笹川良一さん94歳時に東京の竹村健一先生のセミナーでお会いした時に、当時新宿の「柿伝」の安田善一氏に75歳に「年を50引きなさい」と云われていました。安田さんは年を50引いたら僕はまだ25歳ダヨ！と云われていましたが、安田さんもそれから9０歳まで長生きされ、生涯現役を貫かれました。
「柿伝」は茶道の裏千家の茶店として新宿駅横にあります。茶道家の人は長生き！正座と茶は身体に良いということです。
I do not keep track of peoples age anymore. Twenty years ago I met Ryoichi Sasagawa sensai when he was 94 yrs old at a Kenichi Takemura sensei seminar in Tokyo. During the seminar, I met Zenichi Yasuda, a 75yr old man, who owned a Urasenke shop, for making tea ceremonys called the Kakiden. Sasagawa san said to Yusada san that he should think of his age as being his age minus 50 years. So instead of being 75 years old, he is really 25 yrs old. After that he now being only 25 yrs old, he did not retire ended up living till he was 90 years old.
