Returning to Salon Kitagawa
July 1, 2006 by Shin
Finally I have got a chance to visit Salon Kitagawa again after moving to Taiwan in January. Before heading toward our destination, we have lunch in a sushi shop in Ochanomizu. Despite having lived in Japan for three years, it is merely my second time eating in a traditional sushi shop.
Wow, looks yummy!
Six months without a chance to practice suspension in Taiwan, I almost forgot how to do gyakuebi right. Upon glancing my first try, Kitagawa and Shioda immediately say “don’t you think it looks too loose?” The first suspension is not a successful one. Kitagawa san quickly helps me out and points out what may be wrong.
My second try.
I learnt this from Kitagawa san.
Shioda taught me how to allow the thigh to take some of the weight.
On the way back, we pass by a supermarket hoping to find some fish liver. Then I find these watermelon in shibari! Well, akane says that it’s just how watermelons are sold in Japan. I think I have got to take a photo of them to show to my Taiwanese friends.
It’s been great meeting Kitagawa, Shioda and Runa. Hope to see them again soon!
July 9th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Nice set . . . skillsets like that become rusty with disuse so take it slow and easy . . . safety first . . .
I couldn’t eat that stuff but then I don’t actually like seafood (weird for someone living in Taiwan by choice but there ya go) . . . the watermelons do look . . . unique . . . 
- Brian
July 9th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
surprised you didn’t practice in Taiwan.
not because there isn’t model, right?
July 9th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
Brian, thanks.
Many of my western friends don’t like sea food because they mentally don’t feel they’ve consumed much protein from the fish.
Now I’m trying to figure out how the melons are tied.
tietight, well, it’s more due to lack of venue. I don’t know of any place in Taipei with sufficient installation to suspend people. Apart from the pull-up bars in the park, that is.
July 17th, 2006 at 11:16 pm
傾きをなくすために
軸縄を３本取っているんだね。
だけど
しばらくぶりに縄を持ったでしょ。