Tag: The Phone of the Wind

“Wind Phone” is a phone that conveys your feelings to people who can no longer meet. It was created with the hope that you will be able to communicate with your family, friends, and lovers again. The feeling of being able to connect with the deceased will help give dreams and hopes to those who have been left behind. The telephone line is not connected. “Thoughts may be connected because they are not connected.” That is the imagination of the heart and the power of human beings.

What is connecting feelings?

Have you ever imagined that the loved one you talked to a while ago suddenly died and disappeared from the world? Lost life cannot be regained by any means or effort. And when it comes to the fact that you can’t connect with that person after you’ve died, all that remains for those who are left behind is hopelessness. But if you can find the light of hope that you can stay close to you and be connected at any time, even if you are dead, how empowering will you be in your life? You should also understand that you need that kind of sensibility and imagination.

At the same time, the survivors will be close to the dead, and you will realize that you are living in the present as a living person. And I think that the sense of security that the deceased person is watching over you will heal you from the lost grief. I think this is what connects our feelings.

On April 29th and 30th, Bell Gardia KUJIRAYAMA will hold “‘Wind Phone’ 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, “Wind Phone” 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.

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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.

The VR preview video of “Wind Phone” by “Yes Please Thank You” (YPTY) taken in September has been released.

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.

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.