This is an English translation of an article published in Nikkan San on March 7, 2019, as a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. “Music is a Universal Language” It may not be an overstatement if I were to say this phrase led me to be the pianist I am today. I […]
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This is an English translation of an article that was published in Nikkan San on February 21, 2019. It was a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. “Here is my secret. It’s very simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.” – from The Little Prince (1943) by Antoine de
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This is an English translation of an article that was published in Nikkan San on February 7, 2019. It was a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. Alfred Adler, one of the founders of psychology along with Freud and Jung, said “Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears
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This is an English translation of an article that was published in Nikkan San on January 24, 2019. It was a part of my column, “The Way of the Pianist. “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” The common query that often
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I am a pianist. I am a Japanese female professional pianist who likes to think about things. Like the fact that not so long ago “Japanese pianist” and “female professional” were oxymorons. Like how my grandparents during World War II could probably not have imagined that their granddaughter would go to the States in her
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