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Captivated by the continuous one-shot column “ ” Final/8th Captivated by Fumiyoshi Hattori’s “Prey”

連続読み切りコラム『  』の虜 最終回/第8回  服部文祥『獲物』の虜

Prisoner of “prey”

I keep chickens. Our house is built on a slope in Yokohama, so we let our cats roam free during the day. By chance, I received another chicken. Apparently, he was raised in a chicken coop, and when he first came to our house, he only ate mixed feed. Apparently, the free-range chickens were unable to recognize the garbage, insects, and earthworms they were eating as food. Chickens also think and learn. They don't eat caterpillars or stink bugs, and they approach you when you're chopping firewood or plowing the field. They know that there are delicious insects in the firewood and in the soil. Humans are the same. When my son was four years old in the spring, I said to him, ``Let's go get fukinotou,'' and he said, ``Oh, that's right there,'' and took me to the place he went to the year before. Children will never forget the experience of catching prey.

hunting with son

I think even when I'm hunting. The most important thing to think about is the feelings of the prey. How do you feel about the weather that day and how do you act? I imagine it from the footprints and droppings left at hunting grounds. It's like trying to become prey. The chickens, the children, and I all use our minds and concentrate to get food. That's simply because it's interesting. In order to obtain food, living things make full use of their thinking power, use their bodies, and find it enjoyable to obtain and eat food.

But what do you think? Isn't modern society changing so that physical activities directly related to food procurement are becoming less and less? Don't humans lock themselves up in the same way we lock chickens in chicken coops? I don't want to eat only compound feed. Catch your own food. I am a prisoner of prey.

Hattori Bunsho
Born in Yokohama in 1969, raised in Yokohama. Climber, writer. They engage in survival mountaineering by climbing mountains without modern equipment as much as possible and procuring food locally. His recent publications include ``Introduction to Survival Mountaineering'' and ``Tundra Survival.'' Mountain magazine “Gakujin” editorial staff

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