Tuesday 28th of June. It is still heating up in Tokyo. After a morning at home, we brave the heat and arrive at noon at the office to join Noe for lunch. We go out directly to buy some bento boxes, go back and eat, then work in the office. At 4pm, Eyquem, Gadea, and Samuel step back in the heat. Objective: go check out the Higo-Hosokawa garden that we couldn’t visit yesterday. It is a nice, hilly garden with lots of green vegetation, it is a traditional Japanese garden. It served as the (second) home of the Hosokawa clan, the daimyo who ruled a large part of Higo region. At the end of feudal times, it became the main residence of the Hosokawa family. The park features a circular hill-and-pond garden that makes clever use of changes in elevation and emphasizes the garden’s natural scenery. There are natural springs, stone lanterns, bamboo fences; the pond contains carps.
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| Entrance to the garden |
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| Crossing water |
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To cool down, we next stopped at the Tsubouchi Memorial Theater Museum, which is on the Waseda campus. The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, which is also known as “Enpaku”, was founded in October 1928 to commemorate the 70th birthday of Professor Tsubouchi Shoyo, who translated Shakespeare in Japanese, all 40 volumes! It has a lot of theater items (cloth, famous theater replicas, some excerpts). Most of the information is in Japanese, but some is translated, and we got the translations on the screen thanks to QR codes. It was interesting, but we would have wished for more information on certain items!
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| A quickly captured photo in the museum |
After getting back to the office and reading some more, we went out to a Yakitori place for dinner with Robert and Noe. Then back home to get ready to sleep quickly, as the next day is an early wake-up day!
We spent some time studying this in the garden (sound on):
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