いい本との出会いは人生を変える。この本はそんな一冊かもしれません。
自分の記録のために、全15章のタイトルを列挙します。
序章 茶人という生きもの
第１章 「自分は何も知らない」ということを知る
第２章 頭で考えようとしないこと
第３章 「今」に気持ちを集中すること
第４章 見て感じること
第５章 たくさんの「本物」を見ること
第６章 季節を味わうこと
第７章 五感で自然とつながること
第８章 今、ここにいるということ
第９章 自然に身を任せ、時を過ごすこと
第１０章 このままでよい、ということ
第１１章 別れは必ずやってくること
第１２章 自分の内側に耳をすますこと
第１３章 雨の日は、雨を聴くこと
第１４章 成長を待つこと
第１５章 長い目で今を生きること
これらが章のタイトルであるが、本文がこのタイトルを説明しているわけではありません。書かれているのは著者に起こった出来事や、思ったことが綴られているだけです。そして本文を読み終わってタイトルを見直すと「なるほど」と思う。思うけど、言葉で説明できることではないこともわかる。
だから、タイトルだけを見ると、「保守的」「反動的」「右翼的」とも思える文章になっていますが、実際には、今の社会の常識を覆すような「革新的」で「斬新」な内容です。みんなが見ているのに見えていないもの、それがどれだけ多く有って、自分を生きにくくしているのか、今の社会を正当化しているのかがわかってきます。お茶を愛した織田信長が、権力の座についたとき、なぜ千利休を殺してしまったのかがわかる気がしました。
みんなに読んでほしいので、過激なことは書きません。どんなに忙しい人でも、いや忙しい人にこそ勧めたいが、一週間に１〜２時間、自分や自然と向き合う時間をとることは大切だと思う。お茶を習うには最低、帛紗と懐紙があればよい。帛紗だけでもいい。山に出かけることも、海に行くことも必要じゃない。（授業料は必要ですが、それが払えない人は残念ですが、図書館の本を借りて読みましょう。この本を何回か読むだけでも十分かもしれません。文庫本も出ています。）
表紙の折返しにも書いてある一文を引用します。
「個性を重んじる学校教育の中に、人を競争へに追い立てる制約と不自由があり、厳格な約束事に縛られた窮屈な茶道の中に、個人のあるがままを受けいれる大きな自由がある・・・。
いったい、本物の自由とはなんだろう？
そもそも、私たちは今まで何と競っていたのだろう？
学校もお茶も、目指しているのは人の成長だ。けれど、一つ、大きくちがう。それは、学校はいつも「他人」と比べ、お茶は「きのうまでの自分」と比べることだった。」
ぜひ、映画も見てほしい。この本を映画にしようとした大森立嗣監督も素晴らしいし、映画も良く出来ています。
⟨impressions⟩
Encounter with a good book changes your life. This book may be one such book.
For your own record, I will list all 15 chapter titles.
Introduction: the living thing called the tea master
Chapter 1 Know that "I don't know anything"
Chapter 2 Don't Think About It
Chapter 3 Focusing on “now”
Chapter 4 What to see and feel
Chapter 5 To see a lot of "real items"
Chapter 6 Taste the Season
Chapter 7 Connecting with nature through the five senses
Chapter 8 Being here now
Chapter 9 Leaving time by nature
Chapter 10 It means that you can leave it as it is
Chapter 11 Parting must be done
Chapter 12 Listen to yourself
Chapter 13 Listen to the rain on rainy days
Chapter 14 Waiting for Growth
Chapter 15 Living the present in the long run
These are chapter titles, but the text does not explain this title. All that is written is what happened to the author and what she thought. And when I read the text and review the title, I think "I see." I think, but I understand that it is not something that can be explained in words.
Therefore, looking at only the title, the sentence seems to be "conservative" "reaction" "right-wing", but in reality, it is "innovative" that overturns the common sense of today's society. It is the contents. You'll find out what you're seeing and not seeing, how many of them you have that make you harder to live and justify your current society. When Nobunaga Oda, who loved tea, took power, I felt why he had killed Sen no Rikyu.
