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heian-era-housewife · 9 months ago

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Blind Date

Synopsis | Geto sets Gojo up on a blind date. Hilarity ensues.

Content | Mild cursing, mentions of sex, PG 13 at most.

Word Count | 1,002

Gojo lay back on one of Jujutsu High's frumpy, moth-eaten dorm chairs. Long legs stretched out in front of him, arms draped carelessly over the sides with palms facing up, head lolled back and mouth slightly open. A sigh of utter boredom gurgled deep in his throat as he stared unblinkingly at the ceiling.

Classes were on a break. Students were visiting families or using the time to study and train independently. He had not been called on a mission in three whole days.

Suddenly the door to the teachers' dormitory slid open with flare as Geto strut into the room.

"You can thank me now!" He declared with a pompous smile.

"For what?" Gojo said without moving an inch, eyes still fixed on the ceiling through his blindfold.

"I've set you up on a date tonight," replied Geto with an overwhelming smugness.

"IS SHE HOT?!" Gojo snapped to attention, bolt upright, eager hands gripping his knees in excitement.

"Guess you'll have to see for yourself. Six o'clock. The sushi place in Ginza. Don't be late," Geto said with a wink and a note of suspicious mocking.

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5:55 p.m. - Gojo waited anxiously outside the restaurant, unable to decide how far down he should unzip his jacket. He had spent the afternoon showering, shaving, and changing outfits and glasses again and again before settling back on his original black jacket, black pants, and classic blindfold. His boxers he'd been sure to change though, just in case.

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"Show me what she looks like!" He had whined at Geto over and over. "What's her name? Where'd you meet her? What did you tell her about me?" He pried.

Geto refused to budge. "You'll find out soon enough," he chided at Gojo's pleading questions.

"How will I know who to look for if you won't tell me?" He pouted.

"Oh don't worry," teased Geto. "She'll find you."

***

Awaiting his prize, Gojo looked around again, still fidgeting with his zipper. A soft sudden tap on his arm followed by a sweet, feminine voice caused him to jump slightly as he turned to see the girl Geto had selected.

She was cute, wearing a simple, but flattering dress with just enough skin to pique his interest without drawing too much attention from other wandering eyes. He made a mental note to praise Geto later for his taste in women.

"Sorry to startle you! You must be Gojo!" She said with a soft smile while she introduced herself.

"Please, call me Satoru," Gojo instisted, offering a long-fingered hand to guide her through the doorway of the sushi house.

Rather than take it, she wrapped herself around his arm and began walking confidently into the restaurant, almost pulling him along with her.

Oh! Gojo thought to himself. I am definitely okay with this.

As they settled in the booth, exchanging small talk, Gojo's confidence grew as his date's rather forward behavior continued. Admitedly, a bit surprised, he couldn't help but sit back sporting a goofy smile as she insisted on feeding him, pouring his drinks, guiding his hands around the table, and even praising him on the way he "intuitively" used his chopsticks on the rare occasions she allowed him to feed himself.

Okay, so that last one was kind of weird. But who cares? He thought. I am definitely getting laid tonight.

While the chatter continued, he didn’t delve much into his personal life. Nor did they talk much about hers. She mostly just peppered him with compliments and he attempted to do the same.

Still, he couldn't help feel that something was slightly off as her accolades dipped into the increasingly peculiar.

"Geto told me all about your noble work."

"Oh? Did he now?"

"Your students must love you!"

"Well, I'd like to think so."

"Your hearing must be impeccable."

"Uhh...sure? I guess...?"

When the check arrived, Gojo reached out instinctively to take it, surprised when his hand met hers, also reaching for the bill.

"Oops...sorr-"

"Amazing!" She exclaimed, causing Gojo to retract his hand in startled confusion. "You knew exactly where it was!" She cried, looking up at him in awe.

"I-" Gojo stammmered, working hard to make sense of what she was implying.

With a sudden flush of her cheeks, she gushed, "I hope you don't mind me saying, but if Geto hadn't told me, I would have never known you were blind!"

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The dormitory door slammed open, then shut with a dangerous shutter as Gojo stormed inside.

"You. Utter. ASSWIPE!" Gojo shouted into the darkened dorm.

"How was your blind date?" Geto called from a safe distance.

"Hah. FREAKING. HAH! You waited in here all damn night just to say that, didn’t you?!" He growled.

Geto wheezed, doubled over in laughter as he relished the deranged look in Gojo's glowing eyes.

"Oh you think you're so hilarious. You're lucky I don't hollow purple the living shit out of you! Did you REALLY tell her this was a school for the blind?!"

Geto gasped for air, hugging the wall and pounding it with his fist as he reveled in his childish prank.

"Well joke's on YOU buddy! While you were waiting here yuckin' it up to yourself all night, I was getting mad laid at her place. Turns out chicks dig the visually impaired!"

Geto wiped a tear from his eye as he straightened up and looked Gojo dead in his dangerous blue gaze. "You suck at lying. She called a cab and you walked here cursing my name with every step. Don't deny it," He taunted.

"I-"

"Hmm?"

"I mean I-"

"Hmmmmm?"

"Screw you! At least I got a hot chick to feed me sushi."

Geto burst back into raucus laughter as his friend skulked down the hall.

