tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17189176249980229122024-02-06T18:08:53.940-08:00Tokyo BirdmachineUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-29266295906874794802015-04-08T17:23:00.002-07:002015-04-09T17:52:52.038-07:00Day 25, Thursday, April 9 – Shinjuku "Nagashi"<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I met Kudo in Shinjuku at 9pm and went over to Golden Gai, an area </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of back alleys lined with bars – tiny bars – bar after bar after bar! We </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hit about 15 places where I performed for 5 minutes on the Birdmachine and </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then left. About two hours in total. The responses varied, mostly enthusiastic, but I actually </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">only hit my peak once. Wow, what a process... and what a deeply </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Japanese form of social, creative outreach. It's called Nagashi – "flow" – and used to be quite popular. Hijikata, the father of Butoh, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">got his start this way in the 50s, and so did Kudo in the 90s. At one place, a guy gave me 1000 </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yen! Of course, I politely protested... and then demurred. Sweet. I hadn't expected </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that. Unfortunately, I have no video of any of this, just photos of the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">locales and some people, but that's ok. It's a project, like all the other projects here, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to be continued on the next jaunt.</span><br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-64962821176939787182015-04-08T17:08:00.004-07:002015-04-22T08:27:15.621-07:00Day 25, Thursday, April 9 – Noko's Edo House in Izu<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here, in the land of the rising Birdmachine, it's my last morning in Tokyo.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Up and atom. Packing and last minute scurrying. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kudo will help me get my stuff to the airport. Big help. Yesterday, despite the rain and cold, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was a perfect way of rounding out the three weeks. After a day trip to the Izu Peninsula </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(four hour round trip with Chris and Mika) and a visit to Noko's 200 year old Edo house with a thick bamboo </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">forest, I met Kudo in Shinjuku at 9pm and went on a "nagashi" spree through <a href="http://tokyobirdmachine.blogspot.com/2015/04/blog-post_8.html" target="_blank">Golden Gai</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<br />Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-20634109760068950882015-04-06T20:55:00.000-07:002015-04-09T07:01:21.951-07:00An Interlude from Kurasic Park<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-4406620306687318552015-04-06T20:24:00.000-07:002015-04-09T07:09:14.845-07:00Day 19, Saturday, April 4 – Tokyo Art Museum (Tadao Ando)<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've known Christopher Blasdel, one of a small handful of expatriate shakuhachi players in and around Tokyo, for about fifteen years. I met him when Mika Kimula, his wife, was a Fulbright Scholar at Chatham University in 1999 and Chris came over with an Aomori folk troupe and performed in the chapel. His shakuhachi playing bowled me over and set off a chain reaction of two back-to-back Japan visits in 2000 and 2001. This time around, he invited me and Mika, as well as another shakuhachi player to join him for an "encore" piece at the close of his program. The Ando museum in Sangawa is perfect concrete minimalism. The narrow space we performed in had at least a ten meter ceiling with a concrete stairway going straight up the middle in two reversing sections. I picked my perch at the very top.