Happy New Year!
Sunny day.
I wake up early and take a walk around the neighborhood.
I happened to encounter the first sunrise of the year. I think back to last year’s New Year’s Day, which was a difficult time for me due to various reasons. Even the same sunrise looks different depending on my state of mind. Maybe something good will happen.
After returning home, I watched the Kohaku Uta Gassen that I had recorded.
I had not watched Kohaku for the past several years, but I suddenly wanted to watch it carefully, so I recorded it.
It was interesting to watch it seriously. It was well done. It is meticulously produced. And there were no more weird cheerleading matches or comical performances like in the past.
What impressed me the most was not Kaze Fujii or MISIA, but Yuzo Kayama. You know, the young general.
He loved boats, was a professional skier, and could write songs. He is truly a star of the Showa era. When Beat Takeshi decided to host a talk show with Mr. Kayama, at first he wanted to tear off his all-powerful star mask, but by the end of the show, he was completely in love with his personality and came to respect him.
Then, he lost his beloved ship, was ill, and was not physically satisfied with his performance, and the Kohaku Uta Gassen. It was his last performance. I was moved by the way he sang so cheerfully. I felt his spirit as an artist. I felt his spirit as an artist.
In another sense, I felt the same smell as that of Kaze Fujii. He desperately tried to deliver something he felt and wanted to convey. Even if he looks like a wreck.
As one grows old, one inevitably loses that kind of spirit. Beyond Mr. Kayama’s cheerful demeanor, his thoughts and feelings were evident on stage.
Even if you are not a fan of Mr. Kayama’s music, his sincerity will move you, shake your heart, and give you something important. And because I could feel that “something important,” I think that is why the Kohaku Uta Gassen, which I have not seen in a long time, was so interesting.
Maybe it was a good thing that the white group was the last….
I am happy to compose haiku on New Year’s Day.
