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English: But, the newly emerging devotees are positive, unlike their predecessors, in enjoying fundoshi loincloth for the first time even among the those who do not wear it.
Japanese: 新たな愛好家は、従前の例ではなく、周囲に愛用する者がいない中で、能動的に初めて褌を着用する例となっていることである。
English: While traditional devotees to fundoshi loincloth are now aging and their population is decreasing, new devotees are emerging from the generation that knows only briefs and trunks.
Japanese: 従来からの愛好家の高齢化が進み、高齢世代の愛好家人口は減少している一方で、新たな愛好家となるブリーフやトランクスしか知らない世代が出現している。
English: Now, the Japanese socieity is mature and so any individual advocacy is generally accepted, along with movements for individualization.
Japanese: 個性化の時代を迎えて、個人の主張が容認される成熟した社会となっている。
English: The people of the new generation no longer have any conventional prejudices towards the fundoshi loincloths being used as "underwear in the past."
Japanese: 新しい世代は褌を「過去の下着」としての旧来の偏見を持たなくなっている。
English: No matter how far westernization might infiltrate Japanese way of dressing, the high temperatures and humidity in Japan would make the fundoshi loincloths more attractive and satisfactory than the briefs and trunks in their function and efficiency as underwear.
Japanese: 日本人の洋装化が進んでも、日本の高温多湿な気候の中で褌の持つ下着としての優れた機能や効能からくる満足度はブリーフやトランクスよりも高い。
English: In addition to such advantages of fundoshi loincloths, their unique feeling when worn is supposed to bring forth new devotees for them from the new generation.
Japanese: そのことや、独特の着装感から、新世代の愛好家が生まれるものと推測される。
English: Before World War II, the fundoshi loincloth was mostly homemade, but circumstances changed so it is no longer homemade but it is also difficult to obtain it at the shop.
Japanese: これまでは、戦前のように自家で縫製して使用するような環境でなくなり、また、一般の店頭にも並ぶこともなく入手性に難があった。
English: However, recently, various mail order businesses have developed due to internet services among which are some dealers who are specialized in manufacturing and selling fundoshi loincloth.
Japanese: しかし、インターネットの出現とそれに伴うインターネット通販の発達で、褌の製造販売を行う専門の業者等が生まれた。
English: The presence of network societies has also made it possible to offer any information on fundoshi loincloth through the internet and other services.
Japanese: ネットワーク社会の到来と共に、褌に関する情報がネット等を通じて提供されるようになった。。
English: In this way, there are certainly many devotees of fundoshi loincloth everywhere in Japan, so, devotees of the new generation are no longer feeling isolated but are sharing the common concept of the value, and accelerating a kind of sense of unity.
Japanese: こうして、現在でも数多くの愛好家が存在することが確認されるようになったことで、孤立がちな新たな世代の愛好家には、価値観を共有することで連帯感に似た心情を持つようになった。
English: Before World War II, Japanese men's swim clothes were generally fundoshi loincloths, mostly roku-shaku fundoshi loincloths.
Japanese: 戦前までは日本人男性の水着は、褌が一般的であり、ほとんどが六尺褌であった。
English: In dramas on the various eras that were made in the age of silent pictures, many sword fighting scenes were screened, where players used to blatantly display their fundoshi loincloth.
Japanese: かつて無声映画といわれた頃の時代劇映画では、ふんどしを露に見せての剣戟が盛んだった。
English: Momonosuke ICHIKAWA, a popular star at the time, showed consciously his own fundoshi loincloth, for which his female admirers were much pleased and called him "Fundoshi Momo-chan."
Japanese: 当時の人気スター、市川百之助による意識的にふんどしを見せるサービスに女性ファンは大喜びし、「フンドシももちゃん」と呼ばれた。
English: Similar fighting scenes were played by Utaemon ICHIKAWA (when he was young), Chiezo KATAOKA, Tsumasaburo BANDO, Mitsusaburo RAMON and others.
Japanese: 同様の立ち回りは、若い頃の市川右太衛門や、片岡千恵蔵、阪東妻三郎、羅門光三郎なども行った。
English: Among others, most well-known were the scene of great sword fighting in the silent movie 'Jokon' performed by Utaemon ICHIKAWA exposing his fundoshi loincloth, and the scene of a sword fight in the 'Ketto Takada no Baba' played by Tsumasaburo BANDO kilting up the back of his kimono to show his fundoshi loincloth, as well as the sword fighting scene in the recent TV cinema 'Mori no Ishimatsu' where Kanzaburo NAKAMURA (the 18th generation) played a sword fight showing his fundoshi.
