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Come on! Kesennuma
Resurrect Citizen Song after 70 Years

Town of Kesennuma celebrated 50th anniversary in 1940 and planned to make "Citizen Song." The town asked Doi Bansui, very famous poet, to creat the lyrics.
Bansui visited Kesennuma and depicted the vigorous town and her beautiful scenery. The melody was composed by Tsutomu Kurihara, a judicial scrivener.
The song was presented to the people on stage in 1942. At Kesennuma elementary school the graders sang it many times and loved it. But as the World War II went on harder, the people lost it in their memory.

Kesennuma Citizen Song

  Enjoy the song by Kagamine Rin & Len, Crypton's Vocaloid

Lyrcs, Doi Bansui
Music, Tsutomu Kurihara

Lyrics found in a kid's song book
Song Presentation in 1942

1)
    Banri no nami ni
        Isana toru
    Gyogyo ni soite
        Seisan no
    kohgyo sarani
        Hi ni hurui
    Tsuki ni susumite
        Arata naru
    Ah a Kesennuma
        Sakae are

2)
    Kameyama Hayama
        Ambayama
    Kare to kore towo
        Aogi mite
    Ichiwan shizuka
        Ai no mizu
    Kanaegaura wo
        Wake yukeba
    Taiheiyo wa
        Amahitasu

3)
    Muso no shochi
        Toki wo ete
    Ima shodai no
        Hikari abu
    Hito mata washite
        Kuni no tame
    Chomin tomo ni
        Issei ni
    Tsutome hagemite
        Yamazaram

Last September a local nonfiction writer, Nishida, wrote on the Sanriku newspaper, that Doi Bansui created the lyrics of the Citizen Song. Kurihara, the composer is Aquibow's father. Since Aquibow heard a woman told her family that she can still remember the melody and sing it, he started to reconstruct the song.
Some people who read the news on the restoration gave Aquibow a call that they can sing it as well. He visited them with a recorder to copy the melody.
Women in their 80s sang it slowly, but youger generation beated it up. As the War going harder, the original four/four melody is supposed to be accelerated in cut time like war song.


Live Music Delivery

Aquibow gets the order for live music performance at home as well as on stages or at local events. He plays 1950's American popular music on saxophone acommpanied by CD piano.

They are reminiscent songs to those who were in the twenties at that time. If you would like to enjoy, please send an e-mail to editor@aquibow.com. The performance is free.

Missing 1960's TV in Japan

Audio archives of 60's TV programs broadcasted in Japan. In those days, ten years after Japan started TV broadcasting, there were many programs imported from the US.

It was so hard to translate the titles of Japanese programs into English. Their meanings are too vague to give them the appropriate words.

However each click brings us to the days half a century ago. It may be fun for westerners to find out how Japanese TV stations modified the US programs.


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