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By lylehsaxon (Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 04:35:45 PM EST) (all tags)
On my first visit to Tsukiji, I felt as though I was on a movie set - no doubt due to those old Hollywood movies that attempted to capture the hustle & bustle of a seaport, a train platform, a ballroom, etc., by having a bunch of extras wander back and forth on a large stage in southern California made up to look like a more crowded exotic city somewhere else in the world.  But after walking around for a few hours, it all began to seem quite normal and ordinary.


Still busy, but only a collection of a lot of individuals going about their work day.

I was driven to capture as much of Tokyo on video as I could back then (1990-92), and it was a video quest that led me to enter the Tsukiji fish market.  The resulting analog tapes slept in their cases within boxes at the back of closets for many years, and have - through the magic (or curse) of time, become interesting in a historical way, which was not my intention when I took them!  I was capturing "Tokyo Today", and now - suddenly it feels - it's history?  Time is a fearsome thing!  In any case, here is the link to the video entitled "Tsukiji Fishmarket - 1991":
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OjwQbjtWFUQ

The quality of the picture isn't great, due to my having dialed the size down quite low (to keep from going over my limit at YouTube).  To get an idea of what the picture quality really is (of the digitized-from-analog tapes), have a look at this commercially prepared version (used in a TV ad for HowStuffWorks.com) of the Pack-'em-in" video I took the same year as the Tsukiji video:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9sn5bjHAIFY

PS - Ever since having updated to FireFox 3.0.3, I've had trouble with it unceremoniously crashing on me when I try doing much within Husi, so I'm going to get this ready in a text editor, and then just drop it into Husi and not make links or check spelling or do anything that will crash FireFox.  Sorry the links are not linked, but there's the reason why!

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/

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Long knives. by blixco (2.00 / 0) #1 Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 05:10:51 PM EST
Those long knives they use to cut various fish...man.  I can't imagine trying to handle something like that to cut up a fish with any accuracy.

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Knives?! by R343L (4.00 / 1) #2 Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 10:22:22 PM EST
I think that's where the surplus samurai sword supply went ....

"There will be time, there will be time / To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." -- Eliot
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Just change the handle... by lylehsaxon (2.00 / 0) #3 Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 09:31:05 AM EST
Yeah - that's what I was thinking!  Just change the handle and you'd practically have a regulation-issue samurai sword!

LHS

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