Japanese: 特に市川右太衛門の「浄魂」の大剣戟シーンのふんどしを露にしての剣戟や、阪妻の「決闘高田馬場」の尻はしょりのふんどし、最近ではテレビ映画「森の石松」で中村勘三郎(18代目)がふんどしを見せての剣戟が知られる。
English: Descriptions of women wearing fundoshi loincloths are confirmed in the "Nihon Shoki" ("the Chronicle of Japan") of ancient times.
Japanese: 古くは『日本書紀』にも女性が褌を着用した記述を確認することができる。
English: In some areas in Japan at that time, the term "fundoshi" was used to mean collectively, whole underwear including koshimaki loincloths (waist cloths).
Japanese: 一部では腰巻も含めた下穿きの総称として「褌」という言葉が使われていた。
English: Before tampons and napkins became commonly used, women had used Etchu fundoshi and mokko fundoshi loincloths as sanitary towels called "ouma" for a long period in the history.
Japanese: タンポンやナプキンなどの生理用品が普及する以前は、越中褌やもっこ褌が「お馬」と呼ばれ生理帯として長い間使用されてきたという歴史がある。
English: But, people have not openly talked about this because of their custom to hold menstruants in detestation as a disgrace.
Japanese: だが、生理中の女性を穢れたものとして忌み嫌う風習があったことから、あまりおおっぴらに語られることがなかった。
English: From the Edo period to the postwar period, women's sumo exhibitions were actively performed as an entertainment show, and in the society of popular dramas, a female player wearing men's dress performed sword fights kilting her kimono and showing her fundoshi loincloth to gain plaudits from the audience for her performance.
Japanese: 江戸時代から戦後にかけては見世物としての女相撲興行が盛んに行われていたし、大衆演劇の世界では男装した女役者が着物をはしょり、ふんどしを見せながらの剣戟を演じて客の喝采を浴びたという。
English: In such times, as underwear was limited either to fundoshi loincloths or koshimaki loincloths (waist cloths), it seems that women felt no resistance towards wearing fundoshi loincloths as the occasion demands.
Japanese: 下着といえば褌か腰巻しかなかった時代には、女性も必要に応じてふんどしを締めることに抵抗がなかったと思われる。
English: Reflecting the current boom of fundoshi loincloths, a wide range of fundoshi items, not only for men but also for women, are being sold in the market.
Japanese: 昨今の褌ブームの影響か、男性はもとより広く女性をも対象にした商品が市場に現れている。
English: Ikue MASUDO, an actress, attracted public attention by telling on a TV program that she is habitually using a handmade Etchu fundoshi loincloth.
Japanese: 女優の益戸育江がTV番組の取材で手作りの越中褌を愛用していると発言して話題を呼んだ。
English: Especially roku-shaku fundoshi is popular among some gays because it covers the private parts only so that it exaggerate the crotch part and also exposes the buttocks.
Japanese: 特に六尺褌は局部だけを覆うだけなので、余計に股間部が強調され、臀部も露出していることから、一部のゲイに人気がある。
English: In photogravures for gays, in adult videos, and in web sites of fundoshi loincloths for gays, pictures of some muscular or stout men wearing fundoshi loincloths can be seen.
Japanese: ゲイ向けのグラビアやアダルトビデオ、また、ゲイ向けの褌サイトには逞しい、あるいは、肥満した男性が褌を締めた姿も一部見受けられる。
English: Many of the gays are devoted to the naked festivals and are reportedly very positive in participating in any naked festival held across the country.
Japanese: ゲイには裸祭りの愛好者も多く、積極的に全国の裸祭りに参加しているらしい。
English: Some female writers of Yaoi (female-oriented fictional media that focus on homo-sexual male relationships usually created by female authors) are actively contributing to the internet media with their pictures and articles on the subject of boys wearing fundoshi loincloths.
Japanese: やおいの女性の中には褌少年を題材にインターネットで活動する者もいる。
English: On web pages, they post pictures of male characters wearing fundoshi loincloths, which they call fundoshi-kyara (fundoshi-character).
