Category: my life

Why don’t we take a walk together at Nakano Broadway?

Today is Sunday in Japan. Now that the corona wreck is coming to an end, the city is finally becoming lively with people. The city is especially full of foreign tourists, and I always go to a facility called Nakano Broadway for a walk on Sundays, and the building is full of foreigners.

This time I would like to talk about Nakano Broadway. Of course, Nakano Broadway does not do musicals like the original Broadway in New York. A long time ago, the Japanese must have stolen only the name. smile

Nakano Broadway is a commercial facility with many shops as tenants. Mandarake is a famous manga buying shop, but recently there are many luxury watch buying shops. The number of figure shops is increasing, and I went there again today, and there were many foreigners shopping there.

As someone who lives in the neighborhood of Nakano Broadway, Nakano Broadway is a pretty interesting building, but let me introduce you to a shop that is not well known to foreigners.

The store is a record store dedicated to Japanese Enka. Enka is a popular song from 50 years ago that is still loved by the elderly in Japan, and the enka singers come to the store for live performances and campaigns. It’s a small shop, so when the singer starts singing, the shop closes the shutter so that the sound doesn’t leak. It is located on the second floor of Nakano Broadway.

There was a time when I thought about negotiating whether I could perform at this enka record store as a singer, but I gave up because I couldn’t invite fans. So, if you are reading this blog, would you like to become a fan of my song? Then I can go to this enka record store with you. I think it would be a good idea to buy your favorite figure at the figure shop on your way home.

But to tell the truth, my original song is not enka. smile

You can download YUKIO original Japanese songs! Would you like to listen? You can also listen to it. 

I also distribute music on other sites.

Sakura

Unfortunately, it’s raining in Japan today. It rained yesterday as well as today. I am sorry to say that this is the season when the cherry blossoms（ Sakura）are in full bloom in Japan. Japanese people have a custom of admiring cherry blossoms at this time of year. The family goes on a picnic and has a party while drinking sake under the cherry blossoms in full bloom. In the past, foreigners used to look at this Japanese custom with cold eyes, but recently, I often see foreigners drinking together with Japanese people under the cherry blossom trees. smile

That’s why the cherry blossoms were in full bloom yesterday and today, and many Japanese people were supposed to go out to see the cherry blossoms on Saturday and Sunday.

However, to be honest, I don’t really like the cherry blossom viewing customs of Japanese people, and I can’t get used to them. There are some Japanese who cannot get used to such group activities. Foreigners! Not all Japanese people move in groups! smile

I don’t like group activities, but I like watching cherry blossoms in full bloom. In the past, I used to see cherry blossom trees in an unpopular park on weekday mornings while taking a walk. Cherry blossoms blooming in silence are very beautiful. Especially the scene where the cherry blossoms are scattered and the pink petals are piled up on the water surface of the river or pond below is very wonderful.

In addition, in this spring season when cherry blossoms are in bloom, the end of March is the end of the school year in Japan, and the graduation ceremony is held. You may be feeling it.

Would you like to come see the Japanese cherry blossoms（ Sakura） someday? I might be holding my guitar and singing under the cherry blossom trees. Lol I’m begging you, please donate even a little money. smile

You can download YUKIO original Japanese songs! Would you like to listen? You can also listen to it.

I also distribute music on other sites.

The reason why yukio.asia became multilingual

Well, after a long time, I decided to write this blog. This time I have to explain why this blog is divided into English, French and Spanish, even though I am Japanese.

Yes, it’s been over 10 years. I had a friend. That friend has been my friend since high school, and when I was a student, we often talked about rock. We had a lot of fun talking about music, such as the Beatles, Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, who is a bad guitar player, and so on. He also seems to be very fond of languages and has worked in a major Japanese company using English.

When I was young, I was in a band, but since I didn’t have a bassist, I asked him to play on occasion, so I’ve been with him for a long time. One day, he started studying not only English but also French, and when he went on a business trip to France, he bought me a souvenir. A few years later he went on a business trip to Argentina, saying that he had now started studying Spanish. He was threatened by a pickpocket at the New York airport on his way home from a business trip, and came back to Japan crying.

Why does he like foreign languages so much! So when he made my music homepage, he asked him to translate the English, French and Spanish pages. He likes meat, so he treated him to a hamburger at the restaurant. (smile)

With this, I thought that my homepage became multilingual and international, even though I myself can only speak Japanese, but he suddenly withdrew to the countryside and I couldn’t update it. It was (smile)

We have created pages in English, French, and Spanish! I didn’t want to waste it, so I started updating my blog using Google Translate, thinking that it would be a disaster if this happened again. Of course I don’t speak English, French or Spanish. (smile)

I laugh at myself that this blog has been around for years, but I will continue to do so. Last year, I started a radio course to study these three words again, but I failed. I don’t have enough time to study these three words! I’m running out of time to do my own music!

