Before I try to write another long article, I would like to share with you some links that may be interesting to those who would like to know more about the background of Yuzu’s “Ten to Chi to” program.
*This tweet shares with us some video links to introduce UESUGI Kenshin. Although those videos are in Japanese, I know some international fans are studying Japanese very hard, and have a good command of Japanese, and there are many Japanese fans who are willing to help international fans with translation if necessary.
*According to this poster, The Nara National Museum held a special exhibition focusing on Bishamonten in early 2020, and this person kindly shows an English leaflet he/she got there. Unfortunately, sentences are not fully captured in this photo, but this gives us good vocabulary and some knowledge when we would like to talk about Bishamonten in English.
I started this blog just to archive Yuzu fans’ blog posts because they were sometimes deleted by the platformer without the author’s consent, and evidence of slander since perpetrators exploit anonymity to smear Yuzu. So my blog didn’t grow so much (thank god, it’s a good thing), but my inner Daemon compelled me to write something after watching Yuzu’s superb performance at Japanese Nationals 2020. This post is on his free program, “Ten to Chi to (天と地と) “, especially on his music choices.
*I will talk about later the reason why I did not use “Heaven and Earth”, which is now commonly used as an English translation of the music of the FP.
*The names of the Japanese people are put in the order of “Surname, First name” to avoid any confusion, since historic figures are, in many cases, called in this order.
First of all, please refer to this person’s thread starting with this post. @adnoh6 identified the music source of the free program.
According to @adnoh6, his free program uses two pieces of music from “Music of TOMITA Isao (冨田勲の音楽）, a CD to compile masterpieces of the composer who unleashed the great potential of the synthesizer (please see the photos in his/her post).
One of them is, of course, the opening theme from NHK’s Taiga Drama, a year-long history drama series “Ten to Chi to (天と地と）” aired back in 1969, and the other is the opening theme from another Taiga Drama “Shin Heike Monogatari (or New Tale of Heike, 新平家物語）” in 1972, which is based on a popular historical writer YOSHIKAWA Eiji (吉川英治）’s novel depicting the struggle between the Taira clan and Minamoto clan for control of Japan at the end of the 12th century. As the term “new” suggests, Mr. Yoshikawa’s novel is based on a famous Japanese epic poem “Tale of Heike”.
According to @adnoh6, Yuzu’s music starts with the beginning of “Ten to Chi to”, and then switches to the beginning of “Shin Heike Monogatari” with So (箏）sounds after 4S.
Music from “Shin Heike Monogatari” stays on until the end of the flute sound after 4T1Eu3S.
When he enters into the last 3A, the music goes back to around 1:09 of “Ten to Chi to”, and into the last part of “Ten to Chi to” in the middle of the sit spin.
@adnoh6 says,
“Here Biwa (琵琶）sounds are added, as Hanyu-kun said in his interview and added in a very intricate way. Maybe they are taken from around 1:01 or 0:25 of “Ten to Chi to”? In total, 1 min and 52 sec is taken from “Ten to Chi to” and 2 min and 18 sec from “Shin Heike Monogatari”. In terms of length, the time allocated for “Ten to Chi to” is shorter, but the program’s main theme seems to be from this, and Biwa sound is so much impressive.
According to the liner notes to the CD, Mr. Tomita, the composer, imagined the scene where Biwa sounds, played by UESUGI Kenshin (上杉謙信）, coming from a small hall dedicated to Bishamonten (毘沙門天 or Vessavaṇa, a god of warriors) in the snow when he composed.
This is a reproduction of “Ten to Chi to” music by a Youtube account called U JF.
*Note: When I accessed around 2021/01/02 10:00 a.m. JST, this video had been deleted. I will leave this URL link as it is as evidence to show the following claim is not a fake made up by me, although it makes this page look clumsy. Deletion of the video often happens when it comes to the videos related to Yuzu, so I should have downloaded it. Anyway, I will be careful in the future. (2020/01/02 15:18 JST)
In the explanation section, U JF talked about how elaborately Yuzu edited this music.
While I was mixing the music pieces myself, I was astonished by his surprising detailed attention to sounds. Since I did the same thing myself, I clearly tell Hanyu-Senshu divided the music pieces into many small parts to construct his program music in order to realize the perfect flow to best fit his program, examining the sound and tempo of every note.
To be honest, it’s an “Oni (鬼）” mixing (do you follow me?).
To be more concrete, music pieces are divided into small parts on the order of 1 bar or 2 bars, followed by very intricate adjustments of fade-in/ fade-out, reverberation, voice bandwidth, etc. And then those parts are fed into the mixing software one by one with timing adjustment.
Near the end of the program, there is a part where the sounds of flute and those of Biwa are overlapped. I guess that harmony was created by Hanyu-Senshu himself by listening and extracting the melodies of the two musical instruments from the original pieces.
I knew Hanyu-Senshu has astoundingly good ears and a good sense of pitch, but I was truly amazed by his music arrangement based even on the calculation of tonality and harmony.
*Translator’s note: In modern Japanese slang, Oni (鬼) is sometimes used as an adjective to describe something beyond one’s imagination, great, godly, etc.
It’s truly an awesome program in many ways–theme, philosophy, music, choreography, performance, and how it stirs the emotions of many people.
First published: 2020-12-31
Edited: 2021-01-01
(minor corrections)
Edited:2020-01-02
(minor corrections and additional translator’s note)
*For this one, screen shot only, no embedded codes since YH fans account names are included.
Accounts who liked this tweet (screenshot taken 2020-9-28 7:15 JST)
Accounts who RTed this tweet (screenshot taken 2020-9-28 7:15 JST)
*If you look at the evidences (original tweets, accounts who liked or RTed these slandering tweets), it seems like they are passing around in a small circle. However the problem is that it is done in a public space like twitter.
*Please refer to my “Evidence of Slander No.1” and compare this one.
This account (@sirahama_2020) and his/her inner circle use the word “new Sendai rule”, meaning make report to gossip media when they encounter YH in Sendai. Evil act, indeed.
*I erased YH fan’s account name, since this account apparently has a hobby to expose YH accounts (sometimes haters use this tactic to embarrass fans).
You will see very ugly aspect of human nature from what I will show you here, so be prepared.
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Maybe I need to say why I’m posting this. Needless to say, I am not in support of this sort of smearing. I do not agree with what it says at all. Never.
Rather, in order to keep it as an evidence of slander, I hereby record this post.
If the original poster deletes this post, I can know that since codes used to embed this will not work properly anymore.
I sincerely hope they will change their mind to refrain from all sorts of smears and slanders, at least in the public space like twitter.
If you still continue to see these posts on Twitter, please help us to report this to ＠TwitterSupport, although their move is somewhat slow in my opinion (the number of reports matters).
