It was my birth-day the other. 26. Fuck!
Mizuki took me out for dinner that night after work. Tried to find a restaurant called Ko-Ke-Kokko (the sound of a Japanese chicken,) but it was out of business. Just a dark pit in the ground. Really. So instead we tried Torigen which was suitably dingy and relatively inexpensive yakitori.
A few days before I had met with Misaki and talked about this comic for a few hours, sitting in a school built in 1921 and designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. Jiyugakuen Myonichikan. A quiet, beautiful building. It reminded me of Edwardian Australian schoolhouses, all polished wood and hard chairs and real slate blackboards. I felt transported back to country WA for a few hours. The light was beautiful and we got coffee with free fruit cake and cookies! Yeah!
A fascinating mural in the main hall was uncovered recently underneath the plaster. Painted by the students, a bible scene from Exodus: 13. A column of fire precedes the march of the Israelites towards/into the Red Sea. Hebraic writing tops the mural, presumably a quotation. I was struck by the oddness of the picture's construction: the sky/sea cuts into the land and the human figures walk behind it. Proto-cubism by Japanese schoolgirls?
Hauru no Ugoku Shiro opens next Saturday: shall not miss...
Thinking about Law...
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