土屋太鳳のデビュー作の舞台　 水窪（MISAKUBO）

Tao Tsuchiya's debut work "Mina in the Endless Village" is set in Misakubo, where is now part of Hamamatsu City Shizuoka Prefecture, and was filmed on location at a wide variety of scenic spots in the surrounding area.

In the early 1980s, there was a bit of a history boom, and many books by amateur historical researchers appeared in this country.

The authors of those days have passed away, and the passion of their readers no longer remains.

This is a topic about an interesting book about "Misakubo" that I found in a used bookstore at that time.

As you can see, the sound of "ISAKU" is hidden in "MISAKUBO," a place that has long been in contact with Suwa-taisha Shrine, famous for its rituals that resemble those of Abraham and Isaac in the Old Testament.

According to "I Found the Roots of the Japanese Language!",

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/dp/B000J89VG2　

there were immigrants from Mesopotamia in the Jomon period who worked in copper mines in this area.

In fact, the mine was in operation until around the time of the Osaka World's EXPO in 1970.

Around 1960, a local junior high school student discovered a stone (Misakubo-ishi) that had been carved with what could be neither symbols nor letters, and it was deciphered.

This area, like many others, has become depopulated and difficult to live in, but are there any young people who can explore the ruins of mines and other places while living a self-sufficient life and prove the legend?

If I were younger...

I think it would be interesting if young people (10-20 couples who dislike the city and want to become self-sufficient) who have had their outlook on life changed by the Corona fiasco settled in the area.

I guess that's impossible, right?

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

＋ my poor English

The following is an excerpt from the book,

"I Found the Roots of the Japanese Language!

Tao Tsuchiya's debut play MISAKUBO