百姓入門記 (人間選書 34)
After collapsing from overwork while serving as editor of Weekly Asahi, the author turns to cultivating a small field and reconsiders the relationship between soil and human life. Through encounters with people who live close to farming, struggles with birds and weeds, making dried gourd strips, and conversations with children, the essays quietly portray a sense of nature that urban life had obscured.
Work Information
An editor who takes up the hoe traces the bond between soil and human beings in a gentle, attentive voice.
Hyakusho Nyumonki is a collection of essays in which Tsuneo Komatsu reexamines urban habits of living through the experience of cultivating a field. Using concrete subjects such as the Musashino landscape, milk vetch and straw, a snowy village, weeds, and dried gourd making, it conveys the tactile reality of living in relation to nature. It is an introduction to farming and, at the same time, a reading experience that measures anew the distance between soil and human life.
Review Summaries
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The appeal lies in the crossing of an urban editor's perspective with the physical experience of touching soil. Rather than serving as a technical manual for farming, the book is received as an account of how working a field changes one's stance toward daily life.
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Encounters with people who live close to nature and small incidents involving crops, weeds, and living creatures leave warmth within the calm narration. The attitude of learning from the soil makes it not only a book about farming but also a reflection on how to live.
Book Information
- Publisher
- 農山漁村文化協会
- Published
- 1979-12-01
- Pages
- 245 pages
- Language
- 日本語
- ISBN-13
- 9784540790423
- ISBN-10
- 4540790420
- Price
- 1257 JPY
- Category
- 本/ビジネス・経済
そんな輪廻を重ねること八年。土と人間とのかかわりについて、すこしは思いが深まってきたように思う。百五十坪の畑作百姓に入門した記録である。
Reviews
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とてもよかった。
古い本ですが家庭菜園で自給するので読んで楽しい内容でしたし、古本で安かったし、新刊はでてないので。
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感激
店主の心意気に感激です。 ネットでありながら馴染みの古本屋で買った気分です。 昵懇になりたいと思いました。 宜しく！