Masato Fan Club

Subject: Masato Fan Club
From: GUEST,Gern
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 11:32 AM

Isn't it about time someone started a fan club for Masato Sakurai? This valuable resource is a refreshing change from the usual run of Mudcat trolls, bile spewers and off-color commentators that have run so rampant of late. Not only is Masato a quick and sure source for traditional lyrics, but in one thread quickly juggles Pope, Dylan and Johnny Mercer. Joe may insist with futility that this is a folk forum, but Masato found a way to weave in literature and popular culture as well. I'm a fan.

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Amos
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 11:47 AM

Seconded with cheers, Gern!

A

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: MMario
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 11:53 AM

Masato, Masato!
He's our man!
If he can't find it
maybe Sorcha can!

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 12:00 PM

Count me in.

What's your secret, Masato? Access to databases we mere mortals only hear rumors about, or just plain old dogged persistance and determination? If everyone here could search at Masato's level there'd be nothing but BS threads left! (I don't suppose even Masato can really give a definitive answer to "Why do men wear socks with sandals?".)

Bruce

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Big Mick
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 12:25 PM

Well, that is because my friend, Joe, is just plain wrong. It hasn't been a "folk" forum for a long time. But it has been a great community of folkies for a long time.

Masato............his arrival may very well be the best thing that ever happened here. Count me in as a No. 1, first class, stark raving, rabid, fan of his. Tell me where to send the dues, and how I get my Masato beanie cap and secret decoder ring...............LOL. He is the best.

Mick

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Steve-o
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 12:51 PM

Yessir, there's nothing quite as refreshing as a clear thinker. Thank you for every post, Masato-san.

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Kim C
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 01:37 PM

Count me in.

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Sorcha
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 01:42 PM

Send de coder ring soon! I wish I had half his knowledge and resources.

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 02:04 PM

I agree. I'm sure I'm not alone in watching for his post on a particularly obscure piece of music- often it's a definitive answer. Thank you, Masato.

It just occurred to me: perhaps Masato is not an individual, but a club of people who pool their resources?? :)

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Amergin
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 02:45 PM

you might have something there, Ebbie....seems almost too superhuman to me....

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: MMario
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 02:50 PM

I bet Masato is the upgraded version of the "Joe Offer" software Max was beta testing a few years ago...

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 03:01 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Peter T.
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 04:48 PM

Wait until I tell the Fair One what you said about the "best thing that ever happened here", Mick, you are in BIG TROUBLE. Koko, strap on that parachute, there is work to be done....
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Sorcha
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 05:45 PM

(We're going to embarass Masato-sama again.......)

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 08:08 PM

"Sign me up for the Christian Jubilee," and for the Masato Fan club. I've known people who were extremely knowledgeable for were so arrogant and condescending about it that I think I'd rather stay ignorant. Masato is just the opposite: unassuming, generous and there to give all the attention to the music, not himself. You set a wonderful example for all of us, Masato!

And I imagine Masato can post ten variants of the song quoted here... :-)

Jerry

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: The Pooka
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 10:05 PM

Sign me on too. Masato Sakurai: the Best of the Mudcat. Thank you, modest Masato. Your are a Wonder; and your fans are legion.

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 10:30 PM

Here here! (Hear here?) He's also usually brief. Another talent some of us only dream of mastering. ;-)

SRS

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: GUEST,Elaine
Date: 15 Aug 02 - 11:33 PM

Masato's posts were very helpful to me! Hope he at least reads this chorus of appreciation, even he doesn't post to it! Thanks again, Masato!

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: masato sakurai
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 12:28 AM

Thanks, everyone! I've read all the posts in my un-air-conditioned room (it's about 1:20 p.m. here).

~Masato

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Genie
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 02:49 AM

Maybe we should all chip in and buy you an air conditioner, eh, Masato?! It'd be the least we could do.

My thanks, too, for all your very well-researched answers to posted queries.

One of my questions about you was finally answered a month or two ago -- i.e. that you are, indeed, a man. I could not tell from your name. (Not perhaps all that important, but I had to avoid personal pronouns when referring to you before that.)

The other two, still unanswered, are:

Is "Sakurai" a form of the word "Sakura?"

