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グーグ−5
2010年8月15日
今日は日本にいる友達から郵便が届きました。
「グーグーだって猫である」の5巻です!
彼女(日本にいる友達)は猫友だち。
なにかにつけ、近所の猫の写真を送ってくれたり、街で見つけた猫グッズを送ってれたり、とくに大島弓子先生の「グーグーだって猫である」の新刊が出ると必ず送ってくれます。
猫好きとはそうしたもの、秘密の心のよりどころなのです。
わたしも自分ちの猫のかわいい写真とかよその猫のかわいい写真とか送ったりします。
そしてさっそく送ってくれたグーグー5をよみました。
よんだことあります?これ。
読み進むにつれどんどん世話をする猫の数が増えて(現在は家にいる14匹に加え、外猫のケアもなさっている!)、どんどん大島先生の人生が猫たちの人生にコミットしていきます。
今回は、「ラテちゃん」という仔猫の死と、「ソックス」という仔猫の事故死、それから仔猫をもらってくれた初期の担当の方の訃報にもふれてあります。
その5巻まで読んでようやく気が付きました。
このマンガは始まった当初から「死」が身近にあったんだ、ということに。
ふえ続ける猫=「死」と戦っているから、ということになりはしませんか。
ふえ続ける猫と、「死」が身近にある、といって思い出すのは石井桃子先生の「迷子の天使」です。
こちらでは念海夫人が戦時中の空襲で、生き埋めになった近隣のおばあさんの、"土からにょっきりきのこのように生えた"足を目撃するという、暴力による死のイメージが描かれます。
その後、念海家はほとんど猫捨て場となり猫はふえ続けます。それらの面倒を見るのはもちろん、主人公はさらに、隣の家(汚職をやっている政治家)のさみしい子供たち、その家のかまってもらえない高額なコリー犬、さらにはその友達(不遇な子供)と自分ちの子供、それら「迷子たち」にもかかわっていきます。
グーグーに話を戻すと、
この前、マーストリヒトの庭で1日をすごす老猫Poesjeの絵を描いたり、
大心のハラマキなど縫っていたときに亡くなった祖母のことを思い出していたことを考えました。
それらは大島先生ご自身の近くにあった死とはまた違い、べつに共通点などありませんが、
私に見ることができたのは同じくそこにあった、描かれた猫、です。描き続けられる猫、といったものです。
そういうものがあるということが好きなのです。
ついでにいうと、先日私は9月に1週間ほど留守にするために、私の飼い猫の世話をしてくれる友達を捜していました。
方々に電話をかけると「いいよー」と快諾してくれた友達が3人もいました。
アーティストは、ヒマそうに見えてもたいてい常に何かプロジェクトを抱えているもので、じつはけっこう忙しく働いている人たちです。
こういう、社会生活に於いてはとるに足らない小さい生き物のためにそんな手間をとってくれる人というのは本当にありがたいです。
キャットシッター探し。
と、スヌーピー。

Goo Goo vol.5
15th, Aug, 2010
Today I've got a parcel from a friend who lives in Japan.
My friend, Aya, had sent me a Manga about cats,"Goo Goo vol.5"!
Aya is a cat-lover.
Once in a while, she sends me something about cats. For example, cats-printed photos, cats-printed socks, cats-printed wallet.. especially sure thing, she sends me "Goo Goo" when the new volume on store.
Yes, she's so sweet..and a friendship of cat-lovers is mostly behind the back of sociality but somehow strong.
Sometimes I send something-about-cat back to her, for example my cat's photos what I took nicely, the other cats photos what someone took nicely.
Anyway I started to read the "Goo Goo vol.5" immediately.
Maybe you haven't read it yet. This Manga is based on a real story of the author.
The author, Yumiko O-shima, is a cat-lover. She's got her second cat from a pet shop after she lost her first cat.
Since she started living with the cat, Goo Goo, she's started to save stray cats in a park.
One day, she had got a very bad cancer. She made her testament to take the operation.
It succeeded. She continued the medication and continued saving stray cats around at the same time.
One thing and another, now she is living with 14 indoor cats and around 10 outdoor cats plus a dog! Of course her life has been involved in many cares of her cats and stray cats in the town (often it is quite problematic)..
In the vol.5, O-shima has lost several kitties and a contact person of her Manga.
A kitty's death with illness, a kitties death with an accident, and her contact person's death with her serious illness.
After reading through till vol.5, finally I realized that this story is always fighting with death, from the first part, the first volume.
It reminds me an another story, " Maigo no Tenshi (The Stray Angel)" written by Momoko Ishii.
Momoko Ishii is a person who transrated "Winnie- the-Pooh" in Japanese.
This fiction story's background is just after Second World War.
During the war, one day, the heroin, Mrs. Nenkai, had got a bomb in her neighborhood. She ran to a bomb shelter.
After she's out from the shelter, she witnessed a pair of legs has grown from the ground. The legs could identified that that is one of her neighbor's, an old woman's. She was buried alive.
The old woman was rescured soon and she's fine, but Mrs. Nenkai cannot forget the shock of the concrete image of death.
After this and that, the War's over. Survived stray cats started to come to Mrs.Nenkai's house. Sometimes people threw the cats on her yard like a trash area. She struggles to save cats. The stray cats continue to increase...
In the end of the story, Mrs. Nenkai faces to a mixed problems of "strays", in a bad politician family, a poor family and her family.
Well, let's get back to what I was talking.
When I finished to read "Goo Goo", I remembered about when I was in Maastricht, I made some drawings of Poesje (an old sweet cat) in a garden. I also remembered about when I sewed Daishin's warmer. During sewing, I was remembered about my grandma who's already passed away.
Looking at garden, or sewing bring me some kind of feeling.
I can find no similarity between my memories and "Goo Goo" but drawn cats.
Even though, I'd like to say, I like those drawn things are exist.
I have a cat.
Nowadays I was looking for someone who's going to take care of my cat for a week for I and Daishin both travel to Berlin.
It made me so happy that when some friends reacted and said "OK" to owe my small species.
It's not only for cats but also for Dogs, Birds, Turtles, Plants, etc..all for the other small species. That's great that those people exists!
