“Vigorous youth of Bocho My friends ……”, A full of singing voice was ringing out from Okikamuro Honura youth hall. At the beginning of Showa(Japanese calendar years 1926-1989), even child like me was strongly impressed by enthusiasm of a youth association members who was born in the year of Meiji(Japanese calendar years 1868-1912) and felt a dawn of a new era. Even people who worked for overseas, domestic or governmental work in Okikamuro had a bitter experience of the loss of a war, especially a returned people from overseas came back with losing all their property. We were knocked down into the bottom of poverty and a lot of people who was in Okikamuro moved in Ube city(where locates in same Yamaguchi prefecture in Japan as Okikamuro island locates). Economic condition at Ube city was good due to booming of coal mining after the war. The city was full of active energy. “We could find Kamuro people everywhere in the city.” And We said “Hi, you too.” The face of people from hometown was bright even though right after the war, because of the feeling that we caught the wave of upward economy trend. It was told there were 200 people from Okikamuro included classmates, friends , relatives and families. At the beginning of Ube Kamuro party, it was very active so that the president, Mr.Chuuji Kawai was very busy to find the hall for the party to be held. However the change had come to replace energy source from coal to oil shortly after. Almost of all Kamuro people had to leave there without choice. In addition to the people moved to other town for new job, now a day, many people who were pleased to wait for the enjoyable Kamuro party passed away one after another. Ube Kamuro party is steadily becoming lonesome every year. Finally It has been suspended without handing over to the next generation. I would like to restart it without meltdown and like to continue for future because of hearing a word of encouragement from each Kamuro party ‘not to stop Ube Kamuro party’. Let’s change the topic. we invited the late Mr. Nakata who was from Okikamuro and lived in Yamaguchi-city to the house of the late Mr. Chuuji Kawai in Ube-city about 32 years ago from now. We heard the history of Okikamuro from Mr. Nakata. As you know, Mr. Nakata served at Okikamuro elementary school for a long time and we can see his imposing image on the photo at that time. After the world war, he served in the prefectural government office of Yamaguchi. He was respected as the person who had the most detailed knowledge of the history of Okikamuro from many people. Mr. Nakata told ; * All resident in Okikamuro were fishermen at first * Since each families had a great family tree, it was difficult to make a classed gap indiscriminately. * Okikamuro was the special island to grow independently, therefore don’t underestimate them as a fisherman. * In the morning meeting at the prefectural government office of Yamaguchi, the late governor Mr. Tatsuo Tanaka often said “ There was not Yamaguchi-ken without Okikamuro”. * Kansai Mori had lived in Okikamuro * Ikushima or Kitamae Ship It took a long time to tell about above topics, but it is very sorry for his death without achieving to meet again. As you know and reported to some people, I researched a relationship between ancestors and the places below about 10 years ago together with Shigetoshi Yamada who is my relative by take a rubbing. “Hagi”, “Shimonoseki”, “Fukuoka”, “Karatsu”, “Yobiko”, “Bakuro Island( Chinzei-cho)”, “Nagoya”, “Hirado ( Nagasaki) “, “Nakatsu( Ooita)”, “Amakusa( Kumamoto) “, “Asamo( Tsushima)”, “Ehime-ken ( Uwajima) “, “(Yahatahama)”. We also took a rubbing at Komatsu and Kuga in Ooshima-gun. After this, I am going to introduce the results of this research bit by bit.
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