4.04.2004

O-hanami, sooo-hanami 

    


Sleepy incoherence ahead...Rainy day at a rained out hanami. Went to Banpaku Koen 1970 Expo Memorial Park. Ridiculously thrilled by the massive bird tower at the front, wonderfully peculiar. Memorial, what an eerie place but what a day for it. Drizzly so everyone's parties were called off but the trees were pretty. The curious futuristic/semi-Alaskan-looking art and some truly frightening sculptures deposited around this strange plot of land. A fine Japanese garden and petals dropping, water. Petals on a wet black bough? What is a sorado? Is that right? A tower over the whole thing, very difficult to knock down, earthquake proof, quite the view...not making sense am I? Drifting off...so much walking followed by Indian food soooooo good and warm bath to wash away the rain on me. To sleep...