"I'm going to bed," Gojo huffed.

"Need me to walk you there?" Geto called after him.

I'll get him back for that one, Gojo scowled as he threw himself down on his lamentably empty bed. One thing's for sure, though. No more blind dates.

#Blind & VI please don't hate me #Half Blind #🫣#Congenital Eye Disease #yuri worries #jjk #jjk gojo #gojo satoru #jjk geto #suguru geto #gojo eyes

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aristre · 2 years ago

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bbg did you miss me <3 can you write me some cute high school sweetheart headcanons for gojo, geto, and megumi? thanks bbg <3

babygirl i miss u 24/7. i will write u those headcanons u wanted. come see.

high school sweetheart headcanons for gojo, geto, and megumi

satoru gojo

first of all -- congrats! he's genuinely interested in you and you've been in his life early enough that he'll take you seriously!

expect his faux clingy ass to be around you 24/7, always poking his head out of the corner the moment you think he's finally gone. notice i say faux; at first, when his interest is mild enough initially, he's only following you around and making a nuisance of himself because it's easy.

you didn't think he actually cared, did you? at this stage he'll put on a show of neediness. no matter how seriously you take him or flippantly you disregard him, you're worth saving if it's easy and leaving behind if it's not.

but one day you'll prove his waning interest wrong, and suddenly he will rethink his entire perspective on you. this is where your relationship will truly open up and when you're looking at the board in class or sleeping away, he'll be looking right at you with his six eyes. congrats and condolences.

you really can't get rid of him now. before, he'd leave if you made a show of asking, but now he'll laugh and cling tighter. make no mistake, he'll still suddenly leave. but he'll be right back before long, your personal leech and your personal plight.

it's a good thing, very good thing, that you love him. one day in the future the two of you will be pulled apart by circumstance and the absence of a precious friend, entangled yet disjointed, but today you and him will play a prank on the principal and laugh, laugh, laugh all the way from the rooftops.

suguru geto

i guarantee you he will treat you better than gojo. it's not that gojo doesn't know how to read the mood when you're mad or doesn't know the right words to coax you out of your anger, but unless it's life or death he'll laugh it off. geto will not.

geto will conduct your relationship with care and genuinity. he'll sneak out of class with you and take you to shibuya and ginza, wherever you feel like going. he'll offer to carry your bags and tell you that you look nice.

you'll get your fair share of teasing from gojo and shoko, but he'll turn to you and grin, and you'll grin right back. he's the type that would act all fancy and hold his hand out for you like a prince hoping for a dance and escort you back to the dorms.

he's not much of a clingy type, but he's always up to hang out and do something together. whether it be trips out or movies in the room together, he's always ready to put his all into the moment.

when you get stuck on the homework he's always ready to explain it to you, and you assume it's his natural genius until one day you stumble upon him glaring at the textbook, ruffling his hair in frustration as he teaches himself before he can teach you. gojo thinks it's hilarious. shoko thinks it's hysterical. you think it's cute and never tell him you know -- you ask him more questions and delight in the way he patiently runs you through the material.

i'm just imaging the two of you in the library together, you scowling at the homework and geto scowling too when he thinks you're not looking. maybe you do reveal to him you know. he'll look up at you, eyes wide, and then laugh. we're a pair of idiots, aren't we? he'll say, and you'll agree, and the two of you will go ask gojo how to do the work. he'll be utterly unhelpful, by the way, so the two of you have to ask shoko in the end.

and one day, in a future that feels so distant, geto will leave you behind in pursuit of a future he alone sees. he will love you, but he won't want you to be wanted and torn from the school that raised you. the next time you see him will be at the jujutsu high incident. i still love you, you'll tell him. with a sad smile he'll say, is that so? and that's the last you'll hear from him.

megumi fushiguro

we've been downed enough by gojo and geto right? let's talk about megumi! megumi, gumi, goomi, my little sweet precious darling angel babygirl blorbo man. incredibly earnest. loves you dearly, even if he doesn't say a word. he's just nervous!

pays a lot of attention to the little details, and terrible at actually saying it. you've been hunching over all day? he passes you some painkillers during lunch break. you're frowning at your exam papers? he shows up at your dorm with his notes and a pencil to coach you.

the cutest thing ever is that he will awkwardly go to yuuji and nobara and ask what you like. where you would want to go for a date. and yuuji and nobara will completely, utterly, totally unsubtly ask you, and it's not like it's for megumi or anything. megumi pops a blood vessel. he will still take you on that date and if you choose to confront him, he will begrudgingly admit that yes, he was asking yuuji and nobara.

also his hands sweat a little. not enough to be gross but because he's so nervous. he will not look your way for the first twenty minutes of holding your hand because he's so flustered, but if you so choose to go, megumi, can't you look this way? he will slowly meet your eyes and immediately turn away after.

he remembers all your anniversaries. it's not like he's writing them down on his calendar app or anything. he's not, okay? and it's not like his google search history is what to get your significant other for anniversary, date locations in tokyo, best restaurants in tokyo or anything, okay?

he doesn't always get everything right on the first try. he's bad at expressing his feelings, and if the two of you fight he'll give you enough distance to make you think he's moved on without you. but he always listens diligently to what you have to say. sometimes, you think, no one cares more about keeping your relationship going than him.

