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Name:
日照り雨 ^_^
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Age:
38
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May 10, 2011
About Me:
Kindness is the noblest weapon with which to conquer.
人は人、我は我
Live and let live.
足ることを知る者は幸福なり
He who knows when he has enough is fortunate.
踏まれた草にも花が咲く
Flowers will bloom even in the grass that has been stomped upon.
快活は健康に咲く花だ
Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.
Interests:
So very deeply in love with Japanese Culture that hardly noticing anything else these days ^_^
Movies:
Some (only some ;-) of my favorite movies are: Akira Kurosawa's: 雨あがる (After the Rain directed by Takashi Koizumi) 白痴 (The Idiot), 生きる (To live), 赤ひげ (Red Beard), 乱 (Ran), わが青春に悔なし (No regrets for Our Youth) ; Kenji Mizoguchi's: 雨月物語 (Ugetsu), 近松物語 (Crucified Lovers), 西鶴一代女 (The Life of Oharu), 祇園囃子(A Geisha), 山椒大夫 (Sansho the Bailiff), 赤線地帯 (Street of Shame) ; Yasushirô Ozu's: everything !!! but especially 晩春 (Late Spring), 麦秋 (Early Summer), 宗方姉妹 (The Munekata Sisters), お茶漬けの味 (Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice),東京暮色 (Tokyo Twilight), 彼岸花 (Equinox Flower), 秋日和 (Late Autumn) ; Mikio Naruse's: 山の音 (The Sound of the Mountain), 浮雲 (Floating Clouds), 女が階段を上る時 (When a Woman ascends the Stairs); Kon Ichikawa's ビルマの竪琴 (The Burmese Harp), 雪之丞変化 (An actor's Revenge), こころ (The Heart); Masaki Kobayashi's: 上意討ち 拝領妻始末 (Samurai Rebellion), 切腹 (Seppuku), 人間の條件 (The Human Condition) ; Shôhei Imamura's 黒い雨 (Black Rain) ; Kaneto Shindo's 原爆の子 (Children of Hiroshima), Keisuke Kinoshita's 二十四の瞳 (Twenty-Four Eyes), 楢山節考 (The Ballad of Narayama) ; Yasuzo Masumura's くちづけ (Kisses), 赤い天使 (Red Angel); Some newer productions: 幻の光 (Maborosi), たそがれ清兵衛 (Twilight Samurai), 壬生義士伝 (When the last sword is drawn), 海は見ていた (The sea is watching), いま、会いにゆきます (Be with you), おくりびと (Departures), おとうと (About her brother). And then my favorite Kinnosuke Nakamura's movies: Tomu Uchida's 宮本武蔵 (Musashi cycle), 独眼竜政宗 (Hawk of the North), 浪花の恋の物語 (Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka ), 反逆児 (The Conspirator), 瞼の母 (In Search of Mother), 千姫と秀頼 (Sen-hime to Hideyori), 武士道残酷物語 (Cruel Tales of Bushido), 仇討 (Revenge), 冷飯とおさんとちゃん (Cold rice, Osan, Chan), 丹下左膳: 飛燕居合斬り (The Secret of the Urn), 幕末 (Bakumatsu), 千利休 本觉坊遗文 (Death of a Tea Master) and ;-) naturally 子連れ狼 (Lone Wolf & Cub)
Music:
演歌 , 美空ひばり さん, 石原 裕次郎 さん, (Enka and especially Misora Hibari-san and Ishihara Yûjirô-san), I also enjoy listening to 三波春夫 (Minami Haruo), フランク 永井 (Frank Nagai), 菅原洋一 (Sugawara Yoichi), 舟木一夫 (Funaki Kazuo), 五木ひろし (Itsuki Hiroshi), 鶴田浩二 (Tsuruta Koji), 北島三郎 (Kitajima Saburo) and 坂本 九 (Sakamoto Kyu) ; traditional Japanese melodies and instruments: shakuhachi, koto, biwa, shamisen, taiko... 鼓童(Kodo); 喜多郎 (Kitaro); 小曽根真 (Ozone Makoto), 上原ひろみ (Uehara Hiromi), 松居慶子(Matsui Keiko), 寺井尚子 (Terai Naoko)
Books:
夏目 漱石 (Natsume Sōseki), 吉村 昭 (Yoshimura Akira), 大江 健三郎 (Oe Kenzaburo), 三島 由紀夫 (Mishima Yukio) and especially 村上 春樹 (Murakami Haruki)
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You will, head and shoulders above me, know what to do when you travel to Japan -- besides you've friends there and already well-versed in Japanese. All I can do is reminisce (so LONG AGO) beautiful memories when you mention Nara, Hikone and Himeji, Kamakura and Nikko, Tokyo, especially onsen in Hakone and Atami and ryokans thereof.
You'll somehow find ways to stay in Japan -- that, I'm sure.
You can teach English or French and if you're a personable Gaijin, which you seem to be, it helps.
We ALL get what we TRULY desire -- it's a matter of TIME.
幸せなバレンタインデー (*^_^*)!
~KIMY ~ February 14, 2012
Tu ames beaucoup de Jidai-Geki, n'est-ce pas ? Moi aussi. Je regardais quand j'étais petit avec ma grande mère à la télé ( c'étaient déjà des vieux films) J'aimais beaucoup Nakamura Kinnosuke, mais aussi Ookawa Hashizo, tu le connais ?
Si je trouve la partition de " Futari ni sekai " de Yujiro Ishihara, j'essayrai d'en chanter, mais je ne promets rien. Comme tu dis, sa voix était unique (^^;)
Bonne semaine et surtout, bon voyage au Japon ! (*^^*)
Je vais voir un peu s'il y a quelque chose qui puisse m'inspirer... (*^^*)
Merci!
Sur Zippcast, il ne donne pas la notification, alors, on doit connecter souvent. Ce n'est pas très pratique...
Thank you for dropping-by. We lived in Kyoto, Japan for two separate years while my husband was doing research at Kyoto University -- visited all the temples, Gion, Kyoto-Kaikan...We travellled all over Japan from Hokkaido to Kyushu on trains, ferries; bathed in hot-springed "traditional Japanese inns" inhaling all the tradition Japan has to offer from eats( esp. Bento, Udon, Shabushabu), tatami ... Love Japanese children's songs, films, their garden, festivals (Gion-Matsuri)...; LOVE ALL that's Japan. SO LONG AGO it was... As Pascal noted I keep that BEAUTY in my inner-most, enriching, never to part. Esther-san, so cultured, as Blake noted "you were born with sweet-delight." KIMY
Glad to have encountered this SUBLIME backdrop before the sun sets on YouTube.
So Japanese, so ZEN... delicate, spare, quiet inner-beauty captured (-_-) ...
Am I as you concerning Japanese culture and aesthetics.
Take care, fellow wayfarer,
KIMY
January 31, 2012
Hope you are able to spend the day with family and friends.
Make lots of special memories:-)
~Akina
Merry Christmas! I hope you will enjoy many Japanese films in the new year. ;-)
David