Ch.4 紳士の生活 〜カーマスートラ〜 Ch.4 The Gentleman’s Life
朝、起床した後、紳士は歯を磨き、良い香りをするものを体に塗る。香を焚き髪に香りを満たし、蜜蝋と紅い染料を混ぜたものを顔につけ、花輪を掛け、そして鏡で自身を見る。仕事に行く前に、口を蒟醤の葉で爽やかにする。（５）
毎日沐浴すべし。二日に一度はマッサージをし、三日に一度は魚の骨のヘラを使う。爪と頬髭は４日に一度切り揃え、体毛は５日か１０日に一度除毛する。脇の下は汗をかくのでいつも清潔にすべし。（６）
朝と昼は食事を取らなければならない。“チャラヤナ”によると、晩もである。食事の後は、鸚鵡と九官鳥に話しかけ、鶉や闘鶏、闘羊を鑑賞したり、他の似た様な娯楽をして時間を過ごす。又、仲間や客、道化師と交流し、うたた寝をする。（７−８）
昼を過ぎてから、社交場や夜会に出かける為に着替える。辺りが薄暗くなると音楽の演奏がある。その後、出掛けている間に飾られ、そしてお香を焚かれてあった寝室へ戻り、ベッドの側で手伝いの者達と一緒に女達が彼に会いにやってくるのを待つ。使いの女性が呼びに来るか、彼自身が行く。（９−１１）
彼女たちが到着したら、彼と手伝いの者は礼儀正しく賞賛の言葉と共に歓迎すべし。もし天候が悪く、雨で衣服が濡れてしまったら、化粧直しを彼自分でするか、友人に付き添ってもらう。それが紳士の昼夜の日常である。（１２-１３）
After getting up in the morning and relieving himself a gentleman cleans his teeth and rubs some sented paste on his body. Perfuming his hair with incense smoke, applying beeswax and red lac to his face and putting on a garland, he then looks at himself in a mirror and freshens his mouth with betel leaf before attending to the day’s work. (5)
He should bathe every day, have a massage every sexond day and use the fish-bone body-scraper every third day. The nails and the whiskers should be trimmed every fourth day and the body hair removed every fifth or tenth day. The armpits should always be kept clean of perspiration. (6)
He should eat in the morning and afternoon. In the evening too, according to Charayana. After meals he spends time making his parrots and mynah birds talk, watching quail, cock and ram fights and other similar recreation. He also interacts with his companions, parasites and jesters, and and then has a nap. (7-8)
By the late afternoon he is dressed to go out for social gatherings and soirees. At dusk there are concerts of music. After that he returns to his chamber, which has meanwhile been decorated and perfumed with incense smoke, and waits there by the bedside with his aides for girlfriends coming out to meet him. A messenger woman may be sent to fetch them or he may go himself. (9-11)
When they arrive he and his aids should receive them with all courtesies and many winning words. If they have come in bad weather and their clothes have got wet in the rain, he should himself redo their makeup or have his friends attend to this. Such is his routine, by day and night. (12-13)
- A Guide to the Art of Pleasure KAMA SUTRA Vatsyayana
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