花は咲く Flowers Will Bloom

Pianist Nobuyuki Mizuoka performs live his stylization of “花は咲く (Hana Wa Saku / Flowers Will Bloom),” a song composed by Yoko Kanno and Shunji Iwai for the NHK Broadcasting System in tie with the international humanitarian response to the 8.8 magnitude earthquake and accompanying tsunami that devastated Japan’s northeastern (Tōhoku) region on March 11, 2011.

Photography from A. Kurita and Wikimedia Commons.

About the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami:
https://www.livescience.com/39110-japan-2011-earthquake-tsunami-facts.html

The song lyrics in Japanese and English: https://tinyurl.com/yymsm25y

Official Website of Nobuyuki Mizuoka (水岡のぶゆき):
http://mizuoka.com/