Tsunokai's Ski-Lessons
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角皆優人の世界
Further Self Introduction of Masahito Tsunokai
| Thank you very much for reading this. I have been in love with skiing most of my life and it is my strong desire to spread this wonderful sport worldwide. I also love classical music and if I could have another life, I would like to be a pianist. Hopefully, I can do so in my next life. When I was young, I strongly resisted accepting anything Japanese. I could say that I hated the Japanese way of thinking and feeling. For example, I hated old Japanese literature. I disliked the charactors who appear in those old Japanese novels. I could not share the values, ideas or thoughts with those people in the old Japanese books. I preferred Chinese classical literature and I liked the Greek mythology the best. I was perfectly suited to the program enforced upon Japan by the American government after the World War Ⅱ, War Guilt Information Programs. They tried to brain-wash and weaken Japanese minds. I believe that they succeeded in my case until I studied our history in a deep and concentrated way. In my teens my mind was strongly influenced, and dramatically molded by Beethoven's music. Then shortly afterward by the literature of Herman Hesse. Those two individuals had the biggest influence over my mind. They still greatly influence me to this day, and they are precious treasures to me. Their influence crafted me into a real person, a person who can think and who can feel. I met American-Japanese who still had real Japanese mind set and values. They awakened me and helped me to notice what real Japanese spirits are. I then began to think not as a victim of the American War Guilt Programs, but as a Japanese perspm who was born in 1955. I have listened to many types of music and have read so much literature. In addition to music and literature, two other strong influences over my mind and life are swimming and skiing. I have given my all to both of these activities. Skiing became my profession while swimming became the conditioning tool to maintain my fitness and health. Plus after 50 years old. I became a champion swimmer in my age group. Looking back on my life, I enthusiastically idolized the western way of thinking and its concepts until I was 35 years old. Then gradually I became inclined towards the old Japanese way of grasping the universe. One of the reason for this home coming was that I re-read Taisetsu Suzuki's books. Another reason was reading Inazo Nitobe's book 'Bushido'. I found it ironic that both Suzuki and Nitobe's books were written in English to be read by English speaking people. I also found it irony in that there are, even now, many English speaking people who read their books and place a high value on them.  In addition to those ironical facts, the Japanese, who made me noticed old Japanese value, were my ralatives in California. They were actually Americans even then. They experienced concentration camps during World War Ⅱ. It may be true that It was not western people, but Japanese who forgot our own values. Many of my north American friends have read those books and love the ideas of Suzuki and Nitobe. It may be us, Japanese, who have changed, or have been changed. I have found there to be so many valuable things in our own roots. I would like to seek those valuable things in Japan that have been buried and covered and make them recognized and give them real lives again. I believe they are needed more than ever in this world and in our history. Old Japanese economical thoughts, beliefs, and our way to live in harmony with nature are desperately needed by the earth now. My experiences through skiing, swimming, classic music and literature brought me to think this way. |
The Ski Lessons of
Masahito Tsunokai角皆優人の世界
〒399-9211
長野県北安曇郡白馬村神城27721-590
TEL 0261-75-4441
Mail tsunokai@att.biz