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(Posted by Simon 29 March)
From Nature, Artifice and Japanese Culture
p.203:
...Walls are not barriers, and are traditionally thin and light. They do not completely keep out either noise or the gaze of passers-by. In the past many facades even included latticework. The effect of separation between home and street was obtained by the superimposing of several planes, rather than by means of a wall with an intrinsic thickness.... The effect of depth comes from the zig-zag axis which imposed translations parallel to the main planes. Here lies the principle of obstacle, interference, the interplay of screens whose ambiguous function is to conceal and reveal simultaneously.

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(Posted by Simon 29 March)

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Stone House, Paper House.....we will need both. But stone only slightly more dense than paper, and, like bodies, permeable......(QM). It is one house and the same house: a house of ghosts and the internal world of our minds.
"The mind has rooms

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reading Tanizaki's In Praise of Shadows (1933) this morning re technology. Maybe we could invent sciences for our presentation(s) somewhere between Simon's retro and Leo's super-techno?
as in:
"Japanese music is above all a music of reticence, of atmosphere....In conversation too we prefer the soft voice, the understatement. Most important of all are the pauses. The phonograph and radio render these moments of silence utterly lifeless. We distort the arts themselves by to curry favour for them with the machines...these are western machines, well suited to the western (technology and) arts...they put our own (aesthetics and) arts at a great disadvantage." ". (pg 17)
"Suppose we had developed our own physics and chemistry: would not the techniques and industries based on them have taken a different form....In fact our conception of physics itself, and even the principles of chemistry would probably differ from that of the West....atoms might well have presented themselves in a different form....(QM! New Reality!(ed.))" (pg 14)
eg: if the fountain pen had been invented as the fountain brush by ancient Japanese or Chines technicians:
"it would surely have had a tufted end like our writing brush. The ink ink would have been black and seep down from the handle of the brush...(absorbent/textured) Japanese paper - even under mass production if you will - would have been most in demand...An insignificant little piece of writing equipment, when one thinks of it, has had a vast, almost boundless, influence on our culture." (pg 15)

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A visual artist who creates big effects with modest technology

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I rather long for an installation that is light on its feet like a paper house. I was reminded of this by the opening scene of Kwaidan

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Dear Judith,Thank you so much for your booking.I welcome you with art pieces !! In May , new pieces will come . So there are differences about art pieces with the photos.Here is the access detail from JR Kyoto station.By taxi from Kyoto station, Take a taxi from north side of Kyoto station and the address is Higashiyama-ku Ikedono-chou 214-4 If driver did not understand, please show below. "東山区池殿町214-4 までお願いします｡六波羅蜜寺の南西の三角コーナー西側､平松会計事務所の隣のｶﾌｪDongreeです｡" 10 min riding and cost about 1500 yen.By Bus, There is a bus terminal in front of Kyoto station, north side. Go to Bus stop D-2 and get the bus number 206 . About 15min riding and get off at " Kiyomizu-michi " We will meet there and I will take you the house on foot. Bus costs 230yen per person or one day bus ticket 500yen per person, you can buy from a bus driver when you get off bus.On your checking in day, please give me message when you leave Kyoto station and if you use taxi or bus. There is a free wifi at Kyoto station.I am sorry for I could not advice you about 26th night.If you have any questions , please do not hesitate to ask.I am very looking forward to meeting with you !!Sincerely, Yasuhiko 

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Dear Judith,Thank you so much for your booking.I welcome you with art pieces !! In May , new pieces will come . So there are differences about art pieces with the photos.Here is the access detail from JR Kyoto station.By taxi from Kyoto station, Take a taxi from north side of Kyoto station and the address is Higashiyama-ku Ikedono-chou 214-4 If driver did not understand, please show below. "東山区池殿町214-4 までお願いします｡六波羅蜜寺の南西の三角コーナー西側､平松会計事務所の隣のｶﾌｪDongreeです｡" 10 min riding and cost about 1500 yen.By Bus, There is a bus terminal in front of Kyoto station, north side. Go to Bus stop D-2 and get the bus number 206 . About 15min riding and get off at " Kiyomizu-michi " We will meet there and I will take you the house on foot. Bus costs 230yen per person or one day bus ticket 500yen per person, you can buy from a bus driver when you get off bus.On your checking in day, please give me message when you leave Kyoto station and if you use taxi or bus. There is a free wifi at Kyoto station.I am sorry for I could not advice you about 26th night.If you have any questions , please do not hesitate to ask.I am very looking forward to meeting with you !!Sincerely, Yasuhiko 

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24th / JA Both: it would be great to finalise a shape for the trip re/ locations and bookings on 2nd, so I/we can focus on things more creative in order to know what to ask our hosts for quite soon. And to start weaving some quantum modules.And to think up an educational plan proposal re. Doshisha and Capa? - if they have the resources. I'm aware it's me being contradictory about where to look in Japan for the second week.On that matter - looking very hard yesterday at the attractive options up north - Hokkaido or North Honshu - especially in the light of Damian's enthusiasm for the peninsula opposite Hokkaido being wild enough for Heathcliff's striding - it was brought home to me how much travel that would take in 5 days and how little being outside on the earth.I spent a lot of the night reading the slim Penguin Classics version of Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North (transl. Nobuyuki Yuasha) with MAPS included and am wondering if this isn't the answer to where we go - places on his route which we need to look up together - and all of which are less far away from Tokyo.Also - it's partly an imaginary, literary journey to the DEEP north of natural, chiming details,  - snapshots and loose video walking - and very reminiscent of Lockwood's wanderings.Also - it's structure feels right for the modules - prose bouncing and echoing of gems of poetry - much looser than strict haiku - a form called haibun. Anyway - I go on struggling - and maybe taking tea at Impressions this afternoon...