Japanese: 褌を締めた男性キャラクターの画像などを掲載し、一部では褌キャラ・ふんどしキャラと表現している。
English: It is not limited to homosexuals, but there are some men who love to watch figures of women wearing fundoshi loincloths as well as some women who love to wear loincloths.
Japanese: また同性愛者に限らず、女性の褌姿を愛好する男性や褌を愛好する女性も一部に存在する。
English: The legendary magazine "Kitan Club," that publishes works of famous writers such as Oniroku DAN and Shozo NUMA, had regularly published articles written by an author who was a fanatic of women's sumo wrestling called 'metomi.'
Japanese: 団鬼六や沼正三を輩出した伝説的雑誌『奇譚クラブ』においては「女斗美」（「女闘美」とも表記）と呼ばれ女相撲を熱狂的に愛好する作者による小説が定期的に発表されていた。
English: Women's sumo wrestling scenes were screened in various pink-eiga (blue films) including a hit movie 'Tokugawa Onna Keizu' (1968) by director Teruo ISHII that became a blockbuster due to its erotic and grotesque depictions.
Japanese: エログロ描写で当時大ヒットした石井輝男監督の「徳川女系図」(1968)などのピンク映画には女相撲シーンがあった。
English: Figures with fundoshi loincloths appeared frequently also in Nikkatsu roman-porno films with Naomi TANI as a leading character.
Japanese: また、谷ナオミ主演のにっかつロマンポルノ作品にもしばしば褌は登場している。
English: In recent years, Rie MIYAZAWA has attracted public attentions by publishing her figure in a fundoshi loincloth in a 1989 calendar, which was followed by a stream of various photo albums, adult videos and so on, containing pictures of women in fundoshi loincloths.
Japanese: また近年では宮沢りえが1989年に発表したカレンダーのふんどし姿が話題を呼び、女性の褌姿を収録した写真集、アダルトビデオなども数多く出されるようになった。
English: After moving into the 21st century, the internet has propagated various graphic images of boys and girls in fundoshi, mawashi and shimekomi loincloths, participating in Hakata Gion Yamagasa summer festival and other festivals as well as various honozumo.
Japanese: 21世紀に入ってからは博多祇園山笠や、その他の裸祭り、奉納相撲に参加する褌・廻し・締め込み姿の少年少女画像がネット上で広まった。
English: When a fundoshi loincloth that keeps essential images of chic, bravery, virility and dandyism is worn by a pretty boy or girl (especially a girl) who has a contrasting image, the fundoshi loincloth may accelerate the effect of the wearers' prettiness.
Japanese: 本来、粋、勇猛、精悍、ダンディズム、というイメージを持つ褌を、これらとは対照的な可憐な少年少女(特に少女)が締めると、却って可憐な魅力が強調される。
English: This point brought about the development of some manias (mainly, lovers of the prettiness line) that led to the consistent creation of coterie magazines, figures (or figurines), home pages, blogs, gazo-keijiban (graphic billboards) and others on the subject of boys and girls wearing fundoshi loincloth.
Japanese: ここのところに一部のマニア（主に可憐系を愛する者）が注目、褌姿の少年少女をテーマにした同人誌、フィギュア、ホームページ、ブログ、画像掲示板等が相次いで登場した。
English: Koten rakugo (classical comic storytelling) had plenty of comedic stories associated with fundoshi loincloths because most of the contemporary people were wearing fundoshi loincloths.
Japanese: 古典落語では、褌を締めていた時代なので褌に関連した話題には事欠かない。
English: In his novel "Gokuchu Seikatsu" (literally, "Life in prison"), Toshihiko SAKAI wrote his sentiments about the government-furnished fundoshi loincloth supplied to him when he went to Sugamo Kangoku (later renamed as Sugamo Prison and to Sugamo Kochisho).
Japanese: 堺利彦の『獄中生活(文学)』では、堺が巣鴨監獄（のちの巣鴨プリズン、巣鴨拘置所）に入獄したおりの官給の褌の感想がある。
English: "Tenugui (towel) and fundoshi (loincloth) are both dyed the color of persimmon, but, interestingly, they are dyed in different shades in the longitudinal direction, constituting some beauty." (No.3 Sugamo Kangoku)
Japanese: 「いずれも柿色染であるが、手拭と褌とは縦に濃淡の染分けになって、多少の美をなしているからおかしい。」（三巣鴨監獄）
English: There, he explained a trick on how to go out to a book-lending shop from a strictly controlled boarding house of a private school, and that was "to hide my fundoshi loincloth inside of kimono's tamoto (a sleeve)."
