良寛椿を“100年後”へつなぐ——玉島高校×良寛椿の会×メタバース授業、始動
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- 11月15日
- 読了時間: 6分
倉敷市玉島・円通寺に残る「良寛椿」は、樹齢約200年の白玉椿です。 良寛上人が若き日を修行で過ごした同寺のそばに静かに立ち、地域の方々が「良寛椿の会」を発足し保存に取り組んでいます。 この度、その文化を保存を推進する良寛椿の会の皆様のご要望を受け、岡山県立玉島高校の生徒たちが“100年後の良寛椿と玉島の景色”をメタバースで再現するプロジェクトがスタートしました。 当社では、学校側に専門講師が不在という課題に対し、岡山県教育委員会からのご案内で、制作・技術指導の講師として伴走しています。 ▷ ryokan-tsubaki.com+1
玉島—砂州（さす）から港町へ、そして防災の知恵へ
倉敷市玉島はもともと海だった土地が江戸期に大規模な干拓で開かれ、さらに「高瀬通し」という運河整備によって港町として繁栄しました。 綿の集散で栄え、北前船とも交易した歴史は、今に続く町並みに刻まれています。 一方で、明治17年の高潮など水害の経験も重く、地域の災害史とともに生きてきた土地でもあります。 私たちは、「良寛椿」保存への貢献と共に、地域の地形や文化、歴史をVRの技術で再現、地域の防災教育にも活かせるコンテンツ制作を指導しています。 ▷ 玉島は昔海だった（倉敷市）
地域の高校生がつくる“100年後”——学びを社会実装へ
玉島高校では「良寛椿の森VR再現プロジェクト」が立ち上がり、ワークステーションを活用して“100年後の森や町の姿”を3Dで表現する探究が進行中です。
生徒主体活動の一環として、地域の実課題に向き合う実践型の学びが展開されています。
私達の提案する授業設計
調べる：円通寺・良寛椿の史資料、玉島港の歴史、過去の水害記録を収集し、地域の来歴とリスクを把握します。
つくる：境内や森の現況をフォトグラメトリ等で3D化し、3DCG/Unityでメタバース空間を構築。複数の将来シナリオで“100年後”の景観・植生の変化を可視化します。
伝える：一般公開用の体験版と、学校間連携・地域イベント向けの展示版を制作し、寄付や植樹ボランティアと連動した参加の導線を設計します。
良寛上人の歌「形見とて 何か残さむ 春は花 夏ほととぎす 秋はもみじ葉」を手がかりに、四季の移ろいを体験型コンテンツへと翻訳して参ります。
当社のこれまでの取り組みとの“親和性”
地域×XRの教材化：当社は「体験が意識を変え、行動を生み、習慣になる」設計を軸に、行政・大学・医療機関と連携した災害体験VRや感染症対策VRを展開してきました。
本件でも、地域資源の保存（良寛椿）と地域防災のアップデートを“体験”で橋渡しします。
学術連携の設計力：これまでの大学連携（行動変容の検証、避難所運営の再現、医療現場での手技訓練など）で培ったエビデンス思考を、高校の探究学習に落とし込み、記録・検証可能な制作フロー（要件定義→モデリング→体験評価）を提供します。
地域実装の経験値：自治体イベント・常設展示・貸出運用まで見据え、つくって終わりにしない社会実装型の展開（公開・保存・更新）を設計します。
今後の予定
良寛椿の会による次回の植樹祭の時期に合わせ、成果の一般公開と回遊型の展示（円通寺〜町並み保存地区）を検討しています。
EN Passing the “Ryokan Tsubaki” on to the Next 100 Years — Tamashima High School × Ryokan Tsubaki Association × Metaverse Classes Begin
The “Ryokan Tsubaki” standing by Entsu-ji Temple in Tamashima, Kurashiki City, is a white camellia tree estimated to be around 200 years old.Quietly rooted beside the temple where the monk Ryokan spent his youth in training, it is now cared for by local residents who have formed the “Ryokan Tsubaki Association” to preserve it.
In response to a request from the members of this association, who are promoting the preservation of this cultural asset, a new project has started in which students of Okayama Prefectural Tamashima High School will recreate “the Ryokan Tsubaki and the scenery of Tamashima 100 years from now” in the metaverse.Our company was introduced to the school by the Okayama Prefectural Board of Education to address the lack of specialized instructors, and we are accompanying the project as lecturers providing production and technical guidance.
The Ryokan Tsubaki, now kept in a planter, growing alongside the students.
Scenes from the project: our development team provides instruction in Blender and Unity.
Tamashima — From Sandbar to Port Town, and a Source of Disaster-Prevention Wisdom
Tamashima in Kurashiki City was originally part of the sea, but was opened up through large-scale land reclamation in the Edo period and later prospered as a port town thanks to the development of the “Takase-doshi” canal.Its history as a distribution hub for cotton and as a trading port with Kitamaebune coastal ships is still reflected in today’s townscape.At the same time, the area has also suffered from water-related disasters, including a major storm surge in 1884 (Meiji 17), and has long lived side by side with its own disaster history.
Through this project, we aim not only to contribute to the preservation of the “Ryokan Tsubaki”, but also to recreate the region’s topography, culture, and history using VR technology, and to guide the students in creating content that can be used for local disaster education.
▷ “Tamashima Used to Be the Sea” (Kurashiki City)
“100 Years from Now” Created by Local High School Students — From Learning to Social Implementation
At Tamashima High School, the “Ryokan Tsubaki Forest VR Reconstruction Project” has been launched. Using a workstation environment, students are exploring how to represent in 3D what the forest and town might look like 100 years from now.
As part of a student-led initiative, they are engaging in hands-on learning that tackles real issues in their local community.
Our Proposed Lesson Design
Research:Students collect historical materials on Entsu-ji and the Ryokan Tsubaki, the history of Tamashima Port, and records of past flood and storm disasters, in order to understand the background and risks of the region.
Create:They capture the current state of the temple grounds and surrounding forest in 3D using photogrammetry and other methods, then build a metaverse environment with 3DCG and Unity. Multiple future scenarios are used to visualize how the landscape and vegetation might change “100 years from now.”
Communicate:They produce a general-public demo version and an exhibition version for inter-school collaboration and local events, and design pathways for participation that connect to activities such as donations and tree-planting volunteering.
Taking inspiration from Ryokan’s poem about leaving the flowers of spring, the cuckoos of summer, and the maple leaves of autumn as his legacy, we will translate the changing of the seasons into experiential content.
Synergy with Our Past Initiatives
Local Communities × XR as Educational Content:Our company has developed disaster-experience VR and infection-control VR in collaboration with governments, universities, and medical institutions, based on the design principle that “experience changes awareness, awareness leads to action, and action becomes habit.”In this project as well, we will use experiential content to bridge between the preservation of a local asset (the Ryokan Tsubaki) and the updating of local disaster preparedness.
Designing for Academic Collaboration:Drawing on the evidence-based approach we have cultivated through university collaborations to date — such as verifying behavior change, recreating evacuation shelter operations, and training medical procedures in clinical settings — we apply this mindset to high school inquiry-based learning and provide a production workflow that can be recorded and evaluated (requirements definition → modeling → experience evaluation).
Experience in Real-World Deployment:With an eye toward municipal events, permanent exhibitions, and lending operations, we design a social-implementation-oriented rollout (publication, preservation, and updating) so the project does not end with simply “making” the content.
Next Steps
We are considering the general public release of the project outcomes and a walking-style exhibition route (from Entsu-ji Temple to the preserved historical townscape district), timed to coincide with the next tree-planting festival organized by the Ryokan Tsubaki Association.
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