Published date:
2015-04-24
Song Book Shoji Harumi “Sakura News”
A collection of songs by Harumi Shoji. This book was triggered when the author began to be aware of his own age, so he decided to put it together himself as the final songbook. One day, when I asked my daughter to publish a collection of poems after my death, she was turned down saying “I don't have that kind of power,” and I felt the need to organize it myself. So, I looked back at the works after the previous songbook “Blue Water Lilies,” but I wasn't satisfied with the content, so I decided to face my own old age. While feeling lost in the work, which strongly expressed feelings due to the death of her husband and getting older, the feeling that “I'm glad I continued tanka” deepened, and there is a history that led to the compilation of these songs as a single milestone.