In past few weeks, not much has been happening. My usual life is just going to school and wondering about the language and its magical mysteries. It is such a complicated language. There are rules in the grammar, but every single day, there is an exception. And I am not joking; every rule has at least one exception. The language is quite flexible, so one teacher says one thing, and then other teacher says another. And both are correct. So it is very confusing language to learn.
Plus it is first language I learned where there is a past form of adjectives. Of course there are two types of adjectives (to make it more complicated) and they both have different way of changing into past form as well as negative form. And of course verbs, magical verbs, and particles, lovely particles, but I am not going into that.
So basically I have to drill a lot. Which takes me most of my free time afternoon.
Therefore I don’t go much out.
But last weekend we went with Mitsuyo to Tokyo, to see one exhibition with paintings. In the advert, it said, that it is exhibition of Vincent Van Gogh. So I was very excited about it. At the end we found out that they had only one painting from Van Gogh. So we laughed. Cause we expected a bit more. Most of the paintings there were from Seiji Togo, who is famous Japanese painter. I liked his paintings. Very clean colors and also nice tone and shades. The figure of woman in his paintings is so gentle.
To my surprise one of his sketches was a woman from Czechoslovakia from 1970. The rest of paintings have been Togo’s collection of other painters. Because he studied in France, he met many artists and probably bought some paintings too. So there was quite a lot of French painters and also one Picasso and Daubigny.
Of course the main thing was Van Gogh. But only one picture. It was replica of the 4th version of his Sunflowers (Tournesolos), 1888. And on left side of this painting there was one Cezanne, the Apples and napkin, 1879 and on right side was Gauguin’s painting, Lane at Alchamps, Arles 1988, which was my favorite. Such a nice colors of autumn, leaves falling on the ground. Beautiful and emotional.
After this exhibition we had a nice lunch in Italian restaurant and after that we went to another exhibition with underwater photographs. Really amazing photos from all around the world by David Doubilet. His photos are definitely worth of seeing.
After that we had lovely cake and cup of coffee and then we went to a big bookstore. Finally I found some books in English. I bought one book with drawings from M. C. Escher. He is one of my most favorite artists.
Well and then we went home. It was a nice day out full of art.
And of course back to school and drilling the verb forms.
Last month we wanted to go to SOPP (big peace ceremony), at Fuji Sanctuary, but Mitsuyo had a cold, so we stayed at home. So it will be the next big one I hope we will go to in July. In the last ceremony at Fuji Sanctuary, Masami Saionji said, that there will be another disaster coming to Japan. She asked all people to pray for the World Peace as much as possible. So if you can spare few thoughts for it that would be nice. Thank you.
May Peace Prevail on Earth.
