Teshima, Kyoto 8

The view from the bedroom last night. In the morning there was a small bird  tapping on the window. The cutest  alarm clock ever. 

  First a lovely breakfast at the hotel before I head out. There’s a visiting chef and mixologist doing a special breakfast. 

Another little friend is visiting outside my room.  I think the first praying mantis I've seen in person, he or she is pretty cute.  Okay, sorry, I can't straighten these out until I get home, we're all going to have to crane our necks.

Here's the special breakfast.

The orange thing on the rice is an egg yolk, it's still jammy when I cut into it.  I don't know how they do it. There's a piece of fish, there's a sour and salty plum (which grows on you), Miso soup, there's pickled vegetables, could be burdock root, which they eat here, and if I remember correctly, more fish in the little dish on the left, but just a bite.  I don't know about this rice, when I eat rice at home, I go into a carb coma, but here I'm fine.  I need to get some Japanese rice to take home.

The Uno Restaurant in the early hours.

This is on Teshima island, this is a rogue photograph of it.  No photos were allowed, but true to my nature, I went the wrong way down the path and didn't see the sign.  The best way I can describe this as a non art critic, it's an enclosure, with two large holes that let the sunlight in.  The holes, form frames to the sky and trees.  They have treated the floor with some sort of silicone and when water lands on it, it looks alive.  Droplets chase each other around the floor, and they ask you not to interfere with the water, because it's art.  Meanwhile, you are in your stocking feet (no shoes allowed), and you're hopping around avoiding the droplets.  The structure is interesting, it certainly takes you out of your worries and allows you some folly. Ok stop laughing this is serious. Let's see if I can find pics or a video of it online (so I don't sound like a lunatic)

This is the view of Seto Sea when you follow the path as intended.

This is the coffee house / gift store, pics allowed. It has a similar feel to the Teshima Art Museum (aka the blob).

Here's as deep as I'm going to get about this experience.  The Art Islands feel like planes of space that allow people and nature to be the art. I'll try harder to sound more intellectual.

The cake at the cafe was delicious.

According to their website.... (you can just make out the water in their photo)

https://benesse-artsite.jp/en/art/teshima-artmuseum.html

Teshima Art Museum

Uniting the creative visions of artist Rei Naito and architect Ryue Nishizawa, Teshima Art Museum stands on a hill on the island of Teshima overlooking the Seto Inland Sea. The museum, which resembles a water droplet at the moment of landing, is located in the corner of a rice terrace that was restored in collaboration with local residents.
Structurally, the building consists of a concrete shell, devoid of pillars, coving a space about 40 by 60 meters and with a maximum height of 4.3 meters. Two oval openings in the shell allow wind, sounds, and light of the world outside into this organic space where nature and architecture intimately interconnect. In the interior space, water continuously springs from the ground in a day long motion. This setting, in which nature, art and architecture come together with such limitless harmony, conjures an infinite array of impressions with the passage of seasons and the flow of time.

A video of the making of Teshima Art Museum by Ryue Nishizawa

https://www.archdaily.com/381150/video-teshima-art-museum-office-of-ryue-nishizawa

Kyoto next, I promise...