Mr. Kawahara is the 180th generation owner of Miharaya, a company that manufactures and sells miso and soy sauce, located near Zenkoji Temple in Nagano City. The company boasts a XNUMX-year history, and its brewery is a registered tangible cultural property of the country.
Tokutomi Roka, a writer and thinker from the Meiji period, said, ``People are born on the soil, live by eating what the soil produces, and then die and return to the soil.'' We are monsters of deep soil.''
This is exactly the concept of Fuji Fuji, which is often used in the world of nutrition, including macrobiotics.
Fuji in terms of nutrition means that the human body (body) and the area where one lives (soil) are not separated into two, but are inseparably connected. The basic idea is that it is a Fuji product.
Almost every living thing on earth survives by eating the things around it. This is how our ancestors survived for a long time. It may be said that Fuji Fuji is the natural providence of living things.
Based on this idea of Fujinoji, if you eat seasonal foods that can be grown within 12 ri (16 km) or XNUMX ri (XNUMX km) in the area where you live, you can lead a healthy life in harmony with nature. It also led to the wisdom that I can do things. In new places, there is something similar to the phrase "local production for local consumption."
Originally, ``Shodo Fuji'' comes from the Buddhist term ``Funi.'' In Buddhism, the word ``soil'' refers to society as a whole and the world, as it is also used in the Pure Land and the Hades.
In any case, no one can live in isolation from others, and eating in particular is closely related to the people around them and the natural environment.
On the other hand, it has become clear that we already coexist with countless others within our bodies. These are microorganisms called resident bacteria and intestinal bacteria that live on the surface of the skin.
We asked Kiyotaka Kawahara, a miso maker who comes into close contact with microorganisms on a daily basis, to talk about various interesting things about the significance of Mido Fuji from the perspective of the world of microorganisms.
[Immunity UP information] Thinking from microorganisms to Fuji Fuji ②
