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He sang an Enka(traditional Japanese song) at the karaoke,,

He has lived a meaningful live everyday since finishing his first solo live concert. The encounters that Ohno has met, like with claywork and Rainbow Trout, we get much information about what our ri-da is up to.

Spring Encounter No.1

I wanted to make a new discovery and enthusiastically went for a meal outside.

Recently, I have been going out to eat with my friends. Previously I thought it was very troublesome, but now, if circumstances allow, I want to be able to talk to people as much as possible. Probably, when you speak to people, you will make many discoveries. The other time, for my solo concert, for the ideas to flow, I think you must be able to feel the necessity of “Discovery”.  Thanks to the fact that I am enthusiastically going out, I also managed to fulfill my promise successfully that I made 3 years ago to my friend to have a meal with him (laughs).  We just merely went to a place like an izakaya and when we had out meal, I immediately became sleepy.  I had no choice and decided to take a 15 min nap but when I woke up, 2 hours had already passed without me realizing it. (bitter laugh)

Spring Encounter No. 2

Becos I have time, I am doing clay work with much zeal at home!

I had some time after my solo live concerts, and started working on the clay work that I had wanted to do.  I would put some silicon into a mould which I had made from clay and the shape of what I wanted to make would take shape.  When the silicon hardened, I would takeoff the clay mould, and then do the main procedure, ie pouring synthetic resin over the figure. I am not good at this. When I was pouring the resin, air  bubbles got in and the final product was not beautiful. Therefore, this takes up more time and effort that just drawing pictures, but I find doing clay work more enjoyable now.  The works made out of clay, they are just as surreal as the drawings that I do. The pictures that I draw, they have the ability to be more three-dimensional than some pieces of the clay work and I find this interesting.

Spring Encounter No. 3

After how many years? Its been a while since I went to a karaoke and when I did, I passionately sang an Enka. (Jap traditional song)

I went to the karaoke with my friend, something that I had not done for some time.  We had being saying since some time back that we wanted to go, but previously since I did not like to get out much, that appointment was never realized.  So, since we didn’t have any special songs to sing in mind, we just closed our eyes and flipped the song book until we said “stop” and where our fingers were pointing to, that would be the songs that we were to sing. (laughs).  So when we did that, somehow, we ended up with an enka but we decided to sing it properly. For some reason or another, it was really enjoyable singing that song. In contrast, as for the recent hit songs, I wonder why we couldn’t sing it that well….

Spring Encounter No. 4

Its Nostalgic! Me and Aiba-chan, the relaxed duo!

Recently, I have been doing a lot of work with Aiba-chan.  When I think about it, this combination is rare. Even for the location shoots of Mago Mago Arashi, Aiba-chan and myself, we don’t really appear together. Therefore, when we were on location for mago mago,  we begin to remember old times and said “ ah, when the two of us are together, this is the feeling..”  That is to say, when Aiba-chan and myself are a duo, the feeling between us is relaxed.  The strange thing is, the atmosphere of the location shoot will be different, depending on the combination between the members.  On top of that, before the location shoot, when I went picking strawberries, I could eat less strawberries that I thought I could, and that surprised me. When eating the strawberries, you would get full pretty quickly.  If picking strawberries is like that,  then if you pick peaches or apples, you will only be able to eat only one, ne.

Spring Encounter No. 5

The experience of eating rainbow trout on the verandah of my friend’s home was great!

I basically like BBQs, whenever, I have time, I will go to a certain friend’s house and have a BBQ on his verandah, but everytime we would do it at the same place, and this time, we BBQed rainbow trout.  I stayed overnight at his house, and when I woke up the next morning, my friend said “ I bought Rainbow trout”.  Altho I thought ‘ I just woke up, and I  have to immediately eat rainbow trout? What is this?” when we BBQed and ate it, it was very delicious. It was a great breakfast! (laughs).  We had this with BBQed leek. My friend grew leeks on that verandah and so, when we were sitting there, and we thought it would be good for us so we BBQ-ed it. Whilst we were BBQ-ing, it started to rain, but we just opened our umbrellas and continued to BBQ. (laughs).