Translation: 2008.10 Myojo: Kamenashi Kazuya
Kame talks about his home and a trip to Okinawa.
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2008.10 Myojo: Kamenashi Kazuya
p. 59
When I live somewhere, the room/home is absolutely not stylish/fashionable
Not until I started work, did I know that there are so many kinds of pasta in the world. When we had spaghetti at home, I only saw them with meat sauce or in Neapolitan-style (*laugh*). I grew up in such an ordinary house [where we eat them like that].
Sitting at the dining table in the kitchen and eating, the image of those two things together doesn’t appear [in my mind]. A TV and a sofa are in the living room and I sit on the floor using the sofa as a backrest and eat. If that’s the case “Isn’t a Kotatsu [1] great!”, that’s what I recently think.
Since I was a child I have an eerie habit. Furniture and stylish stainless steel things are not good at all. I really like the warmth of plenty of wood in the house. Probably, in the future instead of living in a stylish home, I will settle in a home that is jumbled like my home [<-- very hard to express in English: what he means is that even if he can have a stylish home he won’t choose it because he likes a “warm” home].
[1] table with heater, to keep the feet warm.
One family gathering a month
Because we are a family where my mother is the only woman, I think being the mother is really difficult. When I try to think about it, we didn’t often eat together, yet? she was also busy during meals. But on the other hand, when our parents had a cold or such, we brothers cooked and did various things. Especially because - since I was little - she wanted anything to be done, be it cleaning, laundry or cooking, generally we could do it. Maybe because of that, the Kamenashi sons early lived independently. I also worked from early on. But the time of mutual separation is long, even though we all think about the family. At my age, even now, every month all family members gather, isn’t this great?
Giving a happy surprise!
When I was small and while my mother was gone, I washed the dishes, cleaned and helped quietly/secretly, because I liked to surprise her. Even now liking to surprise her hasn’t changed. In fact some time ago, I suddenly wanted to go to Okinawa… and I went! Holding only flight tickets and going to decide on the hotel after arriving there. I like that. I think, it’s such a pleasant surprise when we are together. Ah, was it too sudden? But, in Okinawa without looking in a guide book or anything, we randomly entered an Okinawa soba shop…it was absolutely delicious. From the appearance of the store or the sign board one couldn’t say if it was good or not, but I can say it with my special talent. I have confidence, that I/you would absolutely not be disappointed!
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