{"id":5046,"date":"2013-07-06T21:49:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T01:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5046"},"modified":"2018-08-03T15:46:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:46:46","slug":"umekichi-the-voice-of-the-geisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5046","title":{"rendered":"Umekichi \u2014 The Voice of the Geisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-07-06-LISTENING-Umekichi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5047\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/13-07-06-LISTENING-Umekichi.jpg\" alt=\"13-07-06 LISTENING Umekichi\" width=\"145\" height=\"163\"><\/a>I lis\u00adtened to this album while watch\u00ading one of Yasu\u00adjir\u014d Ozu\u2019s silent films, <i>Pass\u00ading Fan\u00adcy<\/i><i> <\/i>[\u51fa\u6765\u3054\u3053\u308d; <i>Dekigoko\u00adro<\/i>] (1933), after a mas\u00adsive sushi lunch.&nbsp;Ume\u00adkichi is the per\u00adform\u00ading name of Okaya\u00adma Kurashi\u00adki, a pop\/folk musi\u00adcian who sings and plays shamisen.&nbsp;It seems that she pokes fun at both Japan\u2019s ephemer\u00adal pop music and the clas\u00adsi\u00adcal tra\u00addi\u00adtion by effort\u00adless\u00adly blend\u00ading the two.&nbsp;This, appar\u00adent\u00adly, has not been tak\u00aden well by Japan\u00adese folk\u00adlorists, for whom every dit\u00adty about cher\u00adry blos\u00adsoms is sanc\u00adti\u00adfied.&nbsp;The play\u00adful sar\u00adcasm comes across to me in her voice, though of course I can\u2019t under\u00adstand a word of it.&nbsp;For me, it\u2019s just one more ten\u00adta\u00adtive lit\u00adtle for\u00aday into Japan\u2019s immense\u00adly com\u00adplex and thor\u00adough\u00adly con\u00adfus\u00ading pop\u00adu\u00adlar culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lis\u00adtened to this album while watch\u00ading one of Yasu\u00adjir\u014d Ozu\u2019s silent films, Pass\u00ading Fan\u00adcy [\u51fa\u6765\u3054\u3053\u308d; Dekigoko\u00adro] (1933), after a mas\u00adsive sushi lunch.&nbsp;Ume\u00adkichi is the per\u00adform\u00ading name of Okaya\u00adma Kurashi\u00adki, a pop\/folk musi\u00adcian who sings and plays shamisen.&nbsp;It seems&nbsp;that&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=5046\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,938],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cn-listening-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7548,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5046\/revisions\/7548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}