Tag: 風の電話

Everyone, have you been doing well today for the first time in a while? I got sick last December and had to take a rest. Please be assured that it has improved considerably.

By the way, March 11th marks the fifth year since the Great East Japan Earthquake, but more than 190,000 people are still forced to live in evacuation centers.

Australian psychiatrist Beverley Raphael, in his book “When a Disaster Hits”, states that “forgotten” is the greatest danger to disaster victims. Many of the victims are still living a life that should not be forgotten. I would like to remind those people and give them their thoughts.

On the other hand, there are also plans in various places to remember to be close to everyone.

Introducing “The Phone of the Wind”, on March 6th, Tohoku University International Research Institute of Disaster Science / Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University / Kataritsugu Sendai Executive Committee / Reconstruction Support Concert Executive Committee “Katari Tsugi” reading and music evening sponsored by the society at Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University.

On March 12th, a concert at the Ibaraki Prefectural General Welfare Hall Community Hall, sponsored by NPO Portamo, that talks about the feelings for reconstruction and listens to music.

Broadcast on March 10th at NHK Special from 10 pm on “The Phone of the Wind”.

And so on. If you have time near you, please take a look.

絵本作家のいもと ようこさんの本といえば、多くの方が一度や二度子供に読んであげたか、子供のとき読んでもらったことがあると思います。

その、いもとさんが金の星社の編集者を通じて、「風の電話」の絵本を出版したいと承諾を求めてきたのが昨年の6月25日。それから7ヶ月半、その間、原稿を2回見せていただいきました。そして今月、2月14日に「発刊されたので送ります」との連絡をもらいました。

15日の午前中、当日は、大雪警報が出ているにもかかわらず、必ず荷物は届くものと待っていました。待ちに待った作品がようやく届き早速開けてみた。なんともいわれぬ新しい本の匂いと共に「風の電話」が約3年の歳月を経て、絵本という形になったという感動が湧き上がってきました。

Speaking of picture books author Yoko Imoto, I think that many people have read them once or twice, or have them read when you were children.

Ms. Imoto asked for consent to publish a picture book of “Kaze no Denwa” through the editor of Kinnohoshi Co., Ltd on June 25, 2015. Then, for seven and a half months, I was shown the manuscript twice during that time. And this month, on February 14th, I was informed that “I will send it. It was published.”

On the morning of the 15th, I was waiting for my luggage to arrive, despite the heavy snow warning. The long-awaited work finally arrived and I opened it immediately. Along with the scent of a new book, I was impressed that “The Phone of the Wind” became a picture book after about three years.

Understanding my thoughts that invisible and inaudible things are necessary as mental infrastructure to convey feelings to those who have lost or lost their loved ones, and made them into picture books. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to Ms. Imoto and Kinnohoshi, Mr. Saito the editor, and everyone who has sympathized with “The Phone of the Wind” nationwide.

The original picture exhibition of the picture book “Kaze no Denwa” will be held at the “The Library of the Forest ” at Bell Gardia KUJIRAYAMA as follows. This is a unique opportunity to see Yoko Imoto’s precious original drawings. Please do not miss.

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“Kaze no Denwa” Picture Book Original Picture Exhibition

Date: April 20 to May 18, 2016

Opening Hours: 10:00 to 16:00 (Closed on Mondays)

Admission fee: Free

Mitsuru Arai from Hokkaido and translates and composes “Sen no Kaze ni Natte (A Thousand Winds)”, entered Otsuchi for a special lecture to be held at the Otsuchi Central Community Center tomorrow, on August 11th.

Prior to the lecture, he visited “The Phone of the Wind” today and called the mother of a former midwife who died at the age of 91.

When I asked if he was connected to her mother, he said, “She was able to hear a faint voice.”

Sheep are kept in Hokkaido, and they are allowed to take a walk around 5 pm.

I sincerely look forward to the lecture on the anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake tomorrow, on the 11th.

When I went out after cleaning the box of “The Phone of the Wind” this morning, I heard a humming noise around my head, and when I got rid of it, I felt a sharp pain in my hand. When I waved my hand, I felt the same pain around my neck, so I shook my hands and ran away to my house. At that time, the appearance of the bee could not be identified.

Immediately the pain struck. It’s the fourth time I’ve been attacked by a bee, but it’s the first time I’ve been stabbed in the neck and the pain is not odd.

Someone comes to the wind phone every day, and no matter who is attacked, it is an incident and I have to remove it immediately. I put on three layers of clothes and trousers, wrap a towel around my neck, and put a net on my hat. I held the bee jet and went to the side of the box, but I couldn’t see the bee. At first, I sprayed a jet on the grass on the side, but there was no change. One of them gathered around the roof and one of them started to intimidate. It’s a wasp! Although this is fully armed, I am fully aware of its fear.

I attacked the bazooka at the place where I was hanging out, and when they were dismissed, I tried to attack the enemy’s main team at once, but I could not find the nest of the main team. It seemed that the main team was nesting inside the triangular roof of the enemy, and the bazooka that was wasted was finally played, and I had to retreat after that.

If it couldn’t be annihilated, we had to avoid harming the people who came to the phone, so we decided to put up a rope and put out a sticker.

It was so hot that I took off my heavy equipment and went to the fierce battlefield again. We apologize for the inconvenience, but for the sake of your safety, we have to ban it. Thank you for your understanding.

Even so, my neck hurts.

At 2:00 pm on May 20, “Amazing Grace” by violin solo was played on the scented wind against the background of “The Phone of the Wind”.

The player was Mr. Katsumi Matsumoto, a popular player of the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra. It was the first time I met him at a lecture held in Shizuoka on February 25th and then at a violin concert.

After the event was over, a social gathering was held by the Shizuoka Volunteer Association. It was to visit and play “The Phone of the Wind” that I promised to get rid of alcohol. Since he is a very busy player, I thought it was “no way”, but this time I was able to realize it with the help of Mr. Tsuyoshi Konno, the representative of “Love and Human Concert Committee”. Thank you to Mr. Matsumoto, Mr. Konno, and everyone else involved.

In addition, there are two outdoor performances, “This road I came someday”, then Elgar’s “Love’s Greeting” at “The Library of the Forest”, “Liebesfreud” and “Liebesleid” by Kreisler, “Humoresque”by Dvorak, and “Ave Maria” by Schubert,  etc.