blue and white

in kansai area where i live, the rainy season officially began on tuesday and june is a sullen month in japan usually. we’ve been having little rain so far, however. today, it looks even sunnier than yesterday, which makes me feel great. i, along with some two hundred workmates, completed a big translation project on friday, which means i’ll be staying home during daytime and weekdays from this week again. hooray!
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i really should go back to my own unfinished project right away. but my alter ego keeps telling me to take it easy; there’s no point in wasting a sunny day of a rainy month for the project with no definite deadline. ok. one more day, just one more day i should forget the fact that i made a vow to become a flagellant and remain an epicurean? i thought so. so, i’ve been lying on my sofa thinking what i would associate with june since this morning. i am imaging something refreshing – like blue hydrangeas in the rain for instance?

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and then refreshing colours – blue and white, perhaps? like my tea towels i bought myself in different global cities. also like my old china. i used to visit antique fairs in tokyo to buy 伊万里　imari (porcelain wares): sometimes a bit pricy 染付 sometsuke (hand painted with blue and other colours) and mainly inexpensive blue-and-white 印判　inban (blue-pattern printed), some of which i had to give up at some time or other when i changed the direction of my life.

luckily, my favourite blue-and-white café-au-lait bowls and plates are still kept in my cupboard. i bought one by one whenever i visited paris in my twenties. i was kind of obsessed about blue-and-white crockery when i was young. i had various english blue-and-white porcelain wares, too. then i got a little bit bored with them as i got old. therefore, i didn’t really care whenever i left many of them behind (i now regret that). at any rate, blue and white will forever be my favourite colour combination. and, what’s yours?

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