First time at shoji "harikae"
障子。
欧米では考えられない。「壁は紙でできている？紙？」
まあ、日本建築で有っちゃいけない。和紙でできている障子。特に、我々伝統的な旅館に。意外に断熱効果もあり、使いがてが非常に便利だし、良い雰囲気が出るし、私は個人的に大好きです。
但し、すぐ敗れちゃう。貼替は業者さんに頼めば、1枚1500円がかかちゃう。今日はずくを出して、子供達に手伝ってもらって、おばさんにやり方を教えてもらって、亀清の破れた障子の全部を貼替えました。業者ほど完璧に出来なかったかもしれないけど、初心者としては悪くない。
しかし、途中、雪見の部分のガラスを割っちゃった。結局、業者さんに頼んだ方が安く済んだかもしれない。それにしても、良い経験でした。
Paper Shoji Screens.
In the West, no one would ever imagine a wall made of paper.
But here in Japan, a shoji screen is a staple of a traditional Japanese room. After using them, I have come to appreciate their usefulness, their insulating properties, and the soft feel they give to a room.
However, I don't appreciate how easy the paper tears. It costs 1500 yen a panel to have a shoji professionally recovered. Today, I got the kids to help, and got our aunt to demonstrate how, and we recovered all the torn shoji from Kamesei's guestrooms.
We didn't do as good of a job as a pro would, but they turned out just fine if I do say so myself. That is, until I broke one of the glass panels in a yuki-mi shoji. So this will end up costing us more than if we had a pro do the job to begin with. But it was still a good experience!
信州戸倉上山田温泉の亀清旅館のＨＰはこちらClick here for the website of Kamesei Ryokan in Nagano.
