Books and personal growth · intermediate · 26 min
10 Books That Changed How I See Life
Listen to a personal Japanese vlog about ten books that changed the creator’s outlook on life.
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Japanese script with English translation
- 1.
こんにちはしおです今日はずっとみんなに
Hi, I'm Shio. Today, I'm finally going to...
- 2.
リクエストをもらっていたおすすめの本を
share the book recommendations you've all been asking me for.
- 3.
紹介していこうと思います私が読書始めた
I started reading...
- 4.
のが4年前とか5年前とかやけ今まで読書
about four or five years ago, so even for people who, until now...
- 5.
にそんなに興味がなかった人とかにも読み
haven't been that interested in reading, there are books that are easy to read.
- 6.
やすいそういうのもあるし悩んでる人にも
There are also books for people struggling with something...
- 7.
なんか癒されたい人にもなんかいろんな
and for those who want some comfort. I've come up with recommendations...
- 8.
カテゴリーでおすめを考えたのでよかっ
in a variety of categories, so if you'd like...
- 9.
たら最後まで見てて
please watch until the end.
- 10.
くださいということで
So, with that said...
- 11.
まずはなんか読書の魅力というか私読書を
First, I'd like to talk about the appeal of reading—or rather, why I...
- 12.
好きな理由なんやけど今はすごく情報に
love reading. Nowadays, we're surrounded by so much information.
- 13.
溢れていて本ってさ紙の上にこの文字と
A book, you know, is just words and letters printed on paper...
- 14.
言葉があるわけなんやけどこの少ない情報
and precisely because it contains a limited amount of information...
- 15.
量だからこそ自分の頭の中で考えたり色々
you can think things through in your own mind and imagine all sorts of things.
- 16.
想像したりじっくりこう向き合うことが
Being able to use your imagination and engage with something deeply...
- 17.
できるっていうのは毎日を過す上で楽しく
is very important both for enjoying daily life...
- 18.
自分のことを成長させようとかそういうの
and for thinking about how to grow as a person.
- 19.
を考える上ではとても大事なことだなと
I feel it's something truly valuable.
- 20.
思っていて自分の伝えたいことを自分の
When you want to communicate what you mean or how you feel...
- 21.
気持ちとかを人に伝える時に自分のことを
to another person, you first need to understand yourself.
- 22.
まず分かってないとさ人に伝えることって
If you don't, you can't convey it to others...
- 23.
できんやんそのなんかこういろんな自分が
right? Books help you take all the things you've...
- 24.
見たものとか感じたこととか気持ちとかを
seen, felt, and experienced emotionally...
- 25.
言葉にする手伝いを本はしてくれるなと
and put them into words.
- 26.
思っててたくさんいろんなさ登場人物が出
I think books do that for us. As you encounter all kinds of characters...
- 27.
てきたりまいろんな説明があったりとか
and read various descriptions...
- 28.
する中であ自分ってこういう気持ちだった
you may suddenly realize, “Oh, so this is how I was feeling.”
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んだって気づけたりああの時にあれを触っ
Or you might think, “Ah, the sensation I had when I touched that thing...”
- 30.
た感覚は確かにこの表現とすごく一緒だと
really does match this expression.”
- 31.
かそういうのでどんどんどんどん自分の
Through discoveries like that, the range of things you can...
- 32.
喋れる伝えられるものがすごく広がって
talk about and communicate keeps expanding.
- 33.
いくしそうそしてあとはなんか本って日常
And another thing is that books, even while you remain in your everyday life...
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にいながらもこう知らない世界にいっぱい
can take you to so many unfamiliar worlds.
- 35.
連れて行ってくれると思うよねだけそこで
I think they can do that. And there, you realize...
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知らないことがこんなにあったんだ知ら
“There were so many things I didn't know.”
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ないことを知れるというかだけあ次はこう
It's like discovering the unknown, and that makes you think, “Next, I'll...”
- 38.
いうことをしてみようとかこういうものに
try doing something like this,” or “I'd like to encounter something like this.”
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出会いたいとかこういう経験こういう
You might also think, “I'd like to have this kind of experience...”
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気持ち私も味わってみたいとか
or feel this kind of emotion myself.”
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いう風にまた楽しみを日々にこうくれると
In that way, I think books give us new things to look forward to each day.
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思うよねだけ本が好きですなでなんか
That's why I love books. And so...
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みんなもそういう気持ちになれるお手伝い
I hope I can help all of you experience those feelings too.
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ができればなと思いますということで早速
With that said, let's get straight to it...
- 45.
本を紹介していこうと思いますまず1冊目
and introduce the books. The first one is...
- 46.
はじゃん私とは何か個人から文人へ平野
Ta-da! What Am I? From the Individual to the Dividual, by Hirano...
- 47.
一郎でちょっと待ってまずこれを見てあ
Keiichiro. But wait—if you saw this and thought...
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なんか難しそう無理かもて思った人
“That looks kind of difficult; maybe I can't handle it”...
- 49.
ちょっと待っ
Wait a second—
- 50.
てこ作者の一郎さんはマチネの終わりにと
The author, Ichiro, writes books like At the End of the Matinee,
- 51.
かそういうのを書いている人なので
and other works like that, so
- 52.
とっても文章が日本語が優しくて柔らかく
his prose—his Japanese—is very gentle and soft,
- 53.
て読みやすいのでちょっと待っ
and easy to read. Wait a second—
- 54.
てこれをね読んで私は
After reading this, I
- 55.
とても生きやすくなりましたま今SNSが
found life much easier. Well, now that social media has
- 56.
発達して色々な人の暮らしぶりが良くも
developed, the way all kinds of people live—for better
- 57.
悪くも簡単に見えるようになったと思うよ
or worse—has become easy to see, I think.
- 58.
ねでまそのせいかこう自分らしさとか自己
And perhaps because of that, people talk about things like being yourself and self-
- 59.
