Accepting and letting go, letting go, letting go and let myself to float in the wave. Women are surfers, But sometimes she lets her limbs away And just surrenders herself to the wave. Waves just come, Did it hear my…
Understanding loneliness… [singing in Japanese]
Understanding loneliness, I understand the true wish Lying at the botttom. Then I will know love. You are…
26 January 2023
Khanchar Bhitor Ochin Pakhi… (by Tomomi Paromita, Taro Terahara, Ryohei Terada)
A famous song by Lalon Fakir, known as “unknown bird” The unknown bird in the cage, How does…
15 October 2022
I’ve translated William Dalrymple’s “Nine Lives”, published in January this year.
It has been a year, so amazingly, since my last post, and although I have never forgot about…
31 March 2022
Joler Niche Pa Dubabi Na…
Joler Niche Pa Dubabi Na… composed by Shashanko Goshai. Baul song and dance by Tomomi Paromita (The actual…
31 January 2022Yuta 1
Yuta is a kind of shaman in Okinawa/Ryukyu and Amami islands in the far South of Japan. Unlike…
16 March 2021Biwa Hoshi 3
Continuation from Biwa Hoshi 2. Again, essentially a summary from Hyodo’s work on Biwa Hoshi. In the old…
2 March 2021Biwa Hoshi 2
This post is, like the last post, essentially a summary from Hyodo’s work on Biwa Hoshi (i.e. Biwa…
7 February 2021Biwa Hoshi 1
This is Yoshiyuki Yamashika, the last Biwa Hoshi who has passed away in 1996. He was the last…
1 February 2021From the Tales of Heike
I am introducing a very famous poem, it is the very first stanza of the renown epic The…
25 January 2021