■著者紹介

渡辺景吾（わたなべけいご）
1953年長野県上田市に生まれ、横浜市で育つ。鶴見神社幼稚園卒。明治大学商学部卒。

1976 年から10年間の経営武者修行の後、1986 年国際物流会社を創業し、2019年に引退。

現在は横浜市在住の年金生活者。現在はメダカの繁殖（紅白ラメの新種改良で儲ける）、エイジランのキープ（10キロを年齢の分数で走る: 67 歳なら67分で走る）、釣り（60センチのヒラメを海岸からルアーで釣る）、小説を書く（原稿用紙800 枚を書き上げる）、アクリル画を描く（描きかけの千手観音像を仕上げる）などを70 歳までの目標とし、他にも海岸で貝を拾ったり、古い鬼瓦を集めたり、多数の道楽に夢中になっている。

KEIGO WATANABE AUTHOR
Keigo Watanabe was born in 1953 in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture and grew up in Yokohama.

He graduated from Tsurumi Shrine's kindergarten and went on to finish his higher education by getting his degree in commercial science at Meiji University. After ten years honing his business management skills, he went on to found an international logistics company in 1986, which he led up to his retirement in 2019 after a highly successful career. He is currently a pensioner living in Yokohama but has many diverse hobbies which occupy his time. He's into breeding medaka (Japanese killifish) and spends time trying make a fortune breeding a new kind of red and white killifish. An avid jogger, one of his goals is to run ten kilometers in 67 minutes, a time commensurate with his age 67 (age - run : 70 minutes / age 70). Another of his passions is fishing and one goal is to catch a flatfish of at least sixty centimeters from the shore while using a lure. He also has an ambition to write his own novel of at least 800 pages and to paint acrylic pictures to finish painting the picture of the "Thousand Armed Goddess of Mercy" by the time he's seventy in 2023. In addition, he is eager to collect seashells and gargoyles.