肯定感自分を好きになるのはどうしたら
esteem, and ask what they should do to like themselves,
- 60.
いいかとかそういうのがいる色々聞かれる
and I think questions like those are being asked more and more.
- 61.
ようになってきたと思うんやけどこの本は
I think that has become increasingly common, and this book
- 62.
そういうのに対する答えが分かる本
is one that helps you find answers to those questions.
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です簡単に内容を言っちゃうとね本当の
In short, its message is that the “true
- 64.
自分っていうものは実はなくってその環境
self” does not actually exist, and depending on your environment—
- 65.
によって友達家族職場によって見せる顔が
whether with friends, family, or at work—the face you show
- 66.
みんな違うと思うやけどそのその比率に
is different, and the proportions of those different selves
- 67.
よってその人らしさとか性格っていうもの
determine that person’s individuality and personality.
- 68.
が決まっているよっていうような考え方で
That is the kind of perspective the book presents.
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でその考え方を元にどうしたら自分を好き
Based on that idea, it explores how you might come to like
- 70.
になれるかなとか愛するってどういうこと
yourself, what it means to love,
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かなと生きる意味って何だろうとかそう
what the meaning of life might be, and other
- 72.
いうのがいっぱい書いてある本ですでこれ
questions like those. And this book—
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ねお悩み相談講座の時も説あのこの本を
I also mentioned this book during the advice session—um, this book
- 74.
紹介してしたんだけどあのまた紹介し
I introduced it then, but I’m introducing it
- 75.
ちゃうぐらい本当にしかも1発目に本当に
again—and even putting it first—because it truly is
- 76.
いい本ですなんかね読み直してもやっぱ何
a great book. Even when I reread it, no matter how
- 77.
回読み直しても新しい発見がねこうやって
many times, I always make new discoveries. Like this,
- 78.
こんなあこんないっぱい箋をつけちゃう
I’ve put in this many—so many—bookmarks,
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ぐらいあのいろんな発見があるとっても
because there are so many things to discover. For anyone who often
- 80.
自分って何なんだろうとかあなんか
wonders, “Who am I, really?” or
- 81.
いろんな人のこと気にしすぎて色々悩ん
worries too much about what other people think and gets troubled
- 82.
じゃうな人間関係とかま人との関わり合い
by relationships and interactions
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の中で色々悩むことが多いなっていう人は
with other people,
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是非この方を読んでみてください本当に楽
please give this book a read. It will truly make things easier
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になりますはいていう1冊でした2冊目は
for you. So that was the first book. The second is
- 86.
じんな星のごとくさこれはここんな感じで
Like a Star in the Night. It looks like this—
- 87.
見て本屋対象ノミネートとか書いてある
look, it even says it was nominated for the Booksellers Award,
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ぐらい結構本屋さんでもボーンて置いて
and it was prominently displayed in quite a few bookstores,
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あったけね読んだ人とかも多いかなとかも
so I imagine quite a few people have read it.
- 90.
思うんやけどどんな本かって言うと主人公
As for what kind of book it is, its two protagonists
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2人が恋愛をするんだけどそれ10代20
fall in love, and as they move through their teens, twenties,
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代30代って時間を経ていくととに
and thirties, over the course of time,
- 93.
いろんな仕事とかキャリア家族人間関係と
the story covers work, careers, family, relationships,
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かとにかく恋愛を通して生き
and, above all, through romance, what it means to
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るっていうことを描いていくとてくれる
live.
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ような1冊ですそうなんだけど自分はこれ
That is the kind of book it is. That said, for me, this book…
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を読んでねあの恋愛感が本当に大きく
Reading it really changed my view of love in a major way—
- 98.
180°360°変わりましたなんか元々
by 180—or even 360—degrees. Originally, I…
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は結構恋愛ドラマとか映画みたいなあいう
used to think of love as something like those romance dramas or movies—
- 100.
ドラマチックなロマンチックなあの恋愛の
that the dramatic, romantic things found in a relationship…
- 101.
中にあるものが愛だと思っていたんだけど
were what love was. But…
- 102.
もしかし
perhaps…
- 103.
たら違うかもしれ恋愛っていうのはなんか
I might have been wrong. Maybe a relationship isn’t about…
- 104.
相手のことを束縛したりか契約したり
controlling the other person or making some kind of contract with them;
- 105.
ずっとお互いがお互いの方向を向き続けて
nor is it about constantly facing one another…
- 106.
あの歩み続けるものではなくて相手がどこ
and walking onward together. Even if you don’t know where the other person…
- 107.
にいるかわかんなくても何をしているか
is or what they’re doing…
- 108.
わかんなくてもまそれこそ妹とかお父さん
just as you may not know what your sister or father is doing…
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とかお母さんとかがどこにいても幸せで
or where your mother is—you simply want them to be happy…
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あってほしいなってこう思うそしてその人
wherever they are. And trusting that person…
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のことを信じるっていうことが愛なのでは
might be what love truly is.
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ないかとなんかそういう考えにさせてくれ
That book led me to think that way.
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たまでその色々恋愛を通していろんなこと
And through all its different portrayals of love, it taught me many things…
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が生きるっていうことをって言ったんだ
about what it means to live, as I mentioned before.
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けど本当にこれを読んだ後
After I finished reading it, I genuinely…
- 116.
ね強く行きよっ
felt determined to live with strength.
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て思えた方なんかもう自分の仕事も
It made me think that way—to work hard at my job…
- 118.
いろんな人間関係も恋愛も自分のために
at all my relationships, and at love, all for my own sake;
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いろんなことを頑張って強く行きよって
to give my best in everything and live strongly.
- 120.
なんかこうモチベーションを上げてくれる
It’s the kind of book that lifts your motivation…
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ような生けることを肯定して勇気づけて
that affirms life itself and gives you courage.
