Slit mouthed woman doing some magic in Ropossa

On my way back after doing a magic show as the "kuchi sake onna" ("slit mouthed woman" urban legend monster), I stopped by Ropossa. The mama of Ropossa had requested that I stop by when in this costume. I ended up doing some table magic for some other guests there. It was a lot of fun.

口裂け女の仮装でマジックショーをやってから、ロポッサというマジックスナックにもちょっと寄った。ママが口裂け女の仮装どうしても見たいって言っていたから。他のお客さんにテーブルマジックを見せることにもなった。楽しかった。

Magic show at the El Mango Halloween Party

The first of November, there was another Halloween party and did another magic show. Again dressed as the "kuchi sake onna" ("slit mouthed woman" urban legend monster).  The party came with lots of good food, and many different performances. Apart from my magic, there was Latin dancing, Kung-Fu stunt action fighting, singing by imitating famous people, hip-hop dancing, and salsa dancing.

11月1日にもハロウィンパーティーがあった。またマジックショーをやった。また口裂け女の仮装でやった。パーティーでは色々な食べ物もあったし、他のパフォーマンスも色々あった。サルサダンス・ヒップホップダンス・物真似・カンフーアクションパフォーマンス、色々あった。

For a Halloween party, the number of people with funny costumes was quite low. There was a costume competition, and I voted for a Marilyn Monroe girl. In the end, I won the costume competition and got a massage cushion.

ハロウィンパーティーだったが仮装の人がそんなにいなかった。仮装コンクールもあって、僕が優勝した。僕のがマリリンモンローの仮装に１票。

When I was preparing for my performance, one of the dancers from a previous performance came into the only back stage room. She took a look at me and asked: "You are not really a woman right?" and then asked me to leave the room. She wanted to change out of her performance costume and into her Halloween costume. I wanted to prepare for my performance, since I was the next person to go on stage, but I figured I was pretty much done and gave her the room.

裏で僕のパフォーマンスの準備をしたら、別のパフォーマンス組の女の人１人が入ってきて、僕の方を見た。「本当は女の人ではないよね？出て行って貰えませんか？」と言われた。パフォーマンスの衣装からハロウィンのコスチュームに着替えたかった。次のパフォーマンスが僕だったから、もうちょっと準備したかったが準備がほぼ終わっていたから部屋を譲った。

She also noticed that not only am I not a woman, I am also not Japanese. She asked where I am from, and when I said that I am from Sweden she started speaking Swedish to me. When we spoke more later, she said that she went to a Swedish high school for one year. She speaks quite well, but with a very strong southern Sweden dialect. That she speaks with a much better southern Swedish accent than I could possibly manage (despite me being quite good a Swedish in general :-) is pretty funny when she looks very non-Swedish.

女の人ではないのもばれたし、日本人でもないのもばれたから「何人？」と聞かれた。スウェーデン人だと言ったら、スウェーデン語で色々言われた。ビックリ。後でもっと話したら、高校１年間スウェーデンの高校に行っていたそうだ。スウェーデン語がきれいだが南スウェーデンの方言が強い。日本人がその方言できれいに喋るのがうけるなぁ。

The always popular "signed card into unopened (sealed) PET bottle". The girl who signed the card remembered (and recognized me without being dressed as a girl!) me when I ran into her at a Christmas party two months later.

She also turned out to work at the same university that I work at. We now have lunch together once per week (except when I am travelling, which recently is like all the time).

そして、もうちょっと話したら、職場一緒！僕の出張がない時に（最近出張しかないけど）週１回くらい北大で一緒に昼ご飯を食べる。

Two people who can speak Swedish

My magic show went fine. People laughed when they were supposed to etc. I had some problems with walking in my very high heeled spike heel shoes (they are size XXL but much too small for me, since it is Japanese girl size XXL). People thought that was funny, so that was still good, I guess. It was also pretty funny when a photo of me kept appearing in one magic trick, but no one could recognize who it was since I was dressed as a woman on stage. I learned that it is annoyingly difficult to carry your magic props around with you when in women's clothing, since apparently women do not use pockets...

