For 2024, the Japanese tour over, and over two weeks of collaborating, travelling, exploring comes to a close. Such an extraordinary time, memorable for my whole life, and built on the sincere and remarkable hospitality of so many people in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. Colin and I felt really looked after, with people going out of their way to invite us into experiences we couldn’t have imagined. I felt a responsibility to the rarity of the opportunity, especially repeating itself, to push myself out into the places, staying in five different areas of Tokyo, walking over 100 miles all told, and taking any opportunities I could to talk, eat, work with people living there. I discovered so much, spent so much time learning not only about poetry, but calligraphy and other artforms, as well as about how people think, spending lots of time reading and talking about Buddhism and Shinto. I felt welcomed in, every day. Moreover, Colin and I had real fun. Travelling across the earth is never easy, even when in great fortune, and this trip felt like a reward.

All the event videos and pictures are also up now on our project site too https://www.theenemiesproject.com/jupe/