#Yuasa Keiko

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Wrapped Tight Together

Pre-Izumi/Keiko/Saori, 700+ words

“What are you doing here?”

“Sleepover. Duh.”

Saori’s face is bright and peppy as always, and so is Keiko’s slightly more wicked grin (but only visibly, the both of them are full of wiles as they are full of care, and they may drive her insane one day, but she may end up letting them), so Izumi concludes that she is very much in danger.

“That you planned last minute,” Izumi says, still in disbelief. She checks her clock. “At 10 in the evening. On a Tuesday.”

“Oh, you’re no fun,” Keiko says. She holds up a bag. “We brought food and everything.”

“Well, if you brought food,” Izumi jokes, but the others are already sitting down and setting up. She sighs. “Then sure. Why not.”

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"The Tatami Galaxy" Season 1 Episode 11, "The End of the 4½ Tatami Age" (2010)

Directed by Masaaki Yuasa

Cinematography by Keiko Ishizuka

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#53 Gamera: Super Monster - Noriaki Yuasa 1980

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Chris: Gamera Super Monster is the first Gamera film in 9 years and is mainly composed of clips from previous Gamera films, good to play in the background just for all the previous monsters’ clips in one film! Hmmmm….not great as a film in anyway, so only for kaiju fans, Watch: When Free.

Richie: You’re not missing anything if you skip it, Watch: When Free.

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ancora qualche immagine della mostra a Osaka, grazie al meraviglioso @ralphkiggell per avermi invitata ❤️ Posted @withregram • @ralphkiggell The small exhibition (Th)inking Black was held briefly at Gallery Ami-Kanoko in Osaka last week as part of a series of events alongside a conference themed around the historic city of Nara and the production of sumi ink and the connection with Japanese woodblock printing. The exhibition included prints by eight artists who incorporated sumi ink or black into their woodblock prints. Keiko Hara, Katsutoshi Yuasa @katsuyuasa1978, Ema Shin @ema.shin, Florence Neal @evergladepress, Mara Cozzolino @mara_cozzolino, Jacqueline Gribbin @jacquelinefgribbin, Wayne Crothers, and me. This exhibition was complemented by Kuro Noir, an exquisite portfolio of prints also featuring black and sumi by 14 International artists known as the Nagasawa 14. We showed together under the umbrella title Mokuhanga and Sumi, and as part of the conference Sumi-Fusion. (at Osaka, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXJAzFdogfJ/?utm_medium=tumblr

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10 Fiction Japanese Books

1. Convenience Store Woman “ incomparable story of Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident who has been working at the Hiiromachi “Smile Mart” for the past eighteen years. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but in her convenience store, she is able to find peace and purpose with rules clearly delineated clearly by the store’s manual, and copying her colleagues’ dress, mannerisms, and speech. She plays the part of a “normal person” excellently—more or less. Keiko is very happy, but those close to her pressure her to find a husband and a proper career, prompting her to take desperate action” by sayaka murata -176 pages- (barnesandnoble.com)

2. I Am a Cat “Written from 1904 through 1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat , satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era. With acerbic wit and sardonic perspective, it follows the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him.” by soseki natsume -480 pages- (barnesandnoble.com

3. The Makioka Sisters “Tsuruko, the eldest sister of the once-wealthy Makioka family, clings obstinately to the prestige of her family name even as her husband prepares to move their household to Tokyo, where that name means nothing. Sachiko compromises valiantly to secure the future of her younger sisters. The shy, unmarried Yukiko is a hostage to her family’s exacting standards, while the spirited Taeko rebels by flinging herself into scandalous romantic alliances and dreaming of studying fashion design in France. Filled with vignettes of a vanishing way of life, The Makioka Sisters is a poignant yet unsparing portrait of a family—and an entire society—sliding into the abyss of modernity. It possesses in abundance the keen social insight and unabashed sensuality that distinguish Tanizaki as a master novelist.” by junichiro tanizaki -544 pages- (barnesandnoble.com)

