とっても面白かったです。
中学生の頃に、一度全文を現代語訳で読んでいるのですが、その時の印象と違ったのは、解説の巧みさだと思います。
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| 中秋の名月の名月を過ぎましたが・・・ Some nights after the harvest moon... |
かぐや姫は、パンクです。
いや、不詳とされている作者の反権力姿勢がとってもパンクです。
かぐや姫は結婚を勧める竹取の翁に、『なぜ結婚しなくてはいけないのか？』という疑問を投げかけたり、帝の使者の尚侍が迎えに来ても頑として参内を断り、『私の態度が気に入らないのならば、殺せばいい』と啖呵を切ります。
なんて、カッコいいのでしょう。
およそ８世紀頃に書かれたのではないかと言われている古典でありながら、現代の私たちが読んでも新鮮な視点を持っている物語です。
発表された当時はそれはそれはセンセーショナルな書物だったのではないでしょうか。
というわけで、先日の中秋の名月を眺めながら、かぐや姫のことを考えていました。
パンクな竹取物語を読んでからは、なぜか気持ちが高揚して、眉毛をスキン・トーンのシャドウで塗ってブリーチしたようにしてみたり、男物のシャツやTシャツを買ったり、ユニ・セックスな気分です。
高畑勲監督 最新作 かぐや姫の物語
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| 眉毛薄めメイク☆ "Bleached" eyebrows make-up. |
Since last month, Isao Takahata's new film has been on my mind, and I found a book of Taketori Monogatari (The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter) with original texts and modern translation with commentary, and I bought it and read it.
I enjoyed it a lot.
I once read the story when I was 13, but this time I had a different impression from the same story. I think this is because the commentary was clever.
Princess Kaguya is a punk.
Well, the "unknown" author himself was a punk, actually. His spirit to rebel against the powerful people was very punk-ish.
To her foster father, princess Kaguya asks questions like why does she need to marry? , and she turns down emperor's call and doesn't visit the palace with emperor's principal handmaid. With a very strong manner, she says they should take her life if they don't like her attitude.
How cool.
The tale was supposed to be written in 8th century and it still has a fresh point of view to us, modern people. There are many things we can agree with Kaguya.
It must be very sensational when it first come out.
So, I was thinking about Princess Kaguya when I was watching the harvest moon the other night.
After I read "punk" tale, somehow I've been feeling excited. So I put some skin tone shadows on my eyebrows to have bleached effect, or bought men's shirts and tops. Unisex is exactly what I'm feeling in my mind at the moment.
Isao Takahata New Film The Tale of Princess Kaguya
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| 今宵のアップルパイ Home made apple pie of this evening. |