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{{Infobox Musical artist
{{dablink|This article refers to the play. For other uses, see [[As You Like It (disambiguation)]]}}
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| Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
{{Infobox Play
| Instrument = [[Guitar]]<br> [[piano]]<br> [[keyboards]]
| name = As You Like It
| Name = Takuro Kubo <br>久保 琢郎
| image = FirstFolioAsYouLikeIt.jpg|200px
| Born = {{Birth date and age|1971|5|26|mf=y}}<br>[[Hakodate]], [[Hokkaidō]], [[Japan]]
| caption = Title page facsimile from the ''[[First Folio]]'', (1623)
| writer = [[William Shakespeare]]
| Alias = TAKURO
| genre = Pastoral comedy
| Genre = [[Japanese rock]]/[[J-pop|pop]]
| Associated_acts = [[GLAY]]
| setting = The fictional court of Duke Frederick and the Forest of Arden
| Label = [[Toshiba-EMI]]<br>[[Capitol Records]]
| subject = Love, romance, courtship
| Notable_instruments =
| premiere = Unknown
| place = Unknown
| Years_active = 1988 - present (GLAY)
| orig_lang = {{English}}
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'''Takuro''' (久保　琢郎, ''Kubo Takuro''; born May 26, 1971 in [[Hakodate]], [[Hokkaidō]]) is one of the guitarists and leader of the popular Japanese rock band [[GLAY]]. He is the main composer and lyricist of GLAY's songs.
As a composer and a musician, Takuro has worked with different artists. He's also released solo works.


Takuro and his older sister were raised by a single mother, as she never re-married after his father's death, when Takuro was three years old. He considers his mother an early influence in his musical career, as he was strongly impressed by her singing. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/4919/mnsons.html|title=Takuro's 1996 Mother Rock Magazine Inteview|accessdate=2008-09-19 }}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/4919/history2.html|title=NHK TV Documentary "GLAY Kiseki to Eikou no Mukouni"=2008-10-05 }}</ref>
'''''As You Like It''''' is a [[pastoral]] [[comedy]] by [[William Shakespeare]] believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The work was based upon the novel ''[[Rosalynde]]'' by [[Thomas Lodge]]. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibilty. ''As You Like It'' follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court to find safety and eventually love in the Forest of Arden. Historically, critical response has varied, with some critics finding the work of lesser quality than other Shakespearean works and some finding the play a work of great merit. The play features one of Shakespeare's most famous and oft-quoted soliloquies, "[[All the world's a stage]]" and the phrase "too much of a good thing." The play remains a favorite among audiences and has been adapted for radio, film, and musical theatre.


{{Quote|When he was a child, his mother used to sing while crying. He didn't know what was wrong with her but he felt what she felt as she sang, and he listened to her. The tone of singing becomes stronger as one sings. He was impressed by how his mother sang. He felt the power of singing. Before he started thinking about her situation, he listened to her singing. She started softly but became stronger and he felt that the power of singing encourages people. He has believed in that power ever since| GLAY Kiseki to Eikou no Mukouni (NHK Television's 1999 Documentary on Glay)}}
==Date and text==
The play was entered into the Register of the [[Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers| Stationers Company]] on August 4, 1600; but it was not printed until its inclusion in the [[First Folio]] in 1623.


Later on, during his adolescence, he would be influenced by [[John Lennon]], and would develop a great interest in writing lyrics. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/4919/takuro03.html|title=Takuro's 1998 Groovy Magazine Inteview|accessdate=2008-10-05 }}</ref> His lyrics are often based on his feelings about different situations in his life, as well as events in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/4919/mnsons.html|title=Takuro's 1996 Mother Rock Magazine Inteview|accessdate=2008-09-19 }}</ref>
==Performance==
There is no certain record of any performance before the [[English Restoration|Restoration]]. There is one possible performance, however, at Wilton House in [[Wiltshire]], the countryseat of the Earls of Pembroke. [[William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke]] hosted [[King James I of England|James I]] and his Court at Wilton House from October to December 1603, while London was suffering an epidemic of [[bubonic plague]]. The [[King's Men (playing company)|King's Men]] were paid £30 to come to Wilton House and perform for the King and Court on December 2, 1603. A Herbert family tradition holds that the play acted that night was ''As You Like It.''<ref>[[F. E. Halliday]], ''A Shakespeare Companion 1564&ndash;1964,'' Baltimore, Penguin, 1964; p. 531.</ref>


