#bigaku

[vixensreiha]

[WACTOR] Saohime Yue by 美学 (@bigaku)

[elizabethanism]

This haiku by Buson (1716-83) shows the Japanese sense of beauty (bigaku) based on 'mono no aware' or "the intense feeling for things ephemeral"

This haiku has 'ma' or "empty spaces", unwritten silences in between words, silences pregnant w/ meaning which the reader must fill in

[jgthirlwell]

06.01.18 Marginal Consort are collective improvisation group founded by members of East Bionic Symphonia, an outfit assembled from students of Fluxus artist Takehisa Kosugi’s class at the radical Bigaku school of aesthetics in Tokyo in the ‘70s. Meeting only once each year since their formation in 1996, Marginal Consort discuss nothing before their annual performances, preferring to gather as a collective of horizontally organized independent solos rather than a cohesive goal-oriented ensemble. The start and end times are the only fixed elements in their long-form happenings, usually lasting two-to-four hours and featuring the players spread out across the performance space, distant enough to concentrate on perfecting their own work without distraction.

They staged an excellent performance at Pioneer Works, presented by Blank Forms. The participants for the happening were Taj-Mahal Traveller Kazuo Imai, engineer Kei Shii, artist and Gap member Masami Tada, and musician Tomonao Koshikawa. 

[iartbetterthanyourmom]

Practicing late 80′s anime aesthetics. More to come.

[yumioguro]

美学やそれを超えるもの

「山登りの美学やそれを超えるような話になる」と言われたのが私にはまだ理解ができていないが、なんとなく、そこを目指しているのかもしれない。

とはいえ、今の私は、世界の8000m級の山に登るような登山家でもなければ、山小屋に泊まったことも一度しかない。中央線に乗って山を登る、週末ハイカーの私が、山登りに対する美学ということなど考えたこともないし、どちらかというと、目に映る全てが新鮮に見えて面白く感じてしまう。

何が面白いかということを見つけてはまとめてきたのだが、どんなことが山登りを台無しにしてしまうのかという視点からも考えなくてはならない。そんなことを考えながら山を登っているが、どうしてもあれこれ感動してしまって、些細なことに喜びを感じているが、美学と言えるのだろうかと悩んでいる。

さて、設計に目を向けると、今の段階では、とにかく自由度が高くなりすぎてしまう。制約を与えたい訳ではないが、誰しもがスッと理解するための理由が必要だということを感じている。

山の中で見えるのは必ず何かしらの理由と直結している。澄んだ空気の中でしか育たないサルオガセや偏西風の影響でシラビソが帯状に枯れていく縞枯山、風下に向かって倒れるハイマツ。植生や植物の形態によって気候や空気の情報が可視化されているように、山小屋もその土地の特性を表す形態や立地となる。こういった部分に惹かれているのだから、自由に思うままの設計はできないはずなのだ。

ここで、形態や工法の大枠な決め手となっていくのが、山登り美学になっていくのだろう。これは個人の美学ではなくて、自然（＋人間）の摂理とも言えるようなものであってほしい。

[zeldacw-love]

*5.10.2014 update  video got deleted...Orz

I linked a new url = Valuable fancam of Tsuyoshi's "My Beautiful Sky" live at Osaka-Jo Hall on 05. 05. 2009.

Please excuse the quality of the video, but this is the only live version available because no DVD was released for this concert...what a shame.  T___T

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The Bow of Rain ~ AMENO-YUMI

written & composed by Tsuyoshi Domoto

English translation/interpretation of the lyric by me.

*note:  love and sorrow are both pronounced as [ai] in Japanese (and Chinese ^_^)

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No need to love someone else

Loving only you is enough

Words simply exist...

yet, I desperately misunderstood the meaning of "love/ sorrow"  

Today... the eyelids crumbled again

  While the heartbeat is going

Indeed, indeed,  we passionately loved

I didn't want to admit

that the way I found you was a miracle...

  The day you disappeared

that sky seemed so far...

  tears swelling up in blue

stream down the cheeks in red

  Not wanting to blame anyone...

Thoughts of sorrow  is to be loved

  The bow of rain,  (Ameno - yumi)

from this place where sorrow rained,

If the sunlight was to strike,

 would it be able to reach all the way across to you?

  All those things that benumbed you

I would hold them for you forever

Whenever you fall sleep

the stillness of your breath

so quiet it makes me tremble from fear

  The fact that I can love you

The fact that I can love you is beautiful

 No need to love someone else

 I want to love you only...