4. The Factory “In an unnamed Japanese city, three seemingly normal and unrelated characters find work at a sprawling industrial factory. They each focus intently on their specific jobs: one studies moss, one shreds paper, and the other proofreads incomprehensible documents. Life in the factory has its own logic and momentum, and, eventually, the factory slowly expands and begins to take over everything, enveloping these poor workers. The very margins of reality seem to be dissolving: all forms of life capriciously evolve, strange creatures begin to appear… After a while—it could be weeks or years—the workers don’t even have the ability to ask themselves: where does the factory end and the rest of the world begin?” by hiroko oyamada -128 pages- (barnesandnoble.com)

5. Once and Forever “Kenji Miyazawa is one of modern Japan’s most beloved writers, a great poet and a strange and marvelous spinner of tales, whose sly, humorous, enchanting, and enigmatic stories bear a certain resemblance to those of his contemporary Robert Walser. John Bester’s selection and expert translation of Miyazawa’s short fiction reflects its full range from the joyful, innocent “Wildcat and the Acorns,” to the cautionary tale “The Restaurant of Many Orders,” to “The Earthgod and the Fox,” which starts out whimsically before taking a tragic turn. Miyazawa also had a deep connection to Japanese folklore and an intense love of the natural world. In “The Wild Pear,” what seem to be two slight nature sketches succeed in encapsulating some of the cruelty and compensations of life itself.” by kenji miyazawa -288 pages- (barnesandnoble.com)

6. The Lonesome Bodybuilder “A housewife takes up bodybuilding and sees radical changes to her physique, which her workaholic husband fails to notice. A boy waits at a bus stop, mocking commuters struggling to keep their umbrellas open in a typhoon, until an old man shows him that they hold the secret to flying. A saleswoman in a clothing boutique waits endlessly on a customer who won’t come out of the fitting room, and who may or may not be human. A newlywed notices that her spouse’s features are beginning to slide around his face to match her own.” -224 pages- by yukiko motoya (barnesandnoble.com)

7. Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination “Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination , the first volume of its kind translated into English, is written with the quick tempo of the West but rich with the fantasy of the East. These nine bloodcurdling, chilling tales present a genre of literature largely unknown to readers outside Japan, including the strange story of a quadruple amputee and his perverse wife; the record of a man who creates a mysterious chamber of mirrors and discovers hidden pleasures within; the morbid confession of a maniac who envisions a career of foolproof "psychological" murders; and the bizarre tale of a chair-maker who buries himself inside an armchair and enjoys the sordid "loves" of the women who sit on his handiwork.” by edogawa rampo -224 pages- (barnesandnoble.com)

8. The Kouga Ninja Scrolls “To resolve a clash over succession, the shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa has devised the ultimate contest. Two rival ninja clans, the Kouga and the Iga, will meet in a battle to the death. The victor will rule Japan for the next thousand years. But in the midst of this bloody war, an unlikely romance blooms between Gennosuke of the Kouga clan and Oboro of the Iga clan. Gennosuke and Oboro are the next leaders of their clans and their fates are inextricably bound with that of their families. In the colossal fight, the star-crossed lovers are faced with a fatal choice between true love and destiny. Can romance conquer a four-hundred-year-old rivalry? Or is their love fated to end in death?” by futaro yamada -336 pages- (barnesandnoble.com)

9. Togakushi Legend Murders “When the body of one of Nagano Prefecture's most prominent businessmen is found propped against a tree on Poison Plain, home of the legendary Demoness Maple, Inspector Takemura finds himself searching for the killer with the help and hindrance of an esteemed Tokyo professor and a beautiful university student. As the bodies begin to multiply in the sleepy mountain town of Togakushi, the three learn that the resemblance of the murders to those of regional folklore is more than a coincidence.” by yasuo uchida -312 pages- (barnesandnoble.com)

10. Confessions of Love “In this novel Uno Chiyo has created one of the most memorable love stories in Japanese literature. It is the story of Yuasa Jōji, a famous artist who returns to Japan after many years in Paris. Once back in Tokyo, he receives love letters from a fervent young woman who begs him to meet her--importunings that start him on a bizarre round of romantic adventures. Writing here at the height of her powers, one of Japan’s foremost women writers explores both the folly and the inevitability of human passion, leading the reader to a startling revelation of how lives can be destroyed by the compulsions of love.” by chiyo uno -168 pages- (barnesandnoble.com))

