Is he guilty or not? Anders Breivik 2/2 in English/ 日本語 彼は有罪か無罪か アンネシュ・ベーリング・ブレイビク（Anders Behring Breivik）2/2 2012/05/01

2.

He mentioned about atomic bomb in Japan, some people say that was genocide, some American say that was right things to do, because they save more life for killing. If he is guilty for this event, America is also guilty for dropping weapon.

In his mind, he thinks he did right thing. HE THINKS and He BELIEVES it. How can people change that? Perhaps he will never change his mind. So this MIND thing, is interesting. His claim is challenging us about many things. It is true that there is no evidence that atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki save many lives by killing huge amount of people, so as bombing in cities in Germany what America did, but this is war, perhaps different stories from this event.

I said about MIND, because if majority people “think” something is right, then that would be right, because no-one denies it. Also it is hard to tell what people really think and what is in their mind, defendant can pretend that they are mental.

This problem can be fit to any other matters for judgment or making rule. Crossing the street at the red right cannot be accepted in Japan, but it is quite acceptable in other countries, if there is no car, because of such a reason, this is cultural difference but rule can be changed easily by place or period of the time. For in this case, I think he does not have any prove that Islam people are invading the western countries, etc. If he is not insane, this event also question ourselves many things.

I also think that there is a danger to think that he is different from us, we are fundamentally the same, if we created murderer we should question ourselves rather than him. Problems are just in front of us or within us. Perhaps like in Japan, Norway is very peaceful country, very protected by system. Many crazy events have been happened in Japan recently, too, but I believe these events, PEOPLE are wanting them to be happened. In Breivik mind, is connected to us. In a way he is using this boredness to make us stimulate, people always need a stimulation. He is laughing at us, about this system, and he does not care if he is dead in prison or not.

We can protect ourselves in any way you want, but we will be like lions in the cage. Human needs stimulation, we cannot protect everything. We say we are happy by this system, but really? I do not think that is the true happiness. It is like the sales man who sells fake happiness comes to you, “hey this is the happiness, you have to pay this much of tax, but you will receive these, health, education, social services and so on, how great it is?” Happiness will not be delivered to you when you are 20 or even when you were born. Happiness is to create.

So, about stimulation, you do not need to kill people or receiving Tsunami for every hour to stimulate ourselves, but within our life we can stimulate each other. There are tons of problems in our world, and why people do not realise? Making our own system is also a challenge for us and stimulate us. I am trying to stimulate by myself doing art. I know that “art” is not only answer, but I do not know why that art is in the box recently and pushed away by society so much now. Design, music and art are our life and be creative is to create our quality of being human, again we do not need to harm people to stimulate ourselves, there are much more beautiful things to do. Let’s do it.

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Written by Satoshi Dáte

---------------Japanese

2/2 　彼は有罪か無罪か　アンネシュ・ベーリング・ブレイビク（Anders Behring Breivik）

2.

彼は広島の原子爆弾について述べる。あれは大量虐殺であったか、ある人はあの爆弾のおかげで多くの（後に戦争で命を落としただろう）人の命を助けたといえるという。彼がやったことが犯罪ならばアメリカも犯罪者だと。 彼の頭の中ではかれは正しい事をしたという風に考えている。彼はそう考えてそれを信じている。それを誰が変える事が出来るのだろうか？

きっと誰も変える事はできないだろう。　だからこの心の中（精神）というものはとても興味深い。 彼の主張（言い訳？）は僕らに挑戦をしている。 勿論の事、広島や長崎の原爆がその後命を落としたであろう人々を救ったという根拠はない。アメリカ軍が無差別にドイツで空爆したことも同じ事がいえる。ただこれは戦争なので別問題かもしれない。 ぼくは精神について話した、もしも多くの人間があることに「良し」とするならばそれは多分「良し」となってしまうだろう。だれも否定しないのだから。また人間がいったい本当に何を考えているか頭の中をのぞくこともできない。被告は精神異常者のふりもできる。

