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,