Japanese: 厳しい塾の下宿から、貸本屋へ外出する方便として、「褌を外して袂へ忍ばせて置く」裏技を開陳している。
English: "The reason for doing so was to explain later to a landlord (or landlady) that I went out to wash my fundoshi loincloth at a brook near the school," he wrote.
Japanese: 「何のためだと云ふと、其塾の傍に一筋の小川が流れて居る、其小川へ洗濯に出ましたと斯（か）う答へるんです。
English: He continued, "If I am harshly scolded, I would give an evasive answer 'I didn't tell you anything because I hesitated to tell anything about such a nasty matter as washing a fundoshi loincloth.'"
Japanese: さうすると剣突を喰つて、『どうも褌を洗ひに行きますと云ふのは、何だか申上げ悪（にく）いから黙つて出ました。』と言ひ抜ける積りさ。」
English: In the novel "Genkaku-sanbo" (Genkaku's House) written by Ryunosuke AKUTAGAWA, a leading character, Genkaku, who is in bed suffering lung tuberculosis, dreams of his own death by hanging himself by his fundoshi loincloth.
Japanese: 芥川龍之介『玄鶴山房』では、肺結核の床に就いている主人公・玄鶴が、褌で縊れ死ぬことを夢想する。
English: "Genkaku pulled lightly his fundoshi loincloth and wound it around his head pulling it forcefully by both hands," he wrote.
Japanese: 「玄鶴はそっと褌を引き寄せ、彼の頭に巻きつけると、両手にぐっと引っぱるようにした。
English: He jeered at GENKAKU and ran away like a rabbit toward the living room." (No.5)
Japanese: /武夫はこう囃（はや）しながら、一散に茶の間へ走って行った。」（五）
English: In modern society, people were familiar with the sense of beauty that "a man should be neat and tidy when he dies."
Japanese: 「死ぬときはきれいな身なりで」という美意識は、近代社会において、人口に膾炙していた。
English: "But, when he returned home, he is said to have made the comment, 'Fortunately, I was wearing a new fundoshi loincloth when I fell down.'" (No. 19 Ujishizan)
Japanese: 「そして、やっと家（うち）へ帰ってくると、「それでもまあ褌（ふんどし）だけ新しくってよかった」と言ったそうである。」（一九宇治紫山）
English: In his novel "Kanikosen" (The Crab Factory Ship), Takiji KOBAYASHI wrote of fundoshi loincloth as a prop to describe a nasty scene of sailors confined in an enclosed space.
Japanese: 小林多喜二『蟹工船』では、密閉空間に置かれた船員達の、荒れた風景の小道具として描かれる。
English: In the corners of a shelf, dirty sarumata shorts and fundoshi loincloths with semen spots were left crumpled up and were exuding wet and sour smell.
Japanese: ――棚の隅にカタのついた汚れた猿又や褌が、しめっぽく、すえた臭いをして円められていた。
English: In his novel "Dokubo" (Solitary Cell), Takiji KOBAYASHI noted some differences in the fundoshi loincloth between the inside and outside of a prison based on his experience of imprisonment for a political crime.
Japanese: 小林多喜二『独房』では、政治犯としての入所体験において、外界との違いを褌に見つける。
English: "I wore a blue kimono, blue momohiki (long underpants), blue fundoshi loincloth, blue belt, and straw sandals---and I wore 'amigasa' (a braided hat) for the first time in my life.
Japanese: 「青い着物を着、青い股引（ももひき）をはき、青い褌（ふんどし）をしめ、青い帯をしめ、ワラ草履（ぞうり）をはき、――生れて始めて、俺は「編笠（あみがさ）」をかぶった。
English: In his writing of "Kaisoroku" (Memoirs), Kotaro TAKAMURA depicted fading relics of early-modern folkways in the tide of the modern times.
Japanese: 高村光太郎『回想録』には、近世の風俗の名残が、近代の流れに洗われてゆく風情を描く。
English: "I remember my grandfather wore a chonmage (a topknot) on his head and walked around wearing nothing but the fundoshi loincloth in the summer season.