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くれるような本ですそう決まった生きる
That’s the kind of book it is. Yes, that’s it: it affirms…
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ことを肯定して勇気づけてくれるような
your being alive and encourages you.
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一殺ですでこれも長い長いっちゃまこう
That’s the book. And this one is long too—well, it does look long…
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やってね見たら長いんやけどあの
when you look at it, but…
- 126.
全然ストーリーがとっても面白いので
the story is so interesting that it doesn’t feel difficult at all.
- 127.
スイスイスイスイ読めちゃいます
You can breeze right through it.
- 128.
ねも全部めないけどおすすめです3冊目
I can’t explain everything, but I recommend it. The third book…
- 129.
ははい恋で君が死なない理由最果てタヒ
is The Reason You Won’t Die from Love, by Saihate Tahi.
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さんでまずね見てこの想定が低そ想定
First, look at this book design—this design…
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なんていうここう可愛くない表紙が
how should I put it—isn’t it cute? On the cover…
- 132.
ショートケーキからコロンって落ちちゃっ
a strawberry has tumbled off a slice of shortcake…
- 133.
てイチゴが飛んでるっていうなんか感じな
and is flying through the air—that’s what it looks like.
- 134.
んですけど最果て大さんはあのみんなが
As for Saihate Tahi, something that everyone…
- 135.
多分知っとるかなっていうところで言うと
might know her from is…
- 136.
ファッション雑誌のファッジの中でえっと
the fashion magazine FUDGE, where she…
- 137.
好きの因数分解っていう連載をしてたり
writes a serial column called Factoring Love.
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する方ですで1番最初にねタヒさんの方を
That’s the sort of work she does. The first time I read something by Tahi…
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読んだのは2年前くらいでウブ岩波って
was about two years ago, in an online series called Ubu Iwanami…
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いうねあのインターネットで読める連載が
which you can read on the internet.
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そのタイトルがね愛は全部キモいっていう
Its title was All Love Is Gross.
- 142.
なや
It was called that…
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けど最初それ読んだ時はなんかすごいどど
and when I first read it, I thought it felt incredibly intense and…
- 144.
しいなって最初その時
rather lurid—that was my initial impression at the time.
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の印象としては文章が1年前にいろんな
My impression of the writing was that, a year ago, various...
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ことがやっぱこうあって読み直す機会が
things happened, and I had a chance to reread it.
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あってそれ読み直した時になんかそこから
When I reread it, that was somehow when...
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もう大好きになってこうこの本の中には
I completely fell in love with it. This book contains...
- 149.
やっぱ生きていく中ってさどうしても
You know, as we go through life, inevitably...
- 150.
楽しいことだけじゃないじゃん辛いことも
it isn't all fun; there are painful things too.
- 151.
ある苦しいこと葛藤絶望違和感いろんな
There is suffering, conflict, despair, discomfort—all kinds of...
- 152.
感情があるじゃんそのま言ってしまえば
emotions, right? Put simply, those...
- 153.
みんなが隠していたりマイナスだと思って
things everyone hides or considers negative...
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いてあまり表に出せないようなモヤモヤっ
and the hazy feelings they cannot readily bring into the open...
- 155.
としたところを過せずにまっすぐここ綴っ
are written down here directly, without glossing over those troubled parts.
- 156.
てるうんなんか今ってやっぱり綺麗なもの
Yes. Nowadays, after all, beautiful things...
- 157.
がねやっぱりこうよく見える時代だから何
tend to stand out in this era, so everything...
- 158.
でも綺麗にしようとしがちだけどそこを
tends to be polished up, but this book doesn't do that.
- 159.
加工してないしこう読者に分かって
It isn't retouched, nor does it try to make the reader...
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もらおうとしてないというかなんかこう
understand it, so to speak. It's sort of...
- 161.
ある意味媚びてないからこそ人間のこう
precisely because it doesn't pander to anyone that the raw, human...
- 162.
生々しいいろんなそういう感覚っていうの
and visceral range of sensations...
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がこう手で触ったようにこう分かるように
can be grasped as vividly as if you were touching them with your hand.
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なんかだけにこそこう何度もこう読み直し
Some writing, I think, has to be reread many times...
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ないと分からない文章とかってあると思う
before you can understand it.
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んだけどなんかそうじゃなくて空間的に
But this isn't like that; it comes across spatially...
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直感的に空間的にすっと入ってくるような
and intuitively, slipping smoothly into you.
- 168.
言葉がたくさんありますはいそうでも
There are so many words like that. Yes, but...
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なんかこう2年前の私にはそれがなんか
Somehow, to the person I was two years ago, it felt...
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こうちょっと生々しいなとかどどしいな
a little too raw or even somewhat lurid.
- 171.
みたいな感じに感じちゃったんだけどでも
That was how I felt, but...
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それって人間のどっかの部分みんなが持っ
that's a feeling everyone carries somewhere inside them, right?
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ている感覚じゃんそうそれをなんか言葉に
Yes, and having someone put it into words...
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してくれていることですごく救われると
makes me feel profoundly comforted...
- 175.
いうか
or rather, saved.
- 176.
うんちょっと愛で喋りすぎたいちょっとさ
Yeah, I've talked a little too much about Love. Hey...
- 177.
1個いい好きなの言っても分かって欲しい
Can I share one passage I like? I want you to understand.
- 178.
愛っていう中にある一説です私が何を思う
It's a passage from Love: “What I think...
- 179.
かとか何が辛いかとかそういうことを何も
and what pains me—those kinds of things—I didn't want you to...
- 180.
かも先回りして察知して欲しいわけでは
anticipate and sense every single one of them.
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なかった想像で埋めて欲しいわけでも
“Nor did I want you to fill in the gaps with your imagination.
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なかったただ私は分からない存在であると
I only wanted you to understand that I am someone who cannot be understood.
- 183.