この問題は他の事でも当てはまる、例えば信号が赤のときにわたることはあまり良しと日本ではされないが他の国では車がとおってなければあまり問題にはならない。（イギリスでは警察も赤信号のときにわたっている。）ルールというものは文化や時代背景によって簡単に変わることがある。

今回の事件に関しては、被告が主張するイスラム人が西洋社会を占領しようとしているというのもいい加減な言いがかりだ。 しかし彼が異常でないと判断された場合またぼくらを考えさせるもうひとつの問題を作ることになるだろう。 また、このことで彼を狂人としてしまうことも問題と思う。ぼくらは根本的には同じイキモノで、殺人者も僕らがつくりだす。彼に疑問を投げかけるのでなく自分たちを問うべきだと思う。

問題は目の前に、もしくは自分の中にある。

多分日本と同じようにノルウェーも平和な国なのだろう。システムに保護されている。多くのおかしな事件も日本でおきている。僕は、こういった事件は実は僕らが起こしたくて起こしているものだと思う。ブレイビクの頭の中は僕らとも連結している。彼の怠惰を利用して僕らを刺激している。僕らは常に刺激が必要だ。彼は僕らをあざけわらっている。彼は牢獄で死のうがなんだろうが気にしてはいないだろう。

ぼくらの人生を色々な方法で保護する事は、まあすればいいだろう。けれどもまるでそれは檻に入れられたライオンだ。人間には刺激が必要だ。全てを保護する事も不可能でもある。僕らはこのシステムによってとても幸せだという。でも本当にそうだろうか？それは決して本当の幸せではないと思う。まるでセールスマンが訪問しに来て「これが幸せです、この程度の税金をおさめれば、これだけもらえます。健康も教育も社会保障など、とても素晴らしいとは思いませんか？」

幸せは20になったらもらえるものでも、生まれたときに目の前に用意されているものでもない。

刺激についてだけれども、人を殺したり、津波を毎時浴びることが刺激だというわけではない。僕らで刺激を与え合う事は可能だ。世界には沢山の問題が山積みだ。なぜそれに気付かないのだろうか？ぼくらのちゃんとしたシステムをつくることも勿論チャレンジになり刺激にもなる。

僕は自身を創作活動で刺激をあたえる、もちろん『アート』だけが解決策ではないけれど、最近はとくにアートが社会の端においやられて小さい箱に入れられている。デザイン、音楽やアートは生活に関わる重要な人生の一部だ。クリエイティブであることは人間のクオリティーの形成にとても大切な要素だ。僕らは人を殺めることで刺激を必要としない。もっと素晴らしい事は沢山ある。それに向かって試行錯誤すべきだ。

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文　Satoshi Dáte

English!! you! Japanese!

English language people, English! I mean at least English. I am talking to Japanese people especially and other nationalities who are ignorant about English language, I am sorry but we need to use this language,because it is common language and most of the debates and important news online are in English. if you want to be in an island and close yourself, fine, but if you want to say that you are advance and would love to work with other countires and nationalities, you need to. that's the start, Don't say I am Japanese, I don't need that. I am fed up with listening to many Japanese who live in England and they don't even try to speak English. Why you are here? If you don't want to learn other culture and living in that culture, you are better not to be international, go back and work as a craft man, talk with nature and be a farmer(no offfence to farmer), you do not need to speak English. I am saying, because we need those people, too. Of course all of us do not need to speak English, so try not to waste everybody's time and your time. Be brave.