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-30258601460708593342015-04-04T21:44:00.002-07:002015-04-09T07:10:34.086-07:00Day 18, Friday, April 3 – Chokoku no Mori, Hakone<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taeko overcame a pulled tooth enough to accompany videographer and photographer, Toshiharu Sasak, Alissa the dancer, and <a href="http://www.matsumotoakinori.com/Site/Blank_9.html" target="_blank">Akinori Matsumoto</a>, the sculptor whose <a href="http://www.hakone-oam.or.jp/specials/2015/soundsceneshakone/" target="_blank">sound installation</a> we were going to see in Hakone, at the <a href="http://www.hakone-oam.or.jp/" target="_blank">Hakone Open Air Museum</a> or Chokuku no Mori (Sculpture Forest). I had played flute in an installation of his in Yokohama nine years ago and was glad to at least see his new show, if not play in it. Taeko said that the museum was pretty strict about anything that might interrupt museum visitors, but I brought a couple of flutes along just in case. As it turned out, they gave me the go-ahead right at closing time and I got in about a half hour of recording time. Lovely. The best way to explore an installation like this. Perhaps a seed has been planted for future events such as this.</span><br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-77182105266026202882015-04-04T18:31:00.002-07:002015-04-05T20:47:45.129-07:00Day 17, Thursday, April 2 – When Joni Calls...<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On Thursday, Joni texted me: "Can you meet me at Hachiko, the dog statue at 10am this morning for another unique experience?" When Joni calls.... There were two other Americans waiting for Joni near the famous dog – Melba and Hugh Levick from Los Angeles, Paris, and somewhere in Spain. Hugh is a modern classical composer and Melba does research for Rizzoli art books. They had contacted Joni via a mutual friend who recommended him as the ultimate tour guide. That would be an understatement.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Joni whipped his Mercedes deftly through dense traffic. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I guessed we were going out for breakfast at a special place. Where to and under what circumstances was still shrouded in mystery and hardly clarified by subsequent texts that morning inquiring about my culinary predilections. I had responded with "fish-eating vegetarian, but little meat," to which he responded with: "No meat? We'll have to change the gender of the person being used as a table." Nothing like being on the set of Peter Greenaway movie! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We arrived, at last, in some remote section of Meguro at the front of a private house turned into an upscale restaurant by designer Nuri Wasara. Wasara designed the pottery, the lacquerware, the furniture, the dinnerware, the interior and exterior renovation and gardens, the white clothing of the service staff and cooks, and the culinary presentation down to the micro-detail. Apparently, Nuri Wasara owns three such domestic restaurants throughout Tokyo. This one was a 50s fusion of Frank Lloyd Wright and traditional Japanese, a nice architectural circle of influences.</span><br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-72558686615439021392015-04-03T18:52:00.003-07:002015-04-05T20:48:42.021-07:00Day 16, Wednesday, April 1 – The Dog House<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">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. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I took a couple more photos and we set off back to the station. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">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.</span><br />
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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.</span><br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-55123018175185226772015-04-03T14:58:00.004-07:002015-04-05T20:49:39.968-07:00Day 16, Wednesday, April 1 – The Butoh House<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keisuke Oka has been working on his concrete masterpiece for fifteen years. It's location between two condominium units near Tachi JR Station, is as unlikely as its haphazard eruption of forms, textures, and surface patterns. His plan from the start was to have no plan. He remains true to that dictum with stunning results. Kudo and I plan to do a performance here in the future.</span><br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-33374981385723701682015-04-03T14:25:00.003-07:002015-04-05T20:50:06.514-07:00Day 15, Tuesday, March 31 – Breakfast at Bruce & Tomoko's<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To most foreigners, natto (viscously fermented beans) is yikes, no way Jose. The way Bruce prepares it, though, get ready for a seriously delicious, ultra healthy source of ancient power protein. Raw onions, tabasco, and I forget what else. Totemo oishii... I'm a convert now. No wonder Japan has more centenarians than any other country. It's all about natto, miso, and sakana!