{"id":2016,"date":"2014-10-30T14:11:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T05:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2014-10-30T14:11:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T05:11:05","slug":"mystery-performance-in-iwaki-by-shogo-komatsuzaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20141030_2016.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8216;Mystery&#8217; Performance in Iwaki&#8221; by Shogo Komatsuzaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='wp_social_bookmarking_light'>        <div class=\"wsbl_facebook_like\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20141030_2016.html\" layout=\"button_count\" action=\"recommend\" width=\"100\" share=\"false\" show_faces=\"false\" ><\/fb:like><\/div>        <div class=\"wsbl_twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20141030_2016.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;&#8216;Mystery&#8217; Performance in Iwaki&#8221; by Shogo Komatsuzaki\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<p>On October 4, we performed in my hometown of Iwaki, Fukushima. It was my first time to perform in Iwaki as a Kodo member. Thanks to the support of the venue, Iwaki Performing Arts Center Alios, the\u00a0audience there had gathered from all over\u00a0Fukushima Prefecture. It was a beautiful day and my heart was filled with\u00a0happiness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mystery_TO_0423-m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mystery_TO_0423-m-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takashi Okamoto\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No matter how much I think about it, all I can think to say is &#8220;Thank you&#8221; to\u00a0all of the people\u00a0who helped us with\u00a0this performance. Even though people in Fukushima are still having a hard time, they manage to turn their tough experiences into strength\u00a0and they smile a lot. They reminded me that\u00a0I\u00a0get my own strength from them too, everywhere I go, all the time, with each\u00a0step I take.<br \/>\nI hope this performance will become a link between Iwaki and Kodo. I will continue to do my best,\u00a0in the hopes of\u00a0coming back to perform in Iwaki soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mystery_TO_67661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/mystery_TO_67661-340x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takashi Okamoto\" width=\"340\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/member\/shogokomatsuzaki_ja.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-1917\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/shogokomatsuzaki_s.jpg\" alt=\"shogokomatsuzaki_s\" width=\"90\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/news\/20140919oet_ja.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1196 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/news20140510oet-340x377.jpg\" alt=\"news20140510oet\" width=\"122\" height=\"136\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 4, we performed in my hometown of Iwaki, Fukushima. It was my first time to perform in Iwaki as a Kodo member. Thanks to the support of the venue, Iwaki Performing Arts Center Alios, the\u00a0audience there had gathered from all over\u00a0Fukushima Prefecture. It was a beautiful day and my heart was filled with\u00a0happiness. No matter how much I think about it, all I can think to say is &#8220;Thank you&#8221; to\u00a0all of the people\u00a0who helped us with\u00a0this performance. Even though people in Fukushima are still having a hard time, they manage to turn their tough experiences into strength\u00a0and they smile a lot. They reminded me that\u00a0I\u00a0get my own &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20141030_2016.html\">\u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,7,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}