消え失せる 日本の文化 掘り炬燵

　最近ではあまり見かけなくなった掘り炬燵です。ここは８畳の畳の部屋が二間続きで、間には襖と上には欄間があります。外国の方には珍しい日本的なもので、今回、掃除をするため櫓を取り去り、太陽の光を入れました。

　炬燵を使うのは年に２～３回で、年末年始に娘たち家族が来たときのみです。７～８人がお酒を飲みながら、炬燵での談笑ほど楽しいことはありません。私が子供の頃は８人家族でいつも炬燵での生活でした。

　この炬燵は電気により温まります。膝を曲げずに椅子に座るような姿勢なので足が痛くありません。ここから庭の植物が眺められます。現在、私は一人暮らしなので、冬でもこの炬燵を使うことはありません。

 This is a tatami mat room and a foot warmer named "Kotatsu"that has become less common in recent homes in Japan. There are two connecting rooms with 8 tatami mats each, and there are sliding doors named "Fusuma"and a sculptured wooded transom named "Ramma" space above between the two rooms . It will be rare for foreigners. Recently, the climate became warm, so I took a desk named "Yagura" to clean the digging kotatsu and enter the sunlight.

 I use this kotatsu two or three times a year, and only when my daughters and their families return home during the New Year's holidays. There is nothing more fun than chatting with 7 to 8 people putting their feet in the kotatsu and drinking liquor. When I was a kid, my family of eight lived in Kotatsu every day.

 This kotatsu is heated by electricity, and when our feet warm, then the whole body becomes warm. Since we can put our legs in without bending knees, so we can put our legs in the same posture as sitting on a chair, therefore our legs don't hurt. From here I can see the plants in the garden. Nowadays I usually live alone, so I don't use this kotatsu even in winter.

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