</span><br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-84143737792361164222015-04-02T03:38:00.000-07:002015-04-05T20:50:34.752-07:00Day 15, Tuesday, March 31 – Mitsuike Park<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This White-Browed Laughing Thrush wasn't even in our Japan Bird Guide. But he was definitely speaking straight at us. Whether it was laughter or not, however, is seriously debatable! It came across more like: "Mayday Mayday, we've got a situation. Two aliens intent on communication with our avian realm. Mayday Mayday...!" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Three hours later – time for breakfast!</span><br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-74957407523686563752015-04-01T09:45:00.003-07:002015-04-05T20:50:58.210-07:00Day 15, Tuesday, March 31 – Yokohama<span style="font-family: Verdana; text-align: justify;">On my next trip here, I want to do rubbings of
the utility covers. This one's a beauty. My parents arrived in Yokohama on
the Yamato Maru in April 1941, almost 74 years ago to the day. They had planned
to stay just long enough for my brother to be born and then continue on to
northern China to catch the Trans Siberian Railway into Europe. The Atlantic
blockade had prevented the normal route from America. But when Pearl Harbor
happened at the end of '41, they were stranded for the duration of the war. My
three siblings were born in Kobe. I came along in 1950 in Germany. Yokohama is
a name I heard throughout my childhood. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"> </span><br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-33389434811216946672015-03-31T22:40:00.000-07:002015-04-05T20:51:22.226-07:00Day 15, Tuesday, March 31 – At the Shakuhachi Shop<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Spending time with Bruce Huebner, expatriate shakuhachi player and long-term resident of Japan, has been a real delight. I'd met him briefly in Boulder, Colorado at the World Shakuhachi Festival in 2000. But this time around, connecting </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was the result of Ralph giving me a shakuhachi to return to him. The day after I arrived, he came up to Nakano Sakaue to retrieve it and we got a bit more acquainted. I showed him the Birdmachine and bass flute. Turns out Bruce is an avid birder and naturalist with years of experience hiking in the Sierras and other places. He invited me to come down to Yokohama and do some birding and playing in the urban wilderness of a large park in his neighborhood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But first things first -- a visit with Bruce to a well-know shakuhachi shop near Komae Station towards the west side of Tokyo, not far from Christopher. Bruce needed to retrieve an instrument which needed to be re-bored and lacquered. We'd been there for about 20 min when someone walked in who looked vaguely familiar. Bruce whispered, "OMG, it's Keisuke Zenyoji, one the best players in Japan. You might have seen him in Boulder at the World Shakuhachi Festival. He was there." Yes, that was it. I remembered a man with a honking glorious sound and some talk about how some players have a propensity for powerful honking, i.e., making the loudest, strongest sound possible as a show of shakuhachi manhood. Sure enough, Zenyojisan began trying out instruments in the showcase, one after another, popping out some impressively gutsy sounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The shakuhachi makers were very friendly. One of them had a Rudall Carte Okuraulo with a silver shakuhachi head joint. Unfortunately, it wasn't in the shop, but he did have a concert flute outfitted in the same way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shakuhachi makers need good quality madake bamboo.</span></div>
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-59583627405901859102015-03-31T16:32:00.000-07:002015-04-06T20:18:56.747-07:00Day 14, Monday, March 30 – Konno Hachimangu Photos<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's part of my solo when Kudo left the stage for a costume and makeup change. Joni has the Tasmanian Ridgeback, a natural born lion killer, securely leashed in hand and I'm about to put my little Yamaha guitar amp into overdrive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Joni emailed these photos of the Konno Hachimangu performance the other day. They're pretty good, and may have to do for now, since the video from Yuki's antiquated JVC needs to be reformatted to a codec iMovie can read. For now the sound coming out of that remarkable Yamaha amp slung around my shoulder shall remain mute in the face of Kudo's visual splendor. In the meantime, definitely need a hat, a haircut, and a shave... in no particular order! