March 28, 2004
Spring is HereAfter a week of rain and chilly temperatures it looks like Spring is finally here. Rie and I enjoyed an afternoon at Shinjuku Gyoen and bumped into this fellow who I seem to meet on the streets on Shinjuku every few months. He also appears in the O-shougatsu video from 2001, climbing the steps to Hanazono Jinja.
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The Vagabond, I should mention, is a Shinjuku institution of sorts, having occupied the same space for 26 years or so and home to a motley crew of salarymen and artists and hipsters and musicians. It's my favorite Shinjuku bar. It's the kind of place where a woman plays the piano and sings and dried flowers hang from the ceiling and all the staff are hot twentysomething Japanese women and Matsuoka-san (the owner) occasionally remembers to speak Japanese to you. In short, the Vagabond kicks ass. So does this Susumu Yokota CD, by the way.
Posted by: dan bloom at April 6, 2004 09:42 PMcan you put me in contact with Mr matsuoka? email me thanks dan
Posted by: dan bloom at April 6, 2004 09:43 PM