The famous musician Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away on March 28 at the age of 71; From this, I have the opportunity to tell you that nearly half of the articles in this official account were written while listening to his music. Since I am not qualifie...
The famous musician Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away on March 28 at the age of 71;
From this, I have the opportunity to tell you that nearly half of the articles in this official account were written while listening to his music. Since I am not qualified to comment on him in the field of music, let me tell you a story about Ryuichi Sakamoto and his cat.
In his later years, because of the inconvenience of raising cats, Sakamoto Ryuichi carried several cat dolls with him. The big and small black cats were named Xiaosa and Xiaodi. Their names came from the musician Eric Satie↓
After Sakamoto Ryuichi left, his second daughter, singer Miu Sakamoto, uncharacteristically "avoided suspicion" and posted messages in memory of her father on social media. Most of the pictures were of her cats.
Besides music, "liking cats" was the first thing she inherited from her father.
Miu Sakamoto's ins↓
likes cats very much. This trait of Ryuichi Sakamoto is the same as that of you and me.
In January 1952, Ryuichi Sakamoto was born into a literary family in Tokyo. His father was the editor of Kawade Shobo, one of the most famous publishing houses in Japan. He discovered Yukio Mishima, who had just graduated, and published his famous work "Confessions of the Mask" for him.
Sakamoto Ryuichi was asked to be an "excellent person" since he was a child. He started learning piano at the age of 3 and started composing music at the age of 10. He started working hard at an early age...
Sakamoto Ryuichi's father socialized frequently and was almost absent from home. In addition, he had a tough attitude and would drink and call around at home.
Sakamoto Ryuichi later recalled in his autobiography that when he was a child, he thought his father was scary and he never dared to speak to his father. It was not until his senior year in high school that he mustered up the courage to tell his father face to face for the first time.
Sakamoto Ryuichi's mother is an avant-garde hat designer, and it is said that she is often away from home. In such a "wandering" family atmosphere, Sakamoto Ryuichi still found his emotional outlet: Shiro.
Shiro is a cat who grew up with Sakamoto Ryuichi until he was 15 years old...
After becoming famous, Sakamoto Ryuichi still lamented that he was "like a brother" when talking about Shiro.
When Ryuichi Sakamoto was in his thirties, he released an album, "M.A.Y. IN THE BACKYARD".
M.A.Y is actually three cats that often come to Sakamoto Ryuichi's home in Kogenji: Modoki, Ashura, and Yanayatsu. At that time, he would watch these kittens sleeping and playing in and out of the yard all day long. He said, "They made me feel like I was back in the old days."
M.A.Y. IN THE BACKYARD Shortly before the birth of this fake Gongji Cat album, Miyu Sakamoto, the daughter of Ryuichi Sakamoto and jazz singer Kenko Yano (his second marriage), was born.
The first time Xiao Meiyu saw the world clearly was when cats were playing in groups in the yard. It can be said that before Miyu knew that her parents were celebrities, she first knew that both of them liked cats.
Miu Sakamoto’s parents and David Bowie↓
Because her parents were very busy (just like her father was when he was a child), Miu played with stray cats in the yard since she was a child. Many years later, when she grew up, she said this: "I am very grateful to my parents. , I never said anything like ‘stray cats are dirty’ when I was a child.”
However, people are not as free as cats. Ryuichi Kosakamoto, who has studied under high pressure since childhood, would not have thought that his daughter would face even greater pressure more than thirty years later.
Sakamoto Miu has learned piano since she was a child, but she has never been able to keep up with the speed of Juan Wang's father, so she often feels inadequate.
When Miyu was a teenager, her father Sakamoto Ryuichi told her that most of his achievements today come from the choices and acquisitions he made as a teenager. He hoped that Miyu would "do it first-rate" no matter what she chose to do.
Miyu can only resist her father's expectations: I don't need others to decide whether I should get ahead!
But Miu didn't dare to argue with her father. She was a replica of her father's retreat when he was young, and she was in awe of him with fear. Especially when Miyu was growing up, her parents' relationship broke down, and she tried to repair the family's trauma by being well-behaved.
Tabi is a cat in the yard of Ryu Sakamoto's family. Miyu adopted him when he was 7 years old. When Miyu was 9 years old, he moved to New York with the Sakamoto family.
Sakamoto Ryuichi and Tabi↓
However, not long after, Miu's parents' marriage came to an end, and then her father was with another woman.
Miyu left her "parents' home" in New York at the age of 16 and returned to Japan alone to develop.
