The 1st “The Phone of the Wind” Music Festival Live & Talk


On April 29th and 30th, Bell Gardia KUJIRAYAMA will hold “‘The Phone of the Wind’ Music Festival” as a forest concert.

Seven years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake, but many people are still suffering every day because they cannot get out of their sadness. In addition, many people are now being killed in large-scale disasters, conflicts, terrorism and accidents all over the world. The sadness of losing a loved one is universal. Under these circumstances, “The Phone of the Wind” is being visited by people from all over the world.

“The telephone lines are not connected. The feelings may be connected because they are not connected. I think that is the imagination of the heart and the power of people.” And the feelings that many people sympathize with. Is expressed in various formats in the work. Music, culture, and art with the desire to bring these works together and to promote “heart-to-heart exchange” (sharing sadness, cuddling, and supporting each other) among those who use the “wind phone” and sympathize with them. I would like to enjoy with you.


April 29: Live AM11: 00-15: 00
(Cast: Cosmis, Black Camalins, Masato Okubo, Sachiko Hotta, Michiko Sato
Wind Orchestra & TSUBOMI, El Sistema, Agudo Mame,)
・ We will have a social gathering after the concert.

April 30: Talk PM 13: 00-15: 00 (Takashi Sasaki: From “Wind Phone” to Kenji Miyazawa, Michiko Sato: Light of Hope)

All venues are Bell Gardia KUJIRAYAMA special venue “The Forest of Kikki”

Admission: Free

We will inform you later on the leaflet.

Picture book “Kaze no Denwa” to “The Phone of the Wind”

The other day, a foreign writer was impressed to hear about “The Phone of the Wind” on a podcast, a method of publishing audio and video data on the Internet, which is a type of Internet radio and television. I came to see it with my own eyes, not just a copy of the story.

He said, “In the picture book, when you talk to the sad heart of losing the family that the animals love, on the phone that is not connected to the line, the phone rings on the mountain at the end, and everyone’s feelings reach the dead in heaven. It’s a story, but do you think that way too? ” This is a story modeled after my “The Phone of the Wind”, but I think the author, Mr. Imoto, drew it with the image that those who died will become stars in heaven. I think it’s up to each individual to decide where to feel the existence of the deceased. Is it a grave, a Buddhist altar, or a star in heaven? The song “Become a Thousand Winds” states that it is flying in the sky as a wind. “It doesn’t matter where you are, it doesn’t matter where you are, but it’s soothing to think that the soul of the lost person is somewhere close to you,” he said. I think it’s okay if it helps me to live. “

Also, in the picture book “Kaze no Denwa”, the animals who lost their loved ones and the people who died in the earthquake overlapped and could sympathize with sadness, but it was not until I read the book “The Phone of the Wind” that the wind The deep meaning of launching a phone, “the importance of life” and “living”, which are incorporated into moral lessons, not only sadness but also rising again from there, “something” and “someone” that are the missions that they have. He said that he realized that it was very important to live for the sake of.

As an author, I am very happy to confirm and understand any questions. It’s also a reconfirmation of yourself. Thank you.

Incorporating “The Phone of the Wind” into class at Harvard University

On October 28, in Nippon Television’s “The World’s Most Wanted Class”, Harvard University in the United States took up “The Phone of the Wind” in a class to learn about Japanese culture from 2018, and a life class to learn from the disaster area Tohoku. Was told that would start.

A Harvard student said, “Japanese people value the bond with the deceased, so I want to stay connected even after death.” “I want to learn what it means to face death and move forward,” he said.

Already, “The Phone of the Wind” has been taken up independently in elementary, junior high and high school moral classes in Japan, and what is “importance of life”, “weight of life”, and “respect for life”? Thinks with the children and learns “do not ruin life” and “what it means to live”.

The book “The Phone of the Wind” describes these things in detail, and I think it will be a hint for Harvard students and those who are serious about their own way of life. Please pick it up and read it over and over again.

Book “The Phone of the Wind” read aloud on CD, requested by Iwate Prefecture

I received a phone call from Mr. Ogasawara, one of the secretaries who was introduced in the “Kamaishi Welfare Council for the Visually Impaired Gathers Bell Gardia  KUJIRAYAMA” released on October 13th. “I enjoyed this meeting very much. Thank you for comparing various things this time and understanding the differences that I could not understand well just by explaining. And today, Chairman Nakamura from Iwate Prefecture I sent a wind phone book to the section in charge of the book and asked for a reading CD. “

It made me happy to be able to get close to their feelings. Even so, I hope that my book “Wind Phone” will be made into a reading CD so that more people will understand the activities at Bell Gardia KUJIRAYAMA and that it will be a friendly society for everyone.

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.”
by Mark Twain