Naoko Tachibana - Photography
Involve Feminity
Model: Jiro-Runa 2014
女装への罪悪感と25年以上にわたって葛藤を続けた末、ありのままの自分を受け入れることにしたという40代の男性。会社では優秀なリーダーとして篤い信頼を集め、趣味ではスポーツを愛し、筋トレを欠かしません。そんな男らしさの一方で、とても女性らしい感性を持ち合わせています。
誰も家に入れたことがないという１Ｋのマンション。入り口の茶色のカーテンを引くと、一面ピンク色の世界。質感や色調を揃えた手作りのインテリア、自分のサイズに手直しした洋服の細かい仕事、その感性はまぎれもなく女性以上に女性的なものでした。
「サーフィンや車と同じように、自分が打ち込んできた誇れることの一つなんだと思えるようになった」
女装は一般的には気持ち悪いと思われています。しかし彼の生き方は私からは尊いものに見える。
なぜなら彼は、長い葛藤の末に自分の本当の心に向き合ったから。
After continuous inner conflict with a deep sense of guilt for 25 years concerning the desire to try cross-dressing; this man was in his 40s when he decided to accept himself for who he is. He collected ardent trust as an excellent leader of a company, loves sports as a hobby and doesn't miss a muscular workout. On the other side of such manliness, he has very feminine sensitivity.
He rents a 1 bedroom apartment which he has never brought anyone to. There is a brown curtain at the entrance of the bedroom; on the other side is a pink world. The entire interior is designed and customized by hand. He prepared all materials and colors, and in the fine detailed work of the clothes which he adjusted to his own size, the sensitivity is obvious, and you could say more feminine than a woman.
In the same way as his surfing and car customization, he began to think it might be possible that it was one of the things that he could be proud of, which he devoted himself to.
It seems that in general people feel sick that cross-dressing is strange. However, his way of life looks like an admirable thing to me. Because he faced and accepted his true heart after a long struggle.