── 京都人のことばにひそむ、美意識と距離感 — The Aesthetic and Distance Hidden in Kyoto Speech 「ぶぶ漬けでもどうどす？」――京都人が、そろそろ帰ってほしい客に出す、遠回しな“合図”。 そんな話、聞いたことがある人も多いでしょう。 ちょっとしたジョークとして持ち出されます（いや、もはやジョークにすらなりません）。 でも、京都を深く知る上で、...

“How about some bubuzuke?” Eating ochazuke (お茶漬け; bubuzuke in Kyoto dialect), a dish of tea poured over rice, is a traditional meal-ending palette-cleanser in Japan. In Kyoto, though, if a proprietor asks if you want bubuzuke, what they’re actually saying is, “Get the hell out.” This is Kyoto’s so-called “culture of unkindness,” or ikezu-bunka (いけず文化) – and the subject of a recent sold-out event in the city that put people’s ability to read between the lines to the test. For the citizens of Kyoto, ikezu-bunka consists of statements that contain an underlying meaning. As one resident puts it, telling someone,