In [[2003]] Takuro released "Kyoukai", an auto-biographical book, in which he writes about his personal life and his musical work. Among its topics are his childhood in Hakodate and a woman who he loved for ten years and who turned him down when he proposed marriage to her.
In the Restoration era, the [[King's Company]] was assigned the play by royal warrant in 1669. It is known to have been acted at [[Theatre Royal, Drury Lane|Drury Lane]] in 1723, in an adapted form called ''Love in a Forest;'' [[Colley Cibber]] played Jaques. Another Drury Lane production seventeen years later returned to the Shakespearean text (1740).<ref>Halliday, ''Shakespeare Companion,'' p. 40.</ref>


Takuro is married to Japanese model Seri Iwahori as of May 2004. They have one son, born in October 2005 and a daughter, born in October 2007. They own a house in [[Los Angeles, California]].
Notable recent productions of ''As You Like It'' include the 1936 [[Old Vic Theatre]] production starring [[Edith Evans]] and the 1961 [[Shakespeare Memorial Theatre]] production starring [[Vanessa Redgrave]]. The longest running [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] production starred [[Katharine Hepburn]] as Rosalind, [[Cloris Leachman]] as Celia, [[William Prince (actor)|William Prince]] as Orlando, and [[Ernest Thesiger]] as Jacques, and was directed by [[Michael Benthall]]. It ran for 145 performances in 1950. Another notable production was at the 2005 [[Stratford Festival]] in [[Stratford, Ontario]], which was set in the 1960s and featured Shakespeare's lyrics set to music written by [[Barenaked Ladies]].


==Characters==


==List of Solo Works==
'''The Court of Duke Frederick:'''
*Duke Frederick, Duke Senior's younger brother and his usurper, Celia's father
*[[Rosalind (As You Like It)|Rosalind]], Duke Senior's daughter who flees persecution under her uncle Duke Frederick and disguises herself as the boy "Ganymede" to live unmolested in exile in the Forest of Arden, eventually united in marriage with Orlando
*Celia, Duke Frederick's daughter and Rosalind's cousin who disguises herself as "Aliena" to accompany Rosalind into exile
*[[Touchstone (As You Like It)|Touchstone]], a court fool who accompanies Rosalind and Celia into the Forest of Arden and marries Audrey, a country girl
*Le Beau, a courtier
*Charles, a wrestler


===Solo Albums===
'''The Exiled court of Duke Senior in the Forest of Arden:'''
*Duke Senior, Duke Frederick's older brother and Rosalind's father, living in exile in the Forest of Arden with his faithful followers
*Jaques, a discontented, melancholy lord
*Amiens, an attending lord and musician


'''Album: Instrumental Collection'''
'''The Household of the deceased Sir Roland de Boys:'''
*artist: TAKURO
*Oliver, the eldest son and heir
*release date: September 19th, 1998
*Jacques, the second son briefly appearing at the end of the play
* Tracks:
*[[Orlando (As You Like It)|Orlando]], youngest son and Rosalind's lover living in exile in the Forest of ARden after angering Duke Frederick
** HOWEVER
*Adam, a faithful old servant who follows Orlando into exile
** SOUL LOVE
*Dennis, Oliver's servant
** Yes, Summerdays
** Ikiteku Tsuyosa
** Miyako Wasure
** a Boy~Zutto Wasurenai~
** Kuchibiru
** Manatsuno Tobira
** Zutto Futari de...
** Glorious
** Yuuwaku
** BELOVED


'''Album: FLOW of SOUL vol 1. Takuro meets [[Vanessa Mae]]'''
'''Country folk in the Forest of Arden:'''
*artists: Takuro and [[Vanessa Mae]]
*Phoebe, a shepherdess who falls in love with "Ganymede" and rejects Silvius
*release date : april 24th, 2002
*Silvius, a shepherd who falls in love with Phoebe
* tracks:
*Audrey, a country girl and eventually Touchstone's wife
** Way of Difference
*Corin, an elderly shepherd
** Francis Elena　featuring Vanessa Mae　
*William, a country man
** Zutto Futtari de・・
*Sir Oliver Martext, a curate
** Glorious
** a Boy ～zutto wasurenai～
** Kanojo no "Modern・・・"
** HOWEVER
** I'm in Love
** Yuuwaku
** Biribiri crashman
** Sen no naifu ga mune wo sasu
** Pure Soul