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After lugging the Birdmachine around kingdom come yesterday, I took a breather today and rebuilt the instrument with an eye towards more portability and ease of assembly. What would have taken an hour in my shop at home, took all afternoon here. First of all, I needed rudimentary tools. That sent me to the hardware department of Tokyu Hands in Shinjuku. I bought wood, a Japanese razor saw, tubing, screws, pipe clamps, sliding clamps, micro c-clamps, and god knows what else. It wasn't difficult to spend a hundred dollars. On the way back, I encountered a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiba_Inu" target="_blank">Shiba Inu</a>, the foxiest dog on the planet. Will definitely look into finding a breeder in New England. I also stopped at a flea market near Nakano-Sakaue Station and bought an old SONY </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cassette tape recorder (great for recording and slowing down bird song on the fly circa twenty years ago), and some 200 year old coins from the Edo period. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the evening, I met Kudosan and his girlfriend at Kudanshita for a stroll around the Emperor's moat. The cherry blossoms were exploding from the sudden heat of the past few days. I've read about and seen photos of sakura for many years, but seeing them live and taking in the intensity of the national celebration, is something very special.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unlike most parks, Motomachi is really tiny (250' x 250') and relatively quiet, save for three parties going on around the periphery. I set up the Birdmachine on a small concrete slab at the center of the upper section. Note the extension made from two bamboo spatulas and the GoPro on top!</span><br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-14087859770076587142015-03-27T21:32:00.001-07:002015-04-05T20:55:24.308-07:00Day 11, Friday, March 27<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yesterday was the day to rebuild the Birdmachine for portability. It's not perfect, but serviceable and took me the whole day. In the evening went over to Sachiko and Jonathan's. Sachiko is an Orissi dancer. They also invited an American scientist named Dan Sythe who develops high end geiger counters. When he got there, a bit after me, he said "You look familiar." Turned out he'd been watching David Rothenberg's BBC documentary in which I appear a la Birdmachine. Furthermore, David is on Dan's board of trustees for his geiger counter company. Small world. Here's Dan getting "sounded" with Sachiko's magical bowl. And check out my duet with Sachiko after dinner. It's on you tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgcv2RG1eQs&sns=em</span><br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-21460142848105986862015-03-27T09:26:00.003-07:002015-04-05T21:03:19.835-07:00Day 10, Thursday, March 26 – Meiji Jingu<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visited <a href="http://www.meijijingu.or.jp/english/" target="_blank">Meiji Jingu</a> yesterday with Yuki and Colors. Meiji Jingu boasts the largest Shinto gate in Japan. Once through the gates, Tokyo vanishes except for the helicopters. They, like the crows, are ubiquitous. Birds of a feather....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cherry blossoms in Shinjuku Gyoen are bursting out! This is my first time here in early Spring. What a treat!</span><br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-40896178344772803342015-03-23T19:38:00.000-07:002015-04-05T20:56:19.463-07:00Day 8, Tuesday, March 24 – Tokyo University<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">R left for Bali yesterday morning. He'll be back on April 4. Home alone until next Monday when CL flies in from Vancouver. I spent much of the afternoon sleeping and blogging. The jet lag comes in waves of opportunity during my schedule down times. Before I knew it, it was 6PM and I had to be at Tokyo University at 6:30. Kudo had invited me to a dance theater piece called "Bach/black and white" starring the legendary saxophonist and composer, Yasuaki Shimizu; the renown dancer, Setsuko Yamada; the beloved philosophy professor, Yasuo Kobayashi, and Kudo. I hightailed to the subway and got to the university in under twenty-five minutes. Even before the train arrived at the university, I sensed a change of scene and suddenly felt very much at home. I was among students and professors – universal types universally recognizable. But finding campus building #18 was a different matter. No one seemed to know where it was. Finally, someone did and I was standing right in front of it!
