{"id":1874,"date":"2013-09-22T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T15:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=1874"},"modified":"2013-09-22T10:47:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T15:47:33","slug":"the-music-of-hayakawa-yoshio-3-the-most-beautiful-thing-in-this-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=1874","title":{"rendered":"The Music of Hayakawa Yoshio (3): “The Most Beautiful Thing in this World”"},"content":{"rendered":"

(In anticipation of the October 18, 2013 concert by Hayakawa Yoshio and Sakuma Masahide at the University of Chicago, over the next few weeks I will be posting a series of entries here introducing Hayakawa?s music. More information about the concert, which is free and open to the public, is available here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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?The Most Beautiful Thing in This World??? (Kono yo de ichiban kirei na mono) is the title track from Hayakawa?s second solo album, released in 1994 on Sony Records. With music and lyrics by Hayakawa, this was the song by which he announced his return to active recording and performing after more than two decades of self-imposed exile from the music industry. During his years away from performing, Hayakawa managed a bookstore in the suburbs of Tokyo and published a number of books of essays.<\/p>\n

You can hear the original 1994 recording of the song here: <\/p>\n