===Songwriting for other artists===
'''Other characters:'''
*Lords and ladies in Duke Frederick's court
*Lords in Duke Senior's forest court
*Pages and musicians
*Hymen, a character appearing in a play-within-the-play


'''"Summer Shakes" and "I believe you"'''
==Setting==
*Single: Summer Shakes
Arden is most likely a [[toponymy|toponym]] for a forest close to Shakespeare's home town of [[Stratford-upon-Avon]]. The Oxford Shakespeare edition rationalizes this geographical discrepancy by assuming that 'Arden' is an [[anglicisation]] of the forested [[Ardennes]] region of Belgium, and alters the spelling to reflect this. Other editions keep Shakespeare's 'Arden' spelling, since it can be argued that the [[pastoral]] [[mode]] depicts a fantastical world in which geographical details are irrelevant. The Arden edition of Shakespeare makes the suggestion that the name 'Arden' comes from a combination of the [[Classical antiquity|classical]] region of [[Arcadia]] and the [[biblical]] [[garden of Eden]], as there is a strong interplay of classical and [[Christian]] belief systems and philosophies within the play. Furthermore, Shakespeare's mother's name was [[Mary Arden]], and the name of the forest may also be a pun on that.
*artist:Miju


'''"Mitsumeteitai" and "Moon~ watashi he" '''
==Synopsis==
*Single: Mitsumeteitai
[[Image:Francis Hayman 002.jpg|thumb|350px|Scene from ''As You Like It'', [[Francis Hayman]], c. 1750.]] The play is set in a [[duchy]] in [[France]], but most of the action takes place in a location called the '[[Forest of Arden]].'
*Artist:ROMI
'''"Couples" and "Love Is Always Trouble"'''
*Single: Couples'''
*artist: Miju


'''"LOVE CLOVER" and "Empty Pocket"'''
Frederick has usurped the Duchy and [[exile]]d his older brother, Duke Senior. The Duke's daughter Rosalind has been permitted to remain at court because she is the closest friend and cousin of Frederick's only child, Celia. Orlando, a young gentleman of the kingdom who has fallen in love at first sight of Rosalind, is forced to flee his home after being persecuted by his older brother, Oliver. Frederick becomes angry and banishes Rosalind from court. Celia and Rosalind decide to flee together accompanied by the jester Touchstone, with Rosalind disguised as a young man.
*Single: LOVE CLOVER
*artist: [[Miho Nakayama]]


'''kokoro ni amega'''
[[Image:Audrey - Philip Richard Morris.jpg|thumb|left|''Audrey'' by [[Philip Richard Morris]]]]
*Single: kokoro ni amega
Rosalind, now disguised as [[Ganymede (mythology)|Ganymede]] ("[[Jupiter (mythology)|Jove]]'s own page"), and Celia, now disguised as Aliena ([[Latin language|Latin]] for "stranger"), arrive in the [[Arcadia (paradise)|Arcadian]] [[Forest of Arden]], where the [[exile]]d Duke now lives with some supporters, including "the [[melancholy]] Jaques," who is introduced to us weeping over the slaughter of a [[deer]]. "Ganymede" and "Aliena" do not immediately encounter the Duke and his companions, as they meet up with Corin, an impoverished [[tenant]], and offer to buy his master's rude cottage.
*artist: Hideki Ohtoku


'''Fairyland'''
Orlando and his servant Adam (a role possibly played by Shakespeare himself, though this story may be apocryphal),<ref>Dolan, Frances E. "Introduction" in Shakespeare, ''As You Like It''. New York: Penguin Books, 2000.</ref> meanwhile, find the Duke and his men and are soon living with them and posting simplistic [[love poem]]s for Rosalind on the [[tree]]s. Rosalind, also in love with Orlando, meets him as Ganymede and pretends to counsel him to cure him of being in love. Ganymede says he will take Rosalind's place and he and Orlando can act out their relationship.
*Single: Fairyland
*artist: [[Yuki Koyanagi]]
(under the pseudonym "L. Soul")


'''Rhythym Rules'''
Meanwhile, the shepherdess Phebe, with whom Silvius is in love, has fallen in love with Ganymede (actually Rosalind), though "Ganymede" continually shows that "he" is not interested in Phebe. The cynical Touchstone has also made an amorous advance on the dull-witted goat-herd girl Audrey, and attempts to [[marriage|marry]] her before his plans are thwarted by the intrusive Jaques.
*Single: Rhythym Rules
*artist: [[Ryoko Shinohara]]
(composed the music under the pseudonym "L. Soul")


