食卓

家族の団欒は輸入された概念で、国家に押し付けられ、やっと戦後それが実現するも、猛烈サラリーマンの母子家庭ではそれも無理な話となった。僕の名前は食卓の卓だと父親に言われたが、父親は家族と食卓にいた試しはなく、そして僕も同じ運命を辿った。それは建築なんかやったからでもあるが、母子家庭（のような）に育ったからでもある。子供を産むのが10年遅ければ今頃僕の料理で食卓を囲む家族が実現していたのだが。Family unity was an imported concept imposed by the state and finally realized after the war, but fierce business people couldn’t have a fatherless family. My father told me my name meant the table, but he had never been at the table with his family, and I suffered the same fate. It is because I did architecture, but also because I grew up in a (sort of) single-mother family. If I had had a child ten years later, I would have had a family around the dinner table with my cooking.