Uemura Kana. Anyone like her?

[Polyrhythm]

She wrote this sweet little song about her Grandma and a toilet goddess, Toilet no Kamisama (although its megamisama in the song....)



Translation courtesy of TokyoHive:

Around the time that I was in 3rd grade
I lived with my grandmother
My parent’s house was next door but
I lived with my grandmother

Everyday, I helped out
I even played gobang
But my grandmother said this to me
because I couldn’t clean the toilet,

My goodness, there’s
a goddess at the toilet
That’s why if you clean the toilet,
You can become beautiful like the goddess

From that day on
I started making the toilet shine
“I’ll definitely become a beautiful woman”
Every day I polished it

When we went out to go shopping
We both had roasted duck
My grandmother missed her new comedy show
and cried and blamed me

My goodness, there’s
a goddess at the toilet
That’s why if you clean the toilet
You can become beautiful like the goddess

I became an adult
and I bumped heads with my grandma
I couldn’t make a family
and I had no place to stay

I didn’t return home on days off
I was out with my boyfriend
Both of us stopped playing
gobang and eating roasted duck

I wonder why people hurt others
and we lose things close to us
She was always by my side and I abandoned her

It’s been two years since I left for Tokyo
Grandma is in the hospital
She’s losing weight and got thin
I went to go see her

I said, “Granny, I’m back!”
just like I used to
We spoke a little bit
I said I’ll come back and left the room

The next morning grandma
quietly fell asleep
It was just as if
she was waiting for me to come back
Even though she raised me properly
Even though I could repay her back
Even though I wasn’t a good grandchild
She waited for me

My goodness, there’s
a goddess at the toilet
That’s why if you clean the toilet
You can become beautiful like the goddess

I had a dream to become
a wife with a good disposition
Today I’m going to
make the toilet shine alone

Grandma
Grandma
Thank you
Grandma
Thank you
From the bottom of my heart

[visionfactory]

that song is too sad !!

[Polyrhythm]

Yeah....I love the lyrics though....so personal compared to a lot of those generic jpop songs about love and fate and whatnot.

[Fair Wind]

Yeah, i finally decided to listen to the song the other and I loved it. Thanks for the lyrics, they are quite touching.

[Uemarasan]

Artist and song of the year, in my opinion!

She's my best discovery of 2010

[ruixiong89]

I saw her in the news when I was in Japan! She's pretty cool!

[Polyrhythm]

Toilet no Kamisama debuted at #30 daily.....the week of Kouhaku it climbed to #7 daily....@_@ And for the last 3 days of the week it has been at #1.

[Kanzaki]

At first I was like "Oh no, more whimsical, pop girls with a guitar who thinks they're super unique". And I don't like the music, but the lyrics are so sad She's got a cute voice too.

[Polyrhythm]

She's also #1 on recochoku