2020 January Japan. 1/5/2020 Part 2 of 3 - Out and About - Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts and Culture
2020 January Japan. 1/5/2020 Part 2 of 3 - Out and About - Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts and Culture
Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts and Culture, SAMAC, formerly Shigureden. (Picture of Katsura river). This place was beautiful and had many Japanese and non-Japanese tourists but...
For one purpose I came here
Chihayafuru
the karuta anime
how satisfying it is
So glad I came here today.
There are plenty of "competition" anime about more traditional sports but the ones about competitive karuta (ex chihayafuru), shogi (ex sangatsu no lion), mahjong (ex. saki, akagi) always intrigued me more. Perhaps because they is a significant portion of the game that is intellectual and mental.
Chihayafuru is one my favorite competition anime, and in general one of my favorites.
In Chihayafuru season 3 episode 9, Chihaya goes on her class trip to Kyoto and visits the museum for the "Hundred Poets/ Ogura Hyakunin Isshu" and it was an interesting part of the show about competitive karuta.
I took pictures of almost the entire exhibit, and pictures of poems that I liked reading here... including #17 (Chihayaburu...), Chihaya's best card in Chihayafuru (though from what I know from the anime the english translation seems a bit off - https://chihayafuru.fandom.com/wiki/Ogura_Hyakunin_Isshu). I even remembered to take pictures of myself.
These poems are so intense, romantic (in various definitions) and have that Japanese sense of "aware"
"Waka" poems are perfect examples of self imposed constraints for the sake of art. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing . This also reminded me of the business book "Beautiful Constraint"
There was another exhibit by Takehisa Yumzi... which I honestly didn't care about, but I thought that was dumb and I should look since I was there.
I colored this drawing, for which I got a postcard for. I went for the Godai colors (at least the colors I learned).
I thought I would not buy anything to take home this trip (besides ones to help me get around) but I bought this karuta card set and English translation copy of the 100 poets' poems... you know... to read and learn in all of my un-spare time.
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