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【葉隠ロック】今や「おとぎばなし」の観だからこそ。。。

”Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”(今日、という日は残りの人生の最初の日/チャールズ・ディードリッヒ  Charles Dederich) 「いつやるか?今でしょ」(林修) 「毎朝、毎夕、改めては死ぬ死ぬと、常住死身に成つてゐるときは、武道に自由を得、一生落度なく、家職を仕果すべきなり」(山本常朝)  最後は『葉隠』からの引用。  これを書いている現在、中東で戦争が続いている。一方、我が平和国家・日本はその報道と並んで、大谷翔平を筆頭に大リーガーが活躍中のWBCニュースに沸いている(ようだ)。  球宴も武士道も、もはやスタンドから眺める「おとぎばなし」なのかも知れない。。。 ************************************************** “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” — Charles Dederich “When will you do it? Now.” — Osamu Hayashi “Each morning and each evening, if one renews the thought of death and lives as though already dead, he gains freedom in the Way of the Samurai and, throughout his life, will carry out his duty without fault.” — Yamamoto Tsunetomo The last quotation is from "Hagakure."     As I write this, war continues in the Middle East. Meanwhile, in my peaceful country of Japan, the news is filled—alongside those reports—with excitement over the World Baseball Classic, where Major League players led by Sh...

【美しさにご用心】朗誦詩『ゆきをんな』“Beware of Beautiful Things” — poem Yuki-onna(The Beautiful Woman)

  NHKの朝ドラに興味はないが、小泉八雲には興味があって、『怪談』収録の「雪女」をなんとか詩にしたいと考えていたところ、ふと思いついた。八雲のそれとは異なるが、「誘惑に負ける」という趣旨は共通点あり、と思われ、朗読・動画を作った。

 人間の情報収集の大半が視覚かららしい。ということは、騙されるのも「眼」から、「見かけ」から。そんなことを詠んだ。折りしも、本日は衆院選公示日。短期決戦の様相だが、「見かけ」はもちろん、「口」にも騙されないようにしたい。


  I’m not interested in NHK’s morning drama series, but I am interested in Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo). I’d been wanting to turn “Yuki-onna,” included in his Kwaidan, into a poem somehow, when an idea suddenly came to me. It isn’t the same as Hearn’s version, but I think they share a common theme: giving in to temptation. So I made a narrated piece and a video.

  They say most of the information humans take in comes through vision. Which means that the way we’re deceived also starts with the eyes—with appearances. That’s what I tried to capture here. Coincidentally, today is the day the House of Representatives election was officially announced. It’s shaping up to be a short, intense campaign, but I want to make sure I’m not fooled—not only by appearances, but by words as well.




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