{"id":3553,"date":"2015-07-07T15:08:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=3553"},"modified":"2015-07-07T15:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T06:12:27","slug":"yamazu-meguromo-concert-by-yoko-fujimoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-members\/20150707_3553.html","title":{"rendered":"“‘Yamazu Megurumo’ Concert” by Yoko Fujimoto"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yoko Fujimoto “Yamazu Meguromo” Concert
\nAt Craft Kowa, Tokyo (June 10, 2015)<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

Wakako Sato, the presenter of this concert, uses traditional picture mounting skills in ways that suit our modern way of life and hopes to hand these skills down to future generations. Even though our fields of works are different, she shares the same passion for creation that\u00a0the Kodo group has pumping through its veins. Wakako\u00a0was my classmate in high school. Surrounded by the energy of our friendship and her works, at this concert I sang in such a relaxed, feel-good way, while plucking away at a makoto harp*, which I had only just been introduced to for the very first time!<\/p>\n

*Makoto harp: A\u00a0new instrument created by Rieko Renuma\u00a0after the 3.11 Tohoku Pacific Earthquake & Tsunami.<\/p>\n

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Wakako Sato works closely with her neighbors and community to organize events that bind the city and country through food. Her network is similar to the concept we had when we founded Kodo Village on Sado Island.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since spring I have been blessed with a number of new encounters, including the makoto harp, and the path of my “journey with song” has become clearer all of a sudden. I will use songs to boost people’s immunity, as well as my own.<\/p>\n

Does that make you laugh? Well, I mean it!<\/p>\n

That’s exactly what I want to do!<\/p>\n

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With the makoto<\/span> harp<\/p><\/div>\n

In other words, I am focusing on the love involved in singing and music. For example, when you play an instrument or sing, you express an array of things. If the audience tells you they were moved, soothed, encouraged, or so on, well if that makes you happy as an artist, you could say that you perform to move and energize others, as your purpose. Artists and their audiences give and receive, love and receive love, interact and share all kinds of emotions and experiences, good and bad. We can all choose to think of life and all its encounters as interesting or challenging, instead of rough or tough. We can cry together and laugh together.<\/p>\n

If you share your emotions and let people and music in, your heart and mind can feel that connection to others and receive great power. As we are uplifted emotionally, our physical strength, and even our immunity and resilience, also increase. By singing, drumming, dancing, and sharing time together, we can create power within us, which we can then draw on in times of need. This power will help us to overcome various difficulties and all kinds of infections, both now and in the future. That’s a wonderful thing to do, don’t you think? I believe that music and communication can have this effect and I will continue working and singing in the hopes of sharing this effect with many people.<\/p>\n

I want to use my power as an artist to create a network of love and harmony that strengthens people from within. I’ll continue my travels with an enthusiastic\u00a0smile on my face, singing as I go… here, there and everywhere. I’ll do my very best!<\/p>\n

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Artworks created by Wakako Sato<\/p>\n

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