噺の中の商売をするなら…(English follows Japanese)

落語には色々な商売が出てきて前から面白いなぁと思ってた。主人公になるのは商家の主人か奉公人、殿様から平までの侍、大工、医者、寺子屋の先生、花魁、芸者、泥棒という感じ(泥棒は商売じゃないけどね)。何気に無職も多い(隠居は無職の代表)。

自分が落語の中で商売するなら何がいいだろう。モノを売るのはあまり興味ないし、船頭、車夫のように体力消耗しそうなのも好かない。やはり何か教える系が楽そうでいい。落語に『しわいや』、『始末の極意』というケチがコツを語る噺があるが、これなんかいいかも。今風に言えば"節約コンサルタント”だ。人を集めて全員の頭の上に大石を吊るして"はい、これでどんなに寒くても汗をかくから冬でも暖房費は不要です！”とかもっともらしく教えるの楽しそう！

柳家喬太郎か桂文珍あたりが『新・しわいや』作って是非演じてほしいものだ。

If I start a business in Rakugo world...

I have been interested in many kinds of business in Rakugo. Heroes and heroines in Rakugo stories are such as a shop owner and an employee, a Samurai warrior Lord and a subordinate,  a carpenter, a doctor, a teacher, an Oiran, a Geisha, as well as a thief, though which isn't a job.

Some of the heroes are without an occupation, like an Inkyo (a retired person).

What kind of business is successful if I start a new one in Rakugo world? I don't wanna sell something. I don't prefer to exhaust all my energy to pull a rickshaw or row a boat. In fact, I like teaching something because it seems easy to me. 

In Rakugo story called ”the secrets of a miser”, an old miser talks to a customer how to save money. This is a big hint! 

Put in today's words, it would be similar to a ”financial consultant talk”.

After gathering many people, I teach them plausibly as following.

 ”At first, you should hang a big stone from your house ceiling and sit under it. You would sweat soon so that you shouldn't need any heating tools during the winter season.” 

Wow, that is fantastic!

I hope any Rakugo storytellers like Yanagiya Kyotaro or Katsura Bunchin make a new type of ”the secrets of a miser”, of course, the hero is a ”financial consultant”, and perform it someday.