Kudo and I were expected at Joni's place in Shibuya at 8:00. When we got to Tamachi station, I realized I'd lost another Suica subway pass. That was two in one day, my forty-dollar April Fool's joke on myself. Kudo noted that he'd seen such a pass on the sidewalk in front of the Butoh House, but hadn't connected it with me. We decided to hoof it back there, a fifteen minute walk, though neither of us really expected it to still be there. The foot traffic up that street was pretty intense, and anything even slightly out of place would be cleaned up. Sure enough, it wasn't there.
I took a couple more photos and we set off back to the station.
A Sakura Grows in Tamachi
A Shiba Inu on wheels!
Queen of Sheeba Inu in high heels!
Paris at night.
On the way, we stopped at a noodle shop and had supper. We made it to Joni's on time. He greeted us with Bogie, the Tasmanian Ridgeback, who had performed with Kudo and me at the shrine. Tasmanian Ridgebacks are lion hunters. But Bogie is also a butoh hunter. Joni turned the outside lights on for the illuminated dog-related quotations all over the facade. Joseph Kosuth, the American artist, collected the quotations and designed the entire place in the shape of a classical dog house in homage to Francis Bacon. Francis Bacon was the Irish Wolfhound as legendary as Joni himself.
Joni's wedding picture from Konno Hachimangu. The woman in the sheep outfit on the right is a friend of Joni's and can be seen riding around Tokyo on her motorcycle thus arrayed. On Joni's right is his husband, Kafka, from Senegal. The man in the kilt is a Scottish artist living in Tokyo. The Orissi dancer is Sachiko. Kudo is in the foreground twitching butohnically on the floor.
Joni made a big fire in his Swedish woodburning stove.
More quotes inside. The cases and glass were manufactured in Italy.
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