上級へのとびら　CH２−２（本文１）谷崎潤一郎「春琴抄」

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Today’s Keywords

Tanizaki’ s Novels
「春琴抄」（しゅんきんしょう） – Shunkin (girl’s name)’s story
「痴人の愛」（ちじんのあい） -Fool’s love (English title is “Naomi”)
「細雪」（ささめゆき） – Light Snowfall (English title is “Makioka’s sisters”)

マゾヒスト – masochist
絶賛（ぜっさん）する – to praise
刺激（しげき）を求（もと）める – to want to have more excitement
物足（ものた）りない – not good enough
奔放（ほんぽう）な – wild and free
求婚（きゅうこん） – to propose
願望（がんぼう） – wish
脚（あし）フェチ – leg fetish
異常（いじょう）– abnormal
執着（しゅうちゃく） – attachment
裕福（ゆうふく）な – wealthy
失明（しつめい）- blind
音曲（おんぎょく）– Song accompanied by Shamisen music
献身的（けんしんてき）– dedicatedly
人目（ひとめ）を忍（しの）んで – secretly
稽古（けいこ） -practice (for some kind of performance)
苦（く）ともせず – without thinking it’s strict
噂（うわさ） – gossip
養子（ようし）に出（だ）す- make child to be adopted
バチ – stick
醜（みにく）い – ugly
サド – sadism
マゾ – masochist
性癖（せいへき） – unusual sexual desire

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谷崎潤一郎は、「マゾヒスト作家」と言われています。
Junichiro Tanizaki is called the “Masochist Writer.”

しかし、その文章の美しさは、三島由紀夫や川端康成も絶賛したそうです。
However, other writers, such as Yukio Mishima and Yasunari Kawabata, praised how he used Japanese beautifully.

このお二人もエロティズムがテーマの話が多いですが。
These two writers write about eroticism as well though.

谷崎は3回結婚していますが、新しい女性と付き合ったり結婚するたびに、その女性をモデルに小説を書きました。
Tanizaki got married three times. Every time he started dating or married a woman, he used her as a model in his writing.

はじめに結婚した女性、千代は大人しくて、刺激を求める谷崎には物足りませんでした。
Chiyo, his first marriage, was quiet, so she was not good enough for Tanizaki who wanted to have more excitement.

千代にはせい子という妹がいましたが、せい子は姉とは違って奔放な女性で、「痴人の愛」の悪女、ナオミのモデルです。
Chiyo had a younger sister, Seiko. Seiko was wild and free and different from Chiyo. Seiko is the model for Naomi in A Fool’s Love or Naomi.

谷崎は、せい子が１３歳の時に彼女の美しさに目をつけ、成長するのを待ってから求婚します。光源氏が紫の上を理想の女性に育てたように、自分も女性を育てて結婚するという願望があったらしいです。
Tanizaki found beauty in thirteen-year-old Seiko. He waited until she became an adult to propose to her. He had a dream to raise a girl to become smart and elegant similar to how Hikaru Genji raised Lady Murasaki.

「痴人の愛」の中の主人公の河合も、カフェで見かけた１３歳の美少女ナオミを教養もあり上品な女性に育てようとしましたが、ナオミは言うことを聞きません。河合は女性の脚フェチで、マゾヒズムでもあり、大人になったナオミの足に異常な執着をもちました。
The main character in Fool’s Love (Naomi) Kawai also finds thirteen-year-old Naomi to be beautiful , and tries to raise her to become a smart and elegant woman, however, Naomi did not listen to him. Kawai has a leg fetish and masochistic desire. He lusts for grown-up Naomi’s leg.

谷崎はその時々の理想の女性を作品にしてきました。
He wrote about women he desire each time.

二番目の妻と結婚している時、人妻の松子との恋に夢中になり、彼女の隣の家に引っ越します。松子は着物の似合う非常に美しい人で、「春琴抄」のモデルです。谷崎は彼女の下人のように振舞っていたそうです。
When he was married with second wife, he was in love with a married woman, Matsuko, so he moved next to her. Matsuko is a beautiful lady who looked good in kimonos, and so she became the model of another of his writing, Shunkin Sho. Tanizaki acted like her servant.

「春琴抄」の主人公、春琴は裕福な家庭の美人でわがままなお嬢様ですが、９歳の時に目を失明します。そして、４歳年上の使用人の佐助に連れられて、春琴は音曲を始めます。
The main character of Shinkin Sho, Shunkin, is born into a wealthy family, and she is a self-centered daughter, though, she becomes blind when she is 9 years old. Then, she starts taking
”Ongyoku” (Song accompanied by Shamisen music), so her servant, Sasuke, who is four years older helps her to the class.

春琴のお世話をいつも献身的にしていた佐助は三味線を弾きたくなり、貯金をはたいて三味線を買い、人目を忍んで練習するようになりました。
Sasuke, who serves Shunkin dedicatedly, takes interest in playing shamisen, so he bought the instrument using all of his savings, and starts practicing secretly.

春琴は生徒をとって音曲を教えますが、わがままな性格のため厳しい稽古をして、生徒は泣き出すほどでした。
Shunkin starts teaching Ongyoku to people including Sasuke, however, her sessions are very strict due to her self-centered mind, so her students occasionally cried.

しかし、佐助はそれを苦ともせず、習い続けました。
But Sasuke did not think her session were strict and continued learning it.

そのうち、二人が恋仲ではないかという噂が流れました。
After a while, gossip spread that Shunkin and Sasuke were seeing each other.

