ルーペ・フィアスコのインスタグラム(lupefiasco) - 1月12日 01時35分

LESSON #24 OF THE BUDOSHOSHINSU:

A SPLENDID ENTRANCE, BUT PLAIN LIVING QUARTERS
When a samurai in service is having a house given to or built for him by his lord, it is most reasonable that the appearance of the outer gate and entrance and the aspect of the formal sitting room be rather splendid, yet in accordance with the man’s social position. This is because in any castle town —even for the homes of samurai living outside the castle precincts —when the quarters of all the samurai have a pleasing look to the stranger or foreigner who passes by, the place itself will seem prosperous and all the retainers settled. This will also perhaps be somewhat beneficial to the lord. Beyond that, it is reasonable to be resolved not to spend much on construction for the area where one’s wife and children will stay, and to endure any sort of shabbiness, as long as the rain does not leak in.
Speaking specifically, during the Warring States Period even the daimyo who were lords of castles constantly kept in mind being under siege. Accordingly, there were definite regulations keeping the houses low, the area between the rafters narrow, and the construction expenses light, even for the residences attached to the secondary and tertiary citadels. How much more so then for the houses of those samurai living by the outermost ramparts? When faced with untoward events they would burn and destroy their houses themselves, and thus did not build them to last forever. For this reason extremely light construction is said to be “built like residences around the castle.” Knowing this, it is difficult to say that it is a good thing for a samurai set on being a warrior even in the present times of peace to run the length and breadth of things he enjoys in the construction of his house, adding an excess of materials, and thinking that he will live there forever. When a man enjoys using construction materials to excess and then gets deeply into debt for them, it can be said that he behaves improperly.
These words are for the understanding of those intending to be warriors.

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