P.S. Something beyond that is what shapes the world's best, and that is a gift from heaven.
June 30, 2024
On New Year's Eve in 2020, I learned that a super-heavyweight genius named Natsuho Murata had appeared on the Japanese violin scene.
I started listening to classical music on YouTube because I felt there was no point in watching the NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen.
As mentioned earlier, when I was a student at Sendai Dai-ni High School, my teacher asked me to stay at Kyoto University and "carry Kyoto University on your shoulders."
After a family misfortune closed the door on my academic career, I spent every day listening to classical music broadcasts on NHK FM.
Every day, no matter what.
I subscribed to a magazine about FM broadcasts and checked and listened to all the programs.
I even spent my last penny on a complete set of the LP recordings of Renata Tebaldi's "La Bohème."
I was the kind of person who was mentioned by the person in charge of editing the graduation collection as "There are three Ks in the arts and humanities. One of them will surely leave a great mark on the Japanese literary world".
I led a life that deviated greatly from the life I had been promised.
I spent time in Tokyo and Kyoto, and eventually, I lived my life as a company manager in Osaka.
In terms of music, I was initially devoted to the piano.
Whenever a pianist who had gained a worldwide reputation came to Japan to perform in Tokyo or Osaka, I would always attend.
However, from a certain point on, I rarely attended performances.
Instead, I spent his days singing songs of various genres to the accompaniment of pianists at his favorite bar in Kitashinchi, Osaka, almost every night.
The cost of this was also not inconsiderable.
There is an international contest where the pianist's performance is filmed from directly above.
When I was watching the footage, I realized something.
The pianist also memorizes the music by fingering.
The same is true for the violin.
My good friend described Naho Murata's hands as "like a baby's."
I thought the same thing.
Two super-class geniuses have appeared in the world of Japanese baseball.
Shohei Ohtani and Roki Sasaki.
Coincidentally, they are both from Iwate Prefecture.
When Roki Sasaki joined the professional ranks, most professional baseball commentators, including Kiyoshi Nakahata, said that it would take him time to pitch on the first team.
I was surprised when I saw him playing catch at camp for the first time.
The way his arm bent was extraordinary.
I had never seen such a great form before.
I had never seen Ohtani play catch, so Sasaki was the first.
He would be a starter in the first team immediately.
The second team is no joke.
No one can hit his ball.
My editorial also reached Kiyoshi Nakahata and the TV Tokyo presenter.
It was because I had also criticized Kiyoshi Nakahata, saying that he was blind as a bat.
Nakahata immediately corrected his previous statement, went to the training camp to verify it, and said, "I want to see him in the first team as soon as possible. I can't wait."
As you know, this is how it happened.
Nakahata is an insider, and I am an outsider.
Outsiders often make significant changes.
Insiders are insiders, and that is why their vision is clouded.
And so they make the wrong decisions.
It is not an exaggeration to say that becoming an insider is the same as becoming an average person.
From a young age, I have always said to the people around me.
What is a genius?
"A genius is someone whose mind is a blank slate. That's why it can absorb anything."
What is an average person?
"An average person is someone whose mind is a blackboard covered in their own words (and other people's words, too). That's why they can't absorb anything."
Natsuho Murata is an undeniable genius.
She has a vast and boundless understanding of all sounds and all composers.
My good friend is one of the great geniuses.
Through my good friend, Natsuho Murata, I have added another definition to 'genius.'
What is a genius?
The defining characteristic of a genius is Innocence.
As the word suggests, Innocence is a state of mind free from evil.
In other words, and this is obvious, a genius is the polar opposite of an evil person.
Natsuho Murata's hands were distinctive.
My good friend described them as "like a baby's hands."
Unlike Himari, who appeared four years later, Natsuho Murata entered the Tokyo School of Music as a unique scholarship student.
That's why we were able to attend her concert on March 10.
Being able to see her perform live was nothing short of bliss.
We decided to attend all of her concerts in Japan.
On May 26, she performed with the Ibaraki Symphony Orchestra in her hometown of Mito City.
We traveled from Osaka to Mito and back in a single day.
We changed our return train to one later than the original one so that we could relax and enjoy the concert.
We were seated in the middle of the second row.
We couldn't have been happier.
As we left the hall, still basking in the afterglow of our appreciation for her performance and our sense of bliss, to our surprise, she was in the lobby, interacting with her fans.
We joined her immediately.
I told her I was a "turntable of civilization" and shook her hand naturally.
I was surprised because her hand was unbelievably soft.
That may be why the words came out unconsciously.
'I've just come from listening to Perlman, but you were better than Perlman. In other words, you're the best in the world.'
I had come to hear her performance of Saint-Saëns's 3rd Violin Concerto, which he had performed on YouTube, after hearing performances by other famous violinists.
The last time I had heard her play was when Itzhak Perlman had performed.
The reason she is the best is because of the unbelievable softness of her hands.
Intellectual ability is essential for those who are called genius violinists.
It is this innate talent that shapes the world's best.
It is an innate talent given to those blessed with the music gods.
Like Otani and Sasaki, Natsuho Murata also generates unbelievable power.
She also possesses a beauty that is as delicate as it is exquisite.
