親父の背中(4)
親父の背中(4)
親父にああしろこうしろと言われたことはほとんどないが、兄貴が早稲田高等学院から政経学部に進みたいと言った時と、僕が芸大に言って陶芸をやりたいと言った時は頑として突っぱねられ、「手に職をつけて自律せよ」と言われた。自分は大学で経済学を学んできたのにと二人の息子は納得がいかなかった。しかし親父に言われたことはそのまま子供達への教えとなり娘には大学を出たら自律せよと小さい時から言ってきた。そうしたら早稲田大学の卒業式の次の日、娘は自活しますと家を出て行ったのである。
My father’s back(4)
My father rarely told me to do this or that. Still, when my brother told the father that he wanted to study political science and economics at Waseda Senior High School. And when I told him that I wanted to study pottery at Geidai, he stubbornly refused and told us to get skills and become autonomous. My two sons were not convinced, as he had studied economics at university. However, what my father told me became a lesson to my children, and I told my daughters from a young age that she should be self-reliant once she finished university. The day after she graduates from Waseda University, she left home, saying she would live on her own.