Tozy, Suidosuji Music Street, and Autumn Selcy

more wonderful music in Kobe and back at Senri-chuo. Tozy Tozy Tozy. and Minoh was in the house as was Taiwan and Bangladesh. there was some blues, an ukulele player and come country and western. and even an Olivia Newton John and Carol King song. and one of the sweetest versions of "Beautiful Boy" and "In This Life" by a Peter, Paul and Mary-kind of Japanese trio. most of these music events were in very small eclectic pubs but the music started in an Udon-ya-san (udon shop). every place was crowded but that added to this unique music festival on a very long shotengai (covered shopping street) near Kobe called Suidosuji. i actually got off the express train in Sannomiya (Kobe`s main train station) and had to backtrack on a local train to the Oji-koen stop. Oji-koen has the Kobe Zoo. (koen is park). after Tozy`s second 30 minute gig i walked back to the station but first bought some manju sweets for everyone waiting at home. i changed trains at Juso and then headed to Hotarugaike where i changed to the monorail again to Senri-chuo in time for some jazz music. i thought it was going to be Hawaiian but i had some misinformation. the jazz singer was very entertaining and he could play a mean kuchi-trumpeto (using only his lips he became a trumpet)(you need to see this video for sure)(as well as Tozy)(and don`t forget the autumn leaves). the finale was a Taiwanese woman who now lives in Osaka. she played the niko (traditional two-stringed Chinese instrument). excellent. my favorite song was Nada Sou Sou. (of course)(Nada Sou Sou doesn`t mean "of course" but of course it was my favorite song). oh, Nada Sou Sou is Okinawan Japanese for teardrops. Norilko met me and we drove around the corner to LABI which is the big electronics store. she checked on their price of the new laptop that she wants to get but decided to get it from a place closer to home. and i bought an "stereo sound recorder" for my iPod...and it works! and again a delicious dinner was waiting for me. it was 930pm by this time and everyone had already eaten hours before
but everyone sat in the living room at the zashiki (main table) as i told of my mecha mecha tanoshimashita (very very enjoyable) music day. we decided to save the o-manju for tomorrow.