Diary of A´ island
" Lecture of Lion Dance "
Lion Dance "Shishimai" is Japanese traditional dance. this dance has been handed down to this island from the past. it can be manipulated by two persons. one who manipulates the head, another one manipulates hind legs. I'm in charge of hind legs, but I have backache...
" Man film all "
Mr.Sakazume is Man of having filmed all what happens in this island. His old 8mm projector being some malfunction, he ask me to recover that. One day I visited his house.
" Viking meeting under the Sakura "
In this island, once there was a School for seamen’s training, established in1890s, almost elderly men who lives island are past foreign route seamen. They have “Hanami” meeting what seeing a cherry blossom bloom once a year at the school in Sakura season.
" Call from island "
Oneday, my mobile phone receipt unspecified voicemail, it may Anyone who lives island or not.
" Dialogue with Modern girl "
When the time from Taisho era to the beginning of the Showa Era about 1920s, Young people in the forefront fashion of the times be called “Modern Boy ” and “ Modern Girl”. One musical instrument “Taisho Harp” was born and a crazed at that time. The woman who moved from Kobe port town to this island plays “Taisho Harp”, that sound and the aroma of coffee grinded by her struck me as Kobe’s modern atmosphere.
" Eat it "
All living things must kill other things to survive own life. Even so - Exactly in this island.
" Touch the island with high five "
In this island, there are 3 mountains, one of them a dormant volcano, once islander made "Kawara - japanese roof tile" by that volcano soil. Whether is it possible to touch the island's soil like a high five?