Japanese: 「祖父は丁髷（ちょんまげ）をつけて、夏など褌（ふんどし）一つで歩いていたのを覚えている。
English: At that time, since the government issued a ban on people appearing naked, a cop was loud to instruct my grandfather saying 'Goinkyo-san (an honorific title for retired men), now, nobody is allowed to walk around naked.'
Japanese: その頃裸体禁止令が出て、お巡りさんが「御隠居さん、もう裸では歩けなくなったのだよ。」と言って喧（やかま）しい。
English: Then, my grandfather obeyed the cop's request, and began to wear kimono which was, however, made of transparent kaya fabricks (a mosquito net for bed) and did not hesitate to walk in it in front of the police station."
Japanese: そしたら着物を着てやろうというので蚊帳（かや）で着物を拵え素透（すどお）しでよく見えるのに平気で交番の前を歩いていた。」
English: Ango SAKAGUCHI wrote a novel "Ao-oni no fundoshi wo arau onna" (The Woman Who Washes the Blue Demon's Loincloth) in which he described "fundoshi wo arau onna = watashi" (literally, "I am a woman who washes men's fundoshi loincloth") as a symbolic case of job-sharing between men and women.
Japanese: 坂口安吾『青鬼の褌を洗う女』では、性別役割分業として「褌を洗う女私」を登場させている。
English: Since several years before his harakiri suicide at Camp Ichigaya, Yukio MISHIMA had made and left pictures of his own image of committing suicide in fundoshi loincloth as well as a movie titled "Yukoku" (Patriotism).
Japanese: 市谷駐屯地での割腹事件の数年前から褌姿で切腹する写真や映画『憂国』を残している。
English: Accordingly, he sometimes wore fundoshi loincloth to interviews and also made advances towards young men.
Japanese: そのため、足穂はふんどしでインタビューに応じたり、若い男をくどいたりしている。
English: In the works set in the background of modern times, a fundoshi loincloth is often used as an item to emphasize the male character as archaic but strong will.
Japanese: 現代を舞台にした作品の場合、古風だが強い意志を持った男子というキャラクターを強調するアイテムとして使用されることが多い。
English: As exceptional examples, there are some female characters in fundoshi loincloths, like Shigure KOSAKA and Kikuri, but most of them are specially designed for particular characters such as an expert in marshal arts, a female ninja, a devotee of wearing men's clothes and so on.
Japanese: 例外的に香坂しぐれ、きくりのような女性キャラも存在するが、この場合も武道の達人、くノ一や男装趣味といった特殊な設定のキャラクターであることが多い。
English: The "Hakatakko Junjo," a seishun-gekiga (story comics of youths), written by Hosei HASEGAWA, having its setting in Hakata, depicts the Hakata Gion Yamagasa summer festival as an important event.
Japanese: また、博多を舞台にした青春劇画『博多っ子純情』（長谷川法世）では、博多祇園山笠が重要なイベントとして描かれている。
English: There are also comics where the title contains the word "fundoshi" such as "Roku-shaku Fundoshi" by Yusuke AOYAGI, "Takumi no Fundoshi" by Daiki YAMAZAKI, "Fundoshi Keiji Ken-chan to Chako-chan" by Masaya TOKUHIRO, and "Akafundoshi Suzunosuke" (a parody of "Akado Suzunosuke") by Go NAGAI.
Japanese: 『六尺ふんどし』（青柳裕介）、『匠のふんどし』（山崎大紀）、『ふんどし刑事ケンちゃんとチャコちゃん』（徳弘正也）、『赤褌鈴乃介』（永井豪、『赤胴鈴之助』のパロディ）といったタイトルに使用している作品もある。
English: Unlike undershorts, fundoshi loincloths are of a wide variety and have different ways of tying that are difficult to depict in a picturesque way.
Japanese: 褌はパンツと違いその種類や締め方が多岐にわたるため、絵的な表現が難しい。
English: That is the main reason why many of roku-shaku, Etchu and other individual fundoshi loincloths are very often drawn in a way that they cannot be distinguised in comics and animations, and this is also due to the lack of knowledge of the writers.
Japanese: そのため漫画やアニメに登場する褌は、作者の知識不足もあって六尺、越中といった描き分けが明確でないことが非常に多い。
English: In the Hokuriku region, the term fundoshi means gills of crab (inedible), which are removed first after opening a shell of crab to be boiled.
