2010年08月28日
August is about to go, but a scorching summer sunshine hasn’t yet gone away upon Japan.
In Japan, especially in urban areas, temperature has risen steadfastly in recent decades.
Half a century ago in Kyoto, there were many snowy days in winter. But from this century on we have seldom seen snow in the city, only 2 or 3 days in one year, if any. On the other hand summer gets longer and longer, and even in September, which is normally seen as the first autumn month, days of high temperature often continue, over 30 centigrade being normal, and even over 35 centigrade now being not unusual (A day over 35 centigrade is called “Moshobi(猛暑日)”, that means ‘very hot day’). It is forcast that we will also meet “Moshobi” in many places in Japan coming week, or possibly even after.
Japan’s summer is not only hot, but also wet. So it is almost unbearable when continuing longer. Once in summer season many popular songs which praised joyous summertime used to pop up and rise on the hit chart. But nowadays that seems to be almost ceased. For Japanese summertime might come to be felt as a kind of torture season, like Antonio Vivaldi’s musical description of dismal summer in “The Four Seasons”, in which ‘Summer’ is the only movement that is written only in minor key, that depicts a severe hot season and nothing joyous and to be praised, unlike spring and autumn, or even cold winter.
(Oda Mitsuo, the president of Asian-curd)
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