Is he guilty or not? Anders Breivik 1/2 in English/ 日本語 彼は有罪か無罪か アンネシュ・ベーリング・ブレイビク（Anders Behring Breivik）1/2 2012/04/21

Anders Breivik pleaded not guilty, he think he did the right thing. Here is the point

1. Mental People can commit a crime?

2. How do you judge right or wrong?

1.
For me, if someone kills deliberately, I think they are not quite normal already. What is the border between mental and not mental? See the all the dictators or cruel murderer, they are sentenced as a criminal not a mental, but do you think they are normal? I am not an expert, but if someone is deeply mental means that they cannot deal with society cannot follow the rule, so the children crime, in the most countries, they are less responsible to what they did, and mental people just go to the hospital, and that is it. Here is the example of cruel murder it seems quite mental… see the

Tsutomu Miyazaki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Miyazaki

Tsutomu was executed.

In Japan, they ask whether the defendant has “the ability to fulfill one's responsibilities“ or not. If the defendant does not feel guilty even he or she isn’t psycho and pretending, for me, they do not have those abilities.

I am interested in this boundary, people who know what is moral, murderer and mental people. So if mental people who might kill people should be in the hospital, but who are those people between normal and insane muderer? They are mental only when they kill people? If we talk about stealing or breaking one’s properties, everyone think that they are behaving badly, but probably those criminal cannot recognise how other people feel, once they understand they feel sorry. I met many people who are almost like murderer or dictator, they don’t care about other people, perhaps those murderer do not care if other people get killed or not, they are not educated in a certain way enough. So is he guilty? Or his parents or families are guilty? Environment? Society? Who created those murderer?

To be continued to 2

Written by Satoshi Dáte

-----------日本語

ブレイビクは彼がやったことは正しかったという。

二つここで問題にしたい。

１． 精神異常者は殺人を起こせるか

２． どの様に正悪を決めるか

１．
僕としては、人を殺めるという行動をとるということはすでに正常でないと思う。なにが精神異常でそうでないのか？独裁者や残酷な殺人者は普通の人間として裁かれている。彼らは普通なのだろうか？僕は専門家ではないが、重度の精神患者は社会の中で普通に生きられない、法律などを理論的に理解できないとされている。未成年の犯罪の罪は成年の罪より軽く、精神異常者は病院に入れられる。 下記のリンクは残酷な殺人の例となる。かなり精神異常に思えるが…

宮崎　勤 http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%AE%E5%B4%8E%E5%8B%A4

被告は結果死刑になった。 日本では責任能力があるかどうかを問われる。被告が頭がおかしいか、それともそれを演じることもあるだろう。そしてまた謝罪の一言もない犯罪者もいる。その時点で責任能力などないといえないだろうか？

ぼくはこの境界線に興味がある。モラルがわかる人間と、殺人鬼と精神異常者と。それでは人を殺すかもしれない異常者は病院へ、でも正常な人間と異常者で人を殺す人間のあいだにいる殺人者たちは一体なにものなのだろうか？　彼らは人を殺すときだけおかしいのだろうか？　窃盗や破壊にかんしてはもちろん皆が悪い行いだと言うだろう。これらの犯罪者は罪を感じるまで相手の痛みの事など感じないだろう。殺人を犯す人間も同じだろう。ある意味で教育をうけていないのだと思う。それでは彼らは罪に問われるのだろうか？かれらの親が、家族に罪を問うべきか？環境？社会？殺人者をだれが生み出したのだろうか？

2に続く

文　Satoshi Dáte

11th-16th Dec 2011 “the first time in Dubai”in English/日本語 12月11日-16日 「初めてのドバイ」

I went to Dubai for acting some advertisement. The cost of flight and hotel were covered by the client, and treat me so nice. I was introduced other actress and actors by staff, but as I am not good at being open for new people, I might have created the distance to them.

Arrived at hotel in the late night. Staff gave us some pocket money, and received the key. Quite large and clean room. One of the wall in the bed room, it was made by huge glass. I could see the building in front of the hotel and the tiny cars which keep following the other similar shaped ones. I felt like I had to fill something in the air in such an empty room.

Next morning, I went down to the 7th floor restaurant. It was buffet. There were various kinds of ham and cheese on the ice. Some people ordered a special omelet to the chef as well. I was confused what to eat as there are many deserts.