Japanese: 北陸地方ではカニのえら（食用に不適）を指し、茹でるカニの甲羅を開けたのちに先ず取り除く。
English: According to a folklore, a man served with a dish of crab had mistakenly unfastened his fundoshi loincloth instead of removing the crab's fundoshi.
Japanese: 食卓にカニを出された男性がカニではなく自分の褌を外す、という民話がある。
English: There is a legend on the belief that a pregnant woman may have an easy delivery if she wears as her belly-band the roku-shaku fundoshi loincloth of her husband (or of someone who participated in a naked festival, depending on regions).
Japanese: 昔から妊婦に関して「夫のふんどし（六尺）(地方によっては裸祭り参加者のふんどし)を腹巻にすると安産できる」と言う言い伝えがある。
English: Ieyasu TOKUGAWA, an economical person, was reportedly always wearing a fundoshi loincloth dyed in pale yellow, and also encouraged his retainers to do so.
Japanese: 徳川家康は倹約家で自身は浅黄に染めたふんどしを常に使用し、家臣にもそれを勧めていた。
English: But, he used a white fundoshi loincloth as underwear to cover his privates, even though he was a big-boned samurai warrior from Mikawa Province.
Japanese: しかし、いかに骨太の三河武士でも下帯だけは真白のものを使用したとされる。
English: Rokushaku fundoshi is Japanese male underwear composed of sarashi (bleached cloth) which is approximately 180-300 cm long and 16-34 cm wide.
Japanese: 六尺褌（ろくしゃくふんどし）とは、長さ約180cm～300cm程度、幅約16cm～34cm程度のさらしの布を用いた日本人男性用の下着。
English: Presently it is more often used in rites and festivals or as swimwear than as underwear.
Japanese: 現在では、下着に用いられるよりも、主に、祭事や水着などで使用されることが多い。
English: When worn without making a maedare (apron), the length of a rokushaku fundoshi should be equal to the length from one hand to the other hand when both arms are stretched out horizontally plus the length from the center line of the body to one hand the arms are stretched out horizontally (approximately three times the circumference of the waist).
Japanese: 長さの目安は、前垂れを出さない場合、生地の端を持ち、両腕で水平に拡げ、次に、残こり生地の端を持ち、身体中央から更に、片腕で水平に伸ばした長さである。（胴回りの約3倍）
English: Generally the full width of sarashi is used, but according to the wearer's physical type, sarashi can be cut in half or into a piece which is two-thirds in width, or folded inside out.
Japanese: 幅は晒しの全幅を用いるが、体型によっては半幅、若しくは2/3幅に生地を切るか、内折りで使用する。
English: In the Edo period, rokushaku fundoshi were 6 shaku according to a carpenter's square, which totals to about 180 cm, and were often worn by tying it behind the wearer's back, with a maedare hanging down (often folded into a triangle).
Japanese: 江戸時代には曲尺で六尺の長さ（約180cm）で、前垂れを出し（三角に畳む場合も多い）、後で結ぶ場合が多かった。
English: The style of fastening Fundoshi with a double front sack was adopted mostly by old-time fishermen and sailors.
Japanese: 因みに、前袋を2重にする締め方は昔の漁師や船乗りなどが用いた締め方である。
English: There are various styles of fastening or tying fundoshi peculiar to certain areas and ancient schools of martial arts or swimming.
Japanese: なお、締め方、結び方については地方や古式泳法の流派により独特の締め方、結び方が有る。
English: To tie a fundoshi, place one end on the left shoulder and let the other end drop to the floor in front of the genitals, pass it through your legs, wrap it around your body from the coccyx in anti-clockwise direction, allow it to intersect with the part which runs vertically (tate-fundoshi), and hold it temporarily.
Japanese: 締め方は生地の端を左肩に掛けて性器（陰部）を覆い、股間を跨ぎ、尾骨から左回りで腰を一周し、縦褌と交差させて軽く仮掛けする。
English: Next, drop the maedare from the shoulder on which it has been placed, use it to cover the genitals and pass it through the legs as before, allow it intersect with the other parts of the fundoshi and take it to the tate-fundoshi, let it intersect with the other end of the fundoshi on the coccyx, wrap both the maedare and the end of the fundoshi around the yoko-fundoshi (parts of the fundoshi which run horizontally) several times and tie them.