Do you ever post questions for the rest of us Mudcatters to answer? *BG*

Many, many thanks, Masato.

Genie

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: masato sakurai
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 03:39 AM

Genie, yes for the first question, no for the second. Sakurai is from "sakura" meaning "cherry blossoms" and "i (from 'ido')" meaning "well (for obtaining water)". Of course, I have a lot of questions (the more we know, the more puzzles and mysteries we have), which I'll post in the meantime one by one. I'm busy answering at present.

~Masato

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Genie
Date: 16 Aug 02 - 03:42 AM

So you're the one who waters the cherry blossoms! Fantastic!

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: open mike
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 02:50 AM

yes-agreed-often Masato has the best, and quickest answers. Do you ever sleep? Are you in Japan? Here is a question I have been researching--I am looking for information on a song (gospel/hymn) writer named R.H. Cornelius, who published some song books in TX in the 20's. (specifically Heart Songs) I once found a biographical note that he used to be a miner, and that he was from Cornwall, Wales. Any more info outthere about his Welsch heritage?? or his mining career? Thanks! it occurs that i might start a new thread about this fellow....once again, thanks for being the wonderful resource that you are...I was thinking you were going to say it was 120 degrees--August is the time of the most intense temperature!! hope you find some way of keeping cool! I have no air conditioning, either, which is one reason i am on here at midnight.. when it finally cooled down....

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Gloredhel
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 05:27 PM

Thank you Masato!

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Warsaw Ed
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 05:48 PM

Thanks Masato! You've helped me several times personaly and continually at Mudcat - Ed

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Aug 02 - 06:29 PM

Masato has a very winning smile, too! Thank you, Masato, very much!

kat in air conditioned room, but it is still hot, more record-breaking temps!

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Genie
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 04:11 AM

Kat, when/how did you get to see Masato smile?

Masato, have you ever posted a picture of yourself here at the CafŽ? Or would you. Many of us are pictured here, one place or another. How about our number one music resource person?

Genie

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: van lingle
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 07:18 AM

Masato you are amazing. My compliments and thanks. vl

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: GUEST,Marie
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 10:30 AM

Here I am !... (as promised !)

:-)

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: wilco
Date: 18 Aug 02 - 07:51 PM

I got on this thread a little late, but I want a Masato Decoder Ring too!!! If I could only know a little bitty bit of what Masato knows. How do you join the fan club?

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Hrothgar
Date: 19 Aug 02 - 06:10 AM

I want the t-shirt.

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: GUEST,Calico
Date: 22 Aug 02 - 01:43 AM

Sign me up, too!

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Mark Clark
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 07:38 PM

Masato, I'm also a big fan of your work here. Not only are you a wizard at Internet research, you are also an amazing repository of folk music knowledge yourself.

From the time zone difference you referenced above, I'm guessing that you live in Japan but Indonesia and Australia are also possibilities. I don't mean to pry but are you also a scientist working in the field of microgravity research and fluid mechanics?

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Mar 05 - 10:57 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 31 Mar 05 - 12:31 PM

Thanks for refreshing this Guest. Yes I too am a fan, and find his erudition amazing. Don't see him around so much recently, could he be fed up with the Buffalo Bagels downstairs too?
Giok

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 31 Mar 05 - 01:19 PM

A physical Masato-san meeting was recently achieved by Naemanson -- see the Springtime in Guam thread. I still find his invaluable input popping up here and there; I think it's a luck-of-the-thread thing.

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Mar 05 - 02:26 PM

Nothing quite like passing around songsheets at church, that are from a scan from Japan.

~S~

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 31 Mar 05 - 07:31 PM

Well I've got a few sets of song words off him too, so many thanks, Masato
TB

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Peace
Date: 31 Mar 05 - 07:48 PM

I ditto the sentiments and words above, Masato. Thank you just for being you.

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 02:22 AM

...and many thanks from me, too.

RtS

Subject: RE: Masato Fan Club
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Apr 05 - 07:24 AM

I have 2 bookmarks courtesy of Masato - 2 Google Japan searches for traditional dolls. Pages & pages of beautiful pictures to study.

I'm a fan

sandra