First time I heard this song, it was early August 2008, I just landed at Kumamoto Airport, Japan from Johannesburg, South Africa. My host family came to pick me at the airport. There were kids in the car and they were playing this song all the way home. I did not understand a word in Japanese, but the song stuck with me ever since. I even bought CDs of Green 💚 before I left Japan.
Puni, this is a wonderful venue! The double stone walls above the water just seem to want a narrator to start telling a story while you play. I LOVE watching the backgrounds of your videos for reactions of the audience. Hopefully I will get to Japan someday and be surprised to hear you playing somewhere. Alas, it will be several years before that could ever happen. You will probably be a MARRIED young man making a video of 4 year old Puni JR at the piano! 😄