Gregor in Japan: Sankei Garden

Sankei-en is a traditional Japanese garden in Naka Ward, Yokohama and was designed and built by Tomitaro Hara, who was a silk trader. He collected every building from locations all over Japan of which almost all are historically significant structures. The garden changes its color according to the season, which makes it a place of interest all year round. So, on todays trip I went with Emi and two of her friends Miho and Makiho. Miho played a lot of funny scenes from Totoro and I also liked her impression of the Kabuki theater. Makiho is an artist she can draw really well and she brought a toy with which she was able to create a bird's echo. I had to borrow it for quite a while and made people believe that there was a bird close by. Tee hee. Usually my bird impressions sound more like a quote that some of my friends know by heart, since there was a time where we used it a lot: “I am such a good whistler, pfffffff”. After I fooled enough people Makiho told me that she still has to form those two pieces of wood to create something beautiful. The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful, after all. We had a lot of fun walking around the garden and in the evening we watched a traditional Japanese music performance. My top three moments of that day were eating Oage (deep fried tofu) it tasted mmm yummy, the moment of shock and disbelieve of Emi's friends when I told them that I am indeed a vegetarian and my first shot of the three replaying a scene from a really old Japanese movie set in this park.