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keiko yuasa / IN THE STORE 湯浅景子 色を塗り、線を掻き、み色を重ねて塗りつぶす。 それを繰り返しながら、ひとつの景色が立ち現れるのを待ちます。 #keikoyuasa #湯浅景子 #湯浅景子展 #restaurantcultivate #seedbedgallery #souvenirshop (Restaurant Cultivate（レストラン カルティベイト）) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXPyGIolHry/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Creativas mujeres en el anime

Se suele insultar al anime diciendo que es una industria por y para gordos violines llena de lolis y menores sexualizadas para que los otaku se compren las almohadas esas, es verdad...pero no toda la verdad. También tiene una importante base femenina (en general alrededor de lo fujoshi) y en los últimos 20 años explotó la cantidad de mujeres que trabajan dentro de la industria al punto que en alguna entrevista oshii bromeo que el estudio de animación Production I.G. ahora está solo conformado de “mujeres jóvenes” esta lista tiene algunas de las más importantes.

Para una discusión más completa sobre la discriminación recomiendo este post de sakugabooru sobre algunas de las primeras directoras y animadoras del anime y si buscan kyoani en el buscador de ese mismo blog cualquier artículo sobre ese estudio va a tener menciones a animadoras o directoras por la cantidad de mujeres que laburan ahi. También está Ghibli que desde finales de los 90s en adelante siempre cuenta con gran número de mujeres en sus películas como animadoras, coloristas, etc. 

Rie Matsumoto

Matsumoto empezó en Toei dirigiendo un par de cosas para el anime del genero magical girl Pretty Cure pero sus dos próximos trabajos son Kyousogiga y la primera temporada de Blood Blockade Battlefront (no dirigió la segunda) ambos shonen con personajes carismáticos y escenas de pelea animadas con mucha destreza y creatividad visual. Si le entras a otros shonen como Hunter x Hunter o fullmetal alchemist entrales de una que encima son re cortos y de los mejores anime de la década de los 2010s.

Naoko Yamada

Yamada es la directora estrella de Kyoani, dirigió K-On, Tamako Market y últimamente dos grandes películas del estudio A Silent Voice: The Movie y Liz and the Blue Bird. Si te gusta el moe y el buen melodrama que desata esas emociones escondidas en los gestos y espacios vacíos de importancia narrativa que suelen ser ignorados en el anime ella es la mejor en un género que a mi no suele gustarme.

Mari Okada

Okada es primariamente una guionista, escribió una bestialidad de series y no me gusta casi ninguna pero son de las más exitosas de los últimos 15 años asi que algo debe tener. entre las famosas están Anohana: The flower we saw that day (anime estrella del 2011) Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron Blooded orphans, Kiznaiver, Toradora y varios capitulos de Lupin the third: The woman called Fujiko mine, dirigida por Sayo Yamamoto. Pero su mayor logro es su único laburo de directora Maquia: When the promised flower blooms un drama-aventura-fantástico con dragones y relaciones maternas y coso.

Sayo Yamamoto

Yamamoto tuvo sus primeros laburos importantes dirigiendo unos cuantos episodios de Samurai Champloo, la serie de (me paro) SHINICHIRO WATANABE. Sus anime son narrativas relativamente realistas para lo que suele ser el anime o al menos no fantasticos. Una mezcla de temáticas sexuales y feministas con roces con lo LGBT es la que tiene más en común con las películas tradicionales de esta lista. Michiko To Hatchin y The Woman Called Fujiko Mine son absolutamente recomendadas si te gustan los anime de Watanabe o el cine de drama/crimen. Su última serie (Yuri On Ice) la hizo una de las directoras más populares de la industria pero a mi no me cabe tanto.

