花見、初めて。すごく。。。すごく。。。楽しかった。 毎週かの土曜日ほうがいい。から、代々木公園で、花ちょっと見えない! 夜、だから暗い。 しかし、大丈夫、みんなは桜より面白い。 は。。。ちひろの友だちは桜より美しい。
花見、大好き。すばらしい弁解。
英語ーー
Dudes, I must explain 花見(Hanami) to you. It is a wonderful and ancient Japanese tradition. Well, maybe it is, I don't know. Either what I just came back from wasn't 花見, or 花見 isn't traditional at all. Or some kind of combination. Cause what I was at... well... try to imagine woodstock, or better, burning man, but... instead of out in the middle of nowhere, it's in a big park in tokyo, at night. And a million kids arriving at sunset with beer in tow, usurping the spots all the families and old people have just abdicated, along with any snacks they have left behind. Japanese hippies, drugless yet with no less zeal do they pound out primal rhythms on their bongo drums. All this set in the unlit darkness of a cloudy saturday night in 代々木公園 (Yoyogi park).
Though it is supposedly about seeing flowers, nobody was looking at any of the trees. There was plenty of other things to look at. The park is enormous, and the number of people there was also enormous. But it really, really didn't feel like Japan. Pretty awesome.
One of the best parts had to be meeting Chihiro's friends. "Oh, come meet my friends," -- ten girls sitting on a plastic tarp, drinking chuhai and eating onigiri, all of them models. "Aren't my friends cute?" she later asked. Um, yes. Yes, they are.
Now I really have to convince this country to do this every saturday.


Update:

たくさん。。。たくさん韓国人。外人の会社。すごい。


Update! 新都心で、ちょっとよっぱらい子ども。かわいそう。ちょっと。。。きたない。 Ew.