One of the actor of this job talked to me and ask me to join the breakfast. We were enjoyed the meal with relaxing music and calm mood in the restaurant. I could see the surrounded building and the city from the table as the walls are made of glass. He seems that he is from Normandy. We talked about 2nd world war, and he told me that there are many people who do not want to speak about that period, because many people created the false information or reported the neighbours to Nazis and getting their properties, businesses and lands. People who betrayed feel ashamed, it is a taboo in some areas.

I love to hear the story makes me think, but I did not think that I will hear the war story in a such a relaxing place. I felt that any kinds of mankind try to be higher than any others whenever they have an opportunity. It reminds me that even after the Dubai Crisis, many of poor people from countries near by work for constructing the buildings here.

When I walk down the city, 100s of men with dirty clothes looking through us from the darkness under the skyscraper. 200 eyes are staring at us. Shined, all the eyes, in the dark, looking at us with gloom? Or just simple curiosity? They are just steady and waiting for order from the boss. An article on the paper says that they are treated like slave and cheated to come to Dubai for their work.

Simply, this city, I can say only desert, skyscraper, resort, shopping mole and then beach beach beach. That is all. I am not particularly interested in coming here, but I wanted to see once. I met a friend of friend who grew up here, I wondered she has an identity or not. Most of people here might be Arab, because of the culture, but her origin is India. She speaks Arabic and English. In fact, all the cities, towns and even villages are “man-made” , but it is hard to find themselves in the city on top of desert created by human’s fantasy.

Sometimes we worked in the very early morning, but everything was so relaxed. All the staff, actress and actors are extremely kind and nice, so it was a bit like little vacation.

Written by Satoshi Date

---日本語　Japanese

ある広告の俳優の仕事でドバイに行く。フライトもホテル代もクライアント持ちで待遇がよかった。空港ではスタッフに他の俳優や女優を紹介されたが、いつも人見知りな僕は彼らと距離を作ってしまう。
夜更けにホテルへつく。スタッフからお小遣いをもらい、部屋の鍵を受け取る。大きくて清潔な部屋。ベッドルームの一面の壁はすべてガラスで目の前にあるビルと絶えず先にある車を追いかける車たちが小さく見える。一人でこんな部屋にいるのは何かを埋めつかさなければいけない様なちょっとした居心地悪さを感じさせた。

次の日の朝、7階にあるレストランへ向かう。朝はビュッフェで好きなだけ食べれるようだ。氷の上に美味しそうなハムやチーズがのっかっている。シェフに直接オムレツを頼んでいる人もいた。デザートも豊富でどれを先に食べるか迷う。

俳優の一人S.Cが話しかけてくれる。ゆったりとしたムードの音楽が流れなかで彼と食事をゆっくりと楽しむ。壁が一面ガラスでできているため、まわりに囲まれたビルとシティーがテーブルから見渡すことができた。彼はノルマンディー出身のようだ。第二次大戦の話になって今でも戦争のことについて話したくないフランス人がたくさんいると言っていた。というのはナチに作り上げた情報を流して持ち物や土地、ビジネスを奪いとった人間が沢山いるからだと言っていた。そのことを恥に思い、今でもそのことについて話すのはタブーとなっているようだ。

僕はハッとさせる話を聞くのは好きだが、こんなところまできて戦争のことを話すとは思わなかった。人間は常に機会があれば誰かの体を押さえつけてまで上に登って得をしようとしているものなのだなと感じた。ドバイ危機が収まった今でもこのドバイで高層ビルを建設するために貧しい国から働きに来た人たちがいることを思い出させた。

街を歩くとこの街とは相反するようなみすぼらしい格好をした僕らを見つめる何百人もの土木工事をする人たちがビルの下に次の支持を待つため只々何もせずに暗闇の中に立っていた。200の目が僕らを見つめる、光っているすべての目が、暗闇の中で。悲しみの目なのか、ただの興味の目なのか。ある記事では彼らは給料がいいと騙されてやってきて、奴隷のように扱われていると聞いた。

