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[yoooko-o]

15/09/2022 part5

[bunsakashitaamericapaintings]

Waiting for flight HAC 2734 Kushiro Airport Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan

JAL operated Hokkaido Air System Co (HAC) Kushiro airport 16:30 (HAC2734) to Shin Chitose airport (Sapporo) 17:20 Thursday June 4 2009 Watercolor on Paper 9" x 12"

[miistical]

week seven - japan

Took a week for the midterms, but now we’re on to the latter half of the semester! I’m a big fan of Japanese media (I’m currently working my way through a Haruki Murakami novel as we speak, who just so happens to be on this week’s list), so I was definitely interested in what some of these other writers have to say.

This week’s stories were: Yasunari Kawabata’s “One Arm” Yukio Mishima’s “Patriotism” Haruki Murakami’s “UFO in Kushiro” Seirai Yūichi’s “Insects”

As I stated in the beginning, I am already aware of Haruki Murakami and his work. While reading, I did my best to divorce my existing opinion of Murakami’s controversial writing proclivities (how he writes his female character is down-right criminal). Did I achieve that? Well... this week’s main theme is about how each of these authors write about the narrators’ relationships with the women in their life.

So, uh, no. Probably not.

The first story in Yasunari Kawabata’s “One Arm”, a very descriptive and surreal piece that fits nicely with the rest of Kawabata’s artistic endeavors. It also includes one of the creepiest narrators in this batch of stories. All of the woman in “One Arm” are tainted in some way according to the narrator. This alone is not noteworthy until you incorporate his reaction to the girl he gets the arm from as well as the arm itself. He treats the girl as if she’s a perfect specimen, soon to be “tainted” just like the other women in his life (whether or not they actually exist or if they’re all in his mind). It is not the girl that keeps him company, that he wants as a part of himself, but rather only the “best” part of her; he doesn’t really see her or any other woman as a whole person, but rather as parts with some more desirable than others. They are people, but only in a distant, alien way.

Thankfully, the next story is Yukio Mishima’s “Patriotism”. For a man described as being obsessed with beauty, eroticism, and death, he really does knock it out of the park here. The title is in reference to both the husband’s (Shinji) loyalty to the Imperial family and his wife’s (Reiko) loyalty to him. The language in the story backs this up and even though this is a translation, Mishima’s mastery over words is obvious. Shinji is constantly referred to as “the lieutenant” in his narration, showing that he feels his truest self to be his military rank—the very reason he is ceremonially killing himself. This honor follows Reiko as well. Unlike the women in “One Arm”, Reiko has all the agency in the world. She follows her husband in death because it is what she believes is right and Shinji trusts her with this decision; it goes beyond, even, when he wants her to die after him. This works as him not wanting to be in a world without her and trusting she won’t go back on her word to join him in death. There really is love here, in life and death.

Sadly the love in “Patriotism” does not extend to “UFO in Kushino” by Haruki Murakami. To be fair to this story, I don’t think Murakami has ever written a woman normally. At least in this story I can blame it all on the narrator. Komura is either completely blind or utterly ignorant of the fact that women are people who have extensive lives outside of how they look of their relationship with him. However, when you’re able to look past Komura’s general unpleasantness, there is a sense of something softer than unease, but more brutal than confusion. The main brunt of the story revolves around Komura’s wife, who might be gone at her family’s home or dead. As a reader, it’s impossible to tell which is real—did she leave abruptly because she was unhappy with their marriage, or did Komura convince himself that that is the case? Are the women he meets at the airport actually real or is he imposing his grief onto them? It’s all very ambiguous—another thing Murakami is known for.

Lastly is “Insects” by Seirai Yūichi, an award winning novelist for books with far more important messages than this little short story. While “Patriotism” had great narration, I appreciated the narrator of “Insects” due to how much character she has. Jealousy isn’t a good look on anyone, but I love someone who is deeply petty. In this story, the narrator is a woman recalling the life she had while pining for a taken man for years. The man, Sasaki, only shows up in flashbacks as the woman and Sasaki’s wife are planning his funeral. The narrator goes back and forth on which woman truly knew him: his years-long wife or his one-time mistress? It’s an interesting claim to make as the narrator does know a side to Sasaki that his wife never knew existed; that a part of him would always be outside of her. Who are either of these women outside of Sasaki? Who would they be without his influence on their lives? What parts of themselves did they tear away for a man that didn’t show who he really was to either of them?

