THERE BEHIND YOU
In feudal era Japan, a traveling woman strolled through the forest with her walking stick. Then a sound of a shamisen was heard up ahead. She followed the sound of the instrument getting closer, and closer.
There, a man sat under a tree playing his shamisen. He wore a loose blue kimono and a hood-like head wrapping covering half of his pale white face. He sings as he strums the shamisen, his beautiful voice attracted the birds as the wind caresses the trees.
The woman stops as she hears his voice right next to her. She decides to interrupt the man.
"Excuse me, but what are singing?"
The man stops his singing and strumming.
"A tragic love story" he says.
His voice sounds deep and soft to her ears, a voice that rung familiar.
"Tragic love story?" she question.
The man began strumming again.
"Two people fell madly in love with each other, but their love was not meant to be as they were force to separate."
The women felt like she knew this person, but at the same time not. Why is that?
The man began to sing, "Long, long ago it has been told the kindhearted blue ogre and the maiden of a village… their tale… I shall –let-you-hear it, yes I shall…"