Sakamoto Ryuichi also stood up for his daughter's singing career↓
Because her father is Sakamoto Ryuichi, Miyu has lived in the shadow of the "second generation" all year round. If she cannot surpass Sakamoto Ryuichi in this life, then she has failed - it is precisely because of this thought that Miyu's first few years of adulthood were very painful.
But she finally found her cure, and just like her father decades before, she found solace in cats.
Miu later wrote about that time in her book: "I grew up thinking that cats were part of the family. My parents had cat-themed songs, and so did I. Cats always entered our lives quietly."
On May 5, 2010, she met a cat that looked very similar to Tabi on an adoption website. Because of the familiar feeling of "as if she could go back to the old days", she adopted Sabami, who was 1-3 years old at the time..
Sabami's life experience was very tragic. She was a rescued cat. When she was found, she had been abused and tied to a tree...
It was precisely because Sabami had such a sad past that Miyu knew that she was valuable to this little life, and she could help Sabami repair the hole in his heart. Of course, Sabami also repaired the hole in Miu's heart.
"I feel that Sabami and I are really closer than blood relatives. We defeated death together," Miyu said that Sabami helped her get through the most "self-denial" period.
Sabami lives peacefully in Miyu's house like this.
Kitten is a creature at the "top" of the food chain. She is not proud of being Sakamoto Ryuichi's cat granddaughter. No matter how many celebrities she meets, she always greets people with a bad face, and remains calm and calm about herself.
Everything about Sabami makes Miyu feel healing and worth learning.
In 2014, Miu married a book editor and gave birth to her daughter Namako the next year.
From the changes in Sabami's expression, we can see the cat's attitude towards human cubs at different stages↓
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For many years, Miyu has been showing the attitude of her father, Ryuichi Sakamoto, on social media. She performs her own performances, organizes cat adoption events, and posts her cooking... She lives like an unknown, simple and down-to-earth grassroots artist. She rarely mentions her father and mother, and only occasionally forwards their inquiries like a little fan.
Until March 28, Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away due to illness.
Miyu has posted content about her father for several days.
Miyu's father has also experienced these unspeakable sufferings.
In September 2004, Sakamoto Ryuichi’s stern father, Sakamoto Kazuki, passed away. He received the news while touring in Europe.
In his autobiography, Ryuichi Sakamoto recalled the day his father passed away: "Will my father's death change me in any way? I don't have any special feelings about this kind of issue. However, I do have a feeling as if the strong backing I have been relying on has disappeared."
Ten years later, it was Sakamoto Ryuichi's daughter Miu's turn to experience his shock at that time. Did she also feel that "the strong backing she had been relying on had disappeared"?
Sakamoto Ryuichi and his granddaughter↓
These days, Miyu posted a video on Instagram: She touched her fifteen-year-old cat Sabami, thanking the cat's magical healing power for helping her.
Then, she murmured to herself: "On the way home, I saw caterpillars and the beautiful moon. Every time I see the full moon in the future, I will think: How many more full moons can I see?"
In the last two years of his life, Sakamoto Ryuichi opened a column called "How many more full moons can I see?" ”, such a question sounds like a farewell.
It is impossible to say what achievements Miu will achieve due to the talent she inherited from her father, Sakamoto Ryuichi, but it is certain that the love of cats she inherited will make her achieve success. Yisheng, at least in this aspect, she can be called the "first-class person" her father expected -
A person who is willing to work hard and work hard for the welfare of cats and can help many stray cats find homes is a "first-class person".
When working as a volunteer, Miu often couldn't help but start sucking cats↓
The fourth generation of the Sakamoto family cat story: Miu's daughter, like her mother and grandfather, was born in an environment where she grew up with cats, and studied music since she was a child.
The arrangement of fate revolves around, just like the repeated melody 323632 323632 that Ryuichi Sakamoto loves to use...
In a family interview, the reporter asked Miu and his wife what kind of person they hope their daughter Namako will be in the future.
Miu's answer is: "I want her to meet a lot of people and be exposed to diverse values. In this way, even if she feels frustrated, she can still believe that she is reasonable and can stumble to find her own world."
"If you can find what you really like, you can grow freely," she said.
Finally, I would like to borrow one of Sakamoto Ryuichi’s favorite words: “Art lasts forever, and life is exposed in the morning.”
Cats save us from the pain of loneliness.
Professor, happy in heaven, why not go to the Cat Star to play when you have time~