いうことを分かって欲しかったそれでも
That was what I wanted you to understand, and even then...
- 184.
いいと許して欲しかったそれが私がきっと
I wanted you to accept that it was okay. That must have been what I...
- 185.
願っていたこと分かって欲しいという言葉
had been wishing for when I said, ‘I want you to understand me.’
- 186.
で願っていたことだ優しい人たちきっと
That was my wish. Kind people, surely...
- 187.
あなたたちには永遠にできないこと
this is something you will never be able to do...
- 188.
でしょう
isn't it?”
- 189.
もう泣いちゃう今読んでも全然今元気なん
I'm already tearing up. Even reading it now—I'm perfectly fine now...
- 190.
だ
I really am...
- 191.
けど泣いちゃうこの言葉やっぱ何回見て
but I still cry. No matter how many times I see these words...
- 192.
も次はじゃん誕生日の子供たちトルマン
Anyway, next is The Birthday Children, by Truman...
- 193.
カポーティ村上はき役ということでこれは
This is Capote, translated by Haruki Murakami.
- 194.
うんなんかね正直これはなんで自分が好き
Yeah, honestly, as for why I like this...
- 195.
かっていうのがあんまり言語化できてない
I haven't really been able to put it into words.
- 196.
んやけどでも好きでなんか何回も読みたく
But I do love it, and it makes me want to read it again and again.
- 197.
なる本です
It's that kind of book.
- 198.
読むね私が泣くのは大人になりすぎたから
I'll read it: “I cry because I've grown too old.”
- 199.
だよかつて悪意の存在を知らず傷つけ
Long ago, unaware that malice existed, harming others...
- 200.
傷つくことから遠く隔たっていた世界へ
and being hurt—to that now-distant world...
- 201.
カポーティは幾度となく立ろとしたたえ
Capote tried time and again to return, even if...
- 202.
その扉はすでに閉ざされていようとも子供
that door had already been closed. Children...
- 203.
にまつわるお話が4遍入っていてま子供
There are four stories about children, and, well, children...
- 204.
ってなんかよくも悪くもすごく鋭いやん無
can be incredibly perceptive, for better or worse. Without...
- 205.
自覚に人を傷つけることもあれば逆にそれ
realizing it, they may hurt someone, while conversely that...
- 206.
が人を救うこともあったりなんかそういう
may also save someone—there's that kind of...
- 207.
子供の純粋さがある世界でなんかそれがね
world filled with childhood innocence, and somehow it...
- 208.
すごい異世界にいるっていうか話の中に
feels as though you're in another world, or inside the story...
- 209.
いるというかなんかここでは違うんだけど
as it were. It's not here...
- 210.
こことは違うんだけどなんか自分の記憶で
It's somewhere different from here, yet it isn't one of my own memories...
- 211.
もなくてなんかすごいね不思議な気持ちに
either, so it gives me this really strange feeling...
- 212.
なる他では味わえないなんかなんて言っ
that I can't experience elsewhere. How should I...
- 213.
たらいえんだろうなそうそいう本当に
put it? Yes, that kind of truly...
- 214.
不思議な気持ちを味わえる一冊です
It's a book that lets you experience a truly mysterious feeling.
- 215.
4冊目はじゃん海からの贈り物エム
The fourth book—ta-da!—is Gift from the Sea, by M...
- 216.
リンドバーグえこれ想定この表紙の貝殻が
Lindbergh. Look at the design—the seashell on this cover...
- 217.
さすごい可愛く
is so cute...
- 218.
ないねこれはね友達にねシオこれ好きと
isn't it? A friend told me, “Shio, I think you'll like this...”
- 219.
思うよ多分って言ってお勧めしてもらって
probably,” and recommended it to me.
- 220.
読んだ本ですこれどんな本かって言うと
So I read it. As for what kind of book it is...
- 221.
やっぱ女性ってさいっつも与えるね子供男
Women are always giving, aren't they? To children, men...
- 222.
また社会を養うために与え続けるのがが女
and society. If a woman's role is to keep giving in order to sustain them...
- 223.
の役目であるならば女はどうすれば満たさ
then how can a woman herself become fulfilled...
- 224.
れるのだろうかまていうことをこの女性の
That is the question this woman reflects on...
- 225.
方が海辺で暮らしながら会を眺めながら
while living by the shore and gazing at the sea...
- 226.
考えたことが書かれている本なんだ
and the book records her thoughts.
- 227.
けどちょっと正直いろんなことが書いて
But honestly, it discusses so many different things...
- 228.
あってあのこういう本ですっていうのが
that it's hard to say, “This is what the book is about.”
- 229.
難しいんやけどでもなんかもう生きること
It's difficult, but really, it's about living...
- 230.
よね
isn't it?
- 231.
でま結構本当にいろんなことが書いてある
And it really does cover a wide range of things.
- 232.
件読むたびに自分は発見があってこれはね
So every time I read it, I discover something new. This book...
- 233.
なんかずっと分からないことがたくさん
contains many things I may never fully understand...
- 234.
ある本だけずっと本棚に置いておきたい
but it makes me want to keep it on my bookshelf forever.
- 235.
なって思わせてくれるような1冊です浜辺
It's that kind of book. “On the beach...”
- 236.
中の美しい貝を全て集めることはできない
you cannot gather every beautiful shell.”
- 237.
少ししか集められなくてそして少しの方が
You can collect only a few, and fewer shells...
- 238.
もっと美しく見える詰た貝が1つある方が
look more beautiful. A single shell you picked up...
- 239.
3つあるよりも印象に残るいそうやなこれ
leaves a stronger impression than three. That's so true, this...
- 240.
は
really is.
- 241.
もうあ女性出動
Now, it’s the women’s turn.
- 242.
5冊目は
The fifth book is...
- 243.
じゃんジベルニーの食卓原田マハ
Ta-da! Giverny’s Table, by Maha Harada.