#satoru gojo #gojo satoru x reader #gojo x reader #geto suguru #suguru geto #suguru x reader #geto x reader #megumi fushiguro #fushiguro megumi #fushiguro x reader #megumi x reader #jjk x reader #x reader #reader insert #jjk #jujutsu kaisen #headcanon #writing

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kichous · 2 years ago

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✧･ﾟ:* to all the earthly remains

summary. in the settled dust, all that remains is the boy with the pink hair. series. history lesson. part one . part two . part three . part four . part five you’re here ! pairings. itadori yuji x reader. ryomen sukuna x reader. warnings. none. word count. 1591.

You’ve been wandering the wreckage of Shibuya for days. It looks like the set of a post-apocalyptic movie, like you’ve stumbled onto the remake of War of the Worlds. But all of it’s real.

Even now, you’re still reeling at how quickly everything went south. Less than a week ago, your biggest concern was making sure you actually had coverage for your Halloween night shift. Begging and pleading with your manager hadn’t worked, as everyone else also wanted the night off to party. Your saving grace had been a recently dumped coworker, who was free and miserable enough to actually want to work. At the time, you’d felt guilty for taking advantage of her sadness. Now, a different guilt weighs upon you. She lived in Ikebukuro. If she hadn’t taken your shift, she wouldn’t have gotten caught—as did your other coworkers, your friends, and yourself—in Sukuna’s Malevolent Shrine.

As far as you can tell, you’re the only survivor. Whether that’s up to muscle memory, constantly cycling reverse cursed energy to heal yourself from the cuts and slices, or whether he deliberately chose not to hit you in that massive radius is anyone’s guess.

It would’ve been nice if one of your sorcerer friends had given you a heads up. Both Nobara and Fushiguro had your number. Yuji, of course, did as well. If even one of them had said, “Hey, something bad’s gonna happen in Shibuya on Halloween,” then you would’ve dragged your friends to Ginza or Roppongi with the excuse of watching the parade. Instead, the six of you stayed in the area, and now you’re the only one left. You watched them get diced into pieces.

But it’s hardly fair to blame sorcerers who, ultimately, were high schoolers just like you. Knowing what you did about jujutsu society, they were probably out there fighting and bleeding while you and your friends hid. That Inumaki boy you’d seen was another casualty, and he hadn’t been much older.

In truth, you have no idea where you’re going.

The last couple of days, you’d sort of been ambling around aimlessly. You scourged for food and replaced your shredded costume with something that could actually withstand the cold. But other than survival, you really hadn’t any future plans. You should go home. Make sure your family knows you’re okay. Make sure that they’re okay.

You come across the cursed spirit first.

He’d been squatting as he kept watch, shooting up at your approach into a ready stance. He claps his hands together, all ten fingers pointed at you. “Don’t come any closer!” he barks.

“I mean you no harm!” you call back after raising your hands in surrender. In this body, you have no innate technique, but you remember how to fight from your past lives. Once upon a time, you’d held the record for the most consecutive black flashes at three strikes. Someone’s probably beaten you by now, but a hit’s a hit. You pool cursed energy into your fists. “I’m just passing through.”

“Then you better keep moving,” the cursed spirit growls, the line drawn across the bridge of his nose distorted by the ferocity of his glare. “It’s not safe here.”

“Choso, what are you doing?”

A familiar head of pink hair steps into view, and you go weak in the knees. You whisper Yuji’s name, a sound so soft it’s carried off by the wind. Before you know it, you’re sprinting for him. The cursed spirit shouts in alarm, and you only just manage to bat away his attack before you launch yourself into Yuji’s arms.

He catches you, warm and solid. “No way…,” he mutters. His voice cracks when he says your name, and his eyes are disbelieving as he pulls back to get a good look at you. Yuji’s face falls, to your alarm, when he confirms it’s you, and his warm, comforting hands morph into claws around your biceps. “If she was here when Sukuna attacked, then she’s… whatever you are, you better not be—be wearing her skin or something like that. I’ll—”

“No one told you?” you blurt, shaking free of his aggressive grip. “Not Fushiguro-kun or Nobara?” At the mention of the latter’s name, Yuji flinches and your breath catches in your throat. Casualties. Right. “I’m—I’m a sorcerer too. Sort of.”

The word sounds wrong on this body’s tongue. You were a normal girl up until a few months ago, ignorant of the world of curses and jujutsu. If you had never crossed paths with Yuji, you would never have known. And it’s never really come up between you two. You just figured his friends would have informed him of something this major. But then again, maybe they had expected you to explain. You should have, but you’d only seen each other a couple of times since his apparent return from the dead. He hadn’t exactly told you about that, either, so you were even.

He believes you a little too easily. “‘Sort of’ doesn’t exactly inspire confidence,” Yuji hisses. “It’s dangerous here, especially around me. You’ve got to get somewhere safe.”

“No.” The word pushes past your lips without permission, but you don’t find yourself disagreeing with the sentiment. “Something… something drew me here. At first I thought I’d just picked a direction and started walking, but now I get it. There was a beacon calling out to me, and it led me to you. I’m where I’m supposed to be.”