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24th / JA Both: it would be great to finalise a shape for the trip re/ locations and bookings on 2nd, so I/we can focus on things more creative in order to know what to ask our hosts for quite soon. And to start weaving some quantum modules.And to think up an educational plan proposal re. Doshisha and Capa? - if they have the resources. I'm aware it's me being contradictory about where to look in Japan for the second week.On that matter - looking very hard yesterday at the attractive options up north - Hokkaido or North Honshu - especially in the light of Damian's enthusiasm for the peninsula opposite Hokkaido being wild enough for Heathcliff's striding - it was brought home to me how much travel that would take in 5 days and how little being outside on the earth.I spent a lot of the night reading the slim Penguin Classics version of Basho's Narrow Road to the Deep North (transl. Nobuyuki Yuasha) with MAPS included and am wondering if this isn't the answer to where we go - places on his route which we need to look up together - and all of which are less far away from Tokyo.Also - it's partly an imaginary, literary journey to the DEEP north of natural, chiming details,  - snapshots and loose video walking - and very reminiscent of Lockwood's wanderings.Also - it's structure feels right for the modules - prose bouncing and echoing of gems of poetry - much looser than strict haiku - a form called haibun. Anyway - I go on struggling - and maybe taking tea at Impressions this afternoon...

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I've posted my first blog on w/stone website. 

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I've posted my first blog on w/stone website. 

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Mr. ludith Adams,
Thank you for the email.

I will e-mail in Japanese.
Please understand.

It is Ms. Misuzu Osaka, a Japanese female writer.

Thank you for the email.

Awesome project
I do not fully understand what I can specifically do, but I can see you in Kyoto on May 26th.


English does not understand the native nuance well.
I hope that there are people who understand Japanese.

Much attractive ludith,

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Blimey, here I am again and it's still only 16/02.
Japan Experience seems to have the cheapest Japan Rail Pass at £311 for 2 weeks.
Should be able to order it from this Sat 18/02, if we are dealing in calendar months.

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I am so pleased you have agreed to meet us.
I have met your exquisite work already through Damian Flanagan's postscript in Three Cornered World where he talks of your re-creation of the calligraphy for the Natsume Soseki re-translations.
We are looking for collaborators for our exploration of the ghosts in Wuthering Heights and Hearn's Kaidan from a feminist and child's perspective, and in the context of Japanese, English and pictograms to link the two.

We are so sorry not to speak your language. If you think you might meet with us on 26th May and would like us to bring a translator with us, please let us know.
If another day that week also suits better, we will try and change our schedule.
Very Best Wishes
Judith Adams
www.judithadams.co.uk
www.whitestonearts.co.uk

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(SJ posted)

Waiting to hear if we can meet with Hearn's Great Grandson, Bon Koizumi

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(SJ posted)

Dear Keiko

We are meeting Mami at the KAC on 23rd May at 2pm, it would be great to meet you a little before this and you could join us if you were available.

We are also hoping to meet Calligrapher Misuzu Kosaka on 26th and feel that your input would be greatly appreciated.

I know that your work schedule isn't confirmed yet for May but would like to keep you up to date with our current itinerary.

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Meet Juliet: "The 24th and 25th are penciled in. Let me know again what the school can do for you and I will talk to our chair, Natsumi Wakamoto, and a director of the Shakespeare Production and all-round performance guy Tim Medlock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QBeMUXz6Yw"

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(posted by Stacey)

21st May- Hearn Museum (1pm)
23rd May at 2pm- Kyoto Arts Centre meeting Mami
24th and 25th May- Juliet.

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(posted by Simon)
Here's a thing to get the teeth into:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsuro-bune
Tip-off from Art Monthly, Feb 2017 (article about contemporary art shows in Honshu)

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Response from Misuzu Kosaka- calligrapher 

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Response from Misuzu Kosaka- calligrapher 

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をありがとうございます。

素晴らしい企画ですね。

5月に京都でお会いできるのは、素敵なことでございます。
日程が決まりましたらお知らせ下さいませ。
Misuzu Kosaka 小阪美鈴

Translation:

Thank you.

It's a wonderful project.

It is a wonderful thing that we can meet in Kyoto in May.
Please let me know when the schedule is decided.

26th May?

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 ....a home made 26 year old wood-fired onsen in West Yorkshire ....

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 ....a home made 26 year old wood-fired onsen in West Yorkshire ....

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Emily would have loved it after a day's walk.

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2 contacts this morning. Feminist calligrapher:

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2 contacts this morning. Feminist calligrapher:

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http://www.misuzu-ism.com/profile.html
and Allegra, daughter of dragons. BBC Radio.

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Judith is stoking the onsen.