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Who dreams can move mountains

Glasgow, April 1873. Henry Dyer is about to leave his native land, Scotland to Southampton awaits a ship for Japan. He knows that he will not feel the lack of green and gray skies and landscapes of Scotland because his classmate all'Anderson College, Yōzō Yama, assured him that they find it. What Dyer (a surname meaning "dyer") does not know is that its activities will trigger the transformations that permanently change the landscape itself in Japan and in some cases, literally, its hues.

twenty-five, Dyer has just graduated in engineering, has always been a brilliant student and, therefore, her teachers have shown a particularly challenging task. The new Japanese government has launched a plan to recruit foreign experts for the transfer of technologies needed to modernize the country. After the Restoration of imperial power in 1868 and the consequent end of the feudal system and the isolationist shogunate , came to power the most progressive members of the class of samurai . In 1863, when they were in their early twenties, five of them, from the city of Hagi, had managed to secretly leave the country to study in Britain. Ito Hirobumi, Inoue Kaoru, End ō Kinsuke Yakichi and Nomura would become, respectively, the Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Mint and the Director of Railways. The fifth group, Yamai Y ō z or would, as Deputy Minister of Public Works, the founder and Rector of Imperial College of Engineering T ō ky or, at whose graduates are largely due to the industrialization of the country.

On June 3, 1873, Yamai Y ō z in Japan or to welcome his friend Henry Dyer, who landed from the steamer British Avoca from Hong Kong. In the nearly two months of travel, Dyer has prepared the curriculum to be adopted by Imperial College of Engineering: based on teaching methods considered revolutionary at the time, the degree course will be developed over six years, the first two dedicated to the study General Engineering, followed by two years of specialized courses and two years of practice. To this end, Dyer was to build the workshops Akabane, who will become the largest in Japan. Yama Y ō z or accept unreservedly the plan in August, Dyer and their creature opens its doors and welcomes the first 56 students.

In 1883 a pupil of Dyer, Tanabe Sakura, just twenty-two, he discusses a visionary thesis: the channeling of the water of Lake Biwa, the largest freshwater basin in the country, from the village of Otsu up to Kyoto, which lies at an altitude of 40 meters below. Tanabe has resulted in an engineering project a dream that the people of Kyoto grow long, but a dream project and would be destined to remain unfulfilled if it had occurred in the meantime, an event historical negative in other ways: the move to T ō ō ky the capital of . This had provoked the crisis of traditional economic activities Ky ō to , which were largely attributable to the supply of luxury goods and consumables for the court and its employees. For years, municipal authorities tried to stimulate the recovery of the economy had created, for example, the municipal elementary schools and invested in professional craftsmen and artisans, but it was not enough. Now, the Governor of the Prefecture, Kitagaki Kunimichi, decided to focus on trade and industry, a channel linking Ky ō to to the Shiga Prefecture, is located in Lake Biwa, would increase the traffic of rice, coal, sake and ceramics and from Osaka, facilitate irrigation of crops and allow the construction of a hydroelectric plant can supply energy to new industries. Upon learning of the thesis of Tanabe, Kitagaki instructs him in May 1883, to direct the construction of the canal. The project begins to lose the consistency of dreams to take the wood and stone.

The first hurdle comes in the form of a purely mundane: the retrieval of the necessary funds, the municipal government plans to spend 1.25 million yen (equivalent to 10 billion € today) and must therefore supplement state funding with the imposition of new local taxes, to be decisive, will, however, the intervention of the Emperor, which will cover one third of the cost personally. Construction will begin in June 1885. To accomplish, Tanabe will have to use modern technology and ancient resources, combining the innovations of import and the Japanese tradition: the excavation of vertical shafts, the use of dynamite, building materials of wood and, more importantly, their zeal and labor of his workers. It is estimated that four million people have worked on the realization of it Channel, using only five years to finish: it is officially opened in 1890 and became operational the following year also Keage hydroelectric power plant on the eastern hills of Ky ō to. For its design, Tanabe was inspired by the central view in 1888 in Aspen, Colorado, during his stay in the United States.

As the water run through a 2436 meter long tunnel and over a drop of 36 feet, things that the boats could not do, always in the area is built Keage an inclined plane which allows boats to carry part of the journey by land, once loaded on a special trolley that moves on rails.

The availability of electricity and a convenient way of transporting goods to revitalize the economy Ky ō to: benefit the silk factories, the manufacture of tobacco products, chemical and mechanical birth of the first towns tramways and the electric railway to Fushimi, where blooms the production of sake. The urban landscape is radically altered and begins to take its present shape with the enlargement of the main roads, construction of new districts, new channels and their offshoots. The path that runs alongside one of them, in the east of the city, later became famous as the "walk of philosopher," because it was a favorite of Nishida Kitaro ō ; today is a tourist attraction, as well as the inclined plane: the channel, in fact, since the forties has lost the competition with new railway roads and rail vehicles for the transport of goods.

" Who dreams can move mountains 'is a phrase uttered by the protagonist of Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog. He, too, as Tanabe Sakura, would want to pass the boats where the mountains have always prevented and also (as, in reality, Herzog himself) is building an inclined plane to his ship. Fitzcarraldo attended the opera house in Manaus in the period in which, at the end of the nineteenth century, the city enjoys its economic boom thanks to the production of rubber and dreams of opening a theater for opera in the Amazon village where he lives, Tanabe is located in Aspen where, thanks to the 'silver mining, there is built a theater for the work.

Fitzcarraldo, however, unlike Tanabe, must come to a compromise with adverse natural conditions: renounce the construction of the theater and be content to hold the execution in his village de Bellini's I Puritani. Rather, it is Herzog who can bring together in Tanabe, as it is successful, spending four years and overcoming difficulties of all kinds, to complete the processing of the film that he dreamed of cruising. Perhaps, for them two more that we must speak of dreams Nozomi, a Japanese term meaning "desire," "hope" and also "challenge", to emphasize the link between the projects and the efforts necessary to their implementation. Not for nothing Nozomi is also the name of the most modern of high speed trains that, since the sixties, have revolutionized transportation and customs of the Japanese, but this is the story of another dream .