【EN】 Shooting Star

By Senon Wakamiya
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Reading a Man’s Life as a Universe
A human life is never just a timeline.
Moments scattered across decades suddenly align,
a line connects them,
a dot becomes a star,
and the stars form a constellation.

This is the star map
of one man
whose universe began in a small town in Mie, Japan.

🌟 Center Star — The Cradle Called Mie

At the center lies the land where he was born and raised.
A rural town scented with fields and wind.
It was also the home where his grandfather—
a survivor of battleships and hell—
returned only to raise ten younger siblings with his own hands.

This land is a rare “confluence zone”
where sea, steel, and prayer coexist.

His constellation begins here.

🌌 North Star — The Blue-Born Girl

To the north stands a girl from Aomori.
She lived quietly in Yokohama,
yet she became the “north pole of his awakening.”

The words she spoke,
the traces she left behind,
the shape of her absence—
all of it still blows into his life like a northern wind.

She remains
the North of his sensibility.

🔥 South Star — The Iron-Willed Reader, a Son of Kyushu

In the south lives a man who left Kyushu alone for Kobe.
He studied mechanical design,
walked through steel plants around the world,
and could finish entire books while standing on a packed train.

Stubborn. Fierce. Gentle. Quiet.

That temperament passed through his daughter

the woman who would become this man’s wife—
and settled into the man himself,
and into his son as well.

The southern star is a gravity-like intelligence
that illuminates his life.

🌒 West Star — The Man Who Once Died in Kyoto and Setouchi

For him, the west is the land
where his youth burned out once and for all.

An apartment in Kyoto.
A small bookshop near Ginkaku-ji.
The brutal days in Fukuyama, Hiroshima.

He “died” many times there,
and was “saved” many times by writing.

The Setouchi wind
is death and resurrection wrapped into a single memory.

The west sank him deeply—
and floated him back to the surface again.

🌊 East Star — The Sea and the Future Opening Ahead

To the east lies the sea.
Yokohama, Yokosuka, Ise Bay, Toba.

For reasons beyond logic,
his children are now walking paths that lead to ships and oceans—
as if the “naval blood” of his grandfather
and the “world-roaming blood” of the Kyushu engineer
had returned in a new shape for a new age.

The east has always been
the door of the future.

✨ Milky Way — The River of Writers and Music Above Him

Above him flows a constant Milky Way:

The scorching prose of Kenji Nakagami
The rhythm and laughter of Machida Kō
The shadow of Maro (Karim)
The quiet madness of Takeshi Kitano
The lucid rebellion of Ryuichi Sakamoto
Yuming, Kirinji, Bossa Nova, Okinawan folk songs…

These were not “influences.”
They were his bloodstream.

🌠 Constellation — When the Dots Begin to Connect

The blue of the north
The iron of the south
The death and rebirth of the west
The sea of the east
The cradle of Mie at the center

They appear distant.
But in truth, they connect
in one elegant line.

As if it had always been arranged that way.

Life is not a straight road.
But if you look back,
you find that every point lay in the exact place it needed to be.

Stars are always placed
so that one day they can be connected.

And now—
this man has finally begun
to trace those lines himself.

SENON ARCHIVE -まとめのまとめ-

Contents (EN)
① Gogyouka (Five-Line Poems)
② Transformation Begins in the Body (walking / meals / notebook)
③ Sergei (dialogue series)
④ Dialogues & Inner Comedy
⑤ Declaration / Meta

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