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2007年02月12日
IN THE HEART OF UENO PARK
Around 2:30 p.m.,I arrived at the station at Ueno and took the exit leading to the park. In the park,
gentle, bright sunbeams shone into the intermost reccesses of the woods,and quite a few people
were walking with a careless step, even though this wasn't vacation day.
I followed the movement and passed some students from a school of foreign languages, as well as
some office wakers who were taking a walk. The National Museum of Western Art was having an
exhibition of paintings from the Muees Royaux des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and in front of the
entrance, you could see an enlarged reproduction of Bruegel's Fall of Icarus, looking like a film
poster.The painting showed such a surprising skill that I stayed for brief moment to take it in.
I went past the museum and arrived in front of the zoo.On my right strecthed the square with a
fountain in the center, and the water was sparking in the sun.
On the other side of the square with streched a deep undergrowth, where here and there you could spot some structures that looked like little blue huts.
For a while I walked around the square,which was full of people. Hearing some faint laughter. I
realized that all these people bunched together were watching a performance:a practically naked
man whose body was powdered white and who was slowly assuming the pose of Rodin's THINKER,
or that the Buddha,or else a javelin thrower from ancient Greece.
TRANSLATED FROM THE JAPANESE BY CORINNE ATLAN
2007年02月10日
10月18日 IN THE HEART OF UENO PARK
午後2時半頃、私は上野駅に着いた。明るい穏やかな日差しが上野の森の隅々まで降りそそいでいて、休日でもないのにかなりの人数の人びとが軽やかに歩いていた。
私もその流れにのって歩いていくと外国語学校の生徒たちや先生に会ったり、散歩するOLに会ったりした。
国立西洋美術館ではベルギー王立美術館の絵の展示中で、入口には映画の看板のように大きく複製されたブリューゲルの「イカルスの墜落」があった。とても上手な看板だったのでびっくりして私はすこし
の間眺めていた。
美術館をすぎると正面に動物園の入口が見え、右側には広場があり、噴水がキラキラとひかっていた。
私はしばらく大勢の人と広場を歩いていた。微かな笑い声が起こり皆がながめているのは体中に真っ白い天花粉をつけて殆ど裸の男のバフォーマンスだつた。男はゆっくりロダンの考える人になったり、弥勒菩薩になったり、ギリシャの円盤投げをする人になつたりした。
つづく
2007年02月09日
wednesday 18 October
Is it because I watched a fantastic music program the night before on the Internet? At dawn, anyway, I had a weird dream. I was in a Kind of bulding. With an entrance full of colonnades and a room with a ceiling decorated with frescoes. An arm came out of the painted clouds and stretched
toward me at the sametime as the music toward a sky from which I had a vast and profound view of the world down below.