watashi to tokyo: Blue Spring is...

3_2 It is very hard to translated a Japanese word "青春". Do you remember I mentioned Seishun 18 kippu. That is the same word. I used my favorite online dictionary Arc, they say it is adolescence, young days, youth. I am not sure those word would bring some feeling, as the same image to you with our Seishun. Seishun has two Kanji 青 and 春. 青 means blue, 春 means spring. Yes we can call these were days of underripe, sweet and sour days. Then everybody would have some slightly sour-sweet memory for romance in young days.

I am not J-POP fan though, I like Japanese band "Spitz". their "Robinson" is one of my favorite song. Their lyric has poetic vagueness, translucent mood but perverse, very knife-edge sprits I think. Check this out Robinson (movie). This translation of lyric is good. But I could know again English is a very clear language. In original Japanese, his words are more vague, unclear, sometimes we don't know who is, what is the subject. This is original romanji and Japanese. If you are learning Japanese, try it. This lyrics (movie) is nice and I like this song (movie)　too. Why I an talking about Spitz? Yeah, you are intuitive, Robinson attached to my good memory of blue spring days :-p Check spitz on You Tube.

Anyway 青春 the word that has image of young, pureness, fragility. Some title of foreign movies has to be changed into Japanese with the word. The most famous one was The officer and gentlemen". I wrote about it in this post.