この街は簡単にいえば、砂漠、高層ビル、リゾート、ショッピングモールそして海岸。それだけだ。特に来たかった場所ではなかったが一度は見てみたいとは思っていた。この人口都市で育った友人の友人にあったが、彼らはいったいどんなアイデンティティーを持っているのか不思議に思う。基本的にはここにいる人は文化のこともありアラブ人なのだろうけど会った人の血はインド人。そして英語とアラブ語を話す。言ってしまえば世界全ての都市、勿論村も含んで「人口」だが、歴史がない砂漠の真ん中で作られた遊園地やおとぎ話のような都市では自分を探すのは大変だなと感じた。

仕事は早朝の撮影もあったが、リラックスしたムードで行われ、スタッフ、女優、俳優さんもとても雰囲気のある方たちばかりでヴァケーションに行ったような一時だった。

伊達　賢

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Concept: ‘Alchemist’s Mind’
As we live our lives we pick up things along the way such as experiences, beliefs and relationships. Sometimes we can feel these things as burdens that we carry. At the time these feelings may seem indispensible but as time goes by they become redundant; perhaps these are things that limit us in some way. Often we try to ignore these emotions or reject them but they remain with us; they have become intertwined with us and there will always be a part of us that feels unloved.
What if we can take these things, adapt them and create an organic form; something that is useful and beautiful; something that we can embrace, accept and love?

War Horse 戦火の馬 in English/ 日本語２０１１－１２－０６

Went to see the War Horse(theatre)
Was nice to see the big horse made by wood and acting by people’s hands and legs, but at the end I like the little duck puppet controlled by a man and he mimic the duck sound at the same time the most. The story is normal, without these man made horse.. it is normal story. I found out one thing, there is always human drama in war story… or any story of the book, theatre or films. Especially in entertainment ones. Like woman screams or man jealous, young boy cries… it seems like human being never evolved… I do not want to see this for 1000years later. I want people to get evolved. I know that is dramatic and good for stories, but are we really doing the same things over and over again? The world in 3000years later, Typical masculine guy hit the wife and daughters run away from their house? I know that is not common situation in our lives, but if this story exist forever in art works, do we change? Or we might think in the future, oh we used to be so silly and inhuman like before…

I also feel this because I travel Asia and here in Europe. There are some typical things going on each countries and never change.


ワーホース(劇)を見に行く。木で作られた巨大な馬が人間の手や足で演じられるというのは実にみてて楽しかった。けれど結局は小さなアヒルの人形が人によって操られその人がアヒルの声を真似しながら歩くのが一番印象に残った。ストーリーも普通で、馬がなければただの普通の話だ。ただ一つ気付いたのがこのような戦争の話、いやどんな小説や映画や劇でも、いつも典型的なヒューマンドラマが繰り広げられる。女性が叫んで、男が嫉妬をして、子供が泣き叫んで…　人間は成長するのだろうか？ドラマティックで確かに観る方は楽しめるのかもしれない。ぼくらは常に同じことを繰り返しているのだろうか？3000年後の地球では、典型的な筋肉質な男が妻に暴力を振るい、娘が家をでるのだろうか？勿論それが共通のぼくらの人生の1ページとは思えないけれど、こんな話が永遠に作品の中でくりひろげられるのなら、ぼくらは一体進化していくのだろうかと不安に思う。それとも未来のぼくらは、むかしはこんなだったんだな。というだろうか？
アジアとヨーロッパを行き来する自分にとっては典型的なもので変わり行かないものが常にそれぞれの国に存在するように思える。

