#Tahi Saihate

[jinsei-pika-pika]

『恋できみが死なない理由』 最果タヒ

[takmiblog]

「新しさ」の正体

（前略）見慣れることができない。それはそのデザインが生まれるまでの思考の流れを「見る」ことでは追いきれないからじゃないか、と私は思う。そしてその思考の徹底こそが、もしかしたら「新しさ」の正体なのではと思うのです。

（中略）ここまで人類が長く作品を作り続けて、ほとんどのパターンは出し切ったかと思える世界で、それでも素晴らしいものを作る人は奇跡の存在のようにも思えるが、ただ限りあるパイを取り合うのが創造なのではなくて、既存のものに対する思考の深さとその精度こそが「新しさ」にすり替わっていっているんじゃないだろうか。見る人が追いきれないもの、でも確かな足取りがあると直感でわかるもの。それらには「新しさ」を感じられるし、それは希望そのものだ。

2023/03/18 朝日新聞

「奥村靫正作品集」　グラフィック社

書評：最果タヒ

[vriendenboekjes]

Favourites of 2023

albums

Circle - Onew. My favourites from this album were the title song and Paradise

12 hugs (like butterflies) - Hitsujibungaku

Fact Check - NCT 127

as every year, anything made by tamino...

maybe also Sansan - Kaneko Ayano

And I Have Been - Benjamin Clementine

shoutout to Shinee's HARD for producing a couple of bops?!?

books

how embarry is this?! i read too few books to make a list of favourites. sure started in a lot of them though, but i dont think i can fully recommend them if i haven't even finished them yet

Lievegedicht - Joost Oomen

Astral Season, Beastly Season - Tahi Saihate

When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz

movies

Marry My Dead Body (關於我和鬼變成家人的那件事)

High and Low the Worst X deserves to be in this list not because it's so good but because of the amount of time i spent thinking about it

They Cloned Tyrone

The Curse of Robert the Doll AND bodies bodies bodies for the hysterical night i had watching them

The Duke of Burgundy

House/Hausu (1977)

I also rewatched Happy Together recently... really love it!

not tagging anyone but please share this year's favourites!!!

[paunchsalazar]

what are your favourite books you read this year?

this is maybe my top 18!! across all types and genres

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

Ouran High School Host Club by Bisco Hatori

Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

M Train by Patti Smith

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Lie With Me by Philippe Besson

Talk To My Back by Yamada Murasaki

Uncomfortably Happily by Yeon-sik Hong

Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino

Breast and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

Maison Ikkoku by Rumiko Takahashi

Astral Season, Beastly Season by Tahi Saihate

Witch Hat Atelier by Kamome Shirahama

[dystrophicmelancholy]

Mina, When Girlhood Is A Stab Wound

I finished Mina by Kim Sagwa, translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton, earlier last week. 

Mina is a furious, ferine ferocity of a knife, oozing a primeval sweetness, blood cradling blood, girlhood a pungent milk on your thighs, in your dreams. Mina and Crystal, a pair of unripe bodies and souls, orbit, mirror, smother each other whilst they go through high school, cram school, private tutoring, dating, drinking, smoking, not sleeping, trying to stay sane, trying to stay numb, suffocated but together. That is, until something happens, severing their world, their bond, their interlinked consciousness. Upon drifting apart, her heart dry and sterile, Crystal grows obsessive; she cannot fathom why Mina finds life unbearable and dizzying. Crystal is enraged that Mina can be so affected by what seems to her a minuscule happening, subsequently enraged that she can be this enraged about Mina, the cycle blooming into petals of monstrosity. Eventually, Crystal takes it upon herself to prove to Mina that life cannot injure her, cannot injure them. 

This book goes dark, brutal, and graphic; please, please take care of yourself & check the content/trigger warnings. If I were to do a book math, this book feels like Boy Parts by Eliza Clark meets Astral Season, Beastly Season by Tahi Saihate meets The Diving Pool by Yōko Ogawa (specifically the first story).

I think this book is meant to be unsubtle, loud, bleeding in shrieks, drowning you in nausea. A lot of this book is in dialogue, and a lot of the book ends up being about Crystal, not Mina. I thought that was an interesting angle, one that I can go on and on about. I am glad to have read the book, gladder that I encounter the book now and not sometime years ago, when the soreness of coming-of-age is still acute and raw, the rage still newborn. Once again, please take care of yourself if you ever decide to pick up this book. 