It is already common knowledge that Otani and Sasaki are super-class geniuses.
They have something in common.
Their shoulder joints are extraordinarily flexible.
Incredibly flexible muscles produce incredible power.
They also produce the most delicate and beautiful sounds imaginable.
When I got home, I examined the images of the illustrious people I had seen.
In the end, there was only one person left! Itzhak Perlman!
I was convinced of the correctness of my discovery.
It was because his hands were also like a baby's palms.
When I wrote this article, two violinists were undisputed masters of their craft, but I had not checked their videos.
I had assumed that the quality of the video was poor, so the sound quality must also be inadequate.
Or YouTube had decided this for me, so they didn't appear.
The two violinists were Isaac Stern and David Oistrakh.
When I checked their videos, I was surprised!
At the same time, I was convinced that my assumption was correct.
It is because they both had the same palm as Natsuho Murata.
There was also a further surprise in the Oistrakh footage.
Incredibly, he and Menuhin were playing Bach together.
When I saw this footage, I thought:
The Japanese government will give the National Honor Award to Natsuho Murata and Himari.
In other words, we will be recognized as "national treasures."
For the first time, we will broadcast her and Himari to the world simultaneously as the current Oistrakh and Menuhin, for a fee, as a country.
If Natsuho wants to play a Stradivarius at that time, we will buy the best Stradivarius and give it to her as an appearance fee.
Even so, they will get a lot of change.
Coincidentally, Himari's palm is Menuhin-type, so even more so.
The government should realize that we have two people in Japan at the same time, like the two people in the video above, Oistrakh and Menuhin, and that it is a miracle that we have two people, Natsuho Murata and Himari, who is four years younger than her.
We should be promoted as a national policy.
South Korea has been selling K-pop to the world under the name of K-pop, which has no musicality whatsoever.
It has even reached number one on the Billboard charts!
Even though two of the world's best, genuine musicians exist, the government is doing nothing.
In this respect, too, it is a genuinely foolish government.
The government's attitude directly opposes the glorious names of Japan's past, such as Prince Shotoku, Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shonagon, Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu.
Ah, if only Mr. Abe were here...
My proposal, made by another super-duper genius who made a significant discovery that will go down in world history, would indeed have been delivered promptly.
No, I would have delivered it for sure.
This article continues.
30/6/2024.
There was one violinist I had forgotten to check.
I just checked him on YouTube.
Pinchas Zukerman.
To my surprise, he had the same palm as Natsuho.
David Oistrakh, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, and Natsuho Murata.
It is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the most significant discoveries of the 21st century.
June 30, 2024
On New Year's Eve in 2020, I learned that a super-heavyweight genius named Natsuho Murata had appeared on the Japanese violin scene.
I started listening to classical music on YouTube because I felt there was no point in watching the NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen.
As mentioned earlier, when I was a student at Sendai Dai-ni High School, my teacher asked me to stay at Kyoto University and "carry Kyoto University on your shoulders."
After a family misfortune closed the door on my academic career, I spent every day listening to classical music broadcasts on NHK FM.
Every day, no matter what.
I subscribed to a magazine about FM broadcasts and checked and listened to all the programs.
I even spent my last penny on a complete set of the LP recordings of Renata Tebaldi's "La Bohème."
I was the kind of person who was mentioned by the person in charge of editing the graduation collection as "There are three Ks in the arts and humanities. One of them will surely leave a great mark on the Japanese literary world".
I led a life that deviated greatly from the life I had been promised.
I spent time in Tokyo and Kyoto, and eventually, I lived my life as a company manager in Osaka.
In terms of music, I was initially devoted to the piano.
Whenever a pianist who had gained a worldwide reputation came to Japan to perform in Tokyo or Osaka, I would always attend.
However, from a certain point on, I rarely attended performances.
Instead, I spent his days singing songs of various genres to the accompaniment of pianists at his favorite bar in Kitashinchi, Osaka, almost every night.
The cost of this was also not inconsiderable.
There is an international contest where the pianist's performance is filmed from directly above.
When I was watching the footage, I realized something.
The pianist also memorizes the music by fingering.
The same is true for the violin.
My good friend described Naho Murata's hands as "like a baby's."
I thought the same thing.
Two super-class geniuses have appeared in the world of Japanese baseball.
Shohei Ohtani and Roki Sasaki.
Coincidentally, they are both from Iwate Prefecture.
When Roki Sasaki joined the professional ranks, most professional baseball commentators, including Kiyoshi Nakahata, said that it would take him time to pitch on the first team.
I was surprised when I saw him playing catch at camp for the first time.
The way his arm bent was extraordinary.
I had never seen such a great form before.
I had never seen Ohtani play catch, so Sasaki was the first.
He would be a starter in the first team immediately.
The second team is no joke.
No one can hit his ball.
My editorial also reached Kiyoshi Nakahata and the TV Tokyo presenter.
It was because I had also criticized Kiyoshi Nakahata, saying that he was blind as a bat.
Nakahata immediately corrected his previous statement, went to the training camp to verify it, and said, "I want to see him in the first team as soon as possible. I can't wait."
As you know, this is how it happened.