Shipping Back 06 (Final) /日本帰航 06 （最終章） in English/Japanese Nov25th-Dec2nd 2011

Nov 25th

We went to have a breakfast, there was a Scandinavian couple. I translated how they serve food by themselves, as the people in the canteen cannot speak in English. The strange man we met yesterday come to the canteen. After he has finished eating, he started talking to the couple, “Biking Biking” I just thought what is he saying? Maybe something rude… As his English was terrible, I didn’t and they didn’t really understand what he wanted to communicate… A girl of the couple was looking at her boyfriend and seems she didn’t know what to do. He said at the end “ I am Pirates!”…. and he disappeared from canteen…
I felt sorry for the couple and we started talking to them. Trying to approach that there are not so crazy Japanese here. They came from Denmark, and they are architect. He wanted to see Tadao Ando’s architecture. We talked about “Nageiredo” and they started being interested in seeing it. We recommended to come to Tottori next time they visit to Japan.

We missed the bus. So we had to carry very heavy(10kg mine) luggage to do sightseeing. Went to Chichu museum. www.benesse-artsite.jp/chichu/
This was the first time to feel Tadao’s work, so I was quite happy. I got some inspirations, but I had been thinking what I can do if I am an architect.
Talked with the staff who I know.

After the museum we left the luggage at the ferry port, then we hired the bicycle, we went to the art village, saw a couple exhibitions. Reminded me the echigo tsumari triennale www.echigo-tsumari.jp which I joined the project long time ago. There were many installations in the traditional Japanese houses, but I was not so inspired from them. Went back to the port. Mr.Y.A got Takoyaki and Takorice for me, we left at 2:55pm from Naoshima. 　I started travel to Mino, very strange trains, students look like boys and girls from 50years ago… took 6 hours to get to Mino. The owner of the inn picked me up, Went to the supermarket, no one was there. Bought rice bread, chicken and pudding… like a big supermarket in London but no one.

Arrived at Kominka(old house). The owner told me, he does kayak. He told me that it is quite popular in England, but it is very popular in America. Interesting to hear that riding on the river is talking to the nature, and using the power of the nature… all the energy coming to us is created by conversation between the nature and us.

He started to run business which just rent out the room for visitors to this village, so he can do kayak everyday without worrying about money. I thought it is interesting way of living. The house was very old and I could hear everything form downstairs.

Nov29th

Back to Tokyo met a buyer at Daikanyama. Talked about my works.
Met a girl who is my supporter. We met on facebook and I decided to see her. She does volunteer at Minami Souma-shi(where the earthquake had hit) . talked to me about her background and her ex boyfriend.
Went to Bunka academy to buy some tools with her. Went to see H.K and E.T my staff in Japan. Had a dinner with three of them.

Nov30th
Couldn’t see Y.S somehow. After that meeting with Y and O at Ebisu. At Ebisu Yokocyo. Somehow the supporter I met last night came to the table next to us.

Dec 1st

Having a class at Minato ku Aoyama primary school. Talked about better to go outside of Japan and see the world, and they have a power to change everything. They listened to me carefully. There was a cute black girl in grade 6. Strange to talk about the world and cosmopolitan city (London) in front of her, as she might already feel and know about it.

Dec 2nd

Leaving Japan.
A Japanese accountant was next to me in the airplane. He told me that he was working for 40years. The same job and same place.. I was like wow… the ladies next to him were amazingly from the same primary school as mine. We talked about our teachers…
It’s very strange to talk with someone has retired and has skills. They say “now we are going to enjoy the rest of my life” There is no goal, any passions. They have skills and can do many things, but they do not have any energy to use them anymore. 　
At this time trip, I saw an old man selling and baking Goheimochi. In the countryside, old people work like that, they have a job. It seems like an opposite world to modern city where there was no place to the old people. Of course, there are no young people in the countryside so the old people have to work instead of young ones, but this environment in the suburb creates a beautiful atmosphere.


