The day I was born is too long-ago for me to remember. -- March 20, 1967 of Yukito's room

Y u k i t o C h r o n i c l e

The day I was born is too long-ago for me to remember. -- March 20, 1967


First of all, I'm going to write from the day I was born with my first cry to this world.
However, regrettably I myself do not have memory of that moment. It seems true that I was born, though...
Because there's no alternative for it, I will write based on testimonies from my parents and others.

In 1967, Japan, in the middle of high economic growth, was still poor in general. Three-wheelers and streetcars were running in cities. Hot-blooded students devoted themselves to radical activity. Color televisions were still new. The Vietnam War continued over the sea. And a famous pro-wrestler Rikidozan was already dead.
It is said that on March 20 of the year I was born at Rokugoh Hospital in Kamata, Tokyo.
Of course, I was told all of them later.
I came out to this world as the eldest son of my mother Kazue and my father Tadamasa, who was running a butcher in Kamata those days.
It is said that I was a baby without trouble that rarely cried or fretted. That means I was an introvert child by nature who seldom expressed joy, anger, humor and pathos.

I was reportedly, with a method called forceps delivery, "gripped tightly in the head by iron claws and pulled hard" (according to Tadamasa) out of my mother's birth canal.
The scars at that time resulted my asymmetric earlobes and eyelids.
Quite later I learned about the psychological trauma called "birth trauma," and since then I have suspected I had been with it.
Though my father and mother are generally loving parents and I had spent my almost trouble-free childhood, I have had the stain of deep fear and cruelty as a reaction of it in my mind from my infancy, which have annoyed me.
I have wondered what had caused them, but "birth trauma" seems to explain this mystery.
A baby, with a satisfied doze in his mother's womb, was suddenly dragged out with a violent pain to this world. It would be natural that he had come to have fear and wariness against the external world and to show a defensive attitude all the time.

Tadamasa named "Yukito" to the traumatized child. The name "Yukito," shown in 3 characters of Japanese hiragana for my pen-name, is originally written with Chinese characters. Though each Chinese character is simple, but they are too exorbitant combination for anyone to read them as "Yukito."
How Tadamasa, just a junior high school graduate, could manage such naming is still a mystery.
Painful birth and a strange name.
I can tell that my life as an eccentric person was destined mostly at that time.
If you want your baby to become an eccentric person, I recommend you to give him/her a strange name.

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