You hadn’t been actively tracking his residuals, searching for Yuji (or his hitchhiker) in particular, but… well, in a world like this, is it so wrong to believe in something like fate? Of all the boys in the world, you’d found Ryomen Sukuna’s vessel. He even looked like Sukuna a little, back when he was Yuji’s age. Some things never change, it seems. Lady Otagi’s heart used to beat a little faster when she saw him, too.

And of course, in these times of forced, traumatic solitude, you thought of revenge. You’re a fifteen year-old, hardly the most mature person you know, and the face of the man who murdered your best friends and countless others was burned into your retinas. Except that wasn’t really true, was it? The image you conjured up was from the memory of a Heian noblewoman a thousand years ago. What Sukuna actually looks like today is Itadori Yuji. And with that alteration, vengeance dies in your throat, replaced by pity. You want to free Yuji about as much as you want to punch Sukuna in his stupid, handsome face.

Yuji, who is also quite handsome and equally stupid, takes a completely different meaning from your words. “People around me get hurt or drop dead,” he protests. “And, really, we barely know each other. We haven’t even been on a single date, besides that time I dragged you along to meet my friends and this girl I knew in junior high—”

“What,” interjects the cursed spirit Yuji called Choso.

Heat floods your cheeks as you lift a hand to stop him. “I like you a lot, Yuji, but God, I did not mean it that way.” This is mortifying. You can hardly look him in the eye. “One, I can take care of myself, so I won’t let you or anyone else hurt me. And two, before you give me this whole spiel about not being you that you’re afraid of, he won’t hurt me either. Or else he already would’ve, when I was smack dab in the middle of his Domain Expansion.”

Yuji’s chin drops to his sternum when you press your palm flat against the center of his chest. When he looks back up at you, there’s a deep, intense pain in his eyes. Nobody your age should ever have to bear it. He squeezes your fingers when you move your hand to weave through his. It almost hurts, but it’s the most human contact you’ve had in ages. You have a feeling it grounds him as much as it does you. “But…”

“Please. This is—it’s my fault too. Or the me from a thousand years ago, anyway.” Yuji makes a noise of puzzlement, and you stroke the back of his hand with your thumb. Chuckling sadly, you sigh. “It’s… kind of a long story. But I know Sukuna pretty well. I don’t think it would be too conceited of me to say I’m part of the reason he is the way he is. So it’s my fault. Give me—give me the chance to make this right.”

He doesn’t fully get it, but he doesn’t stay hung up on the confusion. Making it right is something he wants for himself, too, it seems. He was always so bright and sunny, yet now his shoulders slump with the weight of the world. Sukuna did this to him. The monster wouldn’t stop ruining everything he touched until he was gone. You know what you have to do.

It wasn’t by chance that Lady Otagi’s soul dwelled on this earth for a millennium. She had been waiting for something. Waiting for you, and waiting for him, to end this once and for all.

You take Yuji into your arms, squeezing him tight against you. You feel his nose press into your crown, and you shut your eyes, inhaling his scent. It’s hardly pleasant, ash and rubble and sweat, but you feel safe nevertheless.

“Yuji?” asks Choso uncertainly. “Little brother?”

Yuji lifts his head from yours, not breaking his hold on you. “She’s coming with us.”

And that’s that.

#itadori yuji x reader #yuji x reader #jjk x reader #jujutsu kaisen x reader #sukuna x reader #history lesson tag.#jjk fic.#hope yall appreciate me squinting at shibuya on google maps trying to figure out the scope of malevolent shrine lol

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xpuigc-bloc · 7 months ago

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COLOSSAL

While dense cities carry an air of extraversion on the surface, it doesn’t take much digging beyond this superficial layer to see that sometimes even the most crowded places can also be the most solitary. Keita Morimoto (previously) uncovers this double-edged experience through cinematic depictions of street scenes rendered in acrylic and oil paint.

Living and working in the world’s most populous city, the Tokyo-based artist has a firsthand understanding of what it means to traverse the paradoxical. “Meeting and getting to know people in the city, and observing how such a vibrant place can still isolate so many, has profoundly influenced my work,” says Morimoto. “These experiences have pushed me to explore deeper themes of connection and solitude.”

Morimoto’s subjects and cityscapes are guided by similar themes of contrast and opposition. Glowing vending machines, vacant phone booths, neon signs, and illuminated phone screens radiate against the darkness of night and place an emphasis on obscurity. What relationship do humans have to these mechanical objects, whether they are present within the composition or not? As multiple figures congregate on dark street corners and fix their eyes upon these lit devices, why do none of them interact? As the feeling of disconnect rises to the surface, Moriomoto’s painterly strokes mimic an almost pixelated effect, literally and figuratively highlighting a fractured point of view.

Morimoto is getting ready for a forthcoming solo show at Long Story Short in Paris and another at Almine Rech in New York City later this year. His first book release will also accompany a solo presentation of new works at GINZA SIX in Tokyo.

Colossal

#CITIES #KEITA MORIMOTO #LIGHTS #PAINTING #ORIGINAL ART #ARTIST PAINTER #ART #XPUIGC

#CITIES KEITA MORIMOTO LIGHTS PAINTING #original art #artist painter #art #xpuigc

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ultimateaclrecovery · 6 months ago

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Japan day 8 (this is from last November because I don’t believe in timelyness)

Tokyo and tea time!