Japanese: 次に、肩に掛けた前垂れを部分を下ろし、同じく、男性器を覆って股間を跨ぎ、生地を交差させながら縦褌に向かい、仮掛けした片方の生地の端と尾骨上で交差させて、それぞれ横褌に数回巻き付けて締める。
English: In the Edo period, male adults had the decency to remove their pubic hair with pumice stones or incense sticks at sento (public bathhouses) so that it did not show.
Japanese: 江戸時代には成人男性は嗜みとして、陰毛を出さないように陰毛を銭湯で軽石や線香を使って処理をしていた。
English: As underwear which exposes the wearer's buttocks can be seen in Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Latin America, it is strongly believed that the rokushaku fundoshi has its origin in the south, and some people even insist that ancestors of Japanese people came from the south.
Japanese: 臀部が露出している下着は、東南アジア、ポリネシア地方、中南米地方で散見されることから、六尺褌は南方伝来説が強く唱えられ、日本人の祖先は南方から伝来したのではないかとの説も唱えられている。
English: However, the rokushaku fundoshi did not exist in ancient Japan because cloth was so expensive, and it did not become common among the Japanese as underwear until the Edo period, when it started to be made of cotton instead of hemp.
Japanese: しかしながら、昔は布が高価なものだっただけに、日本人に下着として六尺褌が普及したのは、生地が麻から木綿に代わった江戸時代からであり、古代の日本には六尺褌は存在していなかった。
English: The history of rokushaku fundoshi as underwear is limited to the period between the Edo and the end of the Meiji period, during which time it was the most common form of underwear worn by Japanese male adults.
Japanese: 六尺褌の下着としての歴史は、江戸時代から明治末期頃までの間で、日本人成人男性の主な下着として用いられていた。
English: With the establishment conscription in the Meiji period, ecchu fundoshi, which were easier to put on and take off and more economical due to their shorter length, were supplied by the army and spread throughout Japan, following which rokushaku fundoshi were more often worn during rites and festivals or as swimwear than as underwear.
Japanese: 明治時代に徴兵制度が制定されて、軍隊で着脱が容易で、生地が短く経済的な越中褌が支給され、全国に普及したことから、その後の六尺褌は下着で用いられるよりも祭事や水着等で用いられるようになった。
English: It is currently worn by some males as underwear or swimwear, and is also used in some rites and festivals or as swimwear at summer seaside schools (of long-distance swimming) conducted by schools of traditional Japanese swimming.
Japanese: 現在でも、下着や水着として使用している男性も存在するほか、祭事や、一部、日本泳法の流派を汲む水泳の伝統校では臨海学校（遠泳）等でも水着として用いられている。
English: It was when Meiji period army surgeon Ryojun MATSUMOTO recommended that bathing in the sea was good for the health that Japanese people started to bathe in the sea, beginning with some members of the upper class.
Japanese: 日本人が海水浴（水泳）を始めるようになったのは明治に陸軍軍医の松本良順が健康に良いと海水浴を推奨したことから始まり、上流階級の一部から始まった。
English: Until then, swimming had been limited to fishermen, sailors and the samurai class as one of the military arts but the establishment of swimming beaches throughout Japan and the adoption of swimming as part of physical education at schools in the name of "Kokumin Kaiei" (swimming for the whole nation) were the first steps toward the popularization of sea bathing (swimming) among commoners.
Japanese: それまでは、漁師、船乗りや、武士階級の間で武術として日本泳法があったに過ぎなかった水泳が、全国に海水浴場が開設され、国民皆泳の名の下に学校教育でも水泳が体育教科として取り上げられたことで、庶民の間に海水浴（水泳）の習慣が拡がる第一歩となった。
English: In those days people in the upper class enjoyed sea bathing in western-style swimwear (bathing suits), but western-style swimming suits were still too expensive for commoners and so they swam wearing fundoshi (rokushaku fundoshi) or mizugoromo (water robes).
Japanese: 当時の上流階級は洋装の水着（水泳着）で海水浴を勤しんだが、まだまだ洋装の水着（水泳着）は庶民には高価で、一般庶民の水着は褌（六尺褌）や水衣が一般的なものであった。
English: Furthermore, each school of traditional Japanese swimming opened suiren-jo (swimming practice areas) at beaches.
Japanese: また、日本泳法の各流派は自派の泳法を教えるため、海水浴場などで水練場を開設した。