Only one of the women this week really knew who she was or what she wanted from the man in her life; “Patriotism’s” Reiko knew what she was going to do with her husband and then did it confidently and thoughtfully. “One Arm” focuses solely on how the narrator picks and chooses what parts of women he wants while completely disregarding the woman as a whole. Both the women in “UFO in Kushino” and “Insects” are forever tied to the man in their life—we will only ever know of Komura’s wife through his eyes, of what she was to him rather than who she was to her, and both the mistress and the wife will never get over Sasaki and who was most important to him. For the women in “Insects”, Sasaki will never die because they have carved so much of him into themselves. It’s a lot to think about, how people’s perception can change the way they view the entire world - and how those perceptions can ruin them, again and again.

[yosuke-otani]

雨の釧路空港☔️✈️ Rainy Kushiro Airport ☔️✈️ #airport #kushiro #hokkaido (at ANA 釧路空港 - Kushiro Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgV4YLxrP3V/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[takabo77]

Since I arrived at Kushiro Airport, I drank beer, ate ramen, and waited for the flight time. 釧路空港に着いたから、ビール飲んでラーメン食べて、フライト時間を待ちます。 #airport #kushiro #officer #maritimeofficer #sailor #seamenslife #lifeonship #船上生活 #船員 #海技士 #船乗り #釧路空港 (たんちょう釧路空港) https://www.instagram.com/p/CMtwU0rJWKr/?igshid=15tu9ikcffkqp

[chaletnz]

Eastern Hokkaido Day 1: Obihiro & Kushiro Marsh

After two months of a noisy wheel bearing, finally Kimbo had his 60,000 yen repair job done and was running like a whole new car! I folded down the back seats and packed it all up with everything I’d need for a week away including a lot of futons. At 6am I picked up Martina, a friend of my housemates that I would drop at the airport on the way east. She fit her stuff in around my bedding and we set off, making good time while chatting about her home country Chile and South America and we reached the airport in just 2 hours! I gassed up and hit the road without stopping to get to Obihiro by 11:30am where I had a little bit of a walk to get from the convenience store carpark to Butadon Pancho which had been hand-picked for lunch. Apparently this restaurant is home to the original Japanese pork rice bowl – and actually that is the only thing on the menu! The waitress pulled out the chair for me and brought me water, tea, and my butadon with 5 slices of pork freshly prepared. The prices in the menu were also in Japanese so I had no idea what it would cost, but I blocked out that thought as I enjoyed my rice bowl with the delicious sweet sauce. The place slowly started to fill up as I was finishing – I guess many businessmen come here for lunch regularly. It cost just over 1000 yen but it was well worth it! Around the corner I visited Hoccino Coffee for a takeaway which was surprisingly good and the lady was so friendly, she even took the time to handwrite “thank you” on my cup and draw a smiley face. Bless her! The next drive was directly to Kushiro Marsh to walk the boardwalk and get some photos. I took the long path around the wetland which was a 4km track that was meant to take about an hour. The first part of the track went through the forest which was covered with a lot of trees and bushes, I was quite scared of bears since I was alone and didn’t want to end up a ‘mauled by a bear’ statistic in Japan! Obviously I had not prepared enough to have a “bear bell” so I walked along clapping as I had read online might deter bears from attacking – lucky I didn’t encounter any so maybe it worked? Eventually I found a good spot to try and take some timer photos of myself posing on the boardwalk but my dumb phone made every single photo blurry and I could not figure out how to fix it! On the final stretch I saw some deer chilling in the marsh and they froze and stared at me approaching. It was a bit of a standoff for a while and once I reached a point just a little too close they all bounced away with just the sight of their fluffy white bums bobbing off into the distance. I visited another viewpoint and then ventured into Kushiro city to go to a big mall, mostly in search of bagel buns but also because I felt like having KFC for dinner. There were so many loud obnoxious schoolkids in the food court and I felt their judging eyes watching me eat KFC. I think one girl even took a photo of me trying to look covert as she got up to walk directly past me with her phone held in my face. When I emerged from the mall it was dark and foggy, so I began my 2 hour drive to Lake Onneto which was my designated place to spend the first night. The streets were pitch black and I saw sign after sign warning me about deer. I’m not sure why, but I had always imagined that deer would run out from the trees onto the road super quickly and you’d hit them in action but in fact they just stand in the middle of the road. The first one I almost hit and then I was more cautious which was lucky because I came across about 12 of them just around a bend and they stared at me driving up with that dumb deer-in-the-headlights look (I can see where the term originates...) until I honked to get them to scatter into the forest again. I tried to capture them on video but every time I started filming I didn’t come across any more! I took a twisty turn road for another 10 minutes or so to reach a huge parking lot at the end, I drove a circle of it to take in the surroundings and was surprised at what my headlights discovered – a toilet building! I parked in a tree-lined corner and used my phone torch to lead the way to the toilet to brush my teeth. It turns out that it was boarded up so I began the frightening walk back to the car in the pitch black with insects flying around my small light. I brushed my teeth with bottled water and tried to get comfortable on the futons I had set up in the mall carpark earlier, presuming correctly that I would be in complete darkness for the night. It was quiet, and I could stretch out just enough to be comfortable.

