300 Mickey mice vol.2

A week stay in Taketomi Island of Okinawa was passing almost half. I took a sightseeing carriage with buffalo. The young guide plays the sanshin guitar very well so as talking. When we were passing a house, he added the explanation "The resident of this house is the oldest man in this island. He usually sleeps on the terrace in the afternoon. How's today? He isn't there. You see? I think it's too early for sleep"
Sounds interesting. But I thought. "Is it OK that the private life becomes the subject for sightseeing?" On the stand point of resident, it's quite common that tourist's eyes came into a private life. Not only for a festival, from an entertainment meeting for elder people to a graduation ceremony of junior high school, the tourists joined as spectators. And the residents seemed to accustom to the situation.

I don't think it's a bad thing. But whenever I got across these situation, I thought that the border line between public and private was not clear in Taketomi. However, I noticed something later. It's not "unclear" but the border itself lined in deferent position. The real life of Taketomi residents are placed much more inside than shown up.

For me, Taketomi was one of the most difficult place for taking photo. Unless every thing was shown up and 250 thousands tourists took photos, I couldn't get into behind it.

However, think about it again. I don't need to know inside of Mickey mouse. "Why can't I just enjoy it for attraction?" With thinking like that, I'm getting feel that I am a really perverse person.