富士見高原ミュージアム

ここ富士見町で、素晴らしい出会いがあった。富士見町コミュニティ・プラザの2階に「高原ミュージアム」がある。富士見高原には、明治期より多くの文豪や歌人があつまり、文学、詩歌・俳句などが数多く生まれました。アララギ派をはじめとし、富士見高原を舞台に数多くの作品が創作されました。その中でも、尾崎喜八、田山花袋、宇野浩二、田宮虎彦、唐木順三、井伏鱒二、伊藤左千夫、斎藤茂吉、長塚節、堀辰雄など多くの文豪が集まっていました。その足跡を一堂に集め展示されているのです。文学をこよなく愛するものであれば、知らぬ名前の人はいない。そのかれらが、ここ富士見高原に集まり歌会を開くなどしていた。

富士見高原病院、かつては不治の病だった結核患者の療養所（サナトリウム）として機能させるため、八ヶ岳山麓の空気清浄なこの地に設けられました。文学の素養にも秀でた初代院長・正木俊二（筆名：正木不如丘）の交友関係から、堀辰雄・竹久夢二・横溝正史らの文人もここで療養生活を送ったことでしられています。堀辰雄の婚約者矢野綾子も療養中に此処でなくなっている。2012年10月には病棟のあった場所で6階建て新病棟の起工式が行われ、 旧病棟の展示資料や建物の一部は富士見高原医療福祉センター内に保存されています。

文学を愛し、富士見高原を愛した人々の歴史が此処にあります。帰り道、純文学の本が読みたい。そんな気持ちが、再炎してきた、そんな一日でした。

Here in Fujimi-cho, I had a wonderful visit. On the second floor of the Fujimi-cho Community Plaza is the Fujimi Plateau Museum. Fujimi Plateau has been home to many great writers and poets since the Meiji period (1868-1912), and many works of literature, poetry, and haiku were born here. Many works, including those of the Araragi school, were created in the Fujimi Plateau. Among them were Kihachi Ozaki, Katai Tayama, Koji Uno, Torahiko Tamiya, Junzo Karaki, Masuji Ibushi, Sachio Ito, Mokichi Saito, Takashi Nagatsuka, Tatsuo Hori, and many other great writers. Their footprints are gathered and exhibited in one place. If you are a great lover of literature, there is no one whose name you do not know. They used to gather here at Fujimi Plateau and hold poetry gatherings.

Fujimi Plateau Hospital was established in the clean air of the Yatsugatake Mountains to serve as a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, a disease that was once incurable. The first director of the hospital, Shunji Masaki (pen name: Masaki Fujokyu), who was also a literary genius, is well known for his friendship with literary figures such as Hori Tatsuo, Takehisa Yumeji, and Yokomizo Seishii, who spent their convalescent lives here. Tatsuo Hori's fiancée, Ayako Yano, also died here while recuperating.

In October 2012, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for a new six-story hospital ward at the site of the former ward, and some of the exhibits and buildings from the old ward are preserved in the Fujimi Plateau Medical Welfare Center.

The history of people who loved literature and loved Fujimi Plateau is here. On the way home, I wanted to read a book of pure literature. It was such a day that such a feeling has been re-inflamed!