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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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).