The VR preview video of “Wind Phone” by “Yes Please Thank You” (YPTY) taken in September has been released.
Picture book “Kaze no Denwa” to “Wind Phone”
The other day, a foreign writer was impressed to hear about “Wind Phone” 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 “Wind Phone”, 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 “Wind Phone” 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 “Wind Phone” 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 “Wind Phone” 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, “Wind Phone” 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 “Wind Phone” 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 “Wind Phone” 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
Kamaishi Visually Impaired Welfare Association gathered at Bell Gardia KUJIRAYAMA
On October 8th, the rain on the previous day stopped and it was a perfect day for sports. The name of this gathering is a sports tournament for people with disabilities, but I accepted it because it was okay to take a walk around Bell Gardia KUJIRAYAMA.
It was my first time and I thought about what to do and spend half a day happily. Although visually impaired, other senses of hearing, touching, smelling, and tasting are the same as those of healthy people. If you think so, you should be able to play various games. Play that you can’t do anywhere else. Have fun listening to the “Wind Phone” CD, try using “Wind Phone”, babbling streams, singing birds, and being sensitive to the sound of the wind. Have them listen with good hearing. As for the touch, walk through the garden to check the feel of the lawn, the moss, and the fallen leaves. In the experience of sniffing, the scent differs depending on the type of rose, the scent of herbs and conifers, the strength of the scent, the sweetness, and the spicy scent. In the experience of tasting, all the people with disabilities and caregivers experienced the menu of sweetening coffee and cake, eating fig fruits, drinking hearty and enjoying each taste.
In particular, the experience of walking on moss made me feel like a carpet and was a surprise. As for the odor, it responded sensitively and sniffed out more subtle differences than we felt.
It is indescribable that visually impaired people also have different levels of understanding of Braille translation depending on whether they are congenital or acquired, and the degree of imagination differs greatly. Recently, he said that he often listens to read aloud books on his PC rather than Braille books. Even so, when I listen to it, I fall asleep on the way, so I also say that Braille books are better in such cases.
It was a short time of only half a day, but what pleased everyone is that it will add a new page to the activities of Bergadia Kujirayama in the future.
We want to be with you as long as time permits, “anytime, anyone”, which is the concept of Bell Gardia KUJIRAYAMA.
