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数年前の夏、外出からの帰りに、家のすぐ近くまで来て、飛び立つ鳥の羽音になにげなく目をあげると、黒いトタン屋根の上に、思いがけないものを見た。あざやかなオレンジ色の大輪の花が五つ六つ、とつぜんに、という感じでそこに出現していたのである。 それがのうぜんかずらの花で、高い松の木の梢にまつわって咲いているのだということはすぐわかったけれど、毎日通るこの道で、今までこの花にぜんぜん気がつかなかったというのがわからない。首をかしげながら二、三歩あるくと、隣家の屋根にさえぎられて、花はたちまち見えなくなる。おやおや、と思ってさっきの地点までひきかえし、花から目をはなさずさらに二、三歩あともどりすると、屋根の角度が微妙にかかわってくるらしく、花はまたもや視界から消えた。はじめに花に気づいた地点を中心にして、その前後ほんの数歩の範囲だけが、その花の見える指定席だったのである。（杉みき子「バックミラーには魔法がかかっている」『がんぎの町から』偕成社による）
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English
One summer a few years ago, on my way home from an outing, just as I got very close to my house, the sound of a bird taking flight made me casually look up, and I saw something unexpected on a black corrugated iron roof. Five or six large, vivid orange flowers had suddenly appeared there, or so it felt. I immediately realized that they were trumpet vine flowers, blooming tangled in the treetop of a tall pine tree, but I couldn't understand how I had never noticed these flowers before on this road I walk every day. As I walked two or three steps while tilting my head in wonder, the flowers instantly vanished, blocked by the roof of the neighboring house. Surprised, I returned to the previous spot, and stepping back two or three steps further without taking my eyes off the flowers, they vanished from sight once again, seemingly due to a subtle shift in the angle of the roof. It turned out that the area of just a few steps back and forth, centered around the spot where I first noticed the flowers, was the only reserved seat from which they could be seen. (From "The Rearview Mirror is Magical" by Mikiko Sugi, From the Gangi Town, Kaiseisha)
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Question 1【問い】「それ」は何をさしているか。
