Left-handed

Following my block update from 02/12, I received mails
from my friends asking: "Huh? You are a left-hander?".
I'm sorry for posting such a confusing picture.

Since it's me who caused the misunderstanding,
I'll now explain the kinda trivial matter about "my dominant arm."
The case is that... in my private life I most of the time use my left hand,
except for pencils and chopsticks for which my parents taught me to "hold it in your right hand."
In the moments when I take or hold something, or when pushing the button of the elevator, and whenever I don't think about what I'm doing, I naturally use my left hand.

I usually don't concentrate on it and am not aware of what hand I'm using,
but I guess that not a lot of people around me notice that my innate dominant arm is my left one, because I use my right hand to hold pencils and chopsticks.
During the summer in the year before last, there was a salute scene in the movie "Southbound" and during the test for that scene the director noticed that I was using my left hand to salute.
"Kitagawa, you are left-handed?" laughs
Eventually he liked it and told me to keep on doing it with my left hand and so I did.


Therefore I re-thought the matter and
noticed that I'm using my left hand in a lot of situations in my private life.

Whether I put on my shoes or other clothes, all with my left hand.
Cutting and eating bread, left hand as well.
When playing baseball, too.
Or when using my mobile phone.
Even when washing the tableware.
I hold coffee cups or glasses in my left hand.
I put in tickets with my left hand, too.
(that's why it's difficult to get through a ticket gate)
And when scrolling through my blog I also noticed that I'm unconsciously using my left hand for writing on white- or blackboards, as well as when eating with a fork or a spoon.

Ever since little was taught things like, "chopsticks in the right hand, rice bowl in the left". I hated those manners so much, that when I started to live alone and my parents weren't able to watch over me anymore, I didn't care about them anymore and started to eat in my own style. In doramas and variety shows I feel a bit awkward, because I always have to think about that I have to take care of those manners when eating. I often didn't like myself for that last year, because there were many occurrences where I had to eat during work, but lately I improved a lot and usually eat in the right way now!


Recently I practiced gestures and tea ceremonies and when you take things in you pick something up, "you first use your left hand to hold it and then add your right hand as support".
I had to do that a lot of times and to tell you the truth, it was quite a hard fight until I got familiar with it.
The binding of the obi and the tasuki was something I had to practice many times over, because it always came out reverse than that of my teacher, or when thinking about it in my head, it always became an odd granny knot.
My teacher said that left-handedness was against the manners in the Edo period and that it was absolutely necessary to convert into a right-hander.

Somewhere I heard that one's dominant arm is somehow related to one's brain and that statistically right-handers have a more developed brain on the left and left-handers on the right side.
I'm glad that it doesn't say anything about having both sides equally developed, because that means that it is okay if I'm not able to become a right-hander, except for pencils and chopsticks~
Seriously, what am I think about? laughs
I have written really well today, haven't I? ...a self-reflection.

The pictures are from an interview with MORE last month.
I already mentioned it last time, but the PR machine for "Manatsu no Orion" is beginning to roll and the coverage in fashion magazines also seem to increase again.
It's no problem when being inside a studio, but at an outside location it becames a battlefield with all the pollen.
It's im..., impossible... geez... not good, but I'll try my best. laughs
When I heard in the news that they are expecting a lot of pollen until GW (Golden Week), I unintentionally covered my ears,
but I sincerely hope that it was an incorrect report.

Written by: jyoyu.blogspot.com
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