Started the day at the museum because it was raining

Then explored a fancy mall in ginza and had soba noodles and fancy Japanese omelets with so much tea for lunch.

And then it was time for purple tea!! It was so very cute and delicious and I had so much fun. It was very Instagramable which was fun but also made me feel a little silly and I felt a little underdressed. But look at noomi! Noomi is the bear dressed as a unicorn in a teacup 🥺💜🥺 so fun!

We then get kebabs from a street stand for dinner. It’s fun because they are speaking Turkish to each other but then English and Japanese to customers. Pretty impressive.

We then go see the giant cat billboard which I love. I also love this restaurants street display (we didn’t even go there)

Overly long travel diary plus hotel musings

Day 8

Anthony paid for chicken from Lawson.

Anthony paid 1000 yen each museum fee.

Bit of a slow morning in our tiny hotel with some very good quality time.

The hotel rooms in Japan are often very tiny, with full beds pressed into the corner.

The exception being the onsen room which had a whole sitting area with chairs and then a raised dining room withsliding room dividers for dinner. The Osaka room was also unusually large for a Japanese hotel. That one had the weirdest bathroom setup. There was a toilet room and then the sink and counter where just in the room, but then the shower and bathtub where in their own tiled room with nothing else. Like you where just showering in a room with a drain not a separate shower stall.

We first head to a museum since it’s going to be raining in the morning. It’s not too bad out yet but definitely drizzling. The museum is filled with school children.

It’s the Tokyo national museum so almost all of it is Japanese which is nice. They have a couple of interactive exhibits. One is simply create your own stamp art, but the other is a video display where standing in certain places and waving your arms will reveal more art and more information. A lot of the museum information is in English in addition to Japanese although not all. We go through the main hall and then the hyrokium treasures room which has really old masks that are really cool.

The main hall had lots of Buddha statues and painted hangings or scrolls.

After the museum we head out to one of Japans best indoor shopping malls near our afternoon activity. It’s really pouring and we get pretty soaked on our under ten minute walk to the train station.

After the train it takes us awhile to actually find the shopping mall. All of the buildings are huge and full of stores. It is mostly fancy designer stores as this is a ritzy area.

We get lunch of slightly overpriced soba noodles and delicious (it’s so fluffy!) Japanese omelets. The place is very posh and they keep giving us tea which is nice.

We take in the roof top garden (which also has a skating rink) and then wander through the mall just sort of ogling all of the rich people stores. We don’t really go in any. And then it’s time for tea!

Art muesuem and then travel to Ginza six. Hard to find and overly fancy. Have soba noodles with chicken and egg. And Japanese omelette. Everything is so good but so hot that I keep burning my mouth. But I’m also too hungry to slow down. Walk around all the fancy stores and then it’s time for tea!! And noomi the bear dressed as a unicorn.

I booked a fancy tea because they had an adorable purple themed set. The set is just as adorable and purple as hoped. Although the place is pretty fancy and we feel a little underdressed. I take a bunch of fun food pictures but I feel a little silly awkward doing it, especially because my bf isn’t super into. And then the other table next to us is two girls dressed to the nines taking all of the perfect Instagram pictures.

All of the food is so purple and so perfectly dainty. Some of it is a little strange though, like samon tarte tarte that I give to my bf. The bear dressed like a unicorn sitting in a tea cup is perfect in every way. I also love white chocolate so I enjoy eating it. My favorite bite tho was the chocolate truffle lollipop.

After tea we walk around ginza some more and stop at a craft beer bar. I get “the yuzu thing” which is a wheat beer flavor with yuzu and it’s delicious.

And then on our way back to the hotel we make a quick pit stop at “” to see the giant 3D cat!! A giant billboard that goes around a corner and displays ads and also a giant car that meows and does cute things like drink milk, or chase yarn, or lick itself. It’s every bit as delightful as I hoped it would be.

We walk through the area a bit more. And see the golden(?) street with all its tiny bars, most of which have table charges and some which are members only. It’s pretty quite now because it’s like 6pm but it will be crazy later since a lot of those bars stay open until 5am apparently. The streets are so narrow and winding, def pedestrian only.

We head back to the hotel area and since we are still fairly full from tea decide to just get kebabs for dinner. I get a kebab/ gyro/ donner wrap and a grapefruit sour. My bf pays in cash. He has a debit card with zero atm fees or foreign fees so he’s been paying for most of the cash things.

Kebabs for dinner. Anthony pays 700 food, 400 grapefruit sour for me.

#Japan #travel diary #very late posting #day 8

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emaadsidiki · 1 year ago

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The Ginza of Glitz & Glamor. 🗼

#Street Scene #Ginza Six #Shopping Mall #Shopping #Night Lights #Ginza #Chuo #Tokyo #Japan

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tamanine · 3 months ago

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2024.10.13

映画『HAPPYEND』を見る。父の時代の学生運動のような雰囲気と、街の風景のクールな切り取り、存在感があり重厚な音楽の使い方から愛しいものとしてのテクノの使い方まで大変気に入り、今度会う人に渡そうと映画のパンフレットを2冊買う。その人と行った歌舞伎町時代のLIQUIDROOM、どんどん登らされた階段。小中学生の時に自分がした差別、あの分かっていなさ、別れた友人、まだ近くにいる人たち。

