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Hello, everyone. I'm Hinatazaka46's Kamitsuki Hirao.
What I'm going to talk about today is...
Out of all the books I've read so far...
I'll introduce you to a book I really want you to read.
Please.
I'm not going to eat red bean paste today.
I'm sure some of you know about it.
I like novels very much and read them a lot.
The reason is...
When I was in junior high school...
I saw a book called "I Want to Eat Your Aquarium" by Yoru Sumino at a bookstore.
I thought, "What's this title?" and read it.
It was very interesting and I started reading a lot of books.
From there, I read two books every month.
When I have a lot of time, I read six books.
The number of books I've read so far is...
I think it's between 150 and 200 books.
There's a book I'd like to introduce you to.
Here's the first book.
It's a novel called "Teacher's Bag" by Hiromi Kawakami.
First of all, Hiromi Kawakami...
He usually writes sci-fi novels.
This is a love novel.
The genre of the novel is...
I thought it would be in the genre of pure literature.
Kawakami, the author of the book, uses his own writing skills...
It's a book that shows you how to express yourself.
Summary...
In a lonely izakaya, 37-year-old Tsukiko-san and Tama- saka-san became good friends.
They were national language teachers when they were students.
The daily life of a teacher, which began with a small talk at the counter,
is now full of small quarrels, such as going out and seeing flowers, and sometimes having a little fight.
As a representative of men and women of different ages,
it is a famous work won the Tanisaki Junichiro Award for drawing love affairs that eventually intertwine and captivate all generations.
First of all, Tsukiko-san and this teacher are about 30 years apart in age, and they are in a love that can be called "age difference".
I think this novel has something to do with the age difference, and from Tsukiko-san's point of view, the teacher is quite old-fashioned.
So from Tsukiko-san's point of view, the teacher looks old.
From Tsukiko-san's point of view, the teacher is someone you like or someone you want to get along with.
When I feel the age difference from the teacher's face wrinkles and walking style, I'm sure Tsukiko-san will be fascinated.
The sensation of fascination is written in an expression that is also transmitted to the reader, and it is really fresh and I have never read it before, so I thought it was very interesting.
The colors are also very beautifully written.
You can go on a trip or eat seasonal food.
I think it's a book that will take you to various places and make you feel various emotions.
Please read it.
Next, I would like to introduce the second book.
Here it is.
It's Osamu Dazai's "The Wife of Bion".
Yes, it's Osamu Dazai.
Osamu Dazai's book is...
I've been hooked on it for about a year now.
I haven't done much until then.
I often watch Naoki Matayoshi's YouTube channel.
Matayoshi is a big fan of Osamu Dazai.
He often introduces it to me.
I thought it would be interesting and read it.
Among them, I especially like it.
It's a very short story.
It's a story about Bion's wife.
It's basically a couple's story.
Bion's wife, Otani, makes a lot of debt at a restaurant.
Otani's wife, Satchan, works at the restaurant to pay off the debt.
At first glance, Otani is a very intelligent person.
Of course, when I see Otani's wife, she makes debts on her own.
Otani thinks Otani is a terrible person.
The story is like that.
I want to pay attention to Satchan's wife.
I don't think Satchan is a very good husband.
I don't think so.
Among them, there is a line I like, "Why didn't you do this from the beginning? I'm very happy."
When I read this paragraph, I was already melting away, and what can I say?
In this unhappy situation, there is one happy scene.
But it's not that luxurious, it's just "just", but I'm happy there. I tell my husband that.
It really came to my mind. It was good.
In this ideal wife image, I was really excited about what kind of words her wife said and what kind of stance she was supporting.
As for the person named Otani, it's probably my guess, but I think it's you.
It's very similar to the atmosphere of Dazai Osamu, who wrote "Espion's Wife".
Maybe it's overlapping with me, but what can I say about what I'm doing?
There's a lot of expression of "bearing oneself" in this work, but it's still a work that I love.
I really want to recommend this work because I think it's a work that not only the content written but also the background can be seen very well.
Can you see it?
This cross section is jagged. This is my favorite point.
In recent books, it is often cut straight down, but there is not much jagged here.
In old books, this part is not cut in half.
I felt that it had not changed since ancient times, and if you connect it,
you can read it on your smartphone, but I'm really God- like, and I've spent a lot of time only with God.
