| ２００４／５／１６ 大川橋蔵さんの写真集がついに、ついに発売されました！「なんで大川橋蔵の本がないんだ〜！」と憤慨して同人誌を作ってからはや１０年…感慨無量であります。昨日は早速開店一番に購入してまいりました。ああ、こーいう本がほしかった…！写真といい、資料といい、充実の出来映えです。ファンの方は要チェックですよ〜♪
購入のために横浜に出たところ、デパートに華道家の假屋崎省吾さんが来ているというポスターを見かけ、ちょうどお出ましの時間だったので行ってみました。地下1階の入り口近くに大きい生け花がありました。色を塗った枝を使っていて、やはり草月流という感じ。４階の会場へ行ってみますともうすごい人で、お花のデモンストレーションは見えなかったのですが、お顔はちらちら見えました。トークにタイアップ関係の（？）宣伝が多いのには閉口しましたが、あれくらいの気配りがないとああいう職業では大成しないんだろうなあ…とヘンなところで尊敬しちゃいました（笑）。でも、語りっぷりはテレビ通りで面白かったです。実用的な生け花の著書があったので、購入したらサイン会の整理券をくれました。どうせならとサインもいただいて、握手もしていただきました。うーん、オネエキャラでもやはり男性、手は大きいですね（笑）。萩尾望都さん、デーモン木暮閣下についで3人目の「握手してもらった有名人さん」になりました（笑）。
話が前後しますが、その前日、斎藤孝さんの『座右のゲーテ』を買いました。１，２年前に、新聞に「人間は自分が愛する者からだけ学ぶものだ」というゲーテの言葉を紹介なさっていて、すごくいい言葉だと思ったのでそれを切り取って手帳に貼っていたのですが、そういったイイ言葉の紹介本だったので…。少し前に美輪明宏さんとの対談本も買ってしまったので、ちょっと「ブームに乗せられたいいお客さん」状態…イヤだなあ（笑）。
それはさておき、「自分はこう思うけど、世間様では違うのかな…」と漠然と思っていたことが、「なんかエライ人もそう感じていたらしいぞ！」と思えて溜飲が下がる本です（笑）。多分同じように感じる方は多いのでは。他の著作を見ても、どうもこの著者さん（ゲーテじゃなくて斎藤孝さん）とは、考え方のシュミが合いすぎるようで、すごく頷ける分、私のようなひねくれもんだと、「こんな私でも考えているような程度のことをネタにお金を稼いでいるなんて妬ましい〜しかも孫引き本じゃないか〜」とか思ってしまうのですが（笑）、もちろん「ある抽象的な内容を具体的な例をひいて他人様が理解できるように表現し、かつ商業ベースに乗せる」と「漠然とそう思う」には月とスッポン以上の差があるのでした…大事なのは実行レベルのこと。修行が足りませんね（笑）。
読んだらやはり原典を読みたくなって、今日岩波文庫の『ゲーテとの対話』上巻を買ってきました。（文庫で上・中・下の長さ。この大部の本からあれだけシンプルに抽出したのは、やはり大変な仕事ですね。孫引き本なんて言ってごめんなさい。（^
^；））ここ数年、すごく気になっていることに関係の深いことが書いてあって、刺激されまくりです。『〈ほんもの〉という倫理』や『ホロン革命』なんかから受けた刺激もまじえて、このテーマについて（自分で明確に解釈するためにも）まとめてみたいと思い続けてはいるのですが…ただの感想文になっちゃうかなあ。ホントは創作作品に反映できるのが理想ですけれど、評論的な手法の方が表現しやすいかなあ、などと身のほど知らずにも思う今日この頃です。
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16th
May 2004 Finally, Hashizo
Ookawa's photo book has been released! It was ten years ago
that I made Hahizo's fan book because there were no books
that took up his career as a main theme. I'm moved
strongly. I bought it as soon as bookstore opened
yesterday morning. Oh, I have been waiting this kind of
book! The photos and data are great. This is the must
item for fans!
On the way to bookstore in
Yokohama, I saw a poster that announces that Shogo
Kariyazaki
appears at a department store near there for flower
arrangements demonstration and autograph session. (He is
a popular flower arrangement artist who famous for his
female-like funny behavior. He often appears on TV.) The
appearance time was approaching, so I decided to go there.
There was a large flower arrangement near the entrance in
the first basement. (The entrance connects with a
underground shopping arcade.) He used painted branches
and fresh flowers. I found it familiar. it was typical
Sogetsu school's style. (I recently learned that he had
been trained at Sogetsu school.) When I arrived in the
place on 4th floor, it was full of people. I wasn't able
to see the demonstration, but I was able to see his face
while he talked. I was irritated a bit by his talk
because half of the talk was a kind of advertisement of
goods he related to. But I can understand it was
necessary for the success in his activity. I found his
factfulness. His way to talk was the same as on TV. It
was amusing. There was his book on practical flower
arrangement. I was interested and bought it. Then I was
given a ticket for the autographed session. I got his
autograph on the book I bought, and shook hands with him.
In spite of his female-like behavior, his hand was big!
Yes, of course his is a male. Then he became the third
famous name who I had a chance to shake hands with, after
Damon Kogure(a Japanese rocker) and Moto Hagio(a comic
writer).
By the way, I bought Takashi
Saitou's book
the other day. It was "Zayuu-no-Goethe" (Useful quotations from Goethe's
words.) Talking of Takashi saitou, (a popular scholar of
education, communication, and body exercise.) He has
quoted Goethe's words; "People always learn
from only someone who they love." in a news paper's article.
I was impressed by that words. And I cut the article and
stuck it on my scheduler. His new book is on the same
theme, so I was interested in.
I remembered that I recently had bought other his book of
his conversation with Akihiro Miwa. (A gay chanson singer,
actor, and he insists he is a kind of psychic! How
interesting!) I'm going to be a easy follower of trend
book? Oh it's not comfortable to admit it.
Anyway, this book will
satisfy people who think "Perhaps my thoughts will
not be accepted in real world." They will be able
to find a reassurance in
this book, and will say, "some respectable man seemed
to think the same thing as my thoughts!"
I can completely agree with this author's thoughts.
On the other hand, I envy him because he gets some money
by writing the idea that even I can guess! And, this is
only quotations! Of course, there is the huge difference
between to only guess the idea and to express the idea by
introducing appropriate examples so that people can
understand it. Important thing is to realise something. I
know I must gain more experience by practice.
After reading this book, I
bought "The
conversation with Goethe" written by Johann Peter Eckermann.(It
was the source. I saw it was rather hard to quote words
from this voluminous book. I'm sorry that I said "this
is only quotations!") In this book, I found so many
topics that concerned with issues that I have considered
for a few years. I'm being inspired so much! I'd like to
write an essey on the idea that inspired from "The
Ethics of Authenticity" (Charles Taylor), "JANUS" (Arthur Koestler), and this book.
It would be better if I could express the idea in some
entertainment works. But in this case, I think it will be
easier to write the idea in essay style. Maybe it will be
beyond my capacity though...
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