The following video isn't the official music video, but you can enjoy the beautiful song "Sakura" by Naotaro Moriyama and a school chorus.
When I first listened to this song in 2003, I felt glad that I had been born in Japan.
Naotaro Moriyama is a son of one famous singer Ryoko Moriyama, who is well-known for her song "Satoukibi-Batake (Sugar cane field)".
He seemed to sing under pressure from others, but listening to his "Sakura" below, you realize that he has his own unusual talent for music.
"Sakura" solo version is the most famous, but this chorus version is also fine.
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
2 Sakura Songs by Fun-Mon
I told you that I liked FUNKY MONKEY BABYS.
(→http://eh-take.blogspot.com/2011/01/fun-mon.html)
I had never listened to their songs until I heard this first sakura song titled "Lovin' Life" released in 2007.
But this music video fascinated me then.
In addition to this song, they released another song "Sakura" two years later.
Yoshimi Tokui from a popular comedy duo Tutorial starred in their music video.
Not only the song but also its music video must be a significant essence, I think.
(→http://eh-take.blogspot.com/2011/01/fun-mon.html)
I had never listened to their songs until I heard this first sakura song titled "Lovin' Life" released in 2007.
But this music video fascinated me then.
In addition to this song, they released another song "Sakura" two years later.
Yoshimi Tokui from a popular comedy duo Tutorial starred in their music video.
Not only the song but also its music video must be a significant essence, I think.
Monday, April 04, 2011
Hidden Sakura
This shidare-zakura is behind the Kenmin Hoken Center (Saitama Prefectural Health Center).
It's also good to look up the cherry blossoms.
And I took the pictures of closer ones.
So beautiful!!
It was a brilliant day for taking sakura pictures.
"Sakura" by Kobukuro
Kobukuro's "Sakura" released in 2005 is also a good one.
At the Coming-of-Age Day, Saitama city holds a ceremony at the Saitama Super Arena to celebrate each year's new adults lives in Saitama city.
I also attended that ceremony three years ago.
Then all the participants sang that Kobukuro's "Sakura" together at the end of the ceremony.
At the Coming-of-Age Day, Saitama city holds a ceremony at the Saitama Super Arena to celebrate each year's new adults lives in Saitama city.
I also attended that ceremony three years ago.
Then all the participants sang that Kobukuro's "Sakura" together at the end of the ceremony.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
"Sakura" by Ketsumeishi
One of my best sakura songs is Ketsumeishi's "Sakura".
It was released on February in 2005, when I was a second year of my high school.
Emi Suzuki, who was a model of the popular fashion magazine "Seventeen", appear in this music video as an actress.
One of my friend Hayato likes her very much, and he would stop the video while I was singing that song at karaoke.
Now he works in Okinawa as a policeman.
It's so hard for me to meet him again, but Ketsumeishi's "Sakura" always reminds me of our beautiful high school days.
Exactly we were in the spring of life then.
It was released on February in 2005, when I was a second year of my high school.
Emi Suzuki, who was a model of the popular fashion magazine "Seventeen", appear in this music video as an actress.
One of my friend Hayato likes her very much, and he would stop the video while I was singing that song at karaoke.
Now he works in Okinawa as a policeman.
It's so hard for me to meet him again, but Ketsumeishi's "Sakura" always reminds me of our beautiful high school days.
Exactly we were in the spring of life then.
Friday, April 01, 2011
Gyokuzouin
I took the following pictures in front of the famous temple in Urawa called "玉蔵院 (Gyokuzouin)".
A beautiful Shidare Zakura (weeping cherry)!!
It is said to have lived for more than 100 years.
This sakura blooms earlier than the most popular sakura Somei Yoshino.
I also look forward to seeing them in full bloom soon. (^^)
A beautiful Shidare Zakura (weeping cherry)!!
It is said to have lived for more than 100 years.
This sakura blooms earlier than the most popular sakura Somei Yoshino.
I also look forward to seeing them in full bloom soon. (^^)
Spring has come
The white dandelions in my house welcomed the spring with blooming.
It's the first day of April, and also sakura season has come in Japan.
The Japanese Meteorological Agency said Monday that the country's capital was officially in bloom.
But this year, the usual excitement "Hanami (cherry blossoms viewing)" has been overshadowed by the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast, as well as the ongoing nuclear crisis.
This forbearance is a kind of Japanese cultures; to celebrate the arrival of spring or to have a drunken orgy seem to be inappropriate in this serious situation we're facing now, and we also think it's so rude to the victims.
Exactly the annual orgy under the full-blooming sakura this year is going too far, but our happy feeling that occurs naturally in our mind when we see the beautiful sakura is sure to be a hope for our future.
In this sakura season, I'll upload some sakura pictures and sakura songs on my blog.
I hope that everyone feel something heart-warming from my pictures or songs.
It's the first day of April, and also sakura season has come in Japan.
The Japanese Meteorological Agency said Monday that the country's capital was officially in bloom.
But this year, the usual excitement "Hanami (cherry blossoms viewing)" has been overshadowed by the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the northeast coast, as well as the ongoing nuclear crisis.
This forbearance is a kind of Japanese cultures; to celebrate the arrival of spring or to have a drunken orgy seem to be inappropriate in this serious situation we're facing now, and we also think it's so rude to the victims.
Exactly the annual orgy under the full-blooming sakura this year is going too far, but our happy feeling that occurs naturally in our mind when we see the beautiful sakura is sure to be a hope for our future.
In this sakura season, I'll upload some sakura pictures and sakura songs on my blog.
I hope that everyone feel something heart-warming from my pictures or songs.
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