SURFERS & SAMURAI: Gallery of Hermosa mounted an art show in Chigasaki, Japan, the first in a new East-West collaboration
by Bondo Wyszpolski After emerging from the south exit of Chigasaki station and veering right for two blocks, one comes to Southern-dori, or Southern Street. This narrow, slightly curving thoroughfare winds downhill to Sagami Bay. Keep walking, and before long the vibes and rhythm of a rather funky beach town will appear. Less than half an hour after leaving the train station, and now stepping through the pedestrian tunnel that scoots under a busy roadway, the wanderer is welcomed by the unmistakable scent of ocean air and a panorama of Southern Beach. There may be surfers in the swells and people on the sand. An enigmatic island, Enoshima, is to the immediate left, while Eboshi (a jutting reef that resembles the eboshi hats worn by aristocrats during the Heian era) is straight ahead. If you walk half a mile to the right and then head down to the shoreline you can turn around for a majestic view of Mount Fuji which, if weather permits, will surge up to surprise and astonish. From our beach to yours Chigasaki is a weekend getaway, an hour or so down the Tokaido line from Tokyo by way of Yokohama. However, having stopped halfway along Southern-dori, you’d be outside Creative Space…
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