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August 14, 2005

I went to the exhibition of Gustave Moreau at The Museum in Shibuya, after I watched kabuki. Also there were many stimuli recently, but it wasn’t wrong to say that that exhibition was the high class stimuli for me. Moreau is the great artist of the fantastic painting. I love “Hercle et l’ Hydre de Leme” and “Les Licoes,” but I think that the best work of Moreau is “L’ Apparition.” It moved me very much. Always I’m attracted by Salome even if it has any style. Moreau shows insanity in his works, and I can see it without losing my sense. It’s wonderful.

July 5, 2005

I went to the exhibition of Dresden Museum at The National Museum of Western Art, before I went to a hospital. Of course Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt Harmenz van Rijn were very good, but the most impressive painting was “Blick auf Dresden bei Vollkommen” that was painted by Johan Christian Clausen Dahl. It’s great! And it was an unexpected surprise that there were some works of Albrecht Durer, because I like his works very much. After that, I went to a hospital to receive a medical certificate. My doctor said that he liked western art very much. Our relationship, a doctor and a patient, have continued for 15 years, but we didn’t know that we had a common favorite.

June 2, 2005

After I went to a hospital today, I went to Goto Museum which possessed a national treasure, a picture scroll of ‘The Tale of Genji.’ I knew that the picture scroll wasn’t shown, but my co-worker said that he found its new duplicate there, so I expected to see it. However, that was a photo which was printing, and moreover its scale was down. It was sorry, but I will be able to see its new duplicate the next year. Goto Museum presents an exhibition of the tea ceremony’s ceramic teacups now. My co-worker went there because he is learning the tea ceremony. I’m not familiar with ceramics, but I found a favorite one that was made by Ogata Kenzan there. That cup would be good to use for a steamed egg custard at spring, because flowers of plum are painted. I had a green tea at the lobby of the museum. However, it was very sorry that Japanese dried sweets were attached. I wanted to have a green tea with Japanese unbaked sweets.

May 28, 2005

At May 24, I received a postcard from a friend who visited New York on business trip. It had a picture, ‘The Starry Night’ that was Vincent Von Gogh’s work. I love it very much, and when I see it I always remember Sci-Fi ‘Night Fall’ that was written by Isaac Asimov. As I saw the postcard, I became to want to read ‘Night Fall’ again, so I ordered it on the internet, and I received it tonight. It’s the best Sci-Fi still now.

That friend is a stationery goods’ designer, and he managed to put his works in the shop of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. It’s a wonderful incident, isn’t it? I’m proud of him.

May 3, 2005

I went to the exhibition of Art Deco at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and after that I went to the exhibition Georges de La Tour at The National Museum of Western Art. Today is Constitution Memorial Day, and this week is so-called ‘Golden Week’, spring consecutive holidays. Both of museums are in the Ueno Park, and Ueno was so crowded. But almost people visited Ueno Zoo or the dinosaur exhibition, so we watched paintings slowly enough. La Tour’s ‘La Madeleine au Livre’ moved me, and it was the best of today. However, I'm tired very much.

I went to the Vincent van Gogh exhibition, and it was very crowded. I wondered if there were so many Gogh fans in Tokyo. Last year, my friend Yuko who live in Belgium went to Kroller-Muller Museum in the Nederland to see ‘Café terrace at night’, but it wasn’t there at the time. At the result, she hasn’t seen it yet, but I saw it in Tokyo. It’s nice. And I sent its post card to her. Before I went to the Gogh exhibition, I went to The Japanese Sword Museum. I saw Muramasa’s sword there. It was simple. I will write about it later.

It is my birthday, today, and I'm 42 years old after this. My friends sent a message to congratulate my birthday, so I thank for their kindness very much. I’m busy to work recently, but I will continue to read, write, and watch movies and stage plays. For example, I went to Kabukiza Theater today. I hope that many people in the world would visit to my web-site.