Episode 2: Hatsu-yume – 初夢
Hatsu-yume is the first dream you have in the New Year. In Japan there is a saying: ichi fuji, ni taka, san nasubi. Which means the luckiest dream you can have is of Mt. Fuji, the second luckiest thing to see in a dream is a hawk, and the third is an eggplant.
In this podcast I tell you why an eggplant is considered prosperous and also talk about the little known fourth, fifth, and sixth lucky things to dream about to guarantee a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year.
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Notes: The intro/outro music of Uncanny Japan is a song by Christiaan Virant (“Yi Gui” from Ting Shuo). The whole album is just gorgeous as it everything else by FM3.
6 thoughts on “Episode 2: Hatsu-yume – 初夢”
Hatsu-comment: Intersting, Thersa! Didn’t know about the first dream thing…btw, the birds chirping, seriously, you didn’t add them in post-production? Nice touch! Anyways, very educational, keep up the good work!!
Wayne! Thank you so much for giving this a listen. I’m still kicking the tires and trying to figure out how to open the hood, but it’s certainly a lot of fun. Those are totally my Tree Birds. Noisy as crap, they are. Those mics are freaking amazing.
Really enjoyed it. Interesting and educational. Loved the birds
Thank you so much for listening, Tina. I plan to go somewhere interesting next podcast!
I love the nuances of a language: the way it grows to fit a group of people at a particular time. In Spain, they actually had a government office that prescribed how words should be used. (I’m not sure they continue to do that.) I love the stories how the first Oxford-English Dictionary came about. It took decades for just one volume.
Yes! Me, too. Language and cultural is endlessly fascinating to me. I didn’t know that about the government office in Spain.