Masafumi Nagasaki bid his old home in the city a final farewell before heading back to continue his 30-year journey to Sotobanari Island in the Sakishima islands. Why did he leave the city and love living on the island at the age of 87? The main reason behind it is his love for nature and hate for modern civilization. His love is only one, and that is Sotobanari Island.
The island is tiny, about a thousand yards of vegetated land without running water. And, it has one human inhabitant, he is Nagasaki. He is now an eighty-two-year-old man. His full name is Masafumi Nagasaki. He has been there for almost three decades. His distinguished journey started in 1989 and ended in 2018. The reason behind the end of his journey in 2018 was that he was found ill lying on the shore, found by police. A few months ago, a coronavirus outbreak occurred. He was unable to resist the police, and they admitted Nagasaki to a nearby hospital. He was first featured by Vice News as “Japan’s Naked Island Hermit”.
Sotobanari island is nearly, 2000 km from Tokyo. Nagasaki thinks that in this crowded world, it is difficult to learn a new thing daily. He has his tent on the island, and his most favourite activities are like roaming in the jungle, listening to his favourite channels on the radio, fishing, and doing some yoga. For living, he gets his groceries by boat. It is his family that sends him around $10,000. Isn’t this love enough for an old man from his family? They have given such freedom to an old man. Masafumi keeps his groceries in the glass bottles and covers them with cotton clothes to avoid further mice attacks.
The modern lifestyle keeps us from visiting doctors at least once a year and varies as per the patient to patient and mostly depends upon his or her immune system. However, Nagasaki has already lived there for three decades without a doctor’s assistance and consultation. What surviving techniques he has developed are recommendable to everyone. In Indian Vedic literature, one of the techniques of Nagasaki is popular. Therefore, no one hardly uses it in urban societies. Most of the experts say that through eating, many people get sick. Thus, what Nagasaki uses as a trick to avoid getting sick is simple and easy.
His daily gargle habits win him every time. He also claims that he does gargle when someone visits him, as well as when visiting a new place on the island. Salt water saved him many times from getting sick. However, gargling with seawater is what he used to do. Therefore, we can also adapt this practice whenever we return from shopping or return back to home. We must follow this exercise. We can’t get seawater, but we can easily make salt water at home.
I’m better off without any medicine
Masafumi Nagasaki
Nagasaki believes that if you start having something, you end up relying on it. If there is a medicine to cure a particular disease, then we rely on medicine. Everyone knows that depending on medicine has adverse effects on the human body. It is best to avoid it. This nude hermit does not take any medicine, and clean without any viruses except his recent hospitalization in 2018
When Nagasaki was a young man, he worked as a photographer. This creative gene had come to him as his father was a well-known photographer too. He was the eldest son in his family. But why did he quit photography? It has a hidden meaning. However, he has revealed the secret behind why he stopped clicking the photographs. In the interview with Vice News, he told the correspondent the facts. He still remembers the last day he gave up photography. It was on August 9th. The day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki The 9th August is celebrated as the Anniversary of Nagasaki to promote peace politics and raise awareness of the effects of the bomb attack.
Furthermore, what was his reason for leaving beautiful modern societies behind and deciding to live on the island? He also revealed that fact to us. In his adulthood, he used to travel by plane. He could see Seto Island from the sea like someone painted it with waste. This was back 20 years ago. Now it has muddy lines. Industrial pollutants are one of the major sources of pollution, according to Musafumi. When he was back in his city during the coronavirus, he couldn’t adjust himself to his congested room because of the area of the limited feet. He also used to walk on the road to pick up the garbage. He soon realized that this was not a place he wished to live in. Thus, he soon took a final farewell to his native place and flew back to his island with the help of his best friend, Jun Aoki.
The most important thing in everyone’s life is peace, and thus, Nagasaki was searching for the one. After his extensive research, he finally found his dream place until he dies, which is the one and only Sotobanari island, where peace would be his companion forever. When Nagasaki eats fish, oysters, or something like that, he always apologizes. However, it is not a sin; it is natural providence. Therefore, human call it “nature’s blessing” However, Nagasaki says, it is not. It is a life you are eating.
Nagasaki is the one who has rare human qualities. One could find a helping and caring attitude toward nature. We, as humans, must find something with unique qualities that could help both man and nature.