2024.10.14

銀座エルメスで内藤礼『生まれておいで生きておいで』、ガラスの建築に細いテグスや色のついた毛糸が映える。日が落ちて小さなビーズが空間に溶けていくような時間に見るのも素敵だと思う。檜の「座」で鏡の前にいる小さな人を眺める。「世界に秘密を送り返す」を見つけるのは楽しい。黒目と同じだけの鏡、私の秘密と世界の秘密。今年の展示は上野・銀座ともに少し賑やかな雰囲気、外にいる小さい人たちや色とりどりの光の色を網膜に写してきたような展示。でも相変わらず目が慣れるまで何も見えてこない。銀座にはBillie Eilishもあったので嬉しくなる。

GINZA SIXのヤノベケンジ・スペースキャットと、ポーラアネックスでマティスを見てから歩行者天国で夜になっていく空を眺めた。小さい頃は銀座の初売りに家族で来ていたので、郷愁がある。地元に帰るよりも少しあたたかい気持ち、昔の銀座は磯部焼きのお餅を売っていたりしました。東京の楽しいところ。

2024.10.18

荷造り、指のネイル塗り。足は昨日塗り済み。年始の青森旅行時、2泊3日の持ち物リストを作成し、機内持ち込み可サイズのキャリーに入れ参照可能にしたところ、旅行のめんどくさい気持ちが軽減された。コンタクトや基礎化粧品・メイク用品のリスト、常備薬、安心できる着替えの量。持ち物が少ない人間にはなれそうにない。日常から多い。部屋に「読んでいない本」が多いと落ち着くような人間は持ち物少ない人になれない。

2024.10.19

早起きして羽田空港。8:30くらいに着いたらまだ眺めのいいカフェが開いておらず、とりあえず飛行機が見える屋上に行く。このあと雨が降るはずの曇り空からいきなり太陽が照り出して暑くなり、自販機でマカダミアのセブンティーンアイスを買い、食べる。突然の早朝外アイス。飛行機が整列し、飛び立つところをぼんやりと眺める。飛行機は綺麗。昨夜寝る前にKindleで『マイ・シスター、シリアルキラー』を買って「空港ではミステリー小説だろう」と浮かれて眠ったのに、100分de名著のサルトルを読み進める。実存主義を何も分かっていないことをこっそりとカバーしたい。すみませんでした。

10：15飛行機離陸。サンドイッチをぱくぱく食べたあとKindleを手に持ったまま眠ってしまい、11：55宇部空港着。

宇部空港、国内線のロビーは小さく、友人にすぐ会う。トンネルを抜ける時、窓が曇り、薄緑色の空間に虹色の天井のライトと車のライトがたくさん向かって来て流れる。動画を撮影しなが��「綺麗くない？」と言うと「綺麗だけど本当は危ない」と言われる。かけるべきワイパーをしないで待っていてくれたんだと思う。

友人のソウルフードであるうどんの「どんどん」で天ぷら肉うどん、わかめのおにぎりを食べる。うどんは柔らかく、つゆが甘い。ネギが盛り放題。東京でパッと食べるうどんははなまる系になるので四国的であり、うどんのコシにもつゆにも違いがある。美味しい。

私は山口市のYCAMのことしか調べずに行ったので連れて行ってもらう。三宅唱監督の『ワイルドツアー』で見た場所だ。『ワイルドツアー』のポスターで見た正面玄関を見に芝生を横切ったが、芝生は雨でぐずぐずだった。でも全部楽しい。

広くて静かで素敵な図書館があり、心の底から羨ましい。小さな映画館もあり、途中入場できるか聞いたおじいちゃんが、「途中からだからタダにならない？」と言っていたがタダにはなっていなかった。一応言ってみた感が可愛らしい範囲。

YCAM内にあるのかと思っていたら違う倉庫にスペースのあった大友良英さんらの「without records」を見に行く。レコードの外された古いポータブルレコードプレーヤーのスピーカーから何がしかのノイズ音が鳴る。可愛い音のもの、大きく響く音のもの。木製や黄ばんだプラスチックの、もう存在しない電機メーカーの、それぞれのプレーヤーの回転を眺めて耳を澄ませてしばらくいると、たくさんのプレーヤーが大きな音で共鳴を始める。ずっと大きい音だと聞いていられないけれど、じっと待ってから大きな音が始まると嬉しくなる。プログラムの偶然でも、「盛り上がりだ」と思う。

山口県の道路はとても綺麗で（政治力）、道路の横は森がずっと続く。もとは農地だっただろう場所にも緑がどんどん増えている。私が映画で見るロードムービーはアメリカのも��が多く、あちらで人の手が入っていない土地は平らな荒野で、日本の（少なくとも山口県の）土は放っておくとすぐに「森」になるのだ、ということを初めて実感する。本当の森の中にひらけた視界は無く、車でどんどん行けるような場所には絶対にならない。私がよく散歩をする所ですら、有料のグラウンドやイベント用の芝生でない場所には細い道を覆い隠す雑草がモコモコと飛び出して道がなくなってゆく。そして唐突に刈られて草の匂いだけを残す。私が「刈られたな」と思っているところも、誰かが何らかのスケジュールで刈ってくれているのだ。

