The last of Tatsumi Hijikata

Rhizome Lee world Tour 2000

World tour 2000 Rhizome Lee

Dance with Dead

I will dance with the Dead in the world.

Life resonates with the Dead

Life resonates with the Dead



We have lost the resonativity with the Dead.

Especialy, we don't resonate with another country's dead.
What is the state?

How many people have died in Iraq or Afganistan, nobody cares, doesn't it?



Also we have forgotten about Vietnam war, the second world war.



I will continue to show the picture of the Dead in Auschwitz by Germany state,

the Dead in Nankin massacre by Japanese state,

the Dead in Sigon against USA.



Please check your life resonance ability with these Dead.

Is it alive? or not?



When we have lost the resonance ability, we finish.






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May Michiko Kanba rest in peace

Dead friends in the darkness of my body



Many dead friends who were killed in the movement against Vietnam war,
against the government of Japan and USA 1960-1975, are living in the darkness
of my body.



Today is the day when Michiko Kanba was killed by police　in the demonstration
against the Japanese goverment which promoted the war with Amarican gaverment
on 15th June, 1960.



Michiko came out in my dream and told me,

" Lee! Stop to do the fake dance!"

at the night of 15th June of 9 years ago.



Suddenly I aware that I fake myself at that moment, I made up the artists
network with every kind of dancers including modern dancers.

But that work forced me to take the fake mask as too much comminicative
and

I have fallen into the yesman.



I decided to separate from modern dancers who can not stop the ego, because
their ego inffluenced me almost dying together.



Then I could separate from these friends of modern dancers.

I did not know untill then that the ego of modern people's is so harmfull
for me.



The dead have informed me that I have to find my own way to separate completely
from modern people.



Then now I could established my own way in Himalaya India.



Thank you for awaring me, my dead friends!

Dead friends who live in my darkness of body

Resonance Art Gallery

The regend of Hijikata Tatsumi's Butoh Photo Book

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The regend of Tatsumi Hijikata's photo book by Hosoe Eikou

Hijikata said that the photografies by Hosoe Eikou intoroduced me to the world.
1969, Hosoe Eikou's photo book "KAMAITACHI"were published.
That year was the main days of students power,
I had seen the photo book in the barricade of university campus, I was twenty one years old.
Also I had watched his butoh performance in the university campus next year.
It was so deep shock that my concept of human was completely changed.
I realized that nomal human concept was fake, his butoh dance showed the truth.

When I went back to Japan in this winter, I found the famous photo book of "Kamaitachi"by Hosoe Eikou was republished.
I bought it, then I can show the regend pictures with some other pictures (above) to young visitors of this site.
I appreciate to the photographers who took Hijikata's pictures; Hosoe Eikou, Nakatani Tadao, Onoduka Makoto, and Yamazaki hiroshi.
Thier works remain Hijikata's profile to the present people.