'''"Drama" and "Time Limit"'''
Finally, Silvius, Phebe, Ganymede, and Orlando are brought together in an argument with each other over who will get whom. Ganymede says he will solve the problem, having Orlando promise to marry Rosalind, and Phebe promise to marry Silvius if she cannot marry Ganymede. The next day, Ganymede reveals himself to be Rosalind, and since Phebe has found her love to be false, she ends up with Silvius.
*Album: Distance
*artist: [[Hikaru Utada]]
(composed the music with Utada Hikaru under the name "Kubo Takuro". "Time Limit" was also released as a single)


'''Sweet Season'''
Orlando sees Oliver in the [[forest]] and rescues him from a [[lioness]], causing Oliver to repent for mistreating Orlando. Oliver meets Aliena (Celia's false identity) and falls in love with her, and they agree to marry. Orlando and Rosalind, Oliver and Celia, Silvius and Phebe, and Touchstone and Audrey all are married in the final [[scene (fiction)|scene]], after which they discover that Frederick has also repented his faults, deciding to restore his legitimate brother to the [[dukedom]] and adopt a religious life. Jaques, ever melancholy, declines their invitation to stay in the forest with them and also decides to adopt a religious life.
*single: Sweet Season
*artist: SONO
(composed the music under the pseudonym "L.Soul")


'''Engaged'''
==Critical response==
*Album: Hana
[[Image:Rosalind - Robert Walker Macbeth.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Rosalind'' by [[Robert Walker Macbeth]]]]
*artist: [[Tak Matsumoto]]
Scholars have long disagreed about the merits of the play. Critics from [[Samuel Johnson]] to [[George Bernard Shaw]] have complained that ''As You Like It'' is lacking in the high artistry of which Shakespeare was capable. Shaw liked to think that Shakespeare wrote the play as a mere [[wikt:crowdpleaser|crowdpleaser]], and signalled his own middling opinion of the work by calling it ''As '''You''' Like It'' &mdash; as if the playwright did not agree. [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy]] objected to the [[immoral]]ity of the characters, and Touchstone's constant clowning. Other critics have found great literary value in the work. [[Harold Bloom]] has written that Rosalind is among Shakespeare's greatest and most fully realized female characters. Despite critical disputes, the play remains one of Shakespeare's most frequently performed comedies.
(music by Takuro and Tak Matsumoto)


'''灼熱'''
The elaborate gender reversals in the story are of particular interest to modern critics interested in [[gender studies]]. Through four acts of the play, Rosalind — who in Shakespeare's day would have been played by a boy — finds it necessary to disguise herself as a boy, whereupon the rustic Phebe (also played by a boy), becomes infatuated with this "[[Ganymede]]," a name with [[homoerotic]] overtones. In fact, the epilogue, spoken by Rosalind to the audience, states rather explicitly that she (or at least the actor playing her) is not a woman.
*Single: Re-lax
{{clear}}
*artist: Stealth
(music)


'''LOVEBITE'''
==Themes==
Album: Style
===Religious Allegory===
*artist: [[Namie Amuro]]


'''Fuyu no etorage'''
University of Wisconsin professor Richard Knowles, the editor of the 1977 New Variorum edition of this play, described in his famous article "Myth and Type in As You Like It" <ref>ELH , volume 33, March (1966) pp 1-22</ref> how the play contains mythological references in particular to Eden, to [[Hercules]] and to [[Christ]]. However, he was unable to determine any sustained allegorical meaning and concluded therefore that it could not be an allegorical play. Other scholars, however, have argued that the play indeed contains a consistent allegorical meaning and that this can be translated into production.
Album: Singer for Singer
*artist: [[MISIA]]
(theme song for the movie [[Umineko]], with backing vocals by [[TERU]])


'''Ruten'''
===Language===
*Album: Romantic Energy
Act II, Scene 7, features [[All the world's a stage|one of Shakespeare's most famous monologues]], which states:
*artist: [[Joshijunigakubo]] ([[Twelve Girls Band]])


'''Kiss from a Rose'''
:"All the world's a stage
*Album: Sing and Roses
:And all the men and women merely players;
*artist: [[Misato Watanabe]]
:They have their exits and their entrances,
(music)
:And one man in his time plays many parts,
:His acts being seven ages."


