Fujii, Kenichiro
Background
When he was in elementary school, he said coolly, “I want to live away from my parents,” and ruined his youth by living in a dormitory at a boy’s junior and senior high school in Shizuoka Prefecture. Later, under the advice of his parents, who said that “the best place to study is in a good living environment,” he came back to life at a university in Kyushu (Faculty of Letters), where the cost of living was low, the food was delicious (long live Tonkotsu Ramen), the hot springs were nearby, the people were nice, and the girls were cute.
He has been a member of a mountaineering club since he was a university student and has traverse the mountains of Kyushu such as the Kokonoe mountain range (Oita) and Mt. Miyanoura (Yakushima, Kagoshima), as well as the northern and southern Alps, but perhaps because of the geography of Kyushu, he is more attracted to the allure of low mountain trekking than peak attacks.
He also hitchhiked around Japan, but forgot to go to Shikoku, so he decided to make the pilgrimage to Shikoku, and in March 1999, he completed the pilgrimage in March with a laptop computer, which was very popular at the time (in his mind), and posted the pictures of the pilgrimage on his website. This was the first step in a life of being introduced in newspapers, on TV, on the radio, etc., as “a pilgrim equipped with a cybernetic equipment”, etc., and it was the first step in a life of “feeling the pleasure of being called “strange”.
This was the first step in a life of being called “strange”.
Internet media will be very lucrative, yes.
When I told you what I was talking about.
“We specialize in foreign countries (at the time), so why don’t you go overseas for a while? India’s a good place to start.
So the next week I went to the consulate in Osaka to get a visa, and a few days later I descended alone to India.
In India, there were fights, jumping off the night train, bathing in the Ganges, etc.
Oh, I’m not afraid of anything else.
I returned home with a half-realization.
When I brought a souvenir to the H company to thank them for recommending India to me, I was in the middle of taking an employment examination.
The company invited me to join them, and I took the exam and joined the company.
I spent about 2 years of working life, but I couldn’t stop myself from wanting to go on a trip in the mountains…
‘I’m really sorry, the mountains are calling me,’
I said and left the company.
After that, he was allowed to stay at the Tengaron Hut pension in Norikura Kogen for about a year, and it was here that he discovered the joy of playing with snow for the first time.
Life is fun when you miss the mark.
I’m not sure if this is the reason why I decided to try snowshoeing (western style), which allows you to stride around the snowfield, rather than skiing on the slopes, and enjoy the snowfields of the Norikura Kogen.
She also tried telemark skiing, which she saw in Norway during a backpacking trip to Europe (Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Scandinavia) a few years ago.
In the spring of 2001, I had the good fortune to start living in the southern foothills of the Yatsugatake Mountains. During this time, he attended Keeper’s Association interpreters’ camps and avalanche courses, learned to be a Nature Game and amp;CONE leader, and received special training in health and safety (large diameter tree felling and mowing).
In the winter of the same year, while living in a tent on the snowfields of Tateshina, the owner of an inn in Tateshina found me and asked me to join him.
Owner: “What are you doing?
Fujiken: “I live in a tent.
Owner: “…
Since 2007, he has been offering trekking and kayaking programs from spring to autumn and snowshoeing in winter as Hitoikiso. His “Moonlight Snowshoe” program, which is only available on nights with a full moon, has been introduced in many media, including the national edition of NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), as a new attraction to nature.
As a reporter for a local newspaper, he is well versed in the local news, and also writes for air-BE-PAL, the email magazine of BE-PAL, an outdoor magazine published by Shogakukan (no longer in print), as well as a magazine column.
In 2003, he completed the 800-km Santiago, Spain pilgrimage route, one of the three major Christian pilgrimage sites and a World Heritage site.
In August 2012, as part of the Great East Japan Earthquake relief efforts, he trekked the 150 km pilgrimage route with high school students from Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture.
From 2013 to 2016, he guided several hundred kilometers of rotten customers along the same pilgrimage route each year, and in his final year at the age of 79, he pushed a wheelchair and completed approximately 200 kilometers of the pilgrimage.
In the spring of 2019, he is planning to ride part of the same pilgrimage route by bicycle with his family of four (me, my wife, my son 1 @ 2nd grade, and my son 2 @ 3 years old).
