pizza napolitana

pizzeria da peppe, near tokyo tower

1600 yen

 

Am I sure of my decisions???? You bet your ass I am!!

Gathering my feeling for the whole year and trying to put them together in an attempt to summarize my year and a half in Japan is not easy, nor re assembling my inner scenographer structure.  Cleaning all the extensive experiences I had in theatre and opera and looking and feeling objectively what I have learned in the Japan inner and underground world of show and entertainment it’s quite a task.  I should probably write a book about all this, experiencing so many different topics about Japan mysterious land; I can only say that Japan is a black hole. The more you stay the deeper it gets, the harder it is go get out of it.

 

Let me tell you first about general Japan. This country has obligated me to stand by myself on guard, and it has knocked me out several times. Japan has no mercy, Japan will eat you alive if you cannot control it, and if you are not at ease with yourself.  Japanese ways makes you wonder how really the western civilization is standing, it’s inevitable to compare the non expressiveness and the slow   but thought again and again reaction against the fast and furious and sometimes dangerous western reaction. It makes you re think your abilities, your discipline, your interaction, your real values and the structure in yourself.

In fairness to art and scenography, Japan has been able to give me a wild ride into the wild kabuki, the spiritual Noh, the craziness of their musicals, the intellectual straight plays and the strange developing of their opera.

                                night in tsukishima 
 
It has made me sometimes scared about my talent; I am happy I´m not a fashionist set designer, rather more an experimental and traditional one. If I had known Japan was a powerful set design country, I would be more prepared to attack Opera city. The New national theatre that is. They have given me all the knowledge every set designer needs, I know that my quality as a set designer is infinetely more powerful than before, and I am really scared about that. because I’m going now to a new country, Not mine, and I have to accomplish the things I didnt´quite accomplished ere in japan.I wanted to experience more the Japanese mind, I wanted to have Japan in my veins.

                                 tsukiji market  5 am

 But we are leaving Japan, despite my personal love for it!, It has made  me rethink my personal and  professional life,  Is time to leave Japan,  otherwise I would stay 3 more years, and  that’s too much for a foreign couple.

Our next ziel is the Suisse Alps,

 

 

 Tofu Tiramizú    sora no niwa restaurant
 550 yen



So many projects in my head, so much time, so slow I am!!
It is said that waiting by the door won´t bring you a pizza, you have to order it!!
And by this time, I am back in Tokyo, for one week and a half, after this spectacular time in Mexico, Japan has so much tings to offer, so many things, so many spaces, I just can´t get enough of it!! I have assumed that Tokyo is like a drug!, It’s just keep getting deeper and deeper and you cant see the ending°!


But Japan is a place where you have to discover ithe  purity, of its  atmosphere, it is a place where the main thing to catch is the essence of things and places, not to contain so many places you had been. Japan is a place for cleaning the spirit, and yes, I have done that for the past 6 months!!! For me it is a place to compare it with other countries it has been unconsiously made for that!  It is also   one of a few countries which isolation determined the countries power of essence, of tradition, of manners, of culture, of intereaction, It is a place where a successful and the  fastest transformation has been taken place in the peoples culture.  It has one of the cutest girls, maybe too cute. It has the most strange way of thinking , Its gastronomy has been developed to perfection, is not about putting in, It’s about taking out and having it as perfect as heavens taste.

So probably I will leave Japan soon!!!!

                                                                          shibuya

sorrowful it is , and I believe that maybe my time has come to leave this incredible country,  A country which I have never dared to call it home, because it’s not about how long you have lived here, it’s about how did you fashioned with the people. Because Japan is all about the people, not like other countries, 

So I have decided to put a list of things to do before I go;

GO TO MAID CAFE
GO TO GHIBLI MUSEUM
CLIMB MOUNT FUJI
GO TO 3331 ART GALLERY
FINISH MY ULTRAMAN MONSTER COLLECTION
DANCE IN AWAODORI
LEARN HOW TO MAKE TOFU AND YUBA
MAKE COSPLAY AGAIN
TSUKIJI MARKET SO SEE TUNA AUCTION
KEEP IT SIMPLE AND ENJOY THE FOOD WHEREVER I GO!!