So many great events on one day!

Happy birthday to Mira Anju! 安寿ミラさんお誕生日おめでとうございます! Seen here with Julia McKenzie in 1999.

BST (British Summer Time) starts today! The extra hour of light in the evening makes all the difference to me.

Happy Mother’s Day (here in the UK)!

Eid Mubarak to Muslims, especially those who were fasting!

And just to make it even better the weather has turned warm and sunny.

#MiraAnju #安寿ミラ #BST #ClocksGoForward #MothersDay #EidMubarak #sunshine #JuliaMcKenzie #Sun30Mar #light #Takarazuka #宝塚 #花組 #birthday #宝塚OG #BritishSummerTime

For anyone who loves the Japanese actor/dancer/choreographer/singer Mira Anju (安寿ミラさん) as I do...

She now has an Instagram account: @miraanju.official

Well, her official fan club has set up one on her behalf.

This is Mira Anju's first ever foray into the world of social media!

Sadly, I can't imagine she'll ever turn up on Mastodon.

https://www.instagram.com/miraanju.official/?g=5

#MiraAnju #安寿ミラ #Takarazuka #宝塚 #宝塚歌劇団 #Japan #theatre #instagram #dance #choreography #chanson #振り付け #シャンソン #ヤンさん #ダンス

And here are some photos of one of the sections of The Greeks that features Mira Anju as Helen of Troy.

(Disc 3 of the DVD set)

#MiraAnju #安寿ミラ #TheGreeks #グリ一クス #theatre #japanesetheatre #YukioNinagawa #蜷川幸雄 #greektragedy #HelenOfTroy #japan #日本

Watching Yukio Ninagawa’s 8 hour theatre marathon ‘The Greeks’ (グリ一クス). It’s a version of John Barton’s even longer classical Greek play sequence.

It stars Rei Asami (Andromache), Kayoko Shiraishi (Clytemnestra) and Misako Watanabe (Hecuba) amongst others. My beloved Mira Anju plays Helen of Troy!

Lots of deaths! They really must have got through a helluva lot of fake blood!

Some great performances.

Random photos below:

#MiraAnju #安寿ミラ #蜷川幸雄 #YukioNinagawa #麻実れい #白石加代子 #渡辺美佐子 #theatre

For anyone who loves the Japanese dancer / choreographer/ actor / director / chanson singer Mira Anju, this is the best website there is:

http://www8.plala.or.jp/wood-blk/satindoll.html

It's fantastic!

Not only does it have reviews of most of her stage appearances, it also has lists and descriptions of her appearances on TV and in magazines.

Previously, all I could do was look for magazines with her on the front cover.

#MiraAnju #安寿ミラ #Takarazuka #宝塚 #Japan #日本 #theatre #劇場 #dance #musicals #choreography

I finally got hold of a VHS-to-DVD recorder and converted the Mira Anju VHS tapes I've bought.

I'd never used one of these machines before so left it on the 'LP' recording quality pre-set.

I'm viewing the DVDs on a 55'' TV, using zoom to get rid of the tracking lines from the VHS; so the visual quality is quite poor.

Is it worth re-doing the tapes using the 'SP' recording option? Would it really make that much difference?

#VHS #DVD #VHStoDVD #MiraAnju #安寿ミラ

OK, so I know everyone else has surely been aware of this for years but Google Lens is incredible!

I can hold my phone over a book in Japanese and read it as though it were written in (slightly mangled) English.

I am now half way through a book (すがおのえんぜる) by Mira Anju (from her Takarazuka days) that I’d previously only managed the first chapter of (and even that was a huge struggle).

#GoogleLens #Japanese #日本語 #MiraAnju #Takarazuka #安寿ミラ #宝塚

A whole YouTube channel devoted to Mira Anju / 安寿ミラさん!

I feel like I’ve died and gone to heaven!

https://youtube.com/@bestof_anju?si=VKbgZlBY4hGDA866

#MiraAnju #安寿ミラ #Takarazuka #宝塚 #theatre #dance #musical #Japan #花組

Happy birthday, Mira Anju!

安寿ミラさん、お誕生日おめでとうございます！

The one… the only… the greatest!

I love this photo. It’s from the 90s. The full image was in the theatre programme I bought when Takarazuka came to London in 1994.

#安寿ミラ #宝塚 #日本🇯🇵 #MiraAnju #Takarazuka #Japan #theatre #LondonColiseum #otokoyaku #birthday #花組

How happy am I!

Discovered yesterday that there are loads of Mira Anju (#安寿ミラ) related posts on Tumblr.

https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/anju%20mira

Also lots about Miki Maya (#真矢ミキ) and Wataru Kozuki (#湖月わたる).

#宝塚歌劇団 #宝塚 #真矢みき#日本