山口県の日本海側の街では中原昌也と金子みすゞが��こかしこにドンとある。

災害から直っていないために路線が短くなっているローカルの汽車（電車じゃない、電車じゃないのか！）に乗って夜ご飯へ。終電が18：04。霧雨、暴風。一瞬傘をさすも無意味。

焼き鳥に挟まっているネギはタマネギで、つきだしは「けんちょう」という煮物だった。美味しい。砂肝、普段全然好きじゃないのに美味しかった。少し街の端っこへ行くとたまに道に鹿がいるらしく、夜見ると突然道路に木が生えているのかと思ったら鹿の角、ということになり怖いらしい。『悪は存在しない』のことを思う。

2024.10.20

雨は止んでいてよかった。海と山。暴風。人が入れるように少しだけ整えられた森に入り、キノコを眺める。

元乃隅神社、123基の鳥居をくぐり階段を降りて海の近くへ。暴風でiPhoneを構えてもぶれて、波は岩場を越え海の水を浴びる。鳥居の上にある賽銭箱に小銭を投げたけれど届くわけもない。車に戻ると唇がしょっぱかった。

山と海を眺めてとても素敵なギャラリー＆カフェに。古い建物の改装で残された立派な梁、屋根の上部から太陽光が取り込まれるようになっていて素晴らしい建築。葉っぱに乗せられたおにぎりと金木犀のゼリーを食べる。美味しい。

更に山と海を眺めて角島へ。長い長い橋を通って島。古い灯台、暴風の神社。曇天の荒れた海も美しいと思う、恐ろしい風や崖を体感としてしっかりと知らない。構えたカメラも風でぶれるし、油断すると足元もふらつく風、窓につく塩の結晶。

山と海を眺めて香月泰男美術館へ。友人が見て良い展示だったからもう一度来て見せてくれたのだ。

全然知らなかったけれど、本当に素晴らしい絵だった。油彩なのだけど、質感が岩絵具のようで、フレームの内側に茶色のあやふやな四角が残っているのがとても良い。

フレーミングする、バチッと切り取ってしまう乱暴さから離れて、両手の人差し指と親指で四角を作って取り出したようなまなざしになる。

山口県の日本海側の山と畑と空の景色、荒い波、夜の静けさや月と雲、霧の色を見てから美術館へ連れて来てもらえたから色と色の境目の奥行きを知る。柿はずっしりと重く、花は鮮やかだ。香月泰男やシベリア抑留から帰ってきた画家で、この前読んだ『夜と霧』の暗さと冷たさを思い返した。絵の具箱を枕にして日本へ帰る画家が抱えていた希望、そのあとの色彩。　

夕飯は友人の知り合いのハンバーガー屋��んへ。衝撃のうまさ。高校生の時に初めて食べたバーガーキングの玉ねぎの旨さ以来の衝撃、20年ぶりだ。そんなことがあるのか。

2024.10.21

晴天。海は穏やかで、深い青、テート美術館展で見たあの大きな横長の絵みたい。初めて見た海の光。

海と山を眺めて秋吉台へ。洞窟は時間がかかるので丘を散策、最高。

風光明媚な場所にしっかりとした情熱が無かったけれど、「好きな場所だから」と連れていってもらえる美しい場所は、友人が何度も見るたびに「好きだなぁ」と思っただろう何かが分かり、それは私が毎日毎日夕陽を眺めて「まだ飽きない」と思っている気持ちととても近く、感激する。

今までの観光旅行で一番素敵だった。

道々で「このあと窓を見て」と教えてもらい、味わう。

ススキが風に揺れて、黄色い花がずっとある。山が光で色を変え、岩に質感がある。

山口市、常栄寺、坂本龍一さんのインスタレーション。お寺の庭園が見られる場所の天井にスピーカーが吊るされ、シンセサイザーの音を演奏しているのは色々な都市の木の生体信号だ。鳥の声や風の音と展示の音は区別されない。砂利を踏む音、遠くから聞こえる今日の予定。豊かなグラデーションの苔に赤い葉っぱが落ちる。

宇部空港はエヴァの激推しだった。庵野さん、私も劇場で見届けましたよ。

行きの飛行機は揺れたけれど、帰りは穏やかに到着、家までの交通路がギリギリだったため爆走、滑り込む。

東京の車の1時間と山口の1時間は違う。

何人かの山口出身の友人が通った空と道と海と山の色を知ることができてとても嬉しい。

「好きな場所」「好きな風景」ってどういうものなんだろう。

私が通う場所、好きな建築、好きな季節と夕陽。あの人が大切にしている場所に吹く風、日が落ちる時刻が少し違う、友人のいる場所。

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【展示告知】

小林望美個展「サナギュトリウム」

会期：2023年11月21日（火）〜12月3日（日）

11時〜19時※最終日17時まで

会場：MEDEL GALLERY SHU 愛でるギャラリー祝

〒100-0011 千代田区内幸町1-1-1帝国ホテルプラザ2F

入場無料

2023年の集大成となる個展です。どうぞよろしくお願いします🎨

＜展示ステイトメント＞

サナギュトリウム：さまざまな出来事を要因にサナギ化した人々が、ぶじ羽化する時を待つ場所（造語）

「自他の表裏一体性や親和性」を画題にモザイク画を制作する小林望美。その作風は石や、ガラス、貝殻などの小片を寄せ合わせてつくる装飾美術技法ではなく、写真のメディウム転写に始まり、ブロックノイズや低解像度の画像などから着想を得て変遷してきました。