I want everyone to read it, so I won't write anything radical. No matter how busy people are, I would recommend it to busy people, but I think it is important to spend 1-2 hours a week facing yourself and nature. To learn tea, you need at least a cloth and wrapping paper. Only the cloth may be used. You don't have to go to the mountains or go to the sea. (If you can't afford the tuition, but you can't afford it, let's borrow a book from the library and read it. It may be enough to read this book several times. There is also a paperback book.)
I quote the one sentence that is also written on the cover of the cover.
"There is a constraint and inconvenience that pushes people into competition in the school education that values individuality, and there is a great freedom to accept what the individual is in a cramped tea ceremony that is bound by strict conventions.・.
What on earth is real freedom?
What were we competing with in the first place?
The goal of both school and tea is to grow people. However, there is one big difference. It was that school was always compared to "others," and tea was compared to "me before yesterday." "
By all means, please watch the movie. The director Tatsutsugu Omori who made this book into a movie is wonderful, and the movie is well done.
Encounter with a good book changes your life. This book may be one such book.
For your own record, I will list all 15 chapter titles.
Introduction: the living thing called the tea master
Chapter 1 Know that "I don't know anything"
Chapter 2 Don't Think About It
Chapter 3 Focusing on “now”
Chapter 4 What to see and feel
Chapter 5 To see a lot of "real items"
Chapter 6 Taste the Season
Chapter 7 Connecting with nature through the five senses
Chapter 8 Being here now
Chapter 9 Leaving time by nature
Chapter 10 It means that you can leave it as it is
Chapter 11 Parting must be done
Chapter 12 Listen to yourself
Chapter 13 Listen to the rain on rainy days
Chapter 14 Waiting for Growth
Chapter 15 Living the present in the long run
These are chapter titles, but the text does not explain this title. All that is written is what happened to the author and what she thought. And when I read the text and review the title, I think "I see." I think, but I understand that it is not something that can be explained in words.
Therefore, looking at only the title, the sentence seems to be "conservative" "reaction" "right-wing", but in reality, it is "innovative" that overturns the common sense of today's society. It is the contents. You'll find out what you're seeing and not seeing, how many of them you have that make you harder to live and justify your current society. When Nobunaga Oda, who loved tea, took power, I felt why he had killed Sen no Rikyu.
I want everyone to read it, so I won't write anything radical. No matter how busy people are, I would recommend it to busy people, but I think it is important to spend 1-2 hours a week facing yourself and nature. To learn tea, you need at least a cloth and wrapping paper. Only the cloth may be used. You don't have to go to the mountains or go to the sea. (If you can't afford the tuition, but you can't afford it, let's borrow a book from the library and read it. It may be enough to read this book several times. There is also a paperback book.)
I quote the one sentence that is also written on the cover of the cover.
"There is a constraint and inconvenience that pushes people into competition in the school education that values individuality, and there is a great freedom to accept what the individual is in a cramped tea ceremony that is bound by strict conventions.・.
What on earth is real freedom?
What were we competing with in the first place?
The goal of both school and tea is to grow people. However, there is one big difference. It was that school was always compared to "others," and tea was compared to "me before yesterday." "
By all means, please watch the movie. The director Tatsutsugu Omori who made this book into a movie is wonderful, and the movie is well done.
[出演者(プロフィール)]
森下/典子
1956年、神奈川県横浜市生まれ。日本女子大学文学部国文学科卒業。『週刊朝日』のコラム「デキゴトロジー」の取材記者を経て、1987年にその体験を描いた『典奴どすえ』(角川文庫)を出版。それ以後、体験ルポ、エッセイなどを雑誌に執筆している(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです)
週に一回、「お茶」の稽古に通ううち、気がつけばもう25年。失恋、父の死、コンプレックス…、辛い季節を「お茶」とともに乗り越えた成長ヒストリー。厳格な約束事に縛られた窮屈な茶道の中にある、大きな自由とは?
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