8 years ago🙏

Early in the morning, I woke up to the nurse tapping my shoulder. He said, “The time has come.”

Late afternoon, I found a book and noticed a sticky note tucked between the pages of the book in his home where I had lived until March 1984. It was a book of photographs of remote stations 秘境駅写真集, and it suggested that he had wanted to visit Tsubojiri Station 坪尻駅 in Tokushima Prefecture.

In September 2010, I took him to an excursion to Kowada Station 小和田駅 and Tamoto Station 田本駅 of JR Iida Line 飯田線, "top" level remote stations, which evidently interested him…and for a person born in Saku 佐久, Ina 伊那 must have looked different…

Later in May in 2018, I visited Tsubojiri Station with his memorial photo…that was all I could do 🙏

He was a man of justice, and also like Professor Burukaniro for me.

With heartfelt gratitude to 猛ふぶき様 🙏

And equally to 理生（りしゃう）様 🙏

https://note.com/22ndcentury/n/nbaef6901a014

<Updated on 2026/06/02>
理生（りしゃう）様 left our word in January 2026.
Here is a screenshot of the above beautiful article which is no longer available:

श्रद्धाञ्जलि 🙏
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