初代 佐伯宗作                 昭和9年剱岳山頂にて 
The First; Sousaku Saeki       At the top of Mt.Tsurugi 1934             

                              
             我が家の初代、佐伯宗作。宗作は、昭和10年5月4日立山地獄谷で亜硫酸ガス
           の吹き出す穴に転落した、後輩ガイドを救出するためその穴に飛び込み、救出はし
           たものの自らが力尽き命を失った。若干37歳であった。宗作の献身的な行為は、
           当時から高く賞賛され、戦後も小学校道徳の副読本に載せられた。

       Sousaku Saeki the first at my family. Sousaku dived into the hole to rescue a junior guide who havefallen to the hole where sulfuric acid gas spouts on the May 4th, 1935 at Tateyama Jigoku valley. He could rescue to the junior guide but he lost his life.
He was only 37 years old then. The noble act of Sousaku was applauded high by all of the persons in those days. Then, it was put on the sub chrestomathy of the junior high school morality after the war.
 


                                
                 若き日の宗作15歳当時           剱岳、八峰をガイドする宗作。昭和6年頃
            15 years old Sousaku the young day         Sousaku guides Mt.Tsurugi on around 1931

                        

                              
                                 
                       天狗平にて、昭和6年頃。子うさぎを抱く宗作
                       At Tengu field in Tateyama on around 1931


                          

宗作は又、名猟師でもあった。熊狩りからウサギ猟に至るまで名人と呼ばれた。捕らえた獲物は登山中の貴重な蛋白源。ガイド中の客人にもウサギ汁を振る舞った。昭和5年頃弘法小屋にて
    Sousaku was moreover a great hunter. He was called a master until it resulted in the cony hunt from the bear hunt. The taken game is a valuable foods into the mountaineering. The cony meat was entertained to his visitor.
At Khoubho Lodge on 1930



                           

       立山ガイドはスキーをいち早く登山に取り入れた。左側宗作、右は兄栄作。昭和7年頃の春山であろう。
Tateyama mountain guide introduced a ski to the mountaineering immediately. Left side Sousaku, the right side is his elder brother Eisaku. It will be a spring mountain around 1932.

                             
                初春の狩り山に熊を追う宗作。人津谷上部の稜線直下。昭和7年頃。
           Sousaku chases a bear to the coursing mountain in the early spring. −around 1932



                         
              ガイド見習いの佐伯吉二少年(左端)を連れて夏山ガイド中の宗作。
              吉二は、宗作の愛弟子で将来を嘱望され、宗作亡き後を継ぐのは
              吉二しか無いと言われたが、彼も又この時には予期もせぬ悲劇に
              出会う事となる。昭和4年頃。よもやま話し第7話 古老吉さん参照 
Sousaku in the mountain in summer guide with Kichiji boy (left end) who was a probation guide. Kichiji boy was the best pupil of Sousaku, and he was hopeful very nice boy. Everybody thought that the succession person of Sousaku is only Kichiji, but it gets to come across the traged of him, too. around 1929

                  

                          
  宗作は春夏秋冬を問わず、どんな難ルートでも立山をガイドした。超人的な体力と、野生的な天性の山の感は、今でも立山ガイドの語り草である。昭和4年初冬の剱岳山頂。

  Sousaku guided Tateyama in any difficulty route regardless of the spring summer autumn winter. His physical strength having to do with an overman and the sense on the mountain with wild nature are the subject on everyone's lips of Tateyama guide still now.  The top of Mt. Tsurugi in 1929 eraly winter



                     
                            別山山頂の社にて、昭和8年春。
                             On top of Mt. Bessan, -1933 spring.


                         
                        早春の弥陀ヶ原をガイドする宗作。昭和8年

                     Sousaku guides Mida fields in the early spring by ski -1933








昭和8年新築なった剱御前小舎。宗作は、後列左から2人目暗く
て見づらい。前列右より3人目の老婆は宗作の母。
又右より5人目の眼鏡の人が剱御前小舎の創立者佐伯義道で私の母方の祖父である。

Lodge Tsurugigozen which was built in 1933. Sousaku is 2nd from the back row left. It is difficult to see. The 3rd gammer from the fromt row right is the mother of Sousaku. The 5th person with glass from the right is the establishment person Gidho Saeki of Lodge Tsurugigozen. And he is my mother side grandfather.




宗作は昭和9年、京都大学白頭山遠征隊に選抜された。
この遠征隊は日本で最初の海外遠征登山隊であり、又初
の極地方登山を試みた事でも有名であるが、メンバーも
西堀栄三郎や今西錦治と言うこの後の山岳界をリードする事となる人々で、宗作は、彼らの期待を裏切ることなく、
超人的な働きを見せ立山ガイドの名を不動のものとした。
昭和9年白頭山BC.にて。

Sousaku was selected by the Kyoto university Mt. Pekto expedition party in 1934. This expedition party was the first overseas expedition climbing party in Japan and also it is famous to have tried the first poles way climbing. The member, Eizaburo Nishibori , Kinji Imanishi were the people who get to head of the mountaineering world in Japan after this. And Sousaku showed his great power in this expedition without betraying their expectations.
At Mt. Pekto BC.-1934








厳冬期の白頭山山頂。右端が宗作。

この登山は、シベリア寒気団が頭上に来て、氷点下48度(摂氏) が記録されたという。     

The top of Mt. Pekto in the winter 1934
The right end is Sousaku.
It says that the Siberia cold air party came onto the head and that 48 degrees ( the centigrade ) under the freezing point were recorded about this mountaineering.       












                            
                             帰国後京都大学の学生に囲まれて
                    Being surrounded by the student in Kyoto university after home-returning
     この登山から帰国してわずか数ヶ月後、我が家の初代佐伯宗作は、劇的な最後を遂げ、立山に逝った。
   だから二代目の宗弘には、父親の記憶が僅かしかないと言う。が、二代目もやはり立山に生きている
     It returned home from this mountaineering and only several months later, Sousaku achieved the     dramatic last and died at Tateyama. Therefore, 2nd era in my family Munehiro, he has not so much his   father's memorization. But he lives at Mt. Tateyama too.


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