{"id":4406,"date":"2016-11-15T13:27:28","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T04:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/?p=4406"},"modified":"2016-11-15T13:27:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T04:27:28","slug":"on-our-travels-by-yuichiro-funabashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-ensemble-leader\/20161115_4406.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On Our Travels&#8221; by Yuichiro Funabashi"},"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-ensemble-leader\/20161115_4406.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-ensemble-leader\/20161115_4406.html\" data-text=\"&#8220;On Our Travels&#8221; by Yuichiro Funabashi\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<br class='wp_social_bookmarking_light_clear' \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">On Our Travels<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_11362\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3855.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11362\" class=\"wp-image-11362 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3855-680x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Atsushi Sugano\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11362\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Vietnam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hello, everyone.\u00a0I hope you are all well.<\/p>\n<p>In the past couple of\u00a0years, Kodo has had more chances than usual to visit countries outside of Europe and North America. This year we gave performances in\u00a0Vietnam, Brazil, and Korea. Last year we performed\u00a0in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and Eastern Russia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11363\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/0075_original-e1478844317534.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11363\" class=\"wp-image-11363 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/0075_original-e1478844317534-680x346.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Takuro Susaki\" width=\"640\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;DADAN&#8221; Outdoor Performance in Brazil<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I visited\u00a0three of these countries this year with Kodo:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brazil, just before the Olympic Games,<\/li>\n<li>Korea, which has a sense of distance from Japan these days that is not geographical,<\/li>\n<li>and\u00a0Vietnam, whose considerable economic growth is being likened to that of our nation\u00a0during its post-WW2 rapid economic growth period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_11365\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Photo-02-10-2016-12-23-43-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11365\" class=\"wp-image-11365 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Photo-02-10-2016-12-23-43-s-680x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Yui Kawamoto\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At &#8220;Korea Japan Exchange Festival 2016 in Seoul,&#8221; Korea<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These concerts came about through rather challenging processes,\u00a0unlike our established tours in Europe or North America, but the experiences we gained by spending quality time in these places with local people were all invaluable and rich. Above all, I was able to feel the power of performing arts and music, which bring people\u00a0together for exchange that leads to mutual understanding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11364\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_5166-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11364\" class=\"wp-image-11364 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_5166-s-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Ryotaro Leo Ikenaga\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Vietnam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While I am traveling, I have much\u00a0more time to read books and articles than when I am at home on Sado Island. Some of my fellow\u00a0Kodo members are also book lovers, so I often see people reading on the road as\u00a0we travel from place to place. (Others listen to music, tap their\u00a0drumsticks, watch performance videos, and so on.) Every day, I like to\u00a0look through the newspaper, which is a habit I&#8217;ve somehow kept up since\u00a0childhood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3920-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11366 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_3920-s-340x278.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Atsushi Sugano\" width=\"340\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the road, one of the ways I enjoy my travels\u00a0is by making a point of reading local newspapers and content related to the places we visit. This year I went to Brazil and Vietnam, so I read well-known travel journals by\u00a0Kotaro Sawaki and Takeshi\u00a0Kaiko. As I traveled from place to place, I wondered, &#8220;Is this the place he was talking about in his book?&#8221; If I have free time, going to a bookshop makes me feel refreshed. I am shocked to see that\u00a0my bookshelves at home have suddenly become packed, but I think buying things that you like is a little investment in yourself. It enriches your soul. Well, that&#8217;s what I keep telling myself. When I buy and read books, I feel gratitude to\u00a0everyone connected to their creation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4924-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11368 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_4924-s-340x510.jpg\" alt=\"Photo: Ryotaro Leo Ikenaga\" width=\"340\" height=\"510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Less than\u00a0two months remain in 2016 and\u00a0we still have many places to visit on our travels.<br \/>\nAs always, we will bring the &#8220;fruits&#8221; of our tours with us back to Sado Island, then\u00a0set off again\u00a0on further travels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><strong>Yuichiro Funabashi, Kodo Ensemble Leader<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/member\/yuichiro_en.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8965 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/yuichirofunabashi_s.jpg\" alt=\"yuichirofunabashi_s\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Our Travels &nbsp; Hello, everyone.\u00a0I hope you are all well. In the past couple of\u00a0years, Kodo has had more chances than usual to visit countries outside of Europe and North America. This year we gave performances in\u00a0Vietnam, Brazil, and Korea. Last year we performed\u00a0in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia and Eastern Russia. I visited\u00a0three of these countries this year with Kodo: Brazil, just before the Olympic Games, Korea, which has a sense of distance from Japan these days that is not geographical, and\u00a0Vietnam, whose considerable economic growth is being likened to that of our nation\u00a0during its post-WW2 rapid economic growth period. These concerts came about through rather challenging processes,\u00a0unlike our &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/posts-by-kodo-ensemble-leader\/20161115_4406.html\">\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":[94],"tags":[231,276,63,138,271,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406"}],"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=4406"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4416,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4406\/revisions\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kodo.or.jp\/blog_en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}