a “wind phone”, please pick it up and read it.

It is already on sale at Ippodo in Otsuchi, but it will be on sale at bookstores nationwide around August 24th after the Bon Festival.

a commemorative photo together in front of “The Phone of the Wind”

Unlike the impression I see on TV, I can talk to them in a friendly manner, so I didn’t feel like a celebrity, and I just chatted.

Mr. Kang Sang Jung coming out of the “Wind Phone” box

According to him, “He seems to be looking at himself,” he said, “He seems to be looking at himself.” I think he felt that he was thin and smart, and he was not fat no matter how much he ate.

This time I was told that he would come with his wife and went home. I’m looking forward him to finding  some hints for the next work.

Kang Sang-jung’s book “Heart” and signed one in “The Library of the Woods”