2016年以降は木製パネルへ描いたモザイク画を彫刻刀で彫り、溝へ金属色を流し込むといった独自のスタイルを確立し、手掛ける作品は現在も進化変容を遂げています。小林のモザイク画は、現代社会とその中に存在する個人を細かなモザイク粒子とその集合体によって暗喩した作品が多く、彫る行為は個を明確に区分し存在を刻み込む意図で用いられてきました。

SNSを利用した広域での交流が容易となった現代社会において、各自が保有する当事者性から起こる主張や保護を巡る衝突は顕著になり、さまざまなキャンセルカルチャーやヘイトクライムがより盛んに巻き起こった2023年。現代を生きる作家として、本個展では彫る行為をいったん休め、調和や、安全な繭・サナギの中で新しい時代へ羽化する時を待つ人々を細かな粒子で表現しようと試みた新作を発表します。

＜プロフィール＞

小林望美 Nozomi KOBAYASHI

2014 群馬大学教育学部美術専攻卒業

2016 彫るモザイク画での活動を開始

以降、都内ギャラリーや百貨店でのグループ展を中心に活動を展開中

<個展>

2022「ユーフォトルビア404」MEDEL GALLERY SHU（東京）

2021「roll swipe connect」MEDEL GALLERY SHU（東京）

2019「ジェネリックラブ」八犬堂（東京）.

2018「夜底の惑星で、」Art Mall（東京）

2017「心辺に座礁」Art Mall（東京）

<受賞歴>

2017 第2回星乃珈琲絵画コンテスト佐藤俊介審査員優秀賞

2016 KENZAN2016 LOWER AKIHABARA賞

<メディア>

2022 月刊アートコレクターズ 12月号「日常、再発見」（新作グラビア掲載）

Cocco 25周年12thアルバム「プロム」ジャケットアートワーク担当

2022 雑誌「SWITCH」Vol.40 No.4 特集 Eve 廻人奇譚（「プロム」関連インタビュー掲載）

2021 歌集『変奏曲を編む』辻桂子 / 鷹志かれん著・編、求龍堂刊行（描き下ろし作品掲載）

2020 アートビジネスマガジン「ARTFULL」インタビュー掲載

2019 月刊美術6月号（「藝術集団 ARTpro」のエッジィな個性派×7 頁にて掲載販売）

2018 BSフジ「ブレイク前夜〜次世代の芸術家たち〜」第107回出演

2017 美術の窓6月号（「新人大図鑑2017」Art Mall推薦作家として掲載）

＜参加アートフェア＞

2023

「Study:関西大阪国際芸術祭 2023」MEDEL GALLERY SHU

2022

「ART TAIPEI」MEDEL GALLERY SHU

2019

「ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA」八犬堂

「Infinity Japan Contemporary Art Show」八犬堂

「ART EXPO MALAYSIA」八犬堂

2018

「ART FAIR TOKYO」八犬堂

＜近年参加グループ展＞

2023

「アートまみれ Vol.2 Part.1」Artglorieux of TOKYO GINZA SIX（東京）

「once more Jonathan Hadipranata & Nozomi Kobayashi」MEDEL GALLERY SHU（東京）

「大宴会的美術展 KENZAN2023」東京芸術劇 Gallery1

2022

「KOWAII展 Vol.XII」銀座新井画廊（東京）

「NEW SURFACE -新しい絵肌への挑戦-」大丸東京店（東京）

「EYES-portrait show-」MEDEL GALLERY SHU（東京）

「八犬堂京橋移展」八犬堂ギャラリー（東京）

「Artist! Artist! Artist! Matusya Contemporary Art Selection」松屋銀座（東京）

「art art arヤングアーティスト旋風2022」松坂屋名古屋店（愛知）

「変奏曲を編む刊行記念展」MARUZENギャラリー（丸善・丸の内本店、丸善京都本店、ジュンク堂書店福岡店他、巡回）

開通60周年記念「芸術作品に見る首都高展」Ｏ美術館（東京）

2021

「NEW SURFACE -新しい絵肌への挑戦-」大丸東京店（東京）、松坂屋名古屋店（愛知）

「家入一真コレクション展 “表現へのシナジー” 」awabar kyoto（京都）

「名作 REBORN展」松坂屋上野店（東京）

2020

「アートのチカラ」伊勢丹新宿店（東京）

「阪急×アートコレクターズニュースター達の美術展」阪急うめだ本店（大阪）

「ニュースターアートコレクション」松坂屋名古屋店（愛知）

「Artglorieux Selection」GINZA SIX（東京）

「名作 REBORN展」松坂屋上野店（東京）、松坂屋名古屋店（愛知）

「KENZAN2020」一般社団法人Jian主催 WEB展示会

「たんざ��展」銀座新井画廊（東京）、阿部敬四郎ギャラリー(宮城)

「納涼妖画展」丸善・丸の内本店（東京）

「ほころびとざんぞう」MEDEL GALLERY SHU（東京）

「フレンチチーズウォーク in 中目黒」MDP GALLERY、ビストロ13区

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