- Cat town pilgrimage -
Kumano/Nigishima




It goes to Kumano-shi, Mie.

They are a mother and stay for two nights and three days to the hotel of Kanpo .
A HDV camera is brought in order to serve also as photography of a "cat town pilgrimage" as if it is right.

Although the mother carried out to Kanpo of Japanese every place by the Kanpo lover
The hotel of かんぽ of Kumano guarantees the contents of service / meal, and a price to be the category of the best 1 also in it.

The Nagoya station has a substantial packaged station lunch (specially selected lunch and Nagoya).		A fried shrimp and Hitsumabusi carry out and they are - Tenmusu and sweet rice paste.		The lobby in in the hotel and Kumano of industrial insurance

Kumano-shi had found the thin alley which is the haunt of Cats, when it came last time in summer.
It arrives at 1 in the afternoon and goes to the alley instantly.
Many thin alleys also pass in the old in the city one. Naturally a car does not go into the alley.
This is convenient for a cat.

In the target alley, together with one of the two, the wall of a big mansion stands the private house at one of the two.
It is said that this mansion is presented by the city after an inheritor leaves a town in a former distinguished family in the city,
and has become a museum now although it is the talk heard from after.
There was a cat and others on the wall of the big mansion. The kittens seen last time are also large.

a picture of what is taken from several of the elderly people who are using the alley as a community road --
if it is heard and is answered as a "cat", it will be perplexed for a while and a smile will light up soon
It is called "the labor" and sometimes passed with how often today.

Although the reason of the expression of the embarrassment becomes clear at the next day ....

Lion rock		The upper right portion resembles the mouth of a lion.		FX-1

Photography two-day eye. What is called a sightseeing spot is photoed during the morning.
The Matsumoto peak of the Kumano old road authorized by world heritage in July, this year. And Onigajo. Shichiri-mihama etc.

The morning sun can be worshipped from the room of a hotel.		The Kumano large long		Shichiri-mihama

In the afternoon, it goes to yesterday's alley after photoing the rows of houses in bear Noichi etc.
It encounters that the woman who lives in the neighborhood exactly is planting Cat food on the wall of a mansion.
Stray cats will gather this much, since those who are taking care of too are.
The house which stray cats make the roost seems to be a dilapidated house somehow. As the yard is located at back, kittens rush in there.

If a photograph is taken for a while, two old woman and old man will have come together. An exchange is described below.

"... Anda Tokai (television) ? China-Japan (newspaper) ?"
"It is HP of the Internet reluctantly."
"... how to photograph You Cats -- "
"Yes"
"... a cat is lovely ... "
After that, two woman take the lead and began to talk.

"Cats is in hereabouts in schools, excrement stinks and it carries out, and a field is damaged and is already troubled."
"-- there -- people -- oneself -- this -- keeping -- a cat -- food -- -- although it is , it comes for Cats to consume that food - "
"-- a cat -- marks hiding which Excrement, and . Therefore, it cannot but smell too many..."
"... although it is strawberry in Ute's back yard in a field -- a cat -- Excrement -- it takes every day there
-- a strawberry -- total destruction. three kittens which do not open an eye yet, either had been caught since the head by ,
and it dug in bag ON . When , the kite went and depended -, and others. Haaaaaa"
which one more person's woman will not have if the eye of "Anda kitten is open"
"-- if open, it will not pass by the ability doing -- Haaaaaa"

or -- cats -- trouble -- it is needed -- that grumble continued for a long time.
Although it is a reason for having bowed one's head in assent here ...

now , there is neither and others nor work, and not all children go away and return to a city --
a thing. Therefore, this house is also charmed and the house there is all also empty without a landlord. therefore, all cats settle there -- nnnn-- "
if it ages also as " and will carry out by whether it is as long as ten more years, nobody lives -- it keeps that it is -- "

woman of a kite said.
"... that is right -- you -- if it is cat , it is ろ which carried out back yard guidance in the house -- a ? stray cat and -- "
"-- such -- really ... "
"It and shows around and is slack. There are those Oyazi-machi over there in stray cat bowl , and they are depended."


-- I am allowed to show a house There was a cat dignifiedly. It was begun reluctantly to take a photograph.

"It came up as Food from the freezer. The hairtail of a big talk tick tick"
"Is always it food?"
"No, - cat and . But it does not escape and depend as ぼ recently. It comes out and is a leftover food throw and " of a fish occasionally.


Symbiosis with the way back to a hotel, a man, and Cats was considered.

One cat is not found, either, although it walked along it and turned around the west side which becomes in the direction of Nara during the morning.

It is to the small fishing village seen from the window of a special express train while coming to Kumano-shi from an afternoon this time.
It is the place "Nigishima imitating " which separated about four from Kumano-shi.

Nigishima station building		The track passes along the heights top.		Nigishima bay

The station which came down is an unmanned station of single track.
Under the station of heights, the private house stands the surroundings of a small fishing port and the inside of the bay.
Culture of seems to be a famous place.

A cat is not seen, although he walks for a while and it turns around on the south of a bay first of all.
It is begun to return the way to which it came to go to the north side. Then, the boy of the valiant features of elementary school return has addressed. Is a grade per smallness 4?

"... what is ?"
"Cat"
"If it is a cat, it is there in large numbers."
"Is it ?"

A black cat and are one animal to the entrance of the fish processing store to which the bridge was crossed.

"It is in Coco in large numbers, and is based on him."
"Thank you for the ."
"At , it is -. Kind deeds are and pleasant ."

It went away saying. you was murmured to and the sight of its back which become an important figure.


It spoke to .

"May I be allowed to take a picture of that - and a cat?"
"-- please photograph -- "

His wife answered comfortably.

If it comes out and begins to photograph instantly, food will be carved specially, or another cat is taken.
After taking a photograph about 20 minutes ...

"... somehow -- thank you, it carried out now seat "
"You can say, and can you say and are taking a picture of a cat?"
"Yes, it is the Internet."
Then, a master
"Is it H.P.? Ute's liked the cat and it was looked at in search of HP of a stray cat (also in case of his wife)."
"Since many animals are also in that back, please photograph."

The cat and others which plays		The neighborhood keeps and a cat also comes for play.		Fish dried whole of a Pacific saury

The back of a work place had become the bottom of the heights of a track exactly.
And in now, the fish dried whole of the Pacific saury of a season is hanging down.

If his wife calls the name of a cat toward a hill top, the cat and others of the it pattern of the same white and black will have rushed one after another.

"Since it is wholly similar, my 6, my 7, and my 8 have been named."
"It keeps. Is it ?"
"Say, and it - Obtains and is all a stray cat."

Seemingly, there were many ancient times to the occupation handles and the stray cats treating a fish.
Seemingly the grandma who is a grandmother was a cat lover, and it has settled down, while when is giving food.
It is said that this cat and others and the dried food currently dried are not simply caught by any means.
There is such a place in a cat ...

What the fish dried whole of a Pacific saury be consumed for if I am allowed to take a photograph for about 1 hour and it is going to leave.
It was delicious although eaten for the first time. Although it will seemingly dry and eat until it becomes a tick tick with this background
It is said that it is nice that oil remains in a little trade.
Furthermore, I have received the rice cake covered with sweet bean of sesame, the dried fish seasoned with mirin of a shark, etc.

Fish dried whole of an incredibly nice Pacific saury		sesame -- skinning		It has experience of a traffic accident.

I had you consent to sudden impossible photography, and had you carry out to a warm reception further, and he keenly realized "this world is tender feeling."
It is the cat who entertained the edge.

Symbiosis with Cats and a man -
I am beginning to wish to think little by little.

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