22. What is "The Red God”?

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22. What is "The Red God”?

              We started the study of "Quiet House" which is a Butoh-fuof Hijikata's last solo. It is a non-dual and multi-dimensional resonance world that has no direction, no orientation; just there is Life resonance of Qualia.
We need to stop daily thinking to travel this special and so strange world.
We could research in only the first seven sentences for one week as the following;

               The Red God

A girl who plans an evil deed in the rain

Keep Floor Face throughout the whole time

Obsess with Salmon Face compulsively

Stuffed spring

Nest of Forest, Nest of Eyes, a moth placed on a wooden board

A vaporized candy maker or the Christ drawn as a Samurai warrior

“The Red God”

              The title of the first chapter "The Red God" is the deepest mystery. I needed almost ten years to get this. All students needed one month's experience to prepare to get what is the "Red God", with experiencing all edge Qualia including the Fukushima disaster shock.
              When a big disaster attacks us, we lose all consensus reality; what happens, who I am, where I am, what Life is, and so on, and we experience the prototype emotion of fear, shivering, and hardening as Life between Death and Life. Students have experienced deep discombobulation (total confusion) which has lost all reality as a daily body of humans during the first month through various hard travels in the darkness of the body.

              Then finally, we really got the Qualia of discombobulation.
The Red God means just the Discombobulation; which we don't know who moves us, why I dance, what I create, and so on.
The Red God is a metaphor for the discombobulation which Hijikata had experienced during his lifelong.
              He just followed the Qualia of his Life which someone moved him.
He named this 'someone" as 'The Red God’.It is a necessary mantra which he threw out all subjects which are bound the common illusion, ego, intelligence, dualistic judgment.
              When we are bound by those of modern intelligent limit we cannot contact the real Qualia of Life as subtle primitive resonance; bird's fear, shivering, shrink, collapsed, boxed and so on.
              The Red God is a manifestation to throw away all modern conceptual binds such as 'theme', 'purpose', 'meaning', ' construction' and so on. He just followed non-dual Qualia of Life.

A girl who plans an evil deed in the rain

Keep Floor Face throughout the whole time

Obsess with Salmon Face compulsively

              Hijikata was born as the last son after five sisters and five brothers. He loved a sister. But when he was seven years old, she disappeared from his home, and she had to move Kobe. Why my sister has left me? Hijikata could not understand. He did a long journey from Akita to Kobe alone to meet her during the summer vacation of the elementary school. He received very strange impressions because the sister wore a gorgeous Japanese dress 'Kimono' with heavy makeup. But at that time he couldn't understand what happened to her.
              After some year, she was sent back as a dead. This became his biggest trauma and deepest mystery. When he grew up adult after The Second World War ended, he realized everything.
              For the world war, Japan's military nation-state performed a secret activity of 'Ianhu (national prostitute)' which nation-state collected many girls from local places of Japan and Korea for giving their body for filling Japanese soldier’s sexual desire. Many girls were sent to various places in Japan, China, Philippine. Vietnam and so on.
              Hijikata's favorite sister was one of them and lost life by a venereal disease. Hijikata imagined so many times what happened on her body and mind. He dreamed of her dream infinite times until she and he became oneness. Hijikata needed for almost forty years to change his trauma to the last creation. All his hard inner experiences crystallized as the first sentence (see the picture above).

A girl who plans an evil deed in the rain
In the beginning of "A Girl" which he performed one year before the "Quiet House", the outline of his body transformed from a girl to an animal. The plan of the evil deed changed the outline. The girl tried to hide the plan of an evil deed by keeping quiet face.

Keep Floor Face throughout the whole time
But, unavoidably, the intention appears on her body and face.

Obsess with Salmon Face compulsively
Salmon has so aggressive face like an eagle because it eats other fishes.
Not only the salmon face but also many hidden tendencies come out one after the other.

              With learning this butoh score, we need to find our own Qualia instead of Hijikata's own Qualia. Then we can shift this Butoh-fuas a treasure box for creation. This Butoh-fu is a will for next-generation how to dig each own deep Qualia in the darkness of each body.
              Students research in own darkness of body and found many hidden characters, not-me, shadow, inferior personality, dissociated identities, and so on. Most of them are so strange or ugly, but even ugliness, if it could find the best timing to appear in the whole Jo-ha-Kyu, it turns to the novel Beauty. This is the Jo-ha-Kyu magic of butoh.