さてきのうは法事関係の予定があったので東京から朝１番の飛行機でトンボ帰り。朝6:30という飛行機は人生でも初めてみたいな時間でした。そういうことなので、それこそ２時くらいに起床して宿泊先のサウナ施設で目を覚めさせてから早朝の都内から羽田空港へ。朝１番便というのに満席フライト。すごいですね。同乗者はビジネスの人からインバウンドの海外客、欧米系から非中国のアジア系と多種多様。わたしが過ごしてきた国内航空ツアーとは様相が変わっていると思いますね。日本社会の構造変化なのでしょうか。
　普段とはまったく違う過ごし方だったので、カラダ的にはあちこち疲労感が大きくて、きのうは夕刻に帰宅してから以降、ひたすら爆睡して疲労回復に専念であります。おかげで、今朝はやや元気回復。
　東京でいろいろな情報交換するなかで例のフジテレビの社長さんとの「遠縁」も知ったのですが、この件では本日に再度のフジテレビとしての「記者会見」が予定されているようですね。わたしは「芸能」がメインのこうしたテレビメディアにはまったく関心がなく、ときに目にする芸人さんたちによるバラエティワイドショーみたいなのにはほとほとあきれかえっていた人生行路だった。そういう場所で人生を送ってきた人が高校同窓で、いま現在の社会的関心事のスポット局面に責任者として立たされていることに驚かされておりました。
　まぁ、今回の件はテレビという商業メディアにとってまことに際どい局面、正念場でしょう。門外漢としては、遠い距離感の中で事態の推移を見るしかない。わたし個人としては、むしろテレビメディアそのものが存続するのかどうか、その「臨界点」を見定めさせてもらうような心象であります。
　そういう次第ですが、写真は安藤忠雄設計の姫路文学館の建築写真。自分はやはりこういう建築とか住宅空間などの領域がメインの「数寄領域」だと再認識。そういう、空間性と作家とか漫画家とかの表現者との相関関係というテーマ・場所がメインと見定めて掘り下げていきたいとあらためて念願しております。

English version⬇

Media and Entertainment Unified Structure ‘in Peril’ Today
Society’s attention is now focused on the ‘structure’ itself, which has been devoted exclusively to ‘making ratings’. This is a critical moment. How will it develop? …

　Well, yesterday I had a legal appointment, so I flew home from Tokyo first thing in the morning. It was the first time in my life that I had flown at 6:30am. So I woke up at around 2am and went to the sauna facilities at my accommodation to wake myself up, and then went from Tokyo to Haneda Airport in the early morning. The flight was full, even though it was the first flight of the morning. It was amazing. The passengers were diverse, from business people to inbound overseas passengers, from Westerners to non-Chinese Asians. I think the aspect has changed from the domestic airline tours I have been on. Is this a structural change in Japanese society?
　Since it was a completely different way of spending time than usual, my body felt very tired here and there, and since I came home in the evening yesterday, I’ve been sleeping heavily and concentrating on recovering from the fatigue. Thanks to that, I felt a little better this morning.
　In the course of exchanging various information in Tokyo, I also found out about my ‘distant relationship’ with the president of Fuji Television, and it seems that another Fuji Television ‘press conference’ is scheduled for today in relation to this matter. I have never been interested in this kind of TV media, which mainly focuses on ‘entertainment’, and have been fed up with the variety shows by comedians that I have seen from time to time in my life. I was surprised that someone who had spent his life in such a place was a high school alumnus and was now in charge of a spotlight of current social concern.
　Well, this is a critical moment for the commercial media of television. As an outsider, I can only watch the situation from a distance. For me personally, I feel as if I am being asked to judge whether the TV media itself will survive or not, and whether it is a ‘critical point’ or not.
　The photo is an architectural photograph of the Himeji Museum of Literature, designed by Tadao Ando. I have reaffirmed that I am mainly in the ‘sukiya domain’ of architecture and residential space. I would like to delve deeper into the theme and place of the correlation between such spatiality and artists, cartoonists and other forms of expression.
　

Posted on 1月 27th, 2025 by 三木 奎吾
Filed under: 状況・政治への発言