- 244.
さんこれは芸術っていうものへの距離を
This is a book that brought me closer to art...
- 245.
ぐっと近づけてくれた一冊ですマティス
...in a very real way. Matisse...
- 246.
ピカソドガセザンヌとかいうこう印象派の
Picasso, Degas, Cézanne, and other Impressionists...
- 247.
人たちのがどんな風に暮らしていたか生き
...how those people lived and went about their lives...
- 248.
ていたかもちろんフィクションも含めて
...including fictional elements, of course.
- 249.
そういうのはあの書いてあるんだけどて
That’s what the stories describe, and...
- 250.
いうのが短編でこう入っているような説で
...it’s a novel made up of short stories like that.
- 251.
これを前まではやっぱり芸術ってなんか
Before reading this, I felt that art was somehow...
- 252.
こう交渉で知識わからん一般人素人には何
...so lofty that ordinary, unknowledgeable amateurs couldn’t understand anything about it...
- 253.
もわからんしよみたいなも銅像を見てあれ
...you know? You look at a statue and...
- 254.
が美しいとか分からんやんだけ分からん
...you can’t tell why it’s beautiful. So I thought it was beyond me...
- 255.
ものと思って結構諦めとったんやけどでも
...and I’d pretty much given up on it. But...
- 256.
あそっ
Oh, I see...
- 257.
かモを描いたあの水冷を書いた人もあの
...the person who painted Monet—well, who painted Water Lilies—and...
- 258.
彫刻を作ったドかも私たちと同じ感情の
...Rodin, who made sculptures, were people with the same emotions as us...
- 259.
ある人間なん
...they were human beings.
- 260.
だんと思ったあの人たが作ったんだなんか
That’s what I realized: those people created these works.
- 261.
そのストーリーを読んでなんかこう人隣り
Reading their stories and learning what they were like...
- 262.
をしてなんかファンになるじゃないけど
...it’s not exactly that I became a fan, but...
- 263.
この人なんか応援したいっていう気持ちに
...I started feeling that I wanted to root for them.
- 264.
なるというかなんかそれでね芸術に対する
That’s how I felt, and as a result, the barrier I had toward art...
- 265.
壁がねすごくなくなったんです亡くなっし
...really disappeared. It’s a book that removed it for me.
- 266.
てくれた一冊ですこれはそうこれはねあの
That’s what this book did for me. Yes, and this one...
- 267.
フランスに行く前にパリに行く前に読んで
I read it before going to France, before going to Paris...
- 268.
フランスのルブ美術館とかんな合法とかの
...and then visited places in France like the Louvre and the Orangerie...
- 269.
ねとかんな術館ったんだけど読でって
...and various other museums. I was glad I’d read it beforehand.
- 270.
よかったと思ってその文章でこんな人だっ
The text had shown me what kind of person each artist was...
- 271.
たっていうのをねフィクションもあるけど
...though some of it was fictional.
- 272.
でも読んでいってそれで見る絵ってなんか
But after reading it, the paintings I saw somehow felt...
- 273.
全然多分読んでいかなかったのと
...completely different from how they would have if I hadn’t read it.
- 274.
違うなんかその時の空気とか場面とかを
They were different. I could picture the atmosphere and scenes of that time...
- 275.
色々自分の中で想像しながら見てあそこに
...as I looked, imagining all sorts of things and feeling as though I were there.
- 276.
いるかのようななんかそしてこんな風に
It was as though I were there. And seeing the works displayed like this...
- 277.
この絵がたくさんの人たちに囲まれて見
...this painting surrounded by so many people, being...
- 278.
られているいろんな思いを持って書いた
...admired—painted with so many emotions behind it.
- 279.
例えばごがこんなにたくさんの人に囲まれ
For example, Van Gogh’s work is now surrounded by so many people...
- 280.
て見られているよかったねごみたいな
...and being admired. I’d think, “Isn’t that wonderful, Van Gogh?”
- 281.
なんかそういう気持ちになるねなんかマハ
That’s the kind of feeling it gives me. Maha’s...
- 282.
さんの芸術のそのフィクションの方は
...art-related fiction...
- 283.
すごく面白いのでこれだけじゃなくてね
...is really interesting, so don’t stop with this book.
- 284.
読んでみてくださいいいよね本てこういう
Please try reading her other books too. Books are wonderful, aren’t they? They can...
- 285.
なんか新しい扉開いてくれるから本当に次
...open new doors for us. Truly. Next...
- 286.
は小説ではないんだけど
...isn’t a novel, though.
- 287.
じん帳古いやつ古いやつ昔の暮らしの
An old magazine—an old one. An old issue about life in the past...
- 288.
手帳これはねなんで読み始めたかて言うと
...a handbook. As for why I started reading this...
- 289.
あのいつも言っとねおきさん美容室ねきー
You know Okki, the hairstylist I’m always talking about?
- 290.
さんの美容室の本だはとっても面白くて
The bookshelf at Okki’s salon is really interesting.
- 291.
あのきーさんのことはま部屋のケアと人生
Well, Okki takes care of both my hair and my life—
- 292.
のケアをねいつもしていただいてるんです
I’m always having him take care of both.
- 293.
けどそんなオッキーさん尊敬するオッキー
And that Okki, whom I respect so much—
- 294.
さんの本なのに暮らしの手帳の昔のものが
had some old issues of Kurashi no Techo on his bookshelf.
- 295.
あってそれ何ですかって聞いて気になって
I asked what they were, since they caught my attention,
- 296.
色々聞いたら
and after asking him all about them,
- 297.
このクラシの手帳の初代編集長花森安井
I learned that he really likes Yasuji Hanamori, the founding editor-in-chief of Kurashi no Techo,
- 298.
さんのことがすごく好きでそれで真似して
so I followed his example,
- 299.