'''"Hitoiro" and "Eyes for the Moon"'''
This famous [[monologue]] is spoken by Jaques.
Single: Hitoiro
*artist: Nana starring [[Mika Nakashima]]
("Hitoiro" is theme song for the movie [[Nana 2]] and "Eyes for the Moon" is in the movie's sound track).


'''Say Something'''
''As You Like It'' also features much humorous and clever wordplay (e.g. Jaques's attribution of "[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Transwiki:Ducdame ducdame]"), occasioned by chance encounters in the forest, and several entangled love affairs, all in a serene pastoral setting which makes it often especially effective staged outdoors in a park or similar site.
*Album: In the Mood
*artist: [[Kyosuke Himuro]]
(lyrics)


'''Go ahead!!!'''
===Pastoral mode===
*Single: Go Ahead!!!
The theme of [[pastoral]] comedy is love in all its guises in a rustic setting, the genuine love embodied by Rosalind contrasted with the sentimentalized affectations of Orlando, and the improbable happenings that set the urban courtiers wandering to find exile, solace or freedom in a woodland setting are no more unrealistic than the string of chance encounters in the [[forest]], provoking witty banter, which require no subtleties of plotting and character development. The main action of the first act is no more than a wrestling match, and the action throughout is often interrupted by a song. At the end, [[Hymenaios|Hymen]] himself arrives to bless the wedding festivities.
*artist: Mitsuhiro Oikawa
(music)


===Special features===
<blockquote>
William Shakespeare’s play ''As You Like It'' clearly falls into the Pastoral Romance genre; but Shakespeare does not merely use the genre, he develops it. Shakespeare also used the Pastoral genre in ''As You Like It'' to ‘cast a critical eye on social practices that produce injustice and unhappiness, and to make fun of anti-social, foolish and self-destructive behaviour’, most obviously through the theme of love, culminating in a rejection of the notion of the traditional [[Petrarch]]an lovers.<ref>
{{cite web
|url=http://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/creativedevelopmentprogramme/productions/asyoulikeit/comedy.shtml
|title=As You Like It: Pastoral Comedy, The Roots and History of Pastoral Romance
|accessmonthday=August 10
|accessyear=2008
|author=Sarah Clough
}}
</ref>
</blockquote>


'''Single: Bridge over troubled water'''
The stock characters in conventional situations were familiar material for Shakespeare and his audience; it is the light [[repartee]] and the breadth of the subjects that provide texts for wit that put a fresh stamp on the proceedings. At the centre the [[optimism]] of Rosalind is contrasted with the [[misogyny|misogynistic]] melancholy of Jaques. Shakespeare would take up some of the themes more seriously later: the usurper Duke and the Duke in exile provide themes for ''[[Measure for Measure]]'' and ''[[The Tempest (play)|The Tempest]]''.
*artist: Junko
*song: Together (guitar)


'''Album: Poetic Evolution'''
==Adaptations and cultural references==
*artist: Yukinojo Mori
===Music===
*song: Ango (with [[HISASHI]] and [[TERU]])
In the song ''[[Limelight (song)|Limelight]]'' by [[Rush (band)|Rush]], released in 1981, [[Geddy Lee]] says, "all the world's indeed a stage, and we are merely players," which also references one of their live albums ''[[All the World's a Stage (album)|All the World's a Stage]]''.{{Fact|date=June 2008}}


'''single: [[Zero Landmine|ZERO LANDMINE]]
===Radio===
*artist: [[N.M.L.(NO MORE LANDMINE)]]
According to the history of [[radio station]] [[KCMP|WCAL]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Minnesota]], ''As You Like It'' may have been the first play ever broadcast. It went over the air in 1922.
*música: [[Zero Landmine|ZERO LANDMINE]] (guitar)


'''Album: Kuzu Album'''
===Film===
*artist: Kuzu
:''See also [[Shakespeare on screen#As You Like It|As You Like It, on screen]].''
*song: ai nante (with [[TERU]])


'''Album: In the Mood'''
''[[As You Like It (1936 film)|As You Like It]]'' was [[Laurence Olivier]]'s first Shakespeare film, though he only acted in it, rather than producing and directing. Made in the [[UK]] and released in 1936, the film also starred director [[Paul Czinner]]'s wife [[Elizabeth Bergner]], who played Rosalind with a thick [[German language|German]] accent. Although it is much less "Hollywoody" than the 1930s versions of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and ''Romeo and Juliet'', and although its cast was made up entirely of Shakespearean actors, it was not considered a success by either Olivier or the critics.
*artist: [[Kyosuke Himuro]]
* song: Say Something (with [[GLAY]])


