Everything Is a Message Novel Yuming

We received a recommendation comment from Junko Sakai.
How did Japan create "Yuming"?
How did "Yuming" create an era?
The answer is in this novel.

We received a recommendation comment from Akira Nagae.
The music scene of the late 60s is vividly depicted.
Admiration for and influence from British and American rock, from the GS boom to Japanese rock.
Musician Yumi Arai was born from that era.

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In the 1970s, Yumi Arai debuted as a teenage singer-songwriter.
How did the dazzling talent that later became Japan's biggest female pop star, Yumi Matsutoya = Yuming, come to the world?—
Born into a wealthy kimono shop family in Hachioji, she touched the piano, studied kiyomoto, and entered a private Christian girls' school.
While Group Sounds were all the rage, Yumi began to curiously explore Tokyo during the high economic growth period.
US military bases, jazz cafes, the musical "Hair," the legendary restaurant Chianti, etc....
She opened new doors one after another and blossomed her talent.
The trajectory of the girl Yumi Arai until her debut is depicted as a non-fiction novel.
The story until the birth of the masterpiece "Hikoukigumo"—

◆ Comment from Yumi Matsutoya
This might be closer to reportage than non-fiction.
Mariko Yamauchi's fierce investigative power and interviews clicked the buttons of my memories one after another,
and I surfed through my childhood, youth. It was dazzlingly fun.
This is the exact opposite of the success stories many people like, so it’s understandable if no sympathy is gained.
Truly, "truth is stranger than fiction."
The story of a unique girl growing up uniquely, colored by Tokyo culture and counterculture of the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
Yamauchi’s great curiosity reminded me of a love I had completely forgotten.
I’m really glad to have been given this opportunity.
I deeply felt that I could be nothing other than "Yuming,"
and with a happy feeling that was neither resignation nor acceptance, I finished reading this novel.

◆ Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Yumi-chan of Hachioji
Chapter 2 Piano, Kiyomoto, Saudade
Chapter 3 Rikkyo Girls’ Academy and Pipe Organ
Chapter 4 Maggie and Tachikawa Base
Chapter 5 The Spiral Staircase House
Chapter 6 Fingers Days
Chapter 7 1969
Chapter 8 Cartier Latin-style Ochanomizu
Chapter 9 Seventeen!
Chapter 10 Hello, Caramel Mama