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The performance had already started when I opened the door of the large black box theater. I was ushered to a seat on the floor of the performance space. It wasn't exactly comfortable, but the vantage point was perfect for sneaking a couple of still shots and a video. Setsuko Yamada did some hybrid of butoh and modern dance, all spidery and angular in her movement.</span></div>
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-4052566395258740142015-03-23T01:44:00.002-07:002015-04-05T20:56:56.188-07:00Day 7, Sunday, March 22 – Konno Hachimangu PerformanceI'm writing this the day after the performance at Konno Hachimangu. I'll add performance images and quicktime as I acquire them. Kudo was going to arrive at 5:00, and so I asked Yuki to arrive then as well. I, in the meantime, was pathetically lost trying to retrace my steps out of Shibuya Station from two days earlier and was forty minutes late. Somehow I went exactly the wrong way out of the station and up the wrong hill. I asked a couple of women for directions and they went to work on their global GPS cell phones. People in Tokyo are very cell phones savvy and love to help strangers in directional distress. They soon set me straight.<br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-66836984094386283262015-03-23T00:27:00.001-07:002015-04-05T20:57:15.774-07:00Day 6, Saturday, March 21 – Meeting in the ParkTaeko Nanpei, a curator and art manager I met 15 years ago in Tokyo, invited me to join in her SANPO group meeting at Motomachi Park near Suidobashi Station, site of an enormous amusement park.<br />
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I had no idea what the group did, but upon arriving discovered a butoh dancer going through his trance-and-dental paces (see below). Soon he was joined by a former ballet dancer stretching out into a different kind of movement. I pulled out my flute and began playing with deathly butoh abandon. In the distance, someone was playing honkyoku on shakuhachi while school boys were rampaging through the park. This is really the moment I arrived in Tokyo.<br />
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Konno Hachimangu, like many shrines in Tokyo, is surrounded by high rises and full-tilt urbanity. It is an oasis of Shintoism in a sea of consumer profanity. At Josey's urging, I took Colors along to see the sights, including the famous statue of Hachiko at Shibuya, which I knew he would be especially fond of. I had forgotten the story of Hachiko, so refreshed my memory with a quick look on the internet and told him all about it. How could I have forgotten? What a wonderful story! It's easy to see why it captured the hearts of the nation in the 30's, and remains to this day the ichiban meeting place in Tokyo. One waits in a long line to get a picture in front of Hachiko, but Colors was very patient. Finally, after many other people got their turn, Colors actually got to perch between the immortal bronze paws. Not many dogs can say that! Please grab a handful of kleenex before reading the story: <a href="http://www.dailyonigiri.com/2009/09/hachiko-japan-famous-dog/" target="_blank">http://www.dailyonigiri.com/2009/09/hachiko-japan-famous-dog/</a><br />
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"Stray Rats," indeed. Frank Zappa meets Rabindranath Tagore... and neither are the better for it! It took me quite a while to find Konno Hachimangu. A policeman finally set me on the right path, telling me it was behind a large police building on the extreme opposite end of Shibuya Station. I trudged up a long hill in an exclusive section of town and suddenly there is was. I have done more walking in the past few days, than in a month living in the suburbs. </div>
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After visiting Konno Hachimangu, I set off for the Ginza and Yamano Gakki, one of Tokyo's most prestigious music stores. I thought I might at least find a portable amp there, try it out, and then buy it somewhere else cheaper. To my surprise, they had a used Yamaha THR10 at half price, the absolute cat's meow of guitar amps. I also tried out some flute head joints and oogled over the mind boggling lineup of expensive flutes: Muramatsu, Haynes, Powell, Brannen etc. It's good to try out high end flutes. The effect is always the same. I end up liking the student flute I've had for twenty years all the more!<br />
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At the station, I notice a monk standing with his back to the throngs of people on the sidewalk. He was fastidiously arranging and rearranging his saffron robes, an act of spiritual preening perhaps.<br />
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The crows are a constant sonic companion. Once away from the traffic a bit, they are the loudest sound element in the city. What a strange counterpoint they provide the jet-lagged traveler vulnerable to macabre associations with other places and times. In the past few days, my being here has consisted mostly in fits and starts of sleeping and writing at odd hours, entirely in the confines of R’s house in Nakano. But yesterday afternoon, a different relationship to Tokyo unfolded.
