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[nofatclips]

Live version of Eclipse by Wagakki Band

[fantaquedesenha]

Third Commandment

Cute Commandment do mês de abril: hoje eu vos apresento a diligente, resiliente e obstinada Mariko☀️😈 Instrumento: nagado daiko 🥁

April's Cute Commandment: today I present to you the diligent, resilient, and obstinate Mariko☀️😈 Instrument: nagado daiko 🥁

[idiot-decision]

I made a Taiko no tatsujin Tattoo 🥹

[riki-wadaikohikari]

【今日から4月】 ・ 昨日(3/31)は、「天赦日」「一粒万倍日」「寅の日」が重なる、とっても縁起の良い日だったようです ・ あまり意識はしてませんでしたが、自然と新しい年度のやりたい事を思い浮かべていたり、過去の出来事を振り返り感謝していたり ・ なんだか新しい流れを呼び込むために、心の中の大掃除をしたような感じです ・ ・ ・ 今朝みた夢も、とっても印象に残る内容だったので意味などを調べてみましたが、スッと腑に落ちました ・ ・ ・ 当たり前を当たり前と思わないように 当たり前が当たり前であるように ・ ・ ・ #和太鼓輝 #和太鼓 #輝 #ひかり #japanesedrums #drum #日本 #九州 #熊本 #japan #kumamoto #music #taiko #wadaiko #わだいこ #音楽 #習い事 #教室 #演奏 #出演 #新年度 #春 #天赦日と一粒万倍日と寅の日が重なる日 #整理 #心機一転 #宜しくお願いします https://www.instagram.com/p/CNHXI-sDZgF/?igshid=hhrfisvi8m5a

[tokyosinging]

[mysynthfetish]

3 Days With Ondekoza (part three)

Top o’ the morning to thee and thine, O droogs.

Day three began with me waking up at the usual Way Earlier Than Necessary Or Reasonable time. So, knowing that there would be no morning run, I quietly showered, got dressed, and went for a wee walkabout to see what secrets the ‘hood was hiding.

First, I climbed up the double-kiss-your-ass-turn road that winds up the hill directly behind the schoolhouse, which is where I shot the above video from. It was just around 6am, so aside from a few cars and bikes already out for fun and possible death on the twisty mountain roads in the area, it was mostly pretty damn tranquil. Just the sound of the birds, the wind, and the river. What an environment! The schoolhouse is situated in a sort of valley, with just a few houses sorta nearby, and a temple directly across the street (Chōkei-ji if I remember correctly). Interestingly, there were tea fields behind the temple. This struck me as a real coincidence, as one of the gifts I brought for Ondekoza was a selection of powdered green tea from Furukawa Seicha, a tea grower based in Uji (Kyoto) that has been around since the Edo Period and whose middle daughter is a former student (just graduated from elementary school in March), and one of my favorite students ever. Super sweet kid. I wish they were all like her. Anyway. Lemme blab on about the tea for a sec. One member (Naoto) studied agriculture at college, and spent time in the US doing so in Salinas, California. He’s a fantastic cook by the way—Naoto, those scones rocked the house, man! He’s also pretty goddam knowledgeable all around when it comes to the culinary arts, and when I said “here’s a little something I brought for you guys,” he knew from like a 0.5 second glance it was green tea, which took me by surprise. Ms Furukawa also hooked me up with a bamboo whisk for preparing the tea, and Naoto was stoked about that as well, so I was stoked too. Much stokage! Thanks a million, Ms Furukawa and Hoyuhoyu!!!

On my way up the road behind the school, I spotted this monument tucked away in the woods, just at the foot of the first turnback. I thought “Cool! Creepy shit! I’ll hit that up on the way down.” Turns out it was a monument erected in memory of the local boys and men who died as soldiers during WW2. Yikes. There’s a weird monument like this near my place that has a freaking howitzer type large bore gun made into a sort of flagpole, with the base of the monument having shells stood on end placed every so often around the thing. Weeeeeeird! Far less creepy than this one, obviously. Anyway, my walkabout continued.

Found a few oooold rusty signs. The rectangular one says Unauthorized Vehicle Entry Prohibited—West Elementary School. The round one has English at the top. I also found two other WTF things. First:

Is that not a gas-guzzling full-blooded ‘Murican car or what?! I dunno if the house was even being lived in as it was hard to tell if the debris strewn haphazardly around it had been disturbed at all recently. Weird! Next was this:

A fucking cassette tape, in its case, undamaged, not sun-bleached or waterlogged. Of course that fucker went straight into my pocket and home with me. I checked it out, and it’s super quiet recording of dialog straight off the radio. WEEEEEEEIRD!!!!! Next I trudged down the stone-walled sides to the riverbank and shot a wee viddy. Ok so it seems there’s a one video per post limit. See you in part four then!

[singsoftly]

being a part of a daiko group is a goal of 2019

[stefaniewhat]

A friend got me a great tshirt for my birthday #stefaniewhat #taiko #wadaiko