Kansai dandy

[imomus]

Off to Kyoto for the weekend -- sporting a gaudy new eyepatch, rowrrrrr -- for an art opening, a museum show of Modern Style in East Asia, a somewhat crappy matsuri, and a film festival. Plus of course visits to the Cafe Independent and Keibunsha Books.

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[(Anonymous)]

Oops ... looks like I missed a chance to shake your hand, Nick. I was in media shop on Saturday early evening doing a little tachiyomi. As I turned to leave I was a bit surprised to see a hen na gaijan close by. Didnt recognize you from the profile view. Now that I see that media shop was on your itinerary and what you were wearing, I realize that dandy must have been you. Sorry, next time Ill be sure to greet you.

Cheers,

- M

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Tachiyomi, that's a good word. 'Reading books or magazines in a bookshop, standing up, not buying', Hisae tells me.

Sorry I missed you.

[(Anonymous)]

Tachi-yomi - one of my favourite activites. Media shop and Keibunsha are good places for it, as are some of Kyoto's excellent antiquarian book shops. Maruzen not as good but not bad - they have a pretty good selection of philosophy books in English, another place I'm sometimes found lingering.

I briefly considered entering the next door "Art Zone" which would have meant stumbling upon that opening party. However the last exhibition I saw there was pretty lame. The Mammoth thing looks pretty good though. What I was after in Media Shop was a volume of Bonnard's paintings. But as usual I was distracted by other books and when I eventually made my way to the back of the shop where books on painting are, it was time to leave for a machi-awase (another nice word).