11月25日

朝ごはんを食べに行く。北欧系のカップルが現われる。ごはんのよそい方など、味噌汁がお代わり自由など食堂のおばさんが英語が出来ないので、ぼくが説明をする。この前あった不思議なへんなおっさんが現れる。彼が食事を終えた後、片言の英語で西洋人のカップルに話しかける。「バイキング、バイキング。。。」　なんか失礼なこといってんじゃないのかな、と思う…　彼の酷い英語でなにをしたいのかわからず、カップルの女性はすごく困ってそうな顔をみせる、でもカップルはとても人がよく、ちゃんと応対していた。「I am Pirates!（オレは海賊ダー）」とかなんとかいってそのおっさんは去る。
もうしわけないので僕らは話しかけ、へんな日本人ばかりじゃないよとアピール。どうやらデンマークからの建築家のようで安藤忠雄の建築物を研究に来たようだ。投入れ堂について話してあげ、こんどは鳥取に是非とはなす。

バス乗り遅れる。
直島観光。3時間ほど10キロの荷物をしょって歩く。地中美術館に行く。www.benesse-artsite.jp/chichu/　安藤忠雄の作品に触れるのは初めてだったので嬉しかった、インスピレーションをうけるが自分ではどの様な建築をつくるか頭の中で思いをめぐらせる。
知り合った美術館で働く人と話をする。
バスでフェリー乗り場に荷物を預け、自転車で急いでアートの村へ、２，３見る。新潟のトリエンナーレ
www.echigo-tsumari.jp
を思い出す。趣のある古い日本の建物にアートインスタレーションがほどかされている感じ。これといって印象は薄かった。　港に戻る。たこ焼きとたこ飯をY.Aさんに買ってもらい、2時55分のフェリーで出る。
とても不思議な電車に乗って行く、田舎の学生たちが50年前の学生に見える。9時前に美濃市駅に着く。約6時間の旅。宿泊地のオーナーが車で迎えに来る。スーパーによる。だだっ広いが誰もいない。米パン、から揚げ、プリンを買って帰る。ロンドンのスーパーのようだ。

古民家につく。川の音がする。あたりは暗い。オーナーの方がカヤックについて語ってもらう。イギリスが実は盛んで、アメリカがトップクラス。自然の力をつかって漕ぐ、自然の力なしでは漕いでいくことは不可能というところがおもしろかった。すべてのエネルギーは自然との対話で生まれるものだと感じる。彼の彼女が日本代表だそうだ。
カヤックを毎日できる環境をかんがえて仕事をやめて古民家を貸して生計を立てているようだ。おもしろい生き方だ。かなりボロイ作りですべて声がつつぬけだった。

11月29日

日本に帰って13:30に代官山でバイヤーと会う。ぼくの作品について語る。
その後Facebookであった、ぼくのサポーターに会いに行く。スタッフのEさんをKさんと会う。3人で飲む。

11月30日

会おうとしたY.Sさんと会えず。その後YさんとのMeetingを。
恵比寿にてOさんと会う。恵比寿横丁。昨日会ったサポーターさんとばったり会う。
　
12月1日

港区青山小学校にて授業。外に出ること、君たちが世界を変えると告げる。みんな真剣に聞いてくれる。6年生に黒人の子がいた。イギリスは多民族だってことを彼女の前に話すのは不思議に思えた。

12月2日

飛行機で元会計士の隣に座る。40年間も同じ仕事をしたと、とても日本的な話を聞く。となりの彼と同じツアーの二人の女性が僕と同じ小学校に通っていた人達だった。ぼくより年上だったが、先生の話などとても偶然な出会いと会話をする。リタイアをした人達と会話をすると不思議なきがする。あとは人生を楽しむだけ。お金をもうけることも、とくにやりたいゴールもない。ぼくはそうなるのだろうか？技術を持っていて色々できるのに、それを使う気は全然ないのだ。今回の旅で五平餅を売っているおじいさんがいた。田舎では年寄りの方もこうして仕事をしている、仕事がない、年寄りには行き場がないと感じる都会とは正反対であった。勿論若者がいなくてお年寄りが仕事をせざるを得ないところがあるのかもしれないが、雰囲気がよい田舎町になっている気がした。