I also have this post up on Instagram, if you'd like to check.

[soliloque-02]

ゆめやうつつ

Webの花椿で見つけて、一目惚れした作品。

タヒさんのことを知り詩集を買い集めたり、彼女のtumblerを読んでました。

この前のHEPの最果タヒ展でポストカードが販売されてたのに勘違いしていて買い忘れてしまった。ショックなのでしばらくiPhoneの待ち受けにしよう……

ところで、好きなアーティストさんやコンテンツのSNSにtumblerがあるとそれだけですきーってなる。

[jpf-sydney]

Bungaku. 2021

New item:

Shelf: 913.68 BUN 2021 Bungaku. 2021. edited by Nihon Bungeika Kyōkai. Tōkyō : Kōdansha, 2021. ISBN: 9784065229156

350 pages ; 20cm.

Text in Japanese.

Table of contents:

"Bungaku 2020" kaisetsu. Nagarenai jikan, yugandeiku kūkan / Tomioka Kōichirō.

Waga jinsei saiaku no toki / Isozaki Ken'ichirō.

Imin no aji / Ōtani Akira.

Haha ni naru / Kimura Yūsuke.

Neko wa chanto sukitōru / Saihate Tahi.

Atarashii hiyoke / Inoue Areno.

Babachan no yūrei / Asabuki Mariko.

Sakura / Ozaki Sekaikan.

Shihanseiki nosutarujī / Machiya Ryōhei.

Onogatari / Matsuda Aoko.

Furakoko / Yamashita Sumito.

Dankichi no sensō / Takahashi Gen'ichirō.

Yobu ni au / Katō Kai.

Sukapīno to shizen no setsuri / Kaneko Kaoru.

Anata no koto o hanashite / Nagashima Yurie.

Gehin na otoko / Ueda Takahiro.

Sono ippiki o koroshita no wa dare ka / Takayama Haneko.

[grafikoa]

[thatsagreatpainting]

[bluefumi]

ごぶサタデー

ようやく暖かくなってきたからと外に出たら、 いや結構寒いじゃん、、、 でも街はすっかり春めいていて、 自分の都合と無関係に、季節は過ぎていくのだなぁ、と。 そんなことを考えた日。

久しぶりの外出で、 最果タヒさんの言葉が沁みたよ。

ではでは、すてきな週末を☆ Have a happy weekend ! . (Mar. 16, 2019)

[jinsei-pika-pika]

[takmiblog]

I like it.

（前略）好きなものを作るというのは、自分の中に凡庸な部分を作るということだと思う。言い換えれば、他者と共有できる何かを持つということ。好きなものを見つけるというのは、自己表現のもっとも最初期なものだ。世界と自分の共通項を見つけて、「私はこれが好きです」という。それは一番簡単な自己紹介の仕方だ。もちろんその反面で、好きなものを羅列して語れるような人間は結局いてもいなくても世界に関係ないってこと、というどうしようもない感覚もあるわけだけれど。でも、とにかく孤独である人にとって、世界との関わり方がわからない人にとって、好きなものを見つける、というのは孤独や孤立感からの突破口だと思う。

ーーーーー　「きみの言い訳は最高の芸術」　最果タヒ

[neomuni]

possibly the most *this went downhill real quick* book synopsis I’ve ever read

[aramajapan]

[Alexandros] to release New Single "KABUTO" in late May

Nearly six months after the release of their previous single, rock band [Alexandros] have announced that they will finally be releasing a new one on May 23rd.  Titled “KABUTO”, the A-side has been described as a song which represents the group’s current creative influences. In addition, this release will also include the band’s Tokyo Metro […]

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[matomatomatomato]

[dadfathers]

What I read in 2021 🍊 I made an effort to focus on indie publishers and authors in translation interspersed with a few classics + popular works

My favorites:

Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge

Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang

Tower by Bae Myung-Hoon

The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernandez

Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park

Astral Season, Beastly Season by Tahi Saihate

Some fun ones:

Escapes by Daniel Tunnard

The Plotters by Un-Su Kim

And what I keep thinking about:

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

To the Warm Horizon by Choi Jin-Young

The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei

But I do recommend every book, save for Subprime Attention Crisis which was interesting but should have been essay length for the amount of info it reiterated to reach book length