===Books===
[[Helen Mirren]] starred as Rosalind in the [[BBC_Television_Shakespeare#As_You_Like_It|1978 BBC version]] of ''As You Like It'', directed by Basil Coleman.<ref>''As You Like It'' (1978) at the Internet Movie Database, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077180/</ref>


*'''Along the Line''': photobook made in Africa.
In 1992, Christine Edzard made another film adaptation of the play. It features [[James Fox]], Cyril Cusack, Andrew Tiernan, Griff Rhys Jones and Ewen Bremner. The action is transposed to a modern and bleak urban world.
*'''Kyoukai''' (2003): autobiography.

*'''Hokkaido e''' (July 2008) :a 2007 series of articles written by Takuro and originally published by Asahi Newspaper.
A [[As You Like It (2006 film)|19th Century Japan version]] of ''As You Like It'' was released in 2006, directed by [[Kenneth Branagh]]. It stars [[Bryce Dallas Howard]], [[David Oyelowo]], [[Romola Garai]], [[Alfred Molina]], [[Kevin Kline]], and [[Brian Blessed]]. Although it was actually made for cinemas, it was released to theatres only in Europe, and had its U.S. premiere on [[HBO]] in 2007.

===Musical Theatre===

David Aquisito and Sammy Buck adapted this play into an 80's themed musical entitled "Like You Like It."

===Stage===

[[Gwyneth Paltrow]] and [[Katherine Moennig]] both appeared in a stage version of ''As You Like It'' in the [[Williamstown Theatre Festival]] in [[1999]]<ref>[http://www.observer.com/node/43472 Androgynous Actress Kate Moennig Is 'Alt.Gwyn,' Paltrow's Cousin]</ref>.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Deverell.JPG|[[Walter Deverell]], ''The Mock Marriage of Orlando and Rosalind'', 1853
Image:Émile Bayard - As you like it.jpg|Illustration for Shakespeare's ''As You Like It'' by [[Émile Bayard]] (1837-1891). "Rosalind gives Orlando a chain."
Image:Rosalind and Celia by Hugh Thomson 1909.jpg|Rosalind and Celia by [[Hugh Thomson]]
</gallery>

==References==
<references/>


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.glay.co.jp/ HAPPY SWING SPACE SITE] - Official website {{ja icon}}
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*[http://glay.oboroduki.com/glay2.htm]
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*[http://www.shakespeare-literature.com/As_You_Like_It/ As You Like It] - searchable e-text
*[http://william-shakespeare.classic-literature.co.uk/as-you-like-it/ As You Like it] - HTML version of this title.
*[http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2244 As You Like it] - plain vanilla text from [[Project Gutenberg]]
*[http://www.maximumedge.com/shakespeare/asyoulikeit.htm MaximumEdge.com Shakespeare: As You Like it] - scene-indexed, searchable version of the play
*[http://humanscience.wikia.com/wiki/As_You_Like_It "Character of Life" in As You Like it] on Humanscience wikia
*[http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/eng366/lectures/Ayl.htm Ian Johnston, "Variations on a Theme of Love: An Introduction to As You Like It"] an introduction to the play and to pastoral comedy as a genre
*[http://webenglishteacher.com/ayli.html Lesson plans for As You Like It] at Web English Teacher



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Takuro

Takuro (久保　琢郎, Kubo Takuro; born May 26, 1971 in Hakodate, Hokkaidō) is one of the guitarists and leader of the popular Japanese rock band GLAY. He is the main composer and lyricist of GLAY's songs. As a composer and a musician, Takuro has worked with different artists. He's also released solo works.

