News, Views and Reviews by Michael Rollins in Tokyo

久しぶりに新子安へ、今日参りました。一年で殆ど変わりなし。橋を渡りながらその風景を眺めると、「美」がどうしても見当たらない。おまけに、新子安だけでなく、この光景が品川と横浜をつなぐ地域を完全に代表するかもしれない。ともかくその印象はする。「発展」が何よりも大切に思われていた、戦後の日本で発展された光景であろに違いない。
「美」が戦争で殺されたのか、「発展」に変形されたのか、存在するゆとりが無くなったから消えたのかが不可知なものだろうけれど、俺は新子安の風景を見たら、美の再現を強く待ち焦がれる。
Congratulations on finding my personal blog. It's been around in various incarnations since 1997, which is before blogs were called "blogs." See if you can top that.
My name is michael, and denbushi (電武士) is the now-dorky-seeming online name I made up back when I thought (ever so presciently) that some kind of unique nickname for the interwebs might be handy. Just for the record, it IS unique (even today!) except for this jujitsu variant/dojo in Puerto Rico which co-opted it without even asking me. If I had to cage-fight them for exclusive use of "denbushi" chances are good they'd win. But I'd still do it.
These days I live in Tokyo and mostly use my real name. A few years ago I founded a design and marketing agency called netwise. We do web and internet stuff. We're pretty good at it.
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