Me, 20 years from Now

こんにちはわたしひオブライアンケーシーです。にじゅうねん後にわたしはよんじゅうにになりあす。よんじゅうにさいのわたしはいじゅです。りよこうやしごとをします。かぞくとのせいかつはとてもたのしいっです。わたしはにほんへりょこうおします。どうもありがとう。

 わたしのまちのなまえシカゴ。シカゴがきれいとにぎやかとすてきです。 わたしわいまにゆーヨークにすんでいるです。にゆーヨークはシカゴよりおおきですがシカゴくりいなあです。
わたしはにゆーヨークとシカゴおあいする。
ここのまちのしゃしんです。


Chicago





New York

コロンビア大学でわたしは　じんるいーがく　（anthropology)をべんきゅ。
わたしはなまえのほんをよんでいます：

The Other Face of the Moon:

By: Claude Levi-Strauss

"

Gathering for the first time all of Claude Lévi-Strauss’s writings on Japanese civilization, The Other Face of the Moon forms a sustained meditation into the French anthropologist’s dictum that to understand one’s own culture, one must regard it from the point of view of another.
Exposure to Japanese art was influential in Lévi-Strauss’s early intellectual growth, and between 1977 and 1988 he visited the country five times. The essays, lectures, and interviews of this volume, written between 1979 and 2001, are the product of these journeys. They investigate an astonishing range of subjects—among them Japan’s founding myths, Noh and Kabuki theater, the distinctiveness of the Japanese musical scale, the artisanship of Jomon pottery, and the relationship between Japanese graphic arts and cuisine. For Lévi-Strauss, Japan occupied a unique place among world cultures. Molded in the ancient past by Chinese influences, it had more recently incorporated much from Europe and the United States. But the substance of these borrowings was so carefully assimilated that Japanese culture never lost its specificity. As though viewed from the hidden side of the moon, Asia, Europe, and America all find, in Japan, images of themselves profoundly transformed.
As in Lévi-Strauss’s classic ethnography Tristes Tropiques, this new English translation presents the voice of one of France’s most public intellectuals at its most personal."

After reading this book, I have become particularly interested in Japanese mythology; in consideration of Shinto (神道)

 and Buddhist traditions. The Shinto pantheon and its かみ are of particular interest. Levi's sections on Nogaku (能楽) and Kabuki かぶき theater have directed me to certain venues in NYC that take part in this form of theater.

PS: the name of this blog: "the white hair of inaba" is a particular myth discussed in this book, I highly suggest reading it as a starting point into Japanese mythologies.

じゃらしゅう！

わたしもアニメがすきです。I particularly prefer　subbed　to　dub　anime,　even　after　it　has　been　imported　to　the　western　audience.　

Examples of the sub is better animes (at least in my opinion):

 rurouni kenshin, yuyu hakusho, Trigun, Ghost in the shell, Redline, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, and perhaps to many others to mention.

More recently I have invested some time into watching a couple series like:

Shingeki No Kyojin, Code Geas, Sword Art Online.

However, as I am continually exposed to Japanese cultures, I look to expand my interests beyond just anime and music, but also to artists (painters, sculptures, digital art), writers, movies, theater（かぶき

 すきなにほんのみゅうじしゃん

Nujabes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O0kuoiAm2A

Uyama Hiroto  (宇山寛人)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIWmL6Q4ZcI

Force of Nature

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqeY2mEfNMk

Tsutchie (Shinji Tsuchida)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMn-c17y-Zs

DSK

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8JCPJbSgmA

Shing02

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGfguhnvECc

Nomak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oasfi6EDhqg

Kenmochi Hidefumi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbjwJ7GFgnE

Kenichiro Nishihara

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbjwJ7GFgnE

 きれいなおんがく

たばこおすいますか。
いいえ、すいません。
まいあさなにおたべませか。
たまごとバコンとスムージーたべます。

I really wish fruit in NYC wasn't so darn expensive.

私の誕生日は3月3日である。来年日本のレストランでてべたい。わたしはまきずし、にぎりすし、そしてぐんかんずしがすきです。



きれいすし no? おいし！