　私は、ジーンズさへ文字通り一度も穿いたことがなく、学生時代から外出時はスーツにネクタイ、あるいはロングスリーブやハーフスリーブのシャツで、それは今も変わらない。だから画家のスタイルをどうのこうのと言えた柄じゃない。
　服装に関する私の気遣いはただひとつ、外出時はアンダーウェアを全部取り替えることだけ。長時間の外出になるときは、新品にする。・・・こんなこと他人に言うと笑われるだろうが、じつは我家が武士と僧侶の家系で、子供のころから何となくそのように育てられてきたからだろう。小説家の野上弥生子氏が、東京から避暑地の別邸に滞在するときは死に装束をお持ちになったそうだ。私はこの話にちっとも驚かなかった。私が幼少の頃、亡母は、女が死ぬときは膝を縛ると言っていたものだ。男は新しい切り立ての褌に変えたのだ。・・・武士道？　ちがうちがう、武士道など私は軽蔑している。私のは、そうだなー、私の唯一のオシャレ、と言っておこう。

There was a sound of fireworks somewhere at 7:20
pm. At the begining, live up, the sound was conti-
nuous and staccato, panpanpanpan.
Children in Hino City will have a summer vacation
untill 23rd tomorrow. The principal of the elementary
school e-mailed to the parents to take measures

(I'm a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Committee
For Children, so I get such e-mail.)

Today is my only one day summer vacation.
However, my customs of a day that had been imbued
over the years were not lost, and I was polishing the
surface of the painting all day. Still, this is my summer
vacation. Wearing a cloth mask, an industrial dust
mask, and goggles over glasses, and headphones to
cover the ears. Speaking of which, ordinary people
used to say that a painter wore a beret and a smock like
a kindergarten child, and hold a pipe in his mouth.

the painter? I bring to laugh, right?

I have never worn jeans. When I was going out I used
to wear a suit and a tie or a long-sleeved or half-
sleeved shirt. It was from my student ages. That's why

My only concern about clothes is to replace all the
underwear when I go out. If I am going out for a long
time, make a new one. ...Someone would laugh that I
say that, but it's probably because my family was a
samurai and monk family, and I had been raised that
way since I was a child. It is said that the novelist
Nogami Yaeko carried the costumes for her own death
when she stayed in a villa in a summer and winter,
from Tokyo. I was not surprised at this story.
When I was a kid, my deceased mother used to say
that the woman should tie her knees with herself before
she is going to die. The man have changed loincloth
newly.
Bushidō? No, I'm disdainful of that.
Let's say changing underwear newly is my only
dresses up.

Tadami Yamada

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