[aapabroad]

I went on a trip to Kansai, specifically the Osaka, Kyoto, and Nara areas. This is a picture from the Kushiro airport.

[kentaphoto]

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※日本語は下部にあります。

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[yskutminjp]

久々にAIR DOに乗った！ ベア•ドゥがこっちを向いている！ 飛行機小さい.... オツカレデス #airdo #エアドゥ #ベアドゥ #airplane #飛行機 #b737700 #釧路たんちょう空港 #オツカレデス (ANA 釧路空港 - Kushiro Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Sw35Sgt0F/?igshid=d8uqgv58b9os

[junesato]

青い飛行機は久々かも… (ANA 釧路空港 - Kushiro Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc93ccaPqe7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fsravine]

#釧路空港 から帰るが、いつも暗い時間に来てるから気が付かなかったが #シマフクロウ のオブジェがドーン！と かなりの迫力！ 世界最大の #梟 らしく、羽根を広げると170cmにもなるんだって 更に #たんちょう釧路空港 の名前の由来にもなってる #たんちょう のオブジェも なんかお��産まで #つるべい とか買わないけど���😁 #世界三大夕日 の #釧路 だけど、空港は普通の夕日だった 今週も1,600km走ってようやく終わりだなぁ〜 (ANA 釧路空港 - Kushiro Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca9pdTILM3R7sEcr_kBlsHNEmoJKBDsEFjXdEs0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[airmanisr]

Boeing 737-781 ‘JA11AN’ Air Do by Alan Wilson Via Flickr: c/n 33882, l/n 2268 Built 2007 for All Nippon Airways and transferred in 2014 Seen departing on flight HD73 / ADO73 to Kushiro Haneda International Airport Tokyo, Japan 21st March 2019

[mood-addiction]

釧路から飛びますー！ 初の釧路空港！ (ANA 釧路空港 - Kushiro Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4EIOiCFcxT/?igshid=1elgaaihljicg

[northinc]

釧路のB級グルメと言えばスパカツ。カロリー気にせず食べちゃいましたが、サラリーマン風な人は合言葉のようにスパカツを注文してた。 (ANA 釧路空港 - Kushiro Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Xb6WOgFSE/?igshid=k5s9kg2vusmr

[kapppppe]

北海道の翼できたよ✈ #エアドゥ #ベアドゥ #釧路 #KUSHIRO #所長に会えず (ANA 釧路空港 - Kushiro Airport)

[fulfill-jp]

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合間にくしろからのHAC2862便が到着。 #japan #hokkaido #sapporo #kushiro #airplane #airport #札幌航空ページェント #丘珠空港 (Okadama Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/BmXYKLxHD2z/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=u1gxhm3lou0s