Nakahata is an insider, and I am an outsider.
Outsiders often make significant changes.
Insiders are insiders, and that is why their vision is clouded.
And so they make the wrong decisions.
It is not an exaggeration to say that becoming an insider is the same as becoming an average person.
From a young age, I have always said to the people around me.
What is a genius?
"A genius is someone whose mind is a blank slate. That's why it can absorb anything."
What is an average person?
"An average person is someone whose mind is a blackboard covered in their own words (and other people's words, too). That's why they can't absorb anything."
Natsuho Murata is an undeniable genius.
She has a vast and boundless understanding of all sounds and all composers.
My good friend is one of the great geniuses.
Through my good friend, Natsuho Murata, I have added another definition to 'genius.'
What is a genius?
The defining characteristic of a genius is Innocence.
As the word suggests, Innocence is a state of mind free from evil.
In other words, and this is obvious, a genius is the polar opposite of an evil person.
Natsuho Murata's hands were distinctive.
My good friend described them as "like a baby's hands."
Unlike Himari, who appeared four years later, Natsuho Murata entered the Tokyo School of Music as a unique scholarship student.
That's why we were able to attend her concert on March 10.
Being able to see her perform live was nothing short of bliss.
We decided to attend all of her concerts in Japan.
On May 26, she performed with the Ibaraki Symphony Orchestra in her hometown of Mito City.
We traveled from Osaka to Mito and back in a single day.
We changed our return train to one later than the original one so that we could relax and enjoy the concert.
We were seated in the middle of the second row.
We couldn't have been happier.
As we left the hall, still basking in the afterglow of our appreciation for her performance and our sense of bliss, to our surprise, she was in the lobby, interacting with her fans.
We joined her immediately.
I told her I was a "turntable of civilization" and shook her hand naturally.
I was surprised because her hand was unbelievably soft.
That may be why the words came out unconsciously.
'I've just come from listening to Perlman, but you were better than Perlman. In other words, you're the best in the world.'
I had come to hear her performance of Saint-Saëns's 3rd Violin Concerto, which he had performed on YouTube, after hearing performances by other famous violinists.
The last time I had heard her play was when Itzhak Perlman had performed.
The reason she is the best is because of the unbelievable softness of her hands.
Intellectual ability is essential for those who are called genius violinists.
It is this innate talent that shapes the world's best.
It is an innate talent given to those blessed with the music gods.
Like Otani and Sasaki, Natsuho Murata also generates unbelievable power.
She also possesses a beauty that is as delicate as it is exquisite.
It is already common knowledge that Otani and Sasaki are super-class geniuses.
They have something in common.
Their shoulder joints are extraordinarily flexible.
Incredibly flexible muscles produce incredible power.
They also produce the most delicate and beautiful sounds imaginable.
When I got home, I examined the images of the illustrious people I had seen.
In the end, there was only one person left! Itzhak Perlman!
I was convinced of the correctness of my discovery.
It was because his hands were also like a baby's palms.
When I wrote this article, two violinists were undisputed masters of their craft, but I had not checked their videos.
I had assumed that the quality of the video was poor, so the sound quality must also be inadequate.
Or YouTube had decided this for me, so they didn't appear.
The two violinists were Isaac Stern and David Oistrakh.
When I checked their videos, I was surprised!
At the same time, I was convinced that my assumption was correct.
It is because they both had the same palm as Natsuho Murata.
There was also a further surprise in the Oistrakh footage.
Incredibly, he and Menuhin were playing Bach together.
When I saw this footage, I thought:
The Japanese government will give the National Honor Award to Natsuho Murata and Himari.
In other words, we will be recognized as "national treasures."
For the first time, we will broadcast her and Himari to the world simultaneously as the current Oistrakh and Menuhin, for a fee, as a country.
If Natsuho wants to play a Stradivarius at that time, we will buy the best Stradivarius and give it to her as an appearance fee.
Even so, they will get a lot of change.
Coincidentally, Himari's palm is Menuhin-type, so even more so.
The government should realize that we have two people in Japan at the same time, like the two people in the video above, Oistrakh and Menuhin, and that it is a miracle that we have two people, Natsuho Murata and Himari, who is four years younger than her.
We should be promoted as a national policy.
South Korea has been selling K-pop to the world under the name of K-pop, which has no musicality whatsoever.
It has even reached number one on the Billboard charts!
Even though two of the world's best, genuine musicians exist, the government is doing nothing.
In this respect, too, it is a genuinely foolish government.
The government's attitude directly opposes the glorious names of Japan's past, such as Prince Shotoku, Murasaki Shikibu, Sei Shonagon, Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Ieyasu.
Ah, if only Mr. Abe were here...
My proposal, made by another super-duper genius who made a significant discovery that will go down in world history, would indeed have been delivered promptly.
No, I would have delivered it for sure.
This article continues.
30/6/2024.
There was one violinist I had forgotten to check.
I just checked him on YouTube.
Pinchas Zukerman.
To my surprise, he had the same palm as Natsuho.
David Oistrakh, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman, and Natsuho Murata.
It is no exaggeration to say that this is one of the most significant discoveries of the 21st century.
