{"id":3090,"date":"2015-03-18T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T06:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2015-03-18T15:11:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T06:11:12","slug":"hina-matsuri-joshi-kai-concert-by-yoko-fujimoto-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150318_3090.html","title":{"rendered":"“Hina Matsuri Joshi-kai<\/span> Concert” by Yoko Fujimoto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hina Matsuri Joshi-kai<\/span> (Doll\u2019s Festival Ladies Get-Together) Concert<\/h2>\n

This\u00a0spacious, beautiful\u00a0cafe was the perfect place for my concert. I think it was\u00a0a comfortable, peaceful and refreshing time for all of us there.\u00a0Thank you very much to\u00a0all of you who came along\u00a0and everyone who helped prepare for the concert.<\/p>\n

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The day before this dog cafe concert, the organizer Noriko had me over to stay at her home. We made lyric sheets together, admired her dolls on display,\u00a0and celebrated the concert in\u00a0advance by sampling the\u00a0sweet sake that\u00a0would be provided at the concert venue.<\/p>\n

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I wore a\u00a0new pink costume with flowers on it especially for the Doll’s Festival, to feel like a young girl again.<\/p>\n

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I sang songs filled with flowers, from good old songs to little pieces by Beethoven.
\nI played the koto<\/span> (harp) to accompany\u00a0three of the songs. One of them was about my beloved dog, Kintoki, may he rest in peace.<\/p>\n

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\nThe audience sang along with me, following\u00a0the lyric sheets we had prepared. Their kind, warm sound echoed throughout\u00a0the venue.<\/p>\n

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\nThis time, I chose to perform pieces that I just learned or had just revisited anew, so I battled against\u00a0my age and memory skills to prepare for the concert. But through this experience, I fell in love with popular songs like\u00a0“Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana<\/span>” and “Hana wa Saku<\/span>” and I would like to keep singing them from now on, too.<\/p>\n

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\nLittle Tora came the concert and listened my songs quietly. What a cutie! Thanks for coming. See you again!<\/p>\n

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This is\u00a0Hideko, the owner of Deco’s Dog Cafe. She is looking forward to our\u00a0next special\u00a0event\u00a0together. I am happy to hear that!<\/p>\n

Next time, I’ll have a\u00a0concert that boys can come along and\u00a0enjoy, too.<\/p>\n

Photos: Mizuho Hasegawa<\/h6>\n

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Hina Matsuri Joshi-kai (Doll\u2019s Festival Ladies Get-Together) Concert This\u00a0spacious, beautiful\u00a0cafe was the perfect place for my concert. I think it was\u00a0a comfortable, peaceful and refreshing time for all of us there.\u00a0Thank you very much to\u00a0all of you who came along\u00a0and everyone who helped prepare for the concert. The day before this dog cafe concert, the organizer Noriko had me over to stay at her home. We made lyric sheets together, admired her dolls on display,\u00a0and celebrated the concert in\u00a0advance by sampling the\u00a0sweet sake that\u00a0would be provided at the concert venue. I wore a\u00a0new pink costume with flowers on it especially for the Doll’s Festival, to feel like a young girl … \u25b6\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}