B, one of several great expatriate shakuhachi players in and around Tokyo, came up from Yokohama to retrieve a
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RS to try out. This one got National Treasure, Goro Yamaguchi’s approval, before his unexpected death in 1999. B and I chatted for a while about shakuhachis. I demonstrated the Birdmachine, which I'd set up in my room earlier.<br />
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On our way out to catch the subway to
Harajuku Station, where I was to meet Y for dinner, R returned from a
graduation ceremony at Musashino University. B and R had met years ago,
but never really gotten to know each other. It often works that way – a foreign
traveler arrives and unwittingly brings people together. R spoke at length
about his eight years of shakuhachi studies with Yamaguchi while also spreading
wings into the world of Noh. Eventually, Noh won out. R is one of the
foremost western authorities on Noh in the world. Beyond that, he is a totally delightful
person and a fine host. Staying here is perfect.</div>
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B and I finally left the house and made our way to Harajuku station, from which point he continued on on the JR train to Yokohama where he lives with his Japanese wife. Despite the struggle finding the place, plus being an hour late, dinner with Y at Mominoki vegan restaurant in Shibuya was glorious... and very fin de siècle Paris! Y was a student of mine at Chatham University fifteen years ago. She's going to help with videography and editing the Birdmachine footage once the performance with Kudo has happened.<br />
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After dinner, Y and I went to the Grand Ballroom of the Peninsula Hotel for Art Fair Tokyo's annual Bacon Prize event. Joni Waka, the guy who'd invited me to perform with Kudo, was master ceremonies.<br />
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The place was packed full of fancy people and one large brown dog who mingled with the crowd. I walked up to Joni and extended my hand with a big smile. When there was no immediate response, I said, "Do you remember me?" I realized that maybe the beard was throwing him off. Skipping only a slight beat, he said, "Oh, yes, nice to see you, and who's this?" I introduced Y and that was it. No, wow, you made it, so nice to see you. He just walked off the way people do at parties when something else catches their eye.Y and I then we dove into the crowd and made our way up to the stage where two scantily dressed GoGo girls were gyrating in front of two gigantic screens. Later, Joni's husband, a Zulu warrior came on stage with them as well.<br />
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The projections were footage of Bacon, the Irish wolfhound after whom the prize is named. The dog, in turn, had been named after Francis Bacon, the painter. Here's the new mascot:<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">One of the trophies was a carving of a crow. The woman holding it is from Australia and the recipient of the accompanying award.</span><br />
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I expected to be bored by the whole thing, but it was fun, anthropologically speaking. The only thing that bothered me was the odd reception I had gotten from Joni. Oh well. On the way out, Joni was talking to some people at the exit. When they moved on, I thanked him for a great party. He responded with, "You coming to the event on Sunday, I hope?" I laughed and said, "I'm in it!" "Oh, it's you Michael. I didn't recognize you in that beard." I replied, "Yeah, they come and go." I gave him a hug and all was cleared up. Y and I drifted toward the coat check.<br />
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My overwhelming feeling that night had to do with the complexity of arriving in a different place. Getting out and about was exactly what the jet lag doctor had ordered. One never arrives in Japan from the West in one day! Here's a picture of the doctor:<br />
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Michael Phttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04809085607854326413noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1718917624998022912.post-52731479468134984412015-03-18T16:52:00.002-07:002015-04-05T20:58:23.125-07:00Day 3 - March 18 – 13 Hours<span style="font-family: inherit;">Today I dedicated mostly to jet lag. I wonder whether I am coming or going. Am I a
Connecticut Yankee in the Emperor's court, or a samurai lost in the New England
of my topsy-turvy mind? Sir Cadian tells me that I am thirteen hours behind on the day before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And that's the thing. There are more crows here than any other kind of bird -- maybe 150,000. Crows, unlike wild birds, are
synathropes. They aggressively live off of what humans provide, namely,
garbage. They are twice as big as their American counterparts, and are pack savvy. Their jutting foreheads makes one think there's something like a neocortex going on here. Hitchcock
was definitely on to something. If this were Los Angeles or New York, though,
there would be hundreds of millions of them, not hundreds of thousands. Japan
is far more fastidious about garbage than we are.</span><br />
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Large-billed Crow, Tokyo, Japan.<br />
Michael Cornelius 30 October 2008</span></span><!--EndFragment-->
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I also walked around Nakano getting my bearings. There’s a pre-school directly outside my window on the second floor. It's lovely to watch toddlers racing around the courtyard, being ferried around in wagons, or led across the street in groups organized by hat color. Crows and people alike are very organized in Japan.</span></div>
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