あのメルカリデクは買いましたそうみんな
and bought some on Mercari. Yes, everyone—
- 300.
も花森安さんはね多分すごく好きだと思う
I think you’d probably really like Yasuji Hanamori too.
- 301.
けあのポッドキャストでねポンていうこう
There’s also something on the podcast called “Pon,” kind of—
- 302.
いう感じのやつとかがあるけあの気になる
something along those lines, so if you’re interested,
- 303.
方よかったら聞いてみてくださいあの安
please give it a listen. Yasuji’s—
- 304.
さんの考え方本当に素敵ですこんな昔に
way of thinking is truly wonderful. The fact that, so long ago,
- 305.
こんなことを言ってるっていうのがすごい
he was already saying things like this is amazing.
- 306.
でこの本が好きな理由はね皆さん物を大切
And the reason I like this book is that it teaches us to value things—
- 307.
にへと軽石赤と黒野菜の
There are pieces like “Pumice Stone,” “Red and Black,” and “Vegetable Flowers,”
- 308.
花
“Flowers,”
- 309.
ツ小型の
and small—
- 310.
電気掃除機をテスト
vacuum-cleaner tests.
- 311.
するなんかねなんかこういう
They test them. You know, it has things like—
- 312.
あハサミとかねこういうとっても内容がね
scissors and the like; the content is very—
- 313.
シンプルなねなんかこれを読んだらすごい
simple. Reading it really makes me feel—
- 314.
あ暮らしてこんなにシンプルだったんだ今
“Oh, life used to be this simple.” Nowadays,
- 315.
はすごい情報もさももたくさん選択肢が
there’s so much information, so much stuff, and so many choices.
- 316.
あっていろんなものが溢れていてそれ上に
We’re surrounded by all sorts of things, and on top of that,
- 317.
悩んだりとかたるを知るじゃない満たされ
we worry instead of knowing what is enough. Even though we should feel fulfilled,
- 318.
ているはずなのにこうももって思っちゃい
we still end up wanting more and more,
- 319.
たりとか
and things like that.
- 320.
あ暮らしてこれでいいん
It makes you think, “Oh, life is fine—”
- 321.
だてすごい思わせてくれる本なんか別に
just as it is.” It’s a book that strongly reassures you of that. And it’s not as though—
- 322.
だけてこの自分はねこの文章を全部これを
I personally read every single piece of text in it,
- 323.
読んでいるとかそういうわけでもなくて
or anything like that.
- 324.
なんかただこの昔の本の匂いを嗅ぎながら
I simply smell the scent of this old book,
- 325.
落ち着きながらあシンプルだった暮らして
calm down, and think, “Oh, life was simple—”
- 326.
このままでいいんだパラパラパラってする
“It’s fine just as it is,” while casually flipping through the pages.
- 327.
ような感じでそう呼んで
That’s the sort of way I read it.
- 328.
ます安心するのねこの本を読むと次お次は
It reassures me whenever I read it. Next up—
- 329.
シオがですね本を読むきっかけになった1
for Shio, this is one of the books that got her into reading.
- 330.
冊です3冊
It’s one book—though there are three.
- 331.
ですじゃん
There are three, right?
- 332.
え田辺せい子さんのいい
Um, Ii Yo by Seiko Tanabe.
- 333.
夜これは中古品で買っとねもほぼでも本は
I bought this one used. Actually, almost all my books—
- 334.
全部ほぼ中古品で買えよかもしれん最近
lately, I think I buy nearly all of them used.
- 335.
あのせい子ちゃん誰になりたいとかロール
You know how people ask Seiko-chan who she wants to be like, or who her role—
- 336.
モデルは誰を尊敬するってみんな聞いて
model is and whom she respects.
- 337.
くれるんやけどもう1番は
It gives me that, but my absolute favorite is...
- 338.
やっぱ田子さんですもうせい子ちゃんです
It has to be Ms. Tago—Seiko-chan.
- 339.
よはいってますけども80何歳ももう
She appears in it, though she was already over eighty...
- 340.
亡くなってる方なんだけどねでこれはもう
She has passed away, you know. And this is...
- 341.
あの恋愛小説なんやけどあのせい子ちゃん
Well, it is a romance novel, and Seiko-chan...
- 342.
は本当に恋愛小説のもう
really is, when it comes to romance novels...
- 343.
神神ねなんか女性の恋愛している時の心情
a goddess—a true goddess. She captures how women feel when they are in love...
- 344.
みたいなものをすっごいゆもらすに面白
and portrays them with tremendous humor, in such an amusing...
- 345.
おかしく警戒にだけね文章がポンポン
and lighthearted way; the prose just flows along briskly.
- 346.
ポンポンポンポン読めていくよねそうでも
You can just keep reading it effortlessly. Yes, but...
- 347.
なんかせい子ちゃんの大事にしている日々
the everyday life that Seiko-chan treasures...
- 348.
を面白おかしくというか楽しくとかそう
is presented amusingly—or rather, joyfully—and those sorts of...
- 349.
いうなんかこう肝みたいなものがいろんな
essential insights, you might call them, are scattered throughout...
- 350.
とこに散りばめられとってもうそれも
all sorts of places, and that too...
- 351.
すっごいはっていろんなことを気づかせて
really hits you and makes you realize so many things.
- 352.
くれる目からうこみたいな感じになれる方
She gives you those eye-opening realizations.
- 353.
うん本当にセクだの方はこれをでで本当に
Yes, I truly recommend this to those people. And I really...
- 354.
ファンになってもいろんな本を読んだんや
became a fan and went on to read all sorts of her books.
- 355.
けどやっぱりなんかこう日々面白おかしく
But above all, she made me want to make everyday life amusing...
- 356.
したいなって楽しみたいなっていろんな
and to enjoy it, finding pleasure in all kinds of...
- 357.
さえなことでもっていうのいろんな気づき
things, even the most trivial ones. She gave me many realizations...
