The lyrics for Sumiregusa were inspired by a Hokku, or Haiku, written by the Japanese poet, Basho, while he was traveling to Otsu.
He says that on his way through the mountain road the sight of a wild violet touched his heart.
We have all been moved by the beauty of nature, so I am sure we can all relate to those seventeen syllables that Basho wrote.
We have all had a moment that pulls at our heartstrings.
One such moment for me was when I was walking in the woodlands and I came across an old, broken, dying thistle.
He was such a sad sight.
There was a small history in him that would soon be lost.
And yet he struggled on.
I called him Don Quixote. I went every day to see him until he wasn't there any more.
The following year his children bloomed, he did not return.
Even today, although that place has been taken over by the ever vigorous bramble, and there are no signs of any thistles, I still pass by and remember him.
Perhaps these moments are an epiphany.
Perhaps it is our own acceptance of the world and the way it is.
Perhaps it is a celebration of life, or just a moment that is ours alone.
In Sumiregusa all of nature is equal in its power to inspire, to move, to touch ・from a small pebble to a great mountain, from one green leaf to the many colours of autumn, from the song of birds to a purple flower.
この曲の詩は松尾芭蕉が大津までの旅路で詠った俳句に影響されて書いた詩である．
彼曰く，山道の菫草の姿に心を打たれた．
※未訳
ものの哀れ
紫色の花
春の花
と冬も小雪
はらはら
自然の美かな
緑の葉と
秋の色
風の声
鳥のさえずり
悲しい海
喜びの海
山
小石
アヤメ草
The poignancy of things
A purple flower
The blossoms of spring
and the light snow of winter
How they fall
The beauty of nature
A green leaf and
Autumn colours
The voice of the wind
The song of birds
A sad sea
A joyful sea
Mountains
Pebbles
A wild iris
Children around the world spend 5 billion hours every year playing with LEGO bricks
世界中の子供はLEGOブロックで毎年50億時間遊ぶ．
400 million children and adults have played with LEGO bricks at some time or another
4億人の人がLEGOブロックで遊んだことがある．
There are 102.981.500 different ways of combining six 8-stud bricks of the same colour
同色の8ポッチブロック6個でできる組み合わせは102.981.500通り (April)
349 billion LEGO elements have been moulded since 1949
1949年から349億個のレゴパーツが成型されている (May)
Every 7 seconds a LEGO set is sold somewhere in the world
7秒毎に世界のどこかでレゴ製品が貰われている (June)
On average every person on planet earth has 52 LEGO bricks
地球全体で一人当たり平均52個のレゴブロックを持っている．
In 2000 the LEGO Company manufactured 306 million tyres making it the biggest tyre manufacturer in the world
2000年，レゴ社は306百万個もタイヤを生産し，世界で最大手のタイヤメーカーになった (October)
If placed end-to-end all LEGO sets sold during the past 10 years would stretch from London, UK to Perth, Australia
過去10年間に売られたレゴブロックを並べると，ロンドンからパース(オーストラリア)まで届く
www.LEGO.com has more than 3 million visitors every month - each spending an average of 48.5 minutes exploring the site
www.LEGO.com は毎月300万人が訪れる．平均閲覧時間は48.5分．
The largest model at LEGOLAND Windsor is the Technosaurus created using in excess of one million LEGO bricks. And the smallest? Probably a pigeon in Trafalgar Square
LEGOLAND Windsorでもっとも大きいモデルは1億個のブロックを使用して作られた Technosaurus
最も小さいものは恐らくTrafalgar Squareのハト
In 2001 the LEGO Company manufactured 802.000 motorbikes
2001年，レゴ社で製造したバイクの数は802.000台 (September)
1388 Eiffel Towers on top of each other corresponds to the height - if stacked - of all BIONICLE masks manufactured in 2001
2001年に製造されたBIONICLEを積み上げるとエッフェル塔1388個分の高さと同じ．
When moulding LEGO bricks the tolerance of accuracy is 2/1000 of a millimetre
LEGOブロックを成型する際の許容誤差は0.002mm
The moulding tool for the LEGO tractor (1951) cost 32.000 Danish Crowns. At the time, a real tractor cost half approx. 15.000 Danish Crowns.
LEGOトラクター(1951)を成型するツールの値段は32000クローナ．当時のトラクターの値段は15000クローナ．
In 1990, the word LEGO was accepted in The Oxford Concise Dictionary (8th edition).
1990年，LEGOという単語がオックスフォードコンサイズ第8版に掲載された．
When Korean mountaineer Young Ho climbed the peak of Mount Everest in 1987, he left behind a LEGO model in the snow.
1987年，韓国の登山家 Young Ho がエベレストに登頂したときに，レゴブロックを雪の中に残した．
327 billion LEGO elements have been moulded since 1949.
1949年から327億個のレゴパーツが成型されている (May)
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