そして春琴は佐助にそっくりな子供を産みますが、春琴は父親が佐助だとは認めず、その子が邪魔だと言って、養子に出します。
Shunkin delivers a baby who resembled Sasuke, however, she did not admit that the baby’s father is Sasuke. Instead, she said that the baby annoyed her, so the baby was adopted by other couple.

生徒の中に理太郎という青年がいて、春琴を何度もデートに誘いますが春琴は断ります。ある日練習の態度が悪い、と春琴はバチで理太郎の顔を殴りました。怒った理太郎は、春琴の顔に熱湯をかけて、春琴の顔が醜くなります。
One of her students, Ritaro asked her to go out with him repeatedly, though, she turns him down. One day, Shunkin hits Rintaro’s face with a stick. Rintaro got upset, pours hot water on her face, and her face loses its beauty.

春琴は醜くなった顔を佐助に見せたくなかったので、佐助に会わなくなります。
Shunkin did not want to show her face to Sasuke, so she stopped seeing him.

すると佐助は、自分の目に針を刺して、春琴の顔を見えないようにします。目の見えない佐助は、ずっと春琴の世話を続けます
Then, Sasuke pricks his eyes with a needle and becomes blind so he would not be able to see Shunkin’s face. Sasuke, who cannot see, continues to support her for a long time.

この小説のポイントは、「献身的な愛」ですが、「サド・マゾ的な男女の関係」でもあります。
The point of the story is “dedicated love”, however, it is actually also the “relationship of sadism and masochism between man and woman.”

一方、「細雪」では、松子の四姉妹がモデルになっています。四季ある日本の美しい風景、晴れやかな着物をまとった美しい四姉妹、と「日本の伝統美」が描き出されていています。
「変な性癖の話はいや」という人にはオススメです。
On the other hand, in another of his writings, Sasameyuki Matsuko and her three sisters are the models. He expresses Japan’s “traditional beauty” through scenery of the four seasons and the beautiful four sisters wearing kimono. If you don’t like “unusual sexual desire,” I recommend you read this “Sasameyuki”.

谷崎は自分の墓石は女性の足の形にして自分を踏み続けて欲しい、と語るほどの女性の脚フェチで、そのような話は作品のあちらこちらに書かれています。
Tanizaki once said he wanted a grave stone in the shape of a woman’s leg so that it would look like a woman was stepping on his body, and his taste shows in several sentences in his writings.

ノーベル賞にも数回ノミネートをされていますが、「彼の性癖は海外では受け入れられない。」という理由で選ばれませんでした。
His writings had been nominated several times, however, they never won the Nobel prize due to the reason that “Other countries can’t accept his sexual taste.”

「日本文学の作家たちは一体どうしたの？」と思われるかもしれませんが、彼の文章の美しさはとても評価が高いです。
You might think like, “What happened to those Japanese writers?” However, Tanizaki’ s beautiful sentences has a high reputation.

実際に読んで、日本語の文章の美しさを味わってみてください。
Please feel the beautiful Japanese sentences in his writing by reading it in Japanese.

Chapter 2 – 日本語のスピーチスタイル

単語表（本文）ー１

皆さんはもう敬語は勉強しましたか？家族や友達と話す時に使うカジュアルスピーチ（くだけた話し方）も習いましたか。
Have you already studied Keigo (Japanese honorific language)? Have you learned the casual speech (an informal way of speaking) used when talking with family and friends?

日本語には色々なスピーチスタイルがあることは知っていますね。
You know that Japanese has various speech styles.

実は日本語は話す時も書く時も、スタイルがとても複雑で色々な決まりや習慣があります。
In fact. In Japanese these styles are very complex and there are a variety of rules and customs in both speaking and writing

この課ではそれについて勉強してみましょう。
Let’s learn about them in this lesson.

（１）スピーチレベル（丁寧さ）の使い分け
(1) The proper use of speech levels (degrees of politeness)

日本語はスピーチレベルがとても大切な言語なので、話す相手によって話し方を変えなければいけないことがあります。
Japanese is a language in which speech levels are very important, so sometimes we have to change our way of speaking depending on whom we are speaking to.

1) All citizens have to pay tax.
2) What you insert within this ( ) must be a particle.
3) I’ve got something I need to look up, so I’m going to the library.
4) I’ve gotta run to the post office, so wait here for a sec.
5) This morning I overslept and ended up being late for class, so I’ve gotta wake up earlier tomorrow.

例えば、「さようなら」と「失礼します」や、「見せてね」と「見せていただけませんか」など、スピーチレベルの使い分けは日本語を勉強している人にとって最も難しいことの一つだと言われています。
For example, sayonara (goodbye) and shitsurei shimasu (formal goodbye) or misete ne (show me) and misete itadakemsen ka? (Could you please show me?) – is said to be one of the most difficult things for people studying Japanese.

1) When it comes to (lit. Among) Japanese food, I like sushi and tempura, etc.
2) This semester I’m taking Japanese (language) history and Asian history (and some other classes),
3) I’m thinking of going to Italy and Greece (and other places around there) over summer vacation.
4) Kanji like 生 and 日 have a lot of different readings and it’s hard to memorize (all of them).
5) In Japanese, there are various honorific expressions, like irrasshaimasu and meshiagarimasu.

1) Learning kanji is one of the most important things in studying Japanese
2) It is said that Arabic is one of the hardest languages to learn.
3) Reading is one of my favorite things.
4) Mozart is one of the most popular composers.

1) Who is the person that’s most important to you?
2) One place that I’ll never forget is the cafe where I first met girlfriend.
3) My cat is the most important thing in the world to me, but for my cat it seems like the most important thing in the world Is food.
4) Despite losing his hearing, which is the most important thing for a composer’s work, Beethoven wrote his famous Ninth Symphony.