after I finished my blog yesterday, I kept on thinking how the Japanese is facing the aftermath from the tsunami. the destruction, death, nuclear threat, political instability - all in one short period of time. but they preserver and nothing hinder them from moved forward.
they are certainly a great nation and great people. just look at how they redefined themselves after the devastating world war II. I would like to share with you an old Japanese song I learnt from my Japanese teacher more than two decades ago, 'Kojo no Tsuki' or 'The Moon Over the Ruined Castle'.
1. A banquet was held in the splendid castle in the season of the cherry blossom.
Where is the light now, that shadowed the glasses and flew through the old pines?
2. (The second verse is difficult. There are many interpretations of the text.)
The encampment was covered with frost in the autumn.Where is the light now, that shone on the swords like plants, that were as numerous as the cackling wild geese, that flew ?
3. Now there is the moon over the desolate castle.
Whom is it shining for without change?
Only tendrils remain on the walls.Only the storm sings between branches of the pines.
4. The shadow of the sky doesn't change. But the moon is reflecting it as before, changing for better to worse? Ah! The moon over the desolate castle!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Nbtemm2qQ
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