桜の一日

桜の一日。
午前中、平塚で日本画の後藤先生の個展。彼女は桜を生涯のテーマにされていて今回もたくさん。これは祇園の夜桜。こんな風に描けたらいいのだが。後藤先生は平塚市の観光大使。一昔前の言い方ではミス平塚。ちなみに、私の長男と同学年。長男は知らず、天は二物を与える典型。
午後、近所のあおぞら公園に出かけたが、人が多く落ち着かないので河岸を変え、いつもの横浜国大の無人の桜の前で「同期の桜」に涙する。これもいつものこと。80年以上も前のことなのだな。海軍兵学校卒業の父、予科練卒業の叔父、いろんなことを思い、涙する。結局、桜の花を見るというより、軍歌を聞いて歌って涙するのが目的なのだ。
いい一日。

A day of cherry blossoms.
In the morning, Ms. Goto's solo exhibition of Japanese style painting in Hiratsuka. She has the theme of her life with cherry blossoms, and this time there are a lot. This is the night cherry blossom in Gion, Kyoto. I wish I could paint it like this. Ms. Goto is the tourism ambassador of Hiratsuka City. A long time ago, it was said Miss Hiratsuka. By the way, she is in the same age as my eldest son. God give two things.
In the afternoon, I went out to the nearby Aozora Park to watch cheery blossoms, but I changed the place because there were too many people and couldn't calm down. I cried at the old military song in front of the usual uninhabited cherry blossoms at Yokohama National University. This is also the usual thing. It was more than 80 years ago. My father, who graduated from the Naval Academy, and my uncle, who graduated from the preparatory training school of Navy Air Force, think of many things and cry. In the end, rather than looking at cherry blossoms, the purpose is to listen to the military song, sing and cry.
A nice day.