Yoko Kanno

Kanno es una compositora-productora musical. Hizo la musica para Cowboy bebop, anime dirigido por (me paro) SHINICHIRO WATANABE, tambien la musica de Ghost in the Shell: stand alone complex, darker than black, Wolf’s rain, Earth Girl Arjuna, Turn a Gundam, Brain Powerd, Escaflowne, Magnetic Rose, Macross Plus (otra de Watanabe), entre otros. Sus soundtracks son una bestialidad de lo numerosos y lo buenos que son y hace todo bien esta señora es una genia indiscutible del universo.

Keiko Nobumoto

Nobumoto es una guionista y una parte fundamental del éxito inicial de (me paro) SHINICHIRO WATANABE en los 90s. Escribió Macross Plus, Cowboy Bebop (serie y película) Wolf’s Rain y para Satoshi Kon escribió la película Tokyo Godfathers, una maestra del setting y del personaje y hasta se dio el lujo de ser asistente de producción en Akira. 

Una de las razones que se le perdona la poca importancia que le da Watanabe a sus personajes femeninos es que en una industria machista como el anime en un país tan machista como Japon no dudo en darle amplia libertad artística y roles de importancia a gente como Nobumoto, Kanno y Yamamoto. Hoy en 2020 cuando el anime para adultos es cada vez más raro frente a la catarata de Moe se aprecia los temas complejos y delicados que tocaron estas 3 señoras

Eunyoung Choi

Choi es una productora-asistente de producción-animadora-directora-asistente de dirección que trabaja primariamente en el estudio Science Saru del que es su fundadora junto con el director de este estudio y estos anime, Masaaki Yuasa. Recientemente Yuasa dejó de ser el CEO del estudio para dedicarle mas tiempo a la direccion asi que Choi hoy en día es la capitana de uno de los mejores y más interesantes barcos de la industria. Entre sus trabajos están Kemonozume, Kaiba, Tatami Galaxy, Ping Pong the Animation, Devilman Crybaby (que esta en netflix), Keep your hands off eizouken y las películas Lu: over the Wall y Ride your Wave. Es decir, si buscas una animación atada con alambre que parece descarrilar en cualquier momento y de algún modo a tropiezos es una obra de arte deberias mirar algo de esto, el 9 de julio en netflix se estrena la próxima serie del estudio: Japan Sinks 2020

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otras directoras de Anime son Atsuko Ishizuka, Chiaki Kon, Ai Yoshimura y Kotomi Deai pero sus series no me gustan tanto asi que las relego a las notas al pie (?) 

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お知らせ/ Notice

Keiko Yuasa Exhibition, which will be held from April 10, has been postponed.

４月１０日から３日間開催予定の「湯浅景子・展覧会」は延期となりました。

密閉・密集・密接な会ではないので、やれる方法はいくつかあるかと思い、 感染予防などイベント時のガイドライン等、かたい頭ひねくり返しいろいろと模索してみましたが、 作家の湯浅景子さんともお話しして、 何かに怯えながら、気にしながらの開催は気持ちよくないというのが一番の理由です。 今ここではないのかと。

沖縄県内の感染者数は、メディアの発表ではまだ少ない状況です。

湯浅さん自身、沖縄県外からやってくるということ、 もしかしたら無症状で感染してる可能性もあるということで、 自身が感染源になってしまう可能性も考慮すると、、、気持ちよくいられない。 ご来場いただいた皆さんと作品についてのあれやこれやもお話したくさんしたいですし。 またのいい機会を秋頃にはっと目論んでいます。

この延期期間に、さらなる新作が増えるのも楽しみでありますし、 来ていただくみなさんが楽しく、あれもこれもよかったぁ〜と満足いくイベントへと脇を固める私たちも、それぞれ磨きをかけるいいパワーアップ期間にしたいと思っております。

ブラッシュアップされた、またの開催を楽しみにしていただければ幸いです。

その時は、ぜひお出かけください！っと自信を持って大声で叫べる、 ナイス🤟展示会になっているかと思います。まずはそこへ向かいます。

どうぞよろしくお願いします。

というわけではないのですが、ギターを練習するぞーっと新しく弦を購入しました。

*ご宿泊の受付は、現在通常通り承っておりますが、今後状況によって変更する可能性がございます。 またその際はお知らせいたします。