I've read it online, but when I read it, I think God is good.
When I turn it over, I want to go to the next book.
My hand goes like this. I want to go to the next book like this, but I can't do this pose, so I read it all the way to the last letter and turn it over.
But I want to read this last book while doing the next pose, so I can't stop being God-like.
I want to leave all the books I've read on my bookshelf like this.
I have a particular attachment to bookshelves, and I've talked about it on my blog before, but I bought them all in order and lined them up like a camera roll and said, "Oh, I used to be addicted to this author," or "I liked this kind of work at this time," so I've been doing it for a long time.
When I look at the bookshelf over time, I feel nostalgic about what's in the beginning.
But...
When I look at the bookshelf over time, I feel nostalgic about what's in the beginning.
I have a particular way of arranging the books, and I've been arranging them in the order I've been reading.
Next!
It's Kotaro Isaka's "Seesaw Monster".
I think many of you know Kotaro Isaka.
Recently, a lot of books have been released, and I think there are quite a few fans.
Among them, this is probably the first and only novel by Kotaro Isaka that I've read.
It's really interesting, and I can't imagine a book by a writer who reads it for the first time.
I don't know much about the development of the novel, its habits, and the way of thinking of the writer.
I felt betrayed many times.
This novel is especially nostalgic.
"Was that so?" There are many scenes like that, and I'm attracted to it.
I'll give you a synopsis.
In the late Showa period, when the family was ordinary at first glance in Kitayama Prefecture,
the wife of a former informant, Miyako, had a fierce battle with the theory of "shutome".
It's about "shutome" for wives.
Yes.
The "shutome" battle for wives has always been amazing.
People who are in the position of "wife" tend to be careful of "shutome".
But ever since the "shutome" battle began, "shutome" has become more and more common.
They can't think straight.
They can't decide whether to say it or not.
They can't even think about it.
They just say aggressive words out of their mouths.
Their conversations are really interesting.
They just keep on arguing.
The story is set in the late Showa period.
It was written in 2016 or something like that.
It's totally into Heisei era.
It's a recent story.
It's not the Showa period that was written in the Showa period.
It's the Showa period seen from Heisei era.
The story that describes what happened at the time is...
I don't know the characteristics of the time.
What we have now is normal, so it doesn't stand out.
When you look at the Showa period from Heisei era,
you can see the characteristics of that time.
I think that's really interesting.
I hope you'll read it.
I recommend it.
Next is the last one.
Ta-dah!
It's this one.
It's Akane Chihaya's "Shirogane no ha".
This is an award-winning work by Naoki Shaw.
This is the novel I want to recommend the most right now.
I don't know where to start.
First of all, I've been really into Akane Chihaya recently.
I read a lot of his works.
I have about ten books of Chihaya's works at home.
I read about six books last year.
I've been really into him.
But even in the first book, I was quite...
"Wow, I really like this person's writing style." I thought, and the hurdle was quite high all the time.
For me, Akane Chihaya's "Anything You Read Is Interesting."
The fourth book I read, "Shirogane no Ha," was a revolution for me.
"Is there such a book?" It was such a revolution.
It's a revolution. It's a book that sparked a revolution.
I'll give you a synopsis.
"Imami Ginzan," which spans from "Sengoku Makki" to "Silver Rush."
A girl named Ume, who was picked up by the genius Yamashii Kihei,
is given the knowledge of Ginzan and the whereabouts of unknown veins,
and starts working for Onna da Tera.
However, due to Tokugawa's domination and strengthening, Kihei loses his sanity,
and Ume is thrown into a world of desire and death,
but he has written down his feelings of life.
"Taiga Chohen," which is his heart and soul, has become his new home.
It's a story from the Sengoku period.
Until now, there have been quite a lot of modern books, but this is already an era book.
It's also the first era book I've read myself.
It's a genre called "Taishuu Bungoku."
It really feels like I've seen a long movie.
After I finished reading it, I didn't want to read the next book anymore.
There were parts of it that I really liked when I read it.
In this part of the book, I think the book's core or axis is packed, but the woman and the boy are different.
"Don't say you're weak," "I want you to rely on me here," "I want to help you," "You may not want to be protected," "Were you helped in the past?"
There are quite a lot of dialects mixed in, and these phrases are also old words.
