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About 3 years after completing my backpacking trip around Japan (July 4, 2000 to December 31, 2001), I (IAN KOJIMA) met a family of rice farmers in Kasukabe, Saitama Prefecture. . It was my first time meeting them, but I still remember feeling nostalgic. After that, I visited many times and experienced rice cultivation. The eight works included in this album [TENCHISOSO] were born from real rice farming experiences. I want you to listen to this album without fail, for farmers, people who have farming experience, and people who are interested in farming. Because it makes me feel good and nostalgic.
Japanese Artist [IAN KOJIMA] An ordinary young man moves to Tokyo after graduating from university. He begins his life in Tokyo searching for himself. In the midst of his hectic life in Tokyo, he suddenly wanders around India. There he decides that "travel is life!" and to live life to the fullest. After returning to Japan, the young man is looking for a new job when he receives a job offer from a publishing company where he knows someone. It is a publishing company where venture people gather. Inspired by the spicy people around him, the young man sets out on a journey to sing and play all over Japan. He sets off on July 4, 2000, the day of the Declaration of Independence in the United States, and finishes his wandering journey of a year and a half visiting every prefecture on December 31, 2001. During this time, he has wild experiences surviving mainly by hitchhiking, sleeping rough, and singing and playing on the street. This experience awakened his latent creative spirit, but due to the effects of survival life on the streets, it took him many years to return to society. During that time, he continued to create small amounts of art (music, painting, etc.) Steadily and steadily... Before he knew it, he had created over 300 works. Eventually, the young man found a credo. "ART raises the emotional temperature by 1 degree" Art amplifies the intensity of emotions. Making a dull world interesting. IAN KOJIMA's creative activities continue to this day.