- 358.
をやきっかけをくれたのがもうせい子
and opportunities to do so—that was Seiko...
- 359.
ちゃんですです私のもう師匠ですね
chan. She is practically my mentor.
- 360.
でもっと初心者もっとなんかこういや
And for complete beginners, or people who, well...
- 361.
やっぱりでも本はそれでもまだ読めない
still feel that they cannot quite read a whole book...
- 362.
けどなんかこういろんなことを学びたいな
but want to learn all sorts of things...
- 363.
とか知りたいなっていう人にはおすめなの
and broaden their knowledge, what I recommend is...
- 364.
がじゃん上気限な言葉366
Ta-da! “366 Cheerful Words.”
- 365.
日はいこれはせい子ちゃんのこういろんな
Days. Yes, this collects material from Seiko-chan’s various...
- 366.
小説の中に書いてあるアフォリズムという
novels—aphorisms, you might call them...
- 367.
か大事にしていることというかなんかこう
or the principles she cherishes, something like that...
- 368.
そういうことが366日分でこう書いて
with one such thought written for each of 366 days.
- 369.
あるもんでなんで女はこうも引っ張りとか
It contains lines such as, “Why do women so love prolonging things...”
- 370.
肩をつつけるとかいい加減に妥協しない
putting things off, and refusing to compromise at a sensible point...”
- 371.
ことが好きなの
Why do they like doing that?”
- 372.
か本当そうよねなかあこれ好きなよね色を
That is so true, isn’t it? Oh, I love this one: “To add color...”
- 373.
つつける多めに見る含みを持たせるこれは
to overlook things generously, to leave room for nuance—this is...
- 374.
とても大切だ色をつつける心があれば
very important. If you have the heart to add color to things...
- 375.
世の中スムーズに行くことをしそのけ方に
things will go more smoothly in the world, and in that way of doing it...
- 376.
音などが
there is the composure of an adult...
- 377.
出る子供ではできないああしびれる
That is not something a child can do.” Ah, that gives me chills.
- 378.
ね私は男でも女でも一瞬心を奪われると
Right? “Whether man or woman, I always loved people who showed...”
- 379.
いう様を見せる人がとても好きだったまた
themselves becoming captivated in an instant. Put another way...”
- 380.
言えば単純なことに心を奪われる人ほど
the more easily someone was captivated by simple things...”
- 381.
好きだっ
the more I liked them...”
- 382.
た女の泣くのは人生の部品取り替え
“I liked them. A woman’s crying is like replacing parts in her life...”
- 383.
あるいは分解掃除のようなもので1人で
or giving it a complete overhaul. Crying alone...”
- 384.
泣くのも人生の慰めであるままこういうね
is also one of life’s consolations.” Well, lines like these, you know.
- 385.
いろんなことが書いてあるもこれあの
It has all sorts of things written in it—well, um...
- 386.
読み出したら切りなんやけど全部いけけど
If I started reading them out, I'd never finish, though I could go through all of them.
- 387.
こういうことが書いてある本
It's a book containing things like these.
- 388.
です素晴らしい本当に
It is. It's truly wonderful.
- 389.
もうせい子ちゃんのようなおばあちゃんに
I want to become an old lady like Seiko...
- 390.
なりたいんよ私
That's the kind of person I want to be.
- 391.
ははいラストはじゃんとるに足らないもも
O-okay, and last is—ta-da!—Trivial Things.
- 392.
エクに香りさんやっぱやっぱなんかこう
By Kaori Ekuni. I guess, somehow...
- 393.
立ちるっていうことが自分は好きなのかも
Maybe I like the act of stopping for a moment...
- 394.
しれない
...perhaps.
- 395.
フレンチ
French...
- 396.
トーストピンク押し花運動物旅行カ
Toast, pink, pressed flowers, exercise, animals, travel...
- 397.
ヨーグルト傷スプリンクラー
Yogurt, scars, sprinklers...
- 398.
そういう1つ
Each one of those kinds...
- 399.
のやっぱ
...of things, after all...
- 400.
なんか
...somehow...
- 401.
うん今あるものに目を向けるってなかなか
Yeah, turning our attention to what we have right now is quite...
- 402.
難しいことをやっぱり暮らしていく上で
...difficult. As we go through life...
- 403.
自分もそうないものないものに目がきがち
I'm the same—I tend to focus on what I don't have...
- 404.
でたこうなりたいこれしたいと
...thinking, “I want to be like this” or “I want to do that.”
- 405.
かだけどちょっと自分の今あるものに目を
But if you take a moment to look at what you have now...
- 406.
立ち立ち返ってみて今あるものに目を向け
...if you pause, return to yourself, and turn your attention to it...
- 407.
てあこれのこういうところがいいなって
...you might think, “Oh, I like this aspect of it.”
- 408.
こういうところが好きだななんでだろうっ
Or, “I like this part—why is that?”
- 409.
て考える時間って意外とないよねでもそう
We surprisingly don't spend much time thinking about that, do we? But...
- 410.
いう時間が
...those moments...
- 411.
なんか平凡で落ち着いてるけど幸せだっ
...may feel ordinary and quiet, yet also happy...
- 412.
たりするのよねそういうことを教えてくれ
...in their own way. This book taught me that.
- 413.
た本
That's the kind of book it is.
- 414.
ですはいということで3時になっちゃった
Yes. So, it's already three o'clock.
- 415.
ということで最後にあの番外編にあの好き
So lastly, as a little bonus, I'd like to introduce some picture books I like...
- 416.
な絵本を紹介し
...to you.
- 417.
ます好きな絵本
My favorite picture books.
- 418.
じゃーん全部ね女の子が謎におるんやけど
Ta-da! For some mysterious reason, every one of them has a girl in it.
- 419.
さ雨のように優しくみよのバケツ雨と
Let's see: Gently Like the Rain, Miyo's Bucket, Rain and...
