The amazing synchronicity of Hijikata and Deleuze

 The amazing synchronicity of Hijikata and Deleuze

We could find so many amazing synchronicities between Hijikata and Deleuze. 

1. First synchronicity about the ego

Hijikata said,

 

“We have to go to the place before the differentiation of self and others.”

Deleuze said,

“To reach, not the point where one no longer says I, but the point where it is no longer of any importance whether one says I. We are no longer ourselves.”

Both are the way to release from the modern bondage of ego.

 

2. Second synchronicity of the transformation method to overcome the ego bind

Hijikata invented <Reduction by X and regeneration>,
Deleuze invented <Deterrtorialization and reterritorialization>.
Both are the transformation methods to release from all kind of binds; ego, self-identity, humanity, sexuality, nationality and so on.
X and the territory can be anything. Then both method is completely the same. You can replace “territorialization” into X, then Hijikata method becomes "Reduce the territorialization" as the same as deterritorialization. You can replace “self-identity” into X, then your any part of the body can travel anywhere and transform anything, it means your part become nomad beyond the border between you and others.
You can reduce “the restraint by ego’s territorialization to the body” then each part of the body can connect others and separate freely. 
During co-research of <Reduction by X and regeneration> and <Deterritorrialization and reterritorialization>, gradually we could find the amazing synchronicity of both methods.

3. Third synchronicity of "Becoming" 

It is a miraculous coincidence because they are completely the same.
Becoming is the most fundamental technique of Hijikata Butoh. Butoh is not human expression, but becoming as the Life, the inevitable becoming to survive.
Deleuze said, “Become wolf, become a woman, become a child, become molecular, become an unrecognizable secret, become a Rhizome!"
Becoming unrecognizable one is exactly the same with “Clouding (obscuring) method of the body” in “Sick Dancing Princess “ by Hijikata.
Hijikata guided to become the chimera. Chimera is a being that various Qualia merged into a body and becoming something that

we cannot grab what is it.