So I think you'll read it thinking, "Hmm?" at first, but you'll get used to it as you read it.
The main character, Ume, has a complex about being a woman in a weak position.
Unlike now, when you become a woman, you have a greater value of being weaker than men.
On the other hand, she's a strong woman with strong feelings of "I don't like it" or "I want to rebel."
And the words men said to that woman were...
So from Ume, who probably received this, it's quite humiliating and "it can't be helped."
So I thought a lot about what Ume thought when a man said it to her.
Ume doesn't want to lose even in this part of power.
But after all, there are many times when you lose in terms of power, and it's a story of how you grow up while accepting it.
It's raw and...
Hmm...
I thought it was a great book when I read it.
It's just that if you're alive, you'll be put in even more difficult positions.
And even in that situation, she desperately ties her life together.
It's a book that makes you feel that living is beautiful after all.
I really want you to read it.
The criteria for choosing a book for me is...
Of course, when I find a writer I like, I collect a lot of their books and read them.
After all, there is always an opportunity to find that writer.
When I found Chihaya-san, it was the title.
The title of the book is "The Fragrance of a Transparent Night".
That's the first thing that got me into it.
I'm completely in love with the title.
"The Fragrance of a Transparent Night", what is it?
That's how I bought it.
That's why I think I often start with titles.
I read it and thought, "Oh, I like it."
I often try to continue reading that writer's book.
That's all I've read so far.
It was a novel I'd like to recommend.
Even so, it's hard, isn't it?
From the first book to this long one.
I think there are people who can't read it.
For those of you who can't read, I'm going to...
I'd like to recommend it to beginners.
There is a short story.
Here it is.
Ta-dah! "The Story Doesn't End".
It's completely private, so it's a little dirty.
Please don't look at it.
This short story is about...
21 best-selling writers...
Each book has a short story, so if you don't know what kind of writer you like yet, I highly recommend it.
Asai Ryo-san, who I love, Kawakami Mieko-san...
There are so many.
Ozaki Sekaikan-san...
There are really a lot of people's novels in it.
Each one is very short and easy to read, so if you can't concentrate for a long time or if you're busy and don't have time to read a long book, I highly recommend it.
The first one is Wataya Risa-san's "sealed dance".
This is strange.
It's a little bit of a horror element.
The college was the first stage.
At that school, girls fall in love with people they care about.
I looked up people's hobbies.
He's the kind of guy who doesn't talk about his hobbies and becomes passionate about them.
So she goes to his house to continue talking about his hobbies.
And the story that unfolds in that house is strange.
It's a story about what's going to happen.
I've read other novels of Wataya Risa-san.
It's a famous novel called "Keritai Senaka".
I've read it.
"Keritai Senaka" is also a very strange story.
I've read it, and I've read "Keritai Senaka", and I've read "Wataya Risa-san".
I really understood what kind of novel he wrote, so I thought, "Thank you."
Next up is "Garakuta" by Hikari Ohta.
Yes, Hikari Ohta is the author of "Bakushou Mondai".
Well, this story is my prediction, but maybe it's a real experience,
I read it thinking, "Isn't the protagonist Ohta-san?"
Yes, it's a story about a man who is a comedian.
He finds an old remote control in his coat pocket.
And he brings it out, and while feeling very nostalgic,
he says, "I'm stupid for leaving something like this behind."
And he says, "I'm stupid for leaving something like this behind."
This man has loved TV since he was little,
and he loves the stupid people on TV,
and he wants to be stupid, but at the same time, he wants to grow up.
And it's very, how do you say it? It's very comforting.
And this story goes back and forth between the past and the present,
and it's very interesting how they compare the values of the past and the values of the present.
And this title "garakuta" is a very interesting definition of what was a treasure at the time becoming "garakuta",
and it's expressed in a way that only comedians can say.
It's very, how do you say it? It's a different perspective from that of a novelist,
and depending on the writer, it's a completely different way of perceiving it, and it's very visible.
It's a novel, so I recommend it to everyone.
That's all for the introduction of the books I want to introduce.
It's very hot now.
It's the first time I've talked about books so passionately,
so I don't think it's going well,
but I'd be happy if I could tell you that books are interesting for the time being.
I hope it will add color to everyone's life and enrich their lives in the future.
I'd be happy if you could read it.
Thank you for watching until the end.