The Sunday when Dan was in Nagoya and it was Earth Day

We walked and walked, walked in rain, could not find the things we were walking to but it was still very nice to walk in rain. We walked into the Nagoya Castle grounds and walked in the gardens. There we found a pretty modelsan who was making all sorts of bizzare faces that she thought were cute, sexy, seductive and what not and around her was a crowd of geeky looking photographers shooting shooting shooting, giving us smiley looks saying `This is good! Such good luck and you guys are so lucky you can see us in such unbelievably good luck...`. When I asked why are they doing it, for it did not look like a regular photoshoot with one model, one photographer and a bunch of cosmetic ladies, they said they would get money for the photos. I did not try to unravel the vagueness of it by asking any more questions.
Though I was very tempted...or more than tempted, I felt driven to do something slightly abusively amusing like join in the photoshoot and pull silly grimaces behind the pretty girl, but Dan was being rather normal and refused to join in my pursuit of fun which was not going to be fun if it was only me taking part. Humphr.
And so we walked on and walked some more, went to have another look at this year`s failure of the Earth Day celebration, met up with Dana for a coffee and watched the last beats of this year`s Earth Day`s last live, in the rain together with approximately twenty more people. It felt very lonesome. Just like the rest of the Earth Day event this year.
Dana went, and we went too. Again we walked and we walked into Matsuzakaya to pass the time between now and the time to go and see ex-kabuki master Harasan`s strange and enchanting performance at K.D. Japon. Walking in Matsuzakaya was almost as much fun as visiting Tiffany`s the day before, we went into all the super label shops and adored, criticized, in my case got bored with looking at, the ultimately fashinable worldly items. Oh but the best part indeed must have been playing golf at the golf club shop. First time in my life too!!! So much fun!!
And then we went to see the performance together with Ayachan and it was very impressive.
The music, the movements, the visual presentation, the ideas, the dialogues of which I understood maybe half and thus did lose quite a big part of the point of the narration, all this in one very colourful and overwhelming whole conveyed for me the Japan that I love. The dreamy, somewhat ghostly and unreal, old, simple, but too deep to understand Japan. The Japan of a rich beautiful mind that veils the modern loudness and smog.
It was an enlightening experience.