Yashi no Mi / "Salad Kinenbi" Yori

[Machine Translation] This is a mini album of new style poems and tanka poems with a desire to reevaluate the pronunciation and vocalization of beautiful Japanese. The new style poem is a reading and recitation of "Yashi no Mi" (Palm Seed). This poem was written by Kunio Yanagida, a folklorist, when he visited Irago Cape in Aichi Prefecture in 1897. He told his close friend Toson Shimazaki about the coconuts he found washed up on the beach, and Toson showed interest and wrote this poem. The tanka poems will be four from "Salad Anniversary. Tawara Machi, the author of the tanka poems, won the 32nd Kadokawa Tanka Award in 1987 while working as a Japanese language teacher at Hashimoto High School in Kanagawa Prefecture. His first tanka collection "Salad Kinenhi (Salad Anniversary)" became a bestseller for its free and bold expressions and poems based on daily conversations. Four tanka readings and recitations will be included in the program.

美しい日本語の発音・発声をあらためて見直していきたいとの気持ちをこめた新体詩と短歌のミニアルバム。新体詩は「椰子の実」の朗読と朗詠。この作品は、明治30年民俗学者柳田国男が愛知県伊良湖岬に遊びに行った時、砂浜に流れ着いた椰子の実について、親友の島崎藤村に話したところ藤村が興味をしめしこの詩を作ったという。短歌は、「サラダ記念日」の中から4題を予定。短歌作者俵万智は、神奈川県立橋本高校に国語教員としてつとめながら。1987年第32回角川短歌賞を受賞。その第一歌集「サラダ記念日」は自由で大胆な表現や日常会話からの詠み口から短歌・歌ものとして大ベストセラーとなった。その中から4題の短歌朗読と朗詠の収録を予定する。