Return of Good Old Days

At the Hatada House duo recital of Mr.Masayuki Kino(violinist) and Mr.Hikaru Yoshiyama(pianist)

Poem by Ms. Kikuko Matsui from Oimazato, Osaka City

(Reproduced in English from the Japanese issue published August 6, 2006 http://culture-h.jp/hatadake-katsuyo/bun18.html　We wish to thank Ms. Reiko Seymour for refining the original　translation by Mr. Susumu Kuwabara.) (September 9, 2006)

In the garden stand large evergreens proud of the past that sped away

Bright sunshine abounds on the wide-open hallway

Today is an auspicious day with many happy people gathering

The duo by Masayuki Kino and Hikaru Yoshiyama enchants us all in a perfect harmony

Turning into echoes, resonating mellowly

Two tones of violin and piano rise up into the dark ceilings

And fall back on all of us like a shower of silver

Shigeo Watanabe, once a prodigy, full of glory and grief in life

Koichi Kishi, a leading violinist who gave up so young a life

Their works are most suited for today’s recital

Like tasting the wine aged for years in the wooden cask

We are intoxicated with full body of sounds forgetting time

Spirits abiding on the beams are dancing cheerfully

The jet-black wooden mainstay shines ever more gloriously

A collaboration of sounds of the duo and breathing of quaint, old mansion

Brings back memories of good old days