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「おべんとうばこのうた」作詞：香山美子　作曲：小森昭宏

One of the things i did in 2017 was take up the martial art Wing Chun. I did a fair bit of karate (shotokan) when i was a kid, so it was nice to come back to something like that, although the two styles are very different. I’d say my primary interest in any martial art is pretty surface level - I just think they look cool. As a kid I watched a lot of martial arts movies and played a lot of fighting games, and I loved the variety of different ways they showed people moving.

Wing Chun (/Wing Tsun/however you decide to spell it) is a style from the south of China. Allegedly developed by the only female member of the so-called Five Elders of Shaolin, a lady called Ng Mui. There’s a story about developing it after having seen a crane fighting a snake or something but there are so many similar legends about various styles from that period they all get a bit interchangeable. I mostly like it because, unlike other kung fu styles (especially northern ones), it has little to no unnecessary movement - no big stances, hand waving etc. If you’re being punched, you just kind of step in & push their hand aside with the least possible amount of effort and bop them. It sounds simple, but watching it in practice is really cool to me, and even in its simplicity it manages to get some really cool body & arm shapes. 

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卵（大１個） 水（９０cc） 薄口（小さじ１） みりん（小さじ１） ほんだし（こさじ半分程度）