Tanaka-san Will Not Do Callisthenics

A song by Hiroyuki Tanaka ©Hiroyuki Tanaka [song index] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] A poem by Hiroyuki Tanaka ©2006 Hiroyuki Tanaka Now I’m living the life I dreamed of There was not the warmth here which I hadn’t noticed at that time. I notice a lot of things after I left home. [...]

A song by Hiroyuki Tanaka ©Hiroyuki Tanaka [song index] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] A poem by Hiroyuki Tanaka ©2006 Hiroyuki Tanaka 夢にまで見たこの生活になれてきた 今はこう思う Now I’m living the life I dreamed of あのころ気付かなかったぬくもりはここにはない There was not the warmth here which I hadn’t noticed at that time. あなたを離れて気付くことなどいっぱいあって I notice a lot of things [...]

A song by Tetsuro Tanaka © Tetsuro Tanaka [song index] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The wind asks “Haven’t you forgotten?” The wind asks, “Haven’t you give up?” Your sadness isn’t yours alone. Your anger isn’t yours alone. It blows against the wall of history. Even if you can’t see it now the [...]

A song by Tetsuro Tanaka ©Tetsuro Tanaka [song index] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] My desire and my anger are contained in this flier. My voice and my life are contained in this flier. The iron gate lined with barbed wire tears workers solidarity. One sheet of flier is a small chain linking [...]

A song by Tetsuro Tanaka ©Tetsuro Tanaka [song index] [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Naoyama is a very good tennis player. He plays tennis every afternoon at the company’s tennis court. Then one day no one returned his service ball. Not even his good friend Could you return the shot? Could you return [...]

Tanaka Tetsuro has written many songs and classical guitar pieces for performance on his daily picket as the factory workers go through the gate. He often writes songs in Japanese and translates them into English. The Harassment One sheet of flyer The Wind Etude at the Gate [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Tremolo [...]