Moments of Happiness (Flowers of Japan)

Please Note- a higher quality version is now online, which you can see here. Be sure to click the 'HQ' button to enjoy a substantially higher resolution version, as was originally intended-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di7H6bCiAeE

Here are the beautiful Flowers and Views of Mt Fuji, with a traditionally soothing Japanese 'koto' music soundtrack. The actual pictures were taken in 2001 on a film camera- I had no idea at the time they would end up in this form or even that they'd be on the internet.

I want to thank everyone who has expressed an interest in this project. It shows to me just how timeless the beauty of this landscape is. For me it is the 'real Japan'. As time goes by, far from gettiung forgotten, the spread of leisure culture has made this more widely appreciated and I am proud to be a part of it in this way.

The song is "Itsuki No Komoriuta", from a CD compilation I got called "The Koto- Japanese Healing Music", from the 100 yen store-

I'll only be here 'til Bon; if Bon comes early, I'll go home early.
I'm just a beggar; these are goodly folk, with nice obi waist-sashes and nice kimono.
If I should die, bury me by the roadside; offerings or water will come from the heavens.
If I should die, who would cry for me? Only the locusts in those pine mountains.

Yoroshiku!

Starfires.

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[SuperAguero16]

Rest in Peace all those who died due to the tsunami n earthquake.. and all the other disasters tht has plagued this wonderful wonderful country.. from india :)

[MrDjbrace]

22 people don't respect relaxing

[MrMarishka633]

Very beautiful!!!!!

[Metalwurst666]

@unionofonion idk who laughed bout fukushima but i definly didnt.

[jastra7]

Lovely music ... beautiful and very romantic views ... whole is very interesting ... big round of applause .... greetings power ... from Poland...

[ohano2007]

@unionofonion

Japan laughed at america when katrina hit? Why do we have to laugh?? Who told you that? Don't tell me someone on the net said that. We never laugh at someones death. We had so many charity concerts, auctions, games for victims and donation boxes at schools, supermarkets, post offices everywhere for New Orleans. Everyone knows it was Bush who didn't help his own people. It took days to send army and aid.

[TheFamilyguy421]

I love Japan. Very beautiful! Check out my videos from Japan on my channel too!

[SuperAguero16]

@unionofonion you got ur opinions i got mine. your way of thinking i might add is wrong. and incorrect, rest of the world cried for them, i guess you laughed in your room.

[unionofonion]

@SuperAguero16 Don't even get me started on that.

Japanese people were actually laughing at America and the American people when we had hurricane katrina and actually didn't even want to help us out.

Don't give me that liberalistic bullshit. You can call me old school but I take life as one thing...An eye for an eye.

Japanese laughed at death and guess what happened....they had a crisis of their own and the rest of the world laughed while they begged for help.

Karma, bub, Karma.

[kmsama]

Beautiful, thank you very much. I love KOTO it is a wonderful instrument.

[folklorevelezRubio]

ok, genial



[lilcas6nf]

Mostly all of the songs I heard remind me of Mortal Kombat