Takuro and his older sister were raised by a single mother, as she never re-married after his father's death, when Takuro was three years old. He considers his mother an early influence in his musical career, as he was strongly impressed by her singing. [1] [2]

When he was a child, his mother used to sing while crying. He didn't know what was wrong with her but he felt what she felt as she sang, and he listened to her. The tone of singing becomes stronger as one sings. He was impressed by how his mother sang. He felt the power of singing. Before he started thinking about her situation, he listened to her singing. She started softly but became stronger and he felt that the power of singing encourages people. He has believed in that power ever since

— GLAY Kiseki to Eikou no Mukouni (NHK Television's 1999 Documentary on Glay)

Later on, during his adolescence, he would be influenced by John Lennon, and would develop a great interest in writing lyrics. [3] His lyrics are often based on his feelings about different situations in his life, as well as events in the world.[4]

In 2003 Takuro released "Kyoukai", an auto-biographical book, in which he writes about his personal life and his musical work. Among its topics are his childhood in Hakodate and a woman who he loved for ten years and who turned him down when he proposed marriage to her.

Takuro is married to Japanese model Seri Iwahori as of May 2004. They have one son, born in October 2005 and a daughter, born in October 2007. They own a house in Los Angeles, California.


List of Solo Works

Solo Albums

Album: Instrumental Collection

  • artist: TAKURO
  • release date: September 19th, 1998
  • Tracks:
    • HOWEVER
    • SOUL LOVE
    • Yes, Summerdays
    • Ikiteku Tsuyosa
    • Miyako Wasure
    • a Boy~Zutto Wasurenai~
    • Kuchibiru
    • Manatsuno Tobira
    • Zutto Futari de...
    • Glorious
    • Yuuwaku
    • BELOVED

Album: FLOW of SOUL vol 1. Takuro meets Vanessa Mae

  • artists: Takuro and Vanessa Mae
  • release date : april 24th, 2002
  • tracks:
    • Way of Difference
    • Francis Elena　featuring Vanessa Mae　
    • Zutto Futtari de・・
    • Glorious
    • a Boy ～zutto wasurenai～
    • Kanojo no "Modern・・・"
    • HOWEVER
    • I'm in Love
    • Yuuwaku
    • Biribiri crashman
    • Sen no naifu ga mune wo sasu
    • Pure Soul

Songwriting for other artists

"Summer Shakes" and "I believe you"

  • Single: Summer Shakes
  • artist:Miju

"Mitsumeteitai" and "Moon~ watashi he"

  • Single: Mitsumeteitai
  • Artist:ROMI

"Couples" and "Love Is Always Trouble"

  • Single: Couples
  • artist: Miju

"LOVE CLOVER" and "Empty Pocket"

kokoro ni amega

  • Single: kokoro ni amega
  • artist: Hideki Ohtoku

Fairyland

(under the pseudonym "L. Soul")

Rhythym Rules

(composed the music under the pseudonym "L. Soul")

"Drama" and "Time Limit"

(composed the music with Utada Hikaru under the name "Kubo Takuro". "Time Limit" was also released as a single)

Sweet Season

  • single: Sweet Season
  • artist: SONO

(composed the music under the pseudonym "L.Soul")

Engaged

(music by Takuro and Tak Matsumoto)

灼熱

  • Single: Re-lax
  • artist: Stealth

(music)

LOVEBITE Album: Style

Fuyu no etorage Album: Singer for Singer

(theme song for the movie Umineko, with backing vocals by TERU)

Ruten

Kiss from a Rose

(music)

"Hitoiro" and "Eyes for the Moon" Single: Hitoiro

("Hitoiro" is theme song for the movie Nana 2 and "Eyes for the Moon" is in the movie's sound track).

Say Something

(lyrics)

Go ahead!!!

  • Single: Go Ahead!!!
  • artist: Mitsuhiro Oikawa

(music)

Special features

Single: Bridge over troubled water

  • artist: Junko
  • song: Together (guitar)

Album: Poetic Evolution

  • artist: Yukinojo Mori
  • song: Ango (with HISASHI and TERU)

single: ZERO LANDMINE

Album: Kuzu Album

  • artist: Kuzu
  • song: ai nante (with TERU)

Album: In the Mood

Books

  • Along the Line: photobook made in Africa.
  • Kyoukai (2003): autobiography.
  • Hokkaido e (July 2008) :a 2007 series of articles written by Takuro and originally published by Asahi Newspaper.

External links

  1. ^ "Takuro's 1996 Mother Rock Magazine Inteview". Retrieved 2008-09-19.
  2. ^ "NHK TV Documentary "GLAY Kiseki to Eikou no Mukouni"=2008-10-05".
  3. ^ "Takuro's 1998 Groovy Magazine Inteview". Retrieved 2008-10-05.
  4. ^ "Takuro's 1996 Mother Rock Magazine Inteview". Retrieved 2008-09-19.
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