Fujiyoshi Karin's father appears to be owner/operator of a shabushabu restaurant in downtown Osaka. I discovered an old web page showing posts from the shop's Instagram where he talks about Karin becoming an idol.
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| A nice display of plastic food in the window of the restaurant. |
The first post was a two-shot of him with his daughter when she was very little. But the photo was no longer there. He goes on:
Time passed, and 16
years later, my daughter came to me and said, with a straight face:
“I want to be Sailor
Moon…”
On a midsummer day half a year later: “There’s an idol audition in Tokyo. Come with me.”
“So this is how she’s
trying to make Sailor Moon a reality,” I thought as we took the overnight bus
to Tokyo. Just before Bon, under a broiling sun, with only the sparrows as
companions, I waited for my daughter’s audition to end.
Not long afterward, I learned that my daughter would soon be introduced at Budoukan.
Up to just a few months ago, she was a girl singing in the bath, with no thought of any audience… We never know what can happen in this world.
My child used to make me listen to things that were nothing but dreams and romanticism, but this year I made a big mistake in that way myself, and everyone was criticizing me for it.
Then, as the year ended, this happened, and I began to come alive again.
Oh, my incredible daughter, thank you (smile).
Without dreams and romanticism, we cannot endure through this evanescent life.
But don’t be swept
away in the world of appearances.
I guess I really am a guy whom time has passed by ♪
Even when such a daughter is performing, Father will keep the shop open
Another post:
So my daughter seems to have gotten through safely, without messing up (smile) 🤞
From now on, I look forward to seeing how people take to her sensitivity, and to Karin World (smile smile).
She will certainly not be an idol idol, but I hope you will treat her well 😊
Oh yes, ours is a warm personal-pot shabushabu restaurant.
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This seems quite real to me. He's like a warm, friendly restaurant owner who loves his family. And he sees his elder daughter's peculiar personality. "Karin World" (夏鈴ワールド) lol.
The way I read this, he may have tried to expand his restaurant or make some other ambitious decision, and it didn't work out. But his daughter's ambitious decision did work out, and it helped him recover his enthusiasm -- of which I suspect he has quite a bit in reserve. Her inability to say no to a family trip to the seaside -- which she dislikes -- becomes even more understandable as I get some idea of her father's seemingly irrepressible personality.
These two posts are from around the time Karin was being chosen and introduced, in late fall 2019. I don't see many about her more recently, although I haven't read the text of all of them.
In Japanese that word "romanticism" (roman) implies a sense of adventure more than romantic love.
The recent decision to put the SokoSaku TV show on the Internet, so everyone in Japan can see it when it airs, may affect people in Osaka. I believe I remember the hosts saying that members' parents outside the Tokyo area sometimes wondered what their daughters were doing in Tokyo, since they didn't see the show.
Japanese text for reference:
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