11.09.13 Admire the beauty of moon in Sep.
I am now in Germany to participate in the memorial event for the 150th anniversary of Japan-Germany exchanges.
Moon in the ninth month of the lunar calendar is meaningful for Japanese.
I saw the moon on the 13th night in an ancient city Lueneburg in north Germany.
The streets in the Middle Ages are left here after the war.
I stayed an architect's house.
His work is to repair old buildings into houses, preserving the historical structure and beautiful outward.
As photo shows, he arranged a display shelf as a show window, using a space of a double-glazed window.
Then I watched the harvest moon ( the moon on the 15th night ) in Siegburg in the middle of Germany.
My performance is scheduled on Sep.15th at the city museum.
In the West, it is common to seek eternal beauty in flowers.
On the other hand we Japanese consider flowers are beautiful because they are fragile.
In long-awaited spring, we appreciate the cherry trees in full bloom in a short while.
And we find beauty even in process of the decay.
There is a sense of the evanescence that nothing is certain in our life.
someone was afraid that newspaper might discolor in the future.
Then I have been thinking how to prevent discoloration.
reading " HushiKaden" by Zeami.
The day March 11th is unforgettable for Japanese.
if it can show how long time has passed since the tragedy.
I am glad to inform you about my performance in Germany in September.
In this performance I will collaborate with Japanese musicians.
I went to the concert of Shiku Yano (shakuhachi) and Satsuki Urasawa (koto) who will join with me in Germany.
Shakuhachi is made of a bamboo.
In a live concert I could recognize not only the keynote but also harmonic overtone, noise and vibration.
Shakuhachi is very simple instrument but the tone is rich and meaningful.
It is indeed an instrument for a live concert.
In this terrible heat, we Japanese endeavor to save electricity because of the nuclear power plant disaster.
So this is the first summer to carry a fan about with me.
My work arranged on the fan does not mean a fill-in-the blanks question.
I tried to express the idea that comes from Buddhism.
"sho-gyo-mu-jou" or "sei-sei-ru-ten"may be suitable.
My new brushes have been completed.
I will try them in next performance in autumn.
It looks as if a brush sprouts up from the tip of my fingers.
In performance, I convert the movement of my body into a line on paper through a brush.
I want to convert as it is, but skill of calligraphy sometimes appears in a line and make the line affected and unnatural.
As long as I regard a brush as a tool, it is inevitable that skill appears in the line.
I hope a brush would be a part of my body.
In other words, I wish I myself could become a brush.
Generally speaking, dance in the East has a unique characteristic in the movement of fingers.
So I hope to express not only the track of my body but also the track of my fingers by new brushes.