So far, singer-songwriter Miyuki Kajitani（梶谷美由紀）has been represented on "Kayo Kyoku Plus" for her contribution to the "Sailor Moon" franchise with the happy-go-lucky ""Rashiku" Ikimasho"（”らしく” いきましょ）ending theme. And on her J-Wiki page, it's been said that she's been mostly known for her anison.
However, Kajitani did release her 5th single in November 1996, "Kiss The Sunlight", which apparently didn't have any anime connections (although it was used as the ending theme for a weekly animal documentary program on TBS). It's also quite the peppy bossa-pop number that starts with a rollicking keyboard sequence that I quite like. For a while, I thought maybe it could also qualify as a Shibuya-kei piece but ultimately I went with Latin and Pop. Kenzo Saeki（サエキけんぞう）and Kajitani were the lyricists here while Hirofumi Suzuki（鈴木博文）took care of the amiable melody.
「大田市三瓶町出身の梶谷さんは高校生の頃、大田市での暮らしに閉塞感を持っていた。大田高校卒業後は島根を出たいという一心で上京。大学在学中から歌の仕事をはじめた。結婚後はフリーランスとなり、3人の子供にも恵まれ、子育て、時々声の仕事という何不自由ない暮らしをしていたが転機がおこる。2011年3月11日の東日本大震災だ。この震災と原発事故が東京での暮らし、子育てを改めて考えるきっかけとなった。東京で会社を営む夫を残し、子供達を連れて大田市三瓶町へUターンした梶谷さん。以後8年、島根生活がメインの2拠点暮らしを続けている。
ReplyDelete移住して間もなく、幼馴染に誘われ軽い気持ちで入ったのが、三瓶の農業や食に関心を寄せる女性グループ「さんべ女子会」、neccoの前身となるグループだった。会では、三瓶山に畑を借り、おばあちゃん世代から畑仕事を学ぶ等順調な活動をしていたが、さんべ女子会にも大きな転機が。西の原レストハウス(現：山の駅さんべ)に、指定管理者の不在で閉鎖という話があがった。「レストハウスは西の原に1軒しかなく、三瓶山観光の入り口でもある。子供の頃から馴染みのある建物の灯を消したくない」と、さんべ女子会有志で法人化を決め、役員も株主も全て女子会有志の(株)neccoを設立。2015年、西の原レストハウスの指定管理者となり同年4月にオープンした。」
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Translation of the above:
ReplyDeleteKajitani, who is originally from Sanpei-cho, Oda City, felt trapped living in Oda City when she was a high school student. After graduating from Oda High School, she moved to Tokyo with the sole desire to leave Shimane. While attending university, she began working as a singer. After getting married, she became a freelancer and was blessed with three children. She was living a comfortable life, raising her children and occasionally doing voice work, but then a turning point occurred. It was the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011. The earthquake and nuclear accident caused Kajitani to reconsider her life in Tokyo and her child-rearing. Leaving her husband, who runs a company in Tokyo, Kajitani returned to Sanbe-cho, Oda City with her children. For the past eight years, she has continued to live in two places, with Shimane being her main base.
Shortly after moving, she was invited by a childhood friend to join the Sanbe Girls' Association, a women's group with an interest in Sanbe's agriculture and food, which would become the predecessor to NECCO. The group was doing well, renting a field on Mt. Sanbe and learning farm work from the grandmothers' generation, but a major turning point came for the Sanbe Girls' Association. Nishinohara Rest House (now Sanbe Mountain Station) was scheduled to close due to the lack of a designated manager. "There is only one rest house in Nishinohara, and it is also the gateway to traveling on Mt. Sanbe. We don't want to turn off the lights on this building that we've been familiar with since childhood," said Sanbe Women's Association volunteers, who decided to incorporate and founded Necco Co., Ltd., whose directors and shareholders are all women's association volunteers. In 2015, they became the designated manager of Nishinohara Rest House, which opened in April of the same year.
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