父が7歳の頃に疎開していた岩手県の平舘。
During the Second World War, my father who was 7 y.o. was evacuated by his mother (my grandma) to the small town of Tairadate in Iwate.
ゴールデンウィークの旅行でたまたま通りがかり、無人の駅舎に立ち寄ってみました。
祖母はこの駅で幼な子を知り合いに託して空襲が続く東京に戻り、終戦後に再びこの駅に父を迎えに来ました。
78 years later, I was able to visit the station where my grandma left him with her acquaintance and returned to air-raided Tokyo with the uncertainty of what the war might bring. At the end of the war, she returned to this station to pick him up.
↑新しい駅舎を抜けてプラットフォームに出た時に見える岩手山の景色は、78年前からあまり変わっていないのではないかな〜？ The view behind the unmanned station, Mt. Iwate and the fields, must have been almost the same 78 years ago.
「迎えに行った時、和夫が遠くから走ってきて抱きついて泣いて離れなかったのよ」と祖母からよく聞かされていたのを思い出しました。
My late grandma often told me that when she had gone back, my father had spotted her from faraway, and run into her arms and kept crying.
↑40歳の頃の祖母と、多分疎開から戻ってきた頃の父。 40y.o. grandma, and my father after the war.
During the Second World War, my father who was 7 y.o. was evacuated by his mother (my grandma) to the small town of Tairadate in Iwate.
ゴールデンウィークの旅行でたまたま通りがかり、無人の駅舎に立ち寄ってみました。
祖母はこの駅で幼な子を知り合いに託して空襲が続く東京に戻り、終戦後に再びこの駅に父を迎えに来ました。
78 years later, I was able to visit the station where my grandma left him with her acquaintance and returned to air-raided Tokyo with the uncertainty of what the war might bring. At the end of the war, she returned to this station to pick him up.
↑新しい駅舎を抜けてプラットフォームに出た時に見える岩手山の景色は、78年前からあまり変わっていないのではないかな〜？ The view behind the unmanned station, Mt. Iwate and the fields, must have been almost the same 78 years ago.
「迎えに行った時、和夫が遠くから走ってきて抱きついて泣いて離れなかったのよ」と祖母からよく聞かされていたのを思い出しました。
My late grandma often told me that when she had gone back, my father had spotted her from faraway, and run into her arms and kept crying.
↑40歳の頃の祖母と、多分疎開から戻ってきた頃の父。 40y.o. grandma, and my father after the war.