A FEELING OF THE SEASON

SEPTEMBER 2024

Sept.7-8: The Togoshi Ginza Annual Grand Festival was going on in the Togoshi Ginza Shopping Street from September 7-8. Autumn is when the hot summer is over, typhoons have passed and the weather is pleasant.

I bumped into the Mikoshi proceedings in the long shopping street. The festival was in full swing in the late afternoon. I pushed my way through a mass of spectators from everywhere to go to the shoe store to buy a sneaker, hearing the sound of drums beating and a cheer given while carrying a portable shrine in a parade.

It was fun watching the parade feeling the arrival of autumn.

Sept.3: Cloudy, rain later

I went to the Tokyo National Museum to see "Wang Yancheng's World – Contemporary Art" at the Hyokei-kan. Wang Yancheng is an internationally acclaimed artist known as "one of the Franco-Chinese representatives of lyrical abstraction". It was my first time seeing his artwork, and I was amazed. I was fascinated by the energy and vivid expression combined with delicate finesse, sensitivity, and movement inherited from calligraphy, all within an abstract Western style. It's worth a visit!

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Tokyo National Museum, HYOKEIKAN

"Wang Yancheng's World – Contemporary Art"

Sat. August 10 ~ Monday, September 9, 2024

Aug

Togoshi Ginza Grand Fesitval

INSHO-TEI, Ueno

HANAKAGO dish~Yuki
Tofu/Yuba(Soy milk skin)/Sashimi Konjac/Okura/Omelette/Herring/Taro root/Wheat seitan(Gluten) with sweet miso paste/Chicken and dried mango pate/Red Konjac/Pumpkin/Eggplant/Shiitake/Crab pate/Shrimp simmered in sake/Pickles/Vinegared lotus root/Steamed egg custard with sesame tofu inside/Soybean rice and Miso soup

JPY2,300.-