So, for the time being, I focus only on English and study plainly every night. (laughs) But I haven’t given up on learning French and Spanish! I believe that if I live another 100 years or so, I will be able to master it. With the development of science, isn’t the human life expectancy about 200 years old? (smile)

But he’s irresponsible for being the first to translate English, French and Spanish! Think about the future! Well, I’m the one who requested the translation of this homepage. (very loud laugh)

You can download YUKIO original Japanese songs! Would you like to listen? You can also listen to it. (Security is being strengthened. Rest assured!)

I also distribute music on other sites.

I’m uploading a walk scenery on Instagram.

Hello everyone who speaks English! It’s already been 2 weeks since the new year, how are you? As for me, since the end of the year, I have been uploading my SNS Instagram every day. It seems that everyone is looking at SNS, so I thought that this blog alone would not be enough. Since I discovered that I can listen to my own original songs on Instagram posts, I mainly upload them on Instagram.

The contents of the posts are silly, and I just take random pictures in a nearby park where I go for a walk every morning and upload them with my own music. (Laughs) I don’t want to take a great artistic image, I just point my phone at the subject and shoot as I feel when I’m walking. It’s my daily work, so I try not to think too hard about it.

I just decided on the overall concept, which is to shoot the scenery of my morning walk. The purpose is to get people to listen to my music, so the image can basically be anything. I just upload images of my daily life, but I think that there are hidden hints for my music in that daily life. I said a little too cool. (smile)

I also set it so that when I post on Instagram, it will also be uploaded to Twitter. So you can see my walking pictures in Japan on Twitter. Great!

However, there were no followers on Instagram or Twitter. (Laughter) I have no friends. How many billion people are there in the world today? I researched and found that there are about 7.8 billion people, and with so many people living on earth, it would be nice to have at least one friend of mine among them, but there is no one. It’s strange!

I’ve lived my whole life in this situation, so I don’t expect much, but if you don’t have followers, the articles you upload won’t be spread, so if you’re interested in my music, please follow me. Is it not? I don’t think there are people like that. (smile)

In the meantime, I’m thinking of activating social media a little this year. However, I’m thinking of doing it in moderation so that I don’t put too much effort into it and it doesn’t affect my life. Best regards this year!

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「COCOLO」I think this song is my best song.

You can download YUKIO original Japanese songs! Would you like to listen? You can also listen to it. (Security is being strengthened. Rest assured!)

I also distribute music on other sites.

Japanese monster legend

Hello English speakers, it’s been a while. It’s been over a month since I last wrote this blog. A lot of things happened during this time, and in addition to writing this blog, I started studying English through a radio course, but I was forced to interrupt that as well. This time, I would like to talk about the contents of the English radio course that the Japanese national broadcaster is doing.

I’m studying elementary English at the level of the first year of junior high school, but I buy textbooks at the bookstore and listen to the radio for 15 minutes every night from 9:00 pm to study. There is a story for a year, and each time the characters talk about a phase of the story in English. The character is the daughter of a kappa, which Japanese people would laugh at.

Kappa is a ghost that has been passed down in Japan since ancient times. What kind of specters (ghosts) live in rivers, are good at swimming, have a plate on their head for some reason, and if the plate dries up or cracks, they die. And kappa likes to eat cucumbers and play sumo. Sumo wrestling is an ancient Japanese Shinto ritual in which wrestlers fight each other naked.

For some reason, the kappa daughter went to school in America and is fluent in English. She (laughs) and enjoyed Halloween and Christmas. (Laughs) The story is out of the ordinary, but by making the characters familiar to the Japanese people, they may have thought that they would be able to become familiar with English naturally because it is a national broadcaster.

In Japan, there are various yokai (ghosts) other than Kappa. In fact, one of the songs in the next music piece I’m working on now has a song about yokai. The song is called “Zashikiwarashi,” and if you ask what kind of yokai a “zashikiwarashi” is, you can hear the voice of a child, and adults can’t see it. A local (northern part of Japan) yokai. (smile)

The Corona Pandemic is ending, so why don’t you come to Japan to meet Japanese ghosts? Please listen to my song then. There are many songs that seem to fit kappa and zashikiwarashi. It’s a Japanese original song. (smile)

HINOTAMA(fireball)
“HINOTAMA” are also a psychic phenomenon that is said to fly around Japanese graves.

You can download YUKIO original Japanese songs! Would you like to listen? You can also listen to it. (Security is being strengthened. Rest assured!)

I also distribute music on other sites.