What is a birthing house?
There are about six maternity houses left in Japan, all of which are built on stilts except for the one in Obara.
The maternity house built by the Kawai River in my hometown of Obara is a pit. It is a Jomon-style maternity house.
The thatched roof grows out of the ground. Why do we use the character (word) "root" for the roots below the ground, when "roof" is the topmost part of the house? This question, from an elementary school student who participated in a camping event at the Ohara Branch School I hosted (^◇^;). Why? Answer -> "Because in the old Jomon period houses, the roofs grew out of the earth. I see!
In the ancient times (Jomon period), grass, trees, animals, people, and houses were firmly rooted in the earth, connected to the soil that gave birth to life, and lived in gratitude.
Roots are invisible, but they are the source of all living things. It is the source of power, strength, and chi. Humans began to live with disregard for it. The idea of "precious things," "defiled things," "eugenic thinking," and "elective thinking" have already appeared in the Chronicles of Japan and the Kojiki. The gods of the ancient era fought with each other all the time, and even Emperor Jinmu was an aggressor if we look at him dispassionately.
I assume that from the time when a strong male-dominated world was established, where women, childbirth, and soil were considered unclean and victory was won, the place where noble people lived must have been on stilts. This is just my own speculation.
People are born from the earth and return to the earth.
We have come to believe that the beginning of the soul is when it gives birth to the world with an "ogah," and that the end of all things is death when it draws its last breath. Death, the end of all things, has been an abomination.
Maybe the soul lives on when we put ourselves in the midst of nature? I feel that it is. People in the past were born on the earth and lived in the great outdoors with gratitude. Perhaps now is the time to remember the activities of people in the past, who believed that people are part of nature. Maybe wisdom will flow to people from there.
Could it be unnatural to be born in a hospital and die in a hospital? No, it is absolutely unnatural!
In this modern age of science, people have created unnatural things and have been brainwashed to believe that this is a good thing because of scientific progress! We have been brainwashed to believe that this is a good thing! People today are born in unnatural things, live in unnatural things, and die in unnatural things. We have reached the limit of seeking a happy, shining life through science, rationality, convenience, and learning. Let us return to the original source.
In the Jomon period, a baby born from a mother's womb was gently and carefully laid on a mat made of straw. The baby, whose umbilical cord had been cut, must have felt relieved to be laid down on the mother earth! The reason why I think so is because, as a daughter of a farmer, I have experienced that indescribable sense of security and happiness when I lay down on the threshed straw after the drying of the rice plants and looked up at the sky. The smell of the straw, the autumn breeze, the earth, it was wonderful.
Fall" is also associated with negative images such as "abortion" and "fall," but "kozatohan" has fertility connotations such as "hill," "bulging place," "rich," "prosperous," and "fattening. And the sense of solidity and stability, "earth. The womb is the palace of the child. Mother Earth is the palace of all living things, plants, trees, insects, and people. I believe that Shinto rituals are the very life of living on the Miya.
People will also be rooted in Mother Earth and live with feeling and gratitude. Then the earth will be filled with joy without conflict. Shinto rituals and festivals at shrines are supposed to show how people should be to live happily on this earth. Perhaps people have been struggling since the time when a change of consciousness occurred, when the earth, the ground, and birth were considered unclean. People's dwellings became stilts, away from the earth, and now they are tower apartments. How far away from this wonderful palace do we live as rootless tengu? Isn't the mind "insecure" without security and stability? It is said that the number and type of bacteria in the intestinal flora of a person's stomach and in the soil of the land where the person lives are the same. I don't know if this is true or not, but I was convinced by the fact that it fell into my stomach.
本当かも？
だって両方とも「宮」ですもの。
大原の竪穴式縄文産屋で出産経験者は、あまりにも居心地が良くて家に帰りたくなかった！と異口同音に言ったそうです。ず〜っと籠りたくなる場所だったようです。母の子宮のような場所だったんですね。きっと。「籠る」もネガティブなイメージに捉えられますが、しっかり「籠る」が出来た人は、安定した心持ちになれるような氣もします。子供がお腹に出来たことを私たち日本人は「身籠る」と言いますよね。自然の理なのかもしれません。
Could it be true?
Because both are "palaces".
Those who have given birth in Ohara's pit-style Jomon maternity house said they were so comfortable that they did not want to go home! They said unanimously that it was so comfortable that they didn't want to go home. It was a place they wanted to stay in forever. It was a place like a mother's womb. It must have been like a mother's womb. Kagome" can also be seen as a negative image, but I feel that those who are able to "Kagome" can have a stable mind. We Japanese call the birth of a child in the belly "Migomoru. Perhaps it is a natural reason.
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