A lecture of Nasu Masamoto

On August 9, I've heard Nasu Masamoto's lecture.
 　He was born in 1942. He was bombed by an atomic bomb at Hiroshima city when he was still three.
 　He said about a vague remembrance of it. His house faced on the national road. He saw many people were going in front of his house. They were just like mud dolls. His house had the roof and wall blown off. He sat down in the closet. He remember he was reading a Japanese textbook. He thought the last page was so colorful. But after years he has known it was painted just two colors.
　　He remember a man gave him a canned tangerine. It was very hot. The man might have stolen a pile of canned tangerine from the factory set in the central Hiroshima city. He should be a shrewd person who dear to go to the city when many people escaped from. How was he alive fine rest of his life ?
  After Fukushima nuclear plant accident, he went to Fukushima to see children. A  junior high school girl said that she was glad to see a man who was bombed like him could get old. Though one of his classmate was dead when she was junior high school student, he could live over seventy.
 
  One of the audience asked him, which character was the nearest to him. He replied the Hakase was the nearest. He has been curious from a little boy. Another audience asked how he had got the idea of the stories. He has written 213 books. He replied he hardly had difficulty in making stories. When he drinks with an editor chatting about next works, he goes to urinate, then the idea comes out.
 He said he made effort to write the sentence which children easily understand.

  If I knew that someday I would hear the author when I was reading the books, I would be more exciting.

那須正幹講演会

　８月９日　那須正幹さんの講演を聞いた。
   彼は１９４２年生まれ。広島市で３歳のとき被爆。よく覚えていないと言っていた。家が国道に面していた。たくさんの人々が家の前を行くのを見た。泥人形のようだった。家の屋根と壁がふっとび、押し入れにいた。国語の教科書を読んで最後のページが色あざやかだった印象がある。しかし、後にそれがたった2色だったことを知る。
　男の人がみかんの缶詰をくれたことを覚えている。ものすごく熱かった。広島市内の工場からみかんの缶詰をひとやま盗んできたのだろう。抜け目のない人だったといえる。たくさんの人々が逃げてくるのに市内に行くのだから。その後元気に過ごせただろうか？
　　福島原発事故のあと、福島に子ども達に会いに行った。中学生の女の子が、彼のように被爆した人も年をとれるのだと知ってうれしいと言った。自分の中学のクラスメイトは死んだけれど、彼は７０歳過ぎまで生きている。
　聴衆の１人が、作中のどのキャラクターが先生に一番近いのですか、と質問した。ハカセが一番近いです、と答えた。小さいときから好奇心旺盛だった。別の聴衆が、どうやってストーリーを考えるのですか、と質問した。いままで２１３冊本を書いた。アイデアに苦労したことはないと言った。編集者と飲みに行って、おしっこしててアイデアが出るとのこと。
　子どもが読みやすい文章を書くよう努力している。
　もし、那須さんの作品を読んでいるとき、いつかこの作者の話を聴くことができるんだと知っていたら、もっとわくわくしただろう。

13 Aug. 2012