Fresh Green! ― 2022/04/22
Walking along Former Glories ― 2021/12/09
A Half Day Excursion on Bus ― 2021/12/08
Museum in the Morning ― 2020/01/13
At 9:30am, despite the fact that it was a bank holiday, some collection rooms of a local art museum were completely empty; the entire exhibition was for me at the cost of 200 yen.
In this room there were only 1000-years old Buddhist statues and me.
I sat on a chair at the corner and enjoyed the mediational (in a way, therapeutic to me) atmosphere for quite a while.
In the next room, I was the only viewer, too.
I enjoyed the show as if a friend in high places entertained me with her well curated and good taste collection.
The show was curated quite broadly and works of different places and eras were standing side by side, which made the show look more like someone’s private collection.
When I view this type of exhibition, I tend to have an imaginary wallet in my mind. This time the budget was set at 100 million yen. With this, I would get these:
Bowl, 17th century, Japan (for natto, chawan-mushi, ice cream etc.) and
Bowl, 17th Century, Chine (for summer dishes, such as hiya-yakko, mitsumame, tokoroten, etc.).
However, it seems almost impossible to squeeze them in my cupboard full of odd tableware.
So mesmerised by the show and the atmospheres, I
forgot to see another exhibition featuring Western paintings included in the
entrance fee. Which will be on my to-enjoy list.
Ukiyoe Experience ― 2019/11/29
Retrieved from http://museum.city.fukuoka.jp/exhibition/ukiyoe_191116-191222.html
This show may be one of the most ambitious and radical exhibitions a local public museum has ever hosted because:
It allows photographing;.
It offers some simulation experiences of Edo-style Ukiyoe appreciation and
It exhibits some shocking works depicting blood-and-gut-covered murder scenes that I had never thought I could see in real, particularly in a public museum.
The scary bits are separated from other contents and there is a warning board before entering the section in concern so that you can skip it. The warning itself looks scary enough, though.
Directions on how to view particular works helped a lot see how elaborately created they are.
A mock Ukiyoe store was set up in the middle of the exhibition room.
You can sit at the store and take the works in your hands to get a close look-- just like Edo people would have done.
By the way, what should “traditional” subculture
museums or
publishers put on their shows or books when a public museum goes radical to
this extent?
Aeon Mall Ito ― 2019/04/14
The other day I took a short excursion to a “further Aeon”. It took a short train trip along a beautiful coast line and cherry trees in full blossom. To my great regret, and as my usual, I left my camera at home. I missed a great “Bae”(meaning “showing-off”, basically) chance!
The mall was another typical suburban mall, focusing on relatively young families with decent income and decent job. The price range was well marketed; not extravagant, but not very low. I felt I was by no means within their target group; I am too old and my income is too low to fit into their “ideal”.
Despite this, I enjoyed my short stay there. There were many things I couldn’t find my local Aeon. The most impressive was that the supermarket stocks Part 2 Junko Shimada clothing range, a designer label that used to be rather upmarket around 30 years ago. It now becomes quite accessible and obachan-friendly in many ways (the size, of course, prices, and even display).The price range in particular was amazingly different from what I knew: skirts up to 5,900 JPY, tops 4,000 JPY, and Jacket up to 12,800 JPY (all are spring/summer clothings), which are almost a third of what they used to be in the brand’s heyday.
I also found “all-you-can-eat” Mister Donut. Sounds irresistible! It costs 1200 yen…I am sure it would be a losing game—if only I was 20 years younger!
Basically,
shops and restaurants looks not so different from other local malls. There are
Muji, Right-On, Starbucks and other household names. But their shelves looked
more attractive to me, probably they cleverly focus on more obachian-friendly
items. I could say this mall is definitely more “me-friendly” than Mark Is in
Momochi, although both malls’ price range look quite similar. It may be a good
idea to hit this mall again during summer sale.
Climb Up a Flowery Hill ― 2019/03/27
Hoping to enjoy this year’s Sakura, I went to a local shrine located on a hill.
Although it was a little bit too early to see the locally the locally renowned flower tunnel
(it will be perfect in the beginning of April, I guess),
I enjoyed a sense of spring with yellow rape flowers in full-bloom.
Also, I found myself no longer being able to go down this steep stairs.
Maybe I should have the lenses (trifocal, naturally) of my
glasses replaced before appreciating flowers…life is not always flowery!
Last Walk in 2018 ― 2018/12/31
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