The weather has become a bit more seasonal now. It's nothing like those prematurely summery days that we had a couple of weeks ago, but thankfully, we're no longer getting frozen into icy stalagmites on the pavement anymore. We're basically hovering at around 10-12 degrees as a high temperature these days.
I heard this song on Weathernews Japan's new music segment a few days ago, and even before seeing the singer's name and song title in the lower left-hand corner of the screen, I could identify Taeko Ohnuki's（大貫妙子）voice right then and there. The very calming and seasonal "Haru no Tegami" (Spring Letter) was a delight to listen to.
With a bit of country twang in there, "Haru no Tegami" was Ohnuki's 19th single from February 1993 which was written and composed by the singer and arranged by Takeshi Kobayashi（小林武史）. Reaching No. 40 on Oricon, "Haru no Tegami" was also a track on her 15th studio album "Shooting star in the blue sky" which came out later in September that year. The song was used as the theme for a 1993 TBS drama titled "Kasai no Hito"（家栽の人...Family Court Judge） based on the 1988-1996 manga by Jinpachi Mouri（毛利甚八）and Osamu Uoto（魚戸おさむ）.
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