- 420.
女の子やっぱなんか女の子好きなんよね私
...the Girl. I guess I really do like stories about girls.
- 421.
のこの絵本の楽しみ方っていうのがあって
I have a particular way of enjoying these picture books.
- 422.
ちょっと絵本これ全部フルなんやけど旅に
These picture books are all old, by the way. When I travel...
- 423.
出かけたに日本屋さんに入るのが大好きで
...I love going into secondhand bookshops.
- 424.
旅先ってやっぱり気付かれすれゃ何でも
Traveling can wear you out, since everything is unfamiliar.
- 425.
新しい新しい道を調べて新しい場所に行っ
You look up unfamiliar routes and go to new places...
- 426.
て新しい人とあって新しいものを見てって
...meet new people, and see new things.
- 427.
いうのでその時になんかふっと落ち着き
With all that going on, sometimes I suddenly want a moment of calm...
- 428.
たくて本屋さんに入るフル本屋さんにね
...so I step into a bookshop—a secondhand bookshop.
- 429.
落ち着いた光の落ち着いた匂いのする
It has gentle lighting and that soothing smell...
- 430.
あったかい空気のフル本屋さんにねこう
...and a warm atmosphere. Into a secondhand bookshop like that...
- 431.
どうしても足が吸い込まれていっちゃうん
...I can't help but feel my feet drawing me inside.
- 432.
やけどそこ
And there...
- 433.
でもやっぱりあの小説とか文字が多いの
But rather than novels and things with lots of text...
- 434.
じゃなくてちょっとこう絵がある落ち着く
I prefer something calming that has illustrations.
- 435.
絵本かちゃうです
I end up buying picture books.
- 436.
ねいいよね本当にね絵本とどれんよ絵本あ
They're great, aren't they? Seriously, you shouldn't underestimate picture books. Ah...
- 437.
ごめんなんかもうちょっとよくわから
Sorry, I'm not really sure anymore...
- 438.
んかったけどとりあえず大好きな絵本の
...what I was saying, but anyway, this was an introduction to picture books I love.
- 439.
紹介という感じで塩のおすすめ
So those were Shio's book recommendations.
- 440.
の本でしたあちょっとなんかちょっと違う
Those were my recommended books. Ah, that doesn't sound quite right.
- 441.
よねあのごめんやっぱいいなんかやっぱり
Right? Sorry—never mind. I guess...
- 442.
ねそのこれを読むべき本これ言ったかな
I don't want to call them books that you absolutely have to read—did I already say that?
- 443.
わからんけどこれなんかこう今日お勧めし
I'm not sure, but the books I recommended today...
- 444.
た本は読むべき本なんか速攻薬みたいな
I don't want to present them as must-reads or as some kind of instant cure.
- 445.
感じでみんなに言いたくなくててかそう
That's not how I want to recommend them to everyone. I mean...
- 446.
いう本じゃなくてなんかみんなのどれか1
They're not that kind of book. I just hope that one of them...
- 447.
冊がみんなのお守りみたいな存在になって
...might become something like a lucky charm for you.
- 448.
くれればいいなと思いますそれぞれ人ね
That's what I hope. Everyone is different, after all.
- 449.
感じ方も違うし捉え方も違うしねなので
We all feel and interpret things differently, so...
- 450.
もし会う一冊があれば嬉しいですあの一応
I'd be happy if you found one that suits you. Anyway...
- 451.
下にね概要欄にリンクとか一応貼っておく
I'll put the links in the description below.
- 452.
ので気になったのなかったら見てみて
So if anything caught your interest, please take a look.
- 453.
くださいあとなんかこう本について
Also, regarding books...
- 454.
いろんななんかどういう風に本を読んでる
Things like how I read books...
- 455.
とかなんかそういうなんかこう本に読書に
Or other questions about books and reading...
- 456.
ついての質問とかはまた別の動画でね
I'd like to address those in another video.
- 457.
やろうと思っているのでそういう質問が
I'm planning to make one, so if you have any questions like that...
- 458.
あったら是非コメントで教えてください
Please let me know in the comments.
- 459.
あとはこの本もすすめだよとかなんかこ
And if there's another book you'd recommend, or if you think...
- 460.
いうの好きならそれも好きなんじゃないと
“If you like this kind of thing, you might like that too,”
- 461.
かそういうのもあればぜひコメントでえて
Please share suggestions like those in the comments too.
- 462.
ください
Please do.
- 463.
ねちょっとでもなんかコなないいなと思っ
And if you thought even a little bit that this was nice...
- 464.
たらぜひあのいいね
Please give it a like.
- 465.
是非あのいいねとか押してくれるとあの
I'd be happy if you could press the like button.
- 466.
嬉しいです初めてお願いし
I'd really appreciate it. That's the first time I've asked for that.
- 467.
たはいということで多分結構長い動画に
Okay, so this probably ended up being quite a long video...
- 468.
なってしまったと思うんですけどみんなが
But since so many of you asked...
- 469.
いっぱい聞いてくれるんでできる限り今私
I tried, as much as possible, to use everything I currently know...
- 470.
の持つあの全てを使っていや使えてないか
Well, maybe I didn't quite use everything...
- 471.
もしれんけど説明しまし
But I did my best to explain it.
- 472.
たこれでなんか特徴友達できたらいいな
I hope this helps you make some fellow book-loving friends.
- 473.
なはいいうことであのこれからねそして強
Okay, so from here on, as we enter the rainy season...
- 474.
に入ってって家にいることも多くなると
I think we'll be spending more time at home.
- 475.
思うので成功うと言いますからぜひ雨の日
So, with the rainy season and all, why not choose...
- 476.
に読む一冊とか選んじゃったりしてはい
A book to read on a rainy day? Okay.
- 477.
ありがとうございましたバイバイ
Thank you very much. Bye-bye!