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So, it's been a couple weeks since I arrived to Japan and I've already gone to a small hiking
at Chichibu. And what else did I do? I've met with a couple of other friends.
I found a ballet studio to go to for the month.
Museums.
Yeah, museums.
Went to ガオディー店とマティス店.
And Matisse especially is sort of where it started for me.
In that I worked on them as an undergrad.
めっちゃ食べてるし。 It's okay. We're fine. We're relaxed.
Yeah, but I worked on Matisse's paper cutout works as an undergrad and it was pretty cool to see
a pretty comprehensive exhibit of Matisse from like early works to the end of his life.
So that was really cool. But I really like the ガオディー exhibit a lot more. I think it's...
I didn't think that they can do that much since it's not like they can bring a whole church to Japan.
Of the Sakurada Familia, right?
Yeah.
So I was like, it's just gonna be photos and some footages and sketches maybe.
But it was actually a very interesting exhibit of the process of his creation.
He, in order to come up with that arched parabolic shapes of the tower,
he put a bunch of weights on like a chain to make a parabola.
He adjusted the weight to make a favorite shape.
And then he took, at that point, at that time, was like the highest technology which was photography.
He took a photo of that from various different angles, flipped it upside down so that it becomes
a tower. And I didn't know any of these manual simulation, I guess, before
computer simulation was a thing. He did a lot of sort of pre-studying, pre...
Before he puts the building together, he did a lot of these model makings.
I mean, rightfully so, because building a thing is probably expensive.
But I just didn't know how almost scientific that process was.
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He made a bunch of different variations, recorded all of them, and picked what's best and stuff.
So, that was really cool and really interesting. So, you haven't been, right?
I haven't been.
Yeah, you should go, you should go.
Yeah, I'd love to go.
Go, like, Heijutsu no Hiramato.
Yes.
Very, very crowded. And also, the same ticket to Gaudi-ten gets you to the Josetsu-ten collections,
which is also really great. I just completely forgot how great and amazing gallery spaces they
have. It looked like a lot of people were just going in for Gaudi-ten and getting out,
maybe without even knowing that they don't have to separately pay for another thing to go to
Josetsu-ten. Maybe they thought that they needed a new ticket, but it's all included, so you should
go. Anyway, what else? I'm gonna go see Kabuki with my grandma. Never been to Kabuki before.
It's pretty long.
It's long?
It's like, it's like a few hours with intermissions in between where we can eat lunch or dinner.
And so, like, I've never been to that theater either, and so that'll be interesting. I don't
know if I'll like it or not, because I've never been to traditional Japanese performing arts
other than, like, the field trip as a shougakusei. Yeah, we went to see no performance.
I have, I think, yeah.
For a shougakusei though, like, I don't know if it's, like, maybe it was just like a standard
thing that all shougakusei have to do, but, like, I think Kabuki is way more entertaining than
But we somehow, you know...
So you also did something like that, huh? Yeah, so I hope it's more fun than Kabuki.
Oh, sorry, sorry, than no. Not to say that no, like, maybe if I look at it now, I'll have a
different conception of it, but for a 12 year old me, that was way too hard. And, like, I remember
the teacher was like, just
She just gave up, I think.
How can anyone sleep in that way?
I don't know, but that's what she said.
And what else? I'm gonna see some ballet. One of my friends are producing the show,
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so I'm gonna go see that. And I'm also gonna go catch a concert in Yamagata.
Yeah, never been to Yamagata. It's my first time, and yeah, that's about it. Like,
and I'm meeting my friends here and there in between, but yeah, like, I thought
I have a month this time-ish. This is the longest
since I started doing Ichijiki Goku, pretty much, I think.
Yeah, like,
But since finishing Daigaku, this is definitely the first time,
the longest stretch of time I'm in Japan. So, pretty exciting.
Tokyo is fun. It's f***ing hot, though.
I do not remember Japan to be this hot. I don't know what's going on, but
so when I was shouwakusei, our school's pool was outdoors, so we had, like, a limit
of the temperature of, like, you know, I forgot exactly what, but I don't think we were allowed to
go to the pool if the outside temperature was more than 30-something degrees, and now that's,
like, that every day. So, like, how are kids going to school pool? Like, that's just, like,
not going to happen. And I don't think my school has an indoor pool, so that's just going to be a
dried-up pool. Just insane. I don't know. I'm not built for this. It's too hot, it's too humid,
and yeah, but I heard Hong Kong is worse, so yeah, in terms of humidity and heat.
Not looking forward to it, like, in terms of the weather, yeah, but I hope I survive. I'm like,
so far, I'm okay, but maybe Natsubate will finally get to me. Yeah, it's kind of, it's like, it just
sucks up all of your energy. Like, I try to plan my day so that I don't have to be out and about
during the hottest hours, but, like, sometimes you do, and just, like, I, like, regret it every time.
Yeah, we want to, sometimes we want to walk around the cities and, you know, but today,
for this couple weeks, it's just too hot to walk. Yeah, indeed. Well, we'll recover from the heat,
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hopefully, yeah. Today, I almost killed Asami by getting wasted. Say that louder,
keep it in recording. If I die, it's because of Masako.
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