ことの歌 - Song for Koto

この楽曲は日本で作ったさいしょの楽曲です。野田学園高校のこと部はアートふる山口でその楽曲をひきました。この歌のはっそうは自然の色や、四きのユニークな美しさとか、小川のせせらぎと他の自然の音です。”ことの歌”は僕の日本で作曲したさいしょの作品です。このように作曲するのにがんばっています。
This is the first piece that I've written and finished in Japan. The piece was performed by the Nodagakuen Koto ensemble at the Artfuru Yamaguchi festival on Halloween. This song was inspired by, among other things, the colors of nature along with the unique beauty of the four seasons, as well as other sounds in nature like the murmur of brooks and the banter of streams. This song is the first I have composed in Japan. I will continue to work diligently at composition. 

Silver Week Part 3 - シルバーウィーク ３パート

We rode the SL, steam engine home through the mountains of 山口. It's always so wonderful to hear the sound of the engine starting up, as each rotation of the wheels lurches the train forward only slightly.

On the train I met a man. A sort of middle aged man, who was seated across from me. We talked about how long I had been in Japan and such. It was pleasant. I snapped this photo at just the right moment to capture these to people riding a motorbike, though I meant to take a picture of the window, (auto-focus got the better of me).

An other accidental cameo by some random people. After talking with the man sitting across from I then met a family whose youngest was interested in English and had thus learned quite a bit of vocabulary. We talked in Japanese but he was able to show me his vocabulary knowledge of individual words, which I found to be quite impressive. 

Anyhow after about one and a half hours the sun had begun to set and we had thus arrived home. And so concludes the Silver Week saga.