僕のマジックショーが無事に終わった。皆笑ってくれた。まあまあ高いスパイクヒールで歩くのがちょっと難しかったというか痛かった。XXLを買ったがそれでもかなり小さい。女の子の足がめっちゃ小さいんだね。苦しんでいる姿も、皆笑ってくれたから、結果良かった。他に面白くなったのは、僕の顔の写真が何回も出てくるマジックで、「この人誰？」と皆なった。僕の素顔を知っている人がいなくて、口裂け女のメイクで全然分からなかったみたい、笑。勉強になったのは、女の人がポケットを使わないんだね。服にポケットが１つもなかった。マジック道具を持って歩くのが大変だった。

Kung-Fu action stunt fighting

Magic show at a Halloween Party at cafe An Be

One of my friends has a "senpai" working in a restaurant/cafe/bar called Cafe An Be. My friend has done magic shows there many times, and when asked to do a show at their Halloween party, he asked me if I could help out, since he was running out of material. I said sure, and we ended up doing a half hour show together.

マジシャン友達の先輩が「Cafe An Be」という店で働いている。友達が何回もそこでマジックショーをやってきた。ハロウィンパーティーでまたマジックやって欲しいって言われた時に、僕に「一緒にやる？」と聞いた。ネタがもうない感じだった。僕が「やりたい！」と言ったから、2人で30分くらいのショーをやった。

Before our time to go on stage, we waited around in the back for quite some time. We got some very nice food to eat, though, so that was fine. Before us, there was also a group of women performing poppy versions of anime songs and other music. They were very nice.

ステージにあがる前に結構待っていた。待っている間、美味しい食べ物を貰った。うちのショーの前にアニソングとかをやってくれた女性のバンドもパフォーマンスした。良かった。

We did our magic show by first me doing one magic trick, then my friend doing one, then me again, and so on. This worked really well, and was a pretty good way to split up the work and to get some good variety into the show (we did not have time to rehearse any routines to do together).

マジックのショーは、僕が1ネタをやって、友達が1ネタをやって又僕、みたいなやり取りにした。結構良かった。キャラの違いがあって、2人でやった方が良かった。2人で一緒にやるネタの練習時間がなかったから、簡単なやり取りくらいしか出来なかったが結果良かった。

I had been told that the audience would be mostly drunk grownups but it was in fact mostly families with children. I have a lot of material that works well with kids, but had not brought very much of that. I did have some things that work great with kids, though. When I ask kids to help me out on stage, usually there are lots of volunteers. This time, there were none, haha. Probably because I was dressed up as the "kuchi sake onna" (the "slit mouthed woman", a Japanese urban legend monster that kills children with her scissors).

行く前に、酔っ払いの大人が多いと言われたが当日に来ていた人が子供連れの家族が多かった。子供にうけるマジックをいっぱい持っているが持って行ったマジックの中はそんなになかった。子供うけが良いネタを何個かがあったけど。普段「手伝ってくれる人がいる？」と子供に聞いたら、やりたい子供がいっぱいいる。今回は誰もいなかった、笑。僕が口裂け女の仮装していたから、皆怖がっていたみたい。

In the subway

Our show was appreciated. People laughed a lot, and afterwards people came up and wanted to take photos with me. One woman came up to me and said that she had thought I was actually a woman up until I started speaking, haha.

マジックショーが好評だった。皆笑ってくれた。終わってから、一緒に写真撮りたい人もいたし、「喋る前に本当に女だと思った」と言ったおばさんもいた、笑。

On the way back to the magic bar where we then were to do more magic, we met one of my friends in the subway. She thought it was strange to ride the subway dressed the way I was.

地下鉄でマジックバーに戻る時に、たまたま僕の友達に会った。よくその格好で地下鉄に乗れたねと言われた。

Magic at a Bridal company party

After the Halloween magic show, I immediately left for Tokyo to meet people from Sweden who were visiting. After a few intensive days in Tokyo, I flew back to Sapporo, went straight to work, and left from work straight for a party with people working in the bridal business.

ハロウィンのマジックショーの次の日にスウェーデンから知り合いが東京に来たので、僕が札幌から東京に会いに行った。忙しいが楽しい東京の2日間の後、飛行機に乗って直接職場に行った。職場から直接ブライダル系の会社の集まりの宴会に行った。

A woman I know works with finding entertainers for weddings. She connects people organizing their weddings with people playing the violin etc. Sometimes people ask for a magician, and then she sometimes asks me if I have time to perform at a wedding or two.

知っている女の人が結婚式などに生演奏の人とかを紹介する仕事をしている。たまに「マジシャン紹介できますか？」と聞かれる。そういう時にたまに僕にどこかの結婚式に出れる？と僕に聞いてくる時がある。

At the party, lots of people in her business were gathering, so she wanted me to come and do some magic for the rest of them, in the hope that they might ask her (or recommend people getting married to ask her) for a magician.

その宴会で、ブライダル的な仕事の人がいっぱい集まっていたから、皆にマジックを見せたら、マジシャンのリクエストが増えるかもしれないから無料でやって欲しいと言われた。趣味でやっているから面白い相手なら無料でも全然やる。

I walked around the tables and did the tricks that I often do at weddings, and people were very impressed. I also saw the boss of one of the biggest bridal companies there, and we had met once before. I did a magic show at a wedding were the groom was one of his relatives, so he was sitting at one of the head tables. I was asked to do something special at his table this time, so I ended up putting a card that he had signed inside an unopened (sealed) PET bottle. He seemed very impressed with that (and the sponge rabbits trick I do).

テーブルを回って、結婚式でよくやるマジックを見せた。大きなブライダルの会社の社長（？）も来ていた。前に結婚式でマジックをやった時に、その社長に会ったことがある。新郎さんが親戚だったみたい。今回、社長のテーブルで特別なマジックやって欲しいと言われたから、結局サインして貰ったカードを新品のペットボトルに入れた。うけが良かった。まぁ、いつもやっているスポンジのウサギのマジックもう相変わらずうけた。

Magic show at H's Cafe

In recent years, Halloween has become more and more popular in Japan. People celebrate Halloween by dressing up in mostly cute or sexy costumes and having parties. I was asked to do a magic show at a place called H's cafe, where I quite often have dinner (they have excellent hamburgers), at their Halloween party.

最近日本でもハロウィンが流行ってきた。日本では可愛いコスチュームでパーティーするだけだけどね。H's Cafeというバーのハロウィンパーティーでマジックショーをやった。ハンバーガーがうまい店で、よく行く。

I dressed up as a zombie, since that means you can still have pockets to carry your magic props around with you. I got 30 minutes or so to do a show in front of all the people at the party. People seemed to enjoy it, though it was difficult to tell the facial expressions of most people.

ゾンビの仮装して、マジックをしに行った。ゾンビだったら、ポケットがあるコスチュームなので、マジック道具とか持って行きやすい。30分くらい皆の前でマジックショーをやった。うけたと思うが表情が分かり辛い人が多かった、笑。

There was also a costume competition at the party and I got second place there.

コスチュームコンクールもあった。2位になって、賞を貰った。

Costume competition winners

My prize

Magic show for the MACS English school

A week ago, I did a magic show for the children at the MACS English conversation school. I have been there many times before, and the kids are always very enthusiastic and seem to enjoy magic a lot. I did 30 minutes or so of magic, and then we had 30 minutes or so where I taught them two simple magic tricks that they can do themselves.

Since I have been there many times before, I was running low on new material. I was told that there would mainly be kids that had not seen me before, so I packed a bag full of things that usually go over well with kids, like sponges and picture cards. This year, I also finished with a signed card into a sealed PET-bottle, which especially the teachers thought was extremely mystifying.

My own favorite new thing was a quiz show style part, where we had a team of all the children and a team with all the teachers and they had to draw questions from a bag and if anyone in the team knew the answer the team got one point. The teachers kept drawing very difficult questions that they could not answer, while the kids got fairly easy questions regarding English, and since it was an English school they were supposed to know the answers. As to what was magic about this game, I made a magic prediction of what the final score was. This is a part of a trick from Tom Stone's book Maelstrom that I made to fit the English teaching environment. I find that children get tired after watching 10 to 15 minutes of magic, so when as in this case I am asked to do longer shows for kids, I try to find something that is not so tiring for the brain but that is still fun enough to keep everyone interested, to