When Yuki Amami was not yet appearing frequently in dramas, she appeared in a commercial TV program on the theme of DNA, and there was a project in which she herself went further and further into the far reaches of the Silk Road to meet the descendants of a common ancestor from long ago.
At the beginning of the program, I was curious to see what kind of face would appear, but it was an ordinary lady.
It is known that there are quite a few Japanese descendants in Portugal today who are of mixed ancestry from the era of Christian feudal lords, but is there any local talk about Japanese faces?
One example that makes me wonder if this might be the case is Cristina Blanco, who has a very Japanese look on her face.
I have listed three photos of her.
The origin of fado is said to be surprisingly new, but if we assume that a sad folk song (a primitive version of "Itsuki no Komoriuta," for example) from Kyushu during the Warring States period was brought to Japan by girls from Kyushu, then fado must have originated in Japan.
Itsuki no Komori Uta (Lullaby of Itsuki with Lyrics) by Yumiko Sameshima
It is impossible to prove it, but if Blanco sings "Itsuki no Komoriuta" arranged in Fado style at a live concert in Japan, and if she and the audience get tears in their eyes, it might become a worldwide topic of conversation.
Although not from Kyushu, "Lullaby of Takeda" (Akai Tori version) may be more tearful.
I asked my friend who lives in the U.S. how "American Feeling" sung by Circus would be received by the people there, and I asked him to spread the word, especially what he thought about the inclusion of the word "America" in a song about another country, and whether it could be a cheer song in terms of its melody. I asked.
I did, and the reply came right back, and I couldn't help but groan, "Nacchu."
The reply.
Well, we already have Trump's cheering song.
It is the song that is played before he appears on stage.
There are lots of them on U-tube, you can listen to them.
A video copyrighted by NHK was uploaded to YouTube and received about 2 million hits and more than 700 rave reviews from inside and outside of Japan, but NHK deleted it.
Considering the many fans waiting for Junko Yamamoto, who is not expected to make a comeback, and the feelings of the foreigners who were moved by the rare English singing by a Japanese, this is an outrage, isn't it?
For the money-hungry NHK, copyrights are a mere trifle, and the loss of Japan's international reputation is more important than copyrights.
Tao Tsuchiya's debut work "Mina in the Endless Village" is set in Misakubo, where is now part of Hamamatsu City Shizuoka Prefecture, and was filmed on location at a wide variety of scenic spots in the surrounding area.
In the early 1980s, there was a bit of a history boom, and many books by amateur historical researchers appeared in this country.
The authors of those days have passed away, and the passion of their readers no longer remains.
This is a topic about an interesting book about "Misakubo" that I found in a used bookstore at that time.
As you can see, the sound of "ISAKU" is hidden in "MISAKUBO," a place that has long been in contact with Suwa-taisha Shrine, famous for its rituals that resemble those of Abraham and Isaac in the Old Testament.
there were immigrants from Mesopotamia in the Jomon period who worked in copper mines in this area.
In fact, the mine was in operation until around the time of the Osaka World's EXPO in 1970.
Around 1960, a local junior high school student discovered a stone (Misakubo-ishi) that had been carved with what could be neither symbols nor letters, and it was deciphered.
This area, like many others, has become depopulated and difficult to live in, but are there any young people who can explore the ruins of mines and other places while living a self-sufficient life and prove the legend?
If I were younger...
I think it would be interesting if young people (10-20 couples who dislike the city and want to become self-sufficient) who have had their outlook on life changed by the Corona fiasco settled in the area.
I guess that's impossible, right?
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This is a question I ask my Japanese-Brazilian clients, but it is true that Christian feudal lords sold young girls in their territories to Portugal in exchange for gunpowder.
I asked a Brazilian about it after reading a book by Yagiri Tomeo, and he said that it is written in detail in textbooks over there and that everyone knows about it.
I heard that beautiful children were taken in by good families and ugly children were treated as slaves.
He said that this is supported by the fact that about 20% of the Portuguese population has straight black hair.
This is a story that does not appear in Japanese history textbooks at all, but I believe that the number of people who love history will increase if they know this content.
Fado is famous in Portugal along with canzone (Italy) and chanson (France), and the melancholy songs of Amalia Rodrigues (old) and Cristina Blanco (new) are similar to the folk songs of the Amakusa region, showing the influence of ancient Japan.
The songs are very similar to the folk songs of the Amakusa region.
Perhaps Cristina Blanco has some Japanese blood running through her veins.
She may have been Naomi Chiaki-like atht to Portugal.
However, this intuition of mine is not found in either Wikipedia or any other encyclopedia.
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I am writing about a glimpse I caught at the middle school where I am a school doctor.
I looked through the alphabet practice books for the new first graders, and I saw block letters only and no written letters.
I asked the teachers about it and they said, "That's the way it is now. "
We spent the entire month of April mastering it in a practice book called "Penmanship" in the 1960s.
Considering what happened after that, this whole month was not a waste at all.
In her new book新著, Kumiko Torikai says that to increase your vocabulary, it is not enough to just listen to what you hear, but it is better to learn by writing.
To learn by writing, you must use the written form.
Even now, children in good places should be learning the written form.
If they are intentionally not learning it, this is a gap-maintaining device.
The five basic sentence patterns have also been stopped in public education.
If we make children learn English from elementary school without any educational theory, they will only spend less time learning Japanese, and that is just what they want.
Like a treatment system for a chronic disease that seems to be curable but is not, English education that cannot be learned is probably a very similar interest structure.
It is well-known that the U.S. taught English to Filipinos in a way that deliberately prevented them from improving their English, in contrast to the Japanese language education that Japan provided in Taiwan.