1990s, music movement called "Shibuya-kei" has blossomed. This movement is not music only, spread to the fashion and lifestyle, it has brought a great impact at the time of the youth culture. One of the musicians was its trick people, Yasuharu Konishi-san, who served as the leader of Pizzicato Five. In the midst of movement, Konishi-san, how do I stared at this Shibuya departure of Culture. With, such as involvement of Shibuya and from childhood, we were told fully.

Town that I met for the first time youth culture

- The Konishi-san for the first time visited the Shibuya?

I was born in Sapporo, but moved to Tokyo in the days of kindergarten, I lived in Ebisu up to one year junior high school. So I came for the first time in Shibuya days of kindergarten. In Shibuya Speaking of shopping and movies when you went to elementary school, now there is also a memory that visited the defunct planetarium. Prior to become addicted to music since I was in elementary school six years, anyway I love comics, here it was also through Shigeku feet in large MoriDo head office, which was closed now. I is the time of elementary school six years, it is time that the French student movement of 1968 had been fighting youth in various regions and leap around the world. I went to buy school of the way back, as always the cartoon in Shibuya, riding have bus is stuck is surrounded by the demo, so there is a memory that has been a great deal worry to parents to not go home.

- So I loved Shibuya from childhood.

I agree. Then, return to Sapporo, he enrolled at Aoyama Gakuin University in Ichinami after graduating from high school, Shibuya and deep relationship has resumed. At the time, there is a coffee shop in the back of the NHK, there were a music and fashion of the teacher like a master for me and friends. Originally in the people who had a folk singer, the antenna is anyway sensitive to the information. Unfortunately, last year, it was gone. Stuffed went to the store that it has received a lot of influence, it has become a part of my soil. Looking back, from an early age, it has been subject to cultural influences of Shibuya. When I was a primary school, in a white two-story much of the building catching it ... a glance if there are Shuji's ceiling gallery Museum of Terayama on a tree-lined bridge, is put the mannequin outside the two bodies, it's pretty psychedelic. Always from the bus as the "What", was looking fearfully. In addition, each other of underground theater posters and leaflets are stuck in the city, zines have been stacked like a mountain around the cash register of DaiMoriDo. So I I was encounters for the first time youth culture in Shibuya.

Strange that come to mind are unexpectedly songs Being in Shibuya

- Do college days spent mostly in Shibuya.

I agree. Since most of the interest was centered on the music is filled with Shibuya of the city .... Not get used much in Shinjuku, I did not almost go in four years of college. It was a memorable place also Tokyu Bunka Kaikan. Will there is a cafe called "Juchheim" on the first floor. Recruiting new members of the band, or rather audition, to carry out the interview, it was always "Juchheim". It It was a very easy-to-understand location. It from the second floor restaurant called "German Bakery" of, and Takanami's member of Pizzicato Five, it was a meeting many times. Chocolate called "cat's tongue Chocolate" was the favorite. So there is also that I had to spend much in Shibuya, but no doubt the music of Pizzicato Five is involved in Shibuya and close, if you now, had been inspired especially from Shibuya daytime I will cares. But in Shibuya night there is a different face from the daytime, What I got to know deep it is, because is about the past 10 years.

- From around any Shibuya or will receive a musical inspiration.

In my case, it floats the song when you relax. Toka when you are immersed in the particular bath. Maybe because settle down and are in Shibuya, it often born the song to be strange. Toka car taxi which runs the Koen-dori toward the NHK, Toka when you are walking down the street with the aim of a record store. Because that kind of thing often, felt a somehow kind of supernatural powers. In the same way as the bath for me, I guess city in which to relax, Shibuya.

- Recently, Do you have a good place to go.

"Hi-fi record store" is located along the Meiji street, I most favorite record store in the world. It has been through at least twice a month even now. Or say here there is something edge, there is a shop that previously different in the same place, there was also what was said to be old "Do not become a manager" (laughs). And what say whether attractive, first is amazing assortment. Then, when entering this store, I feel like he had become "eternal student". I long ago had thought that I also music is mono of young people, to not run out is still the charm of music even at this age, the music did not know it is good by the time young, and listen now, a different impression at all it is also often receive. Record shops I'm here Deaeru to such music. But such small-scale record store has been reduced from Shibuya than before, now also a place that remains in have left, well worth seeing is. Once overseas musicians visited the Shibuya, I because it delights.

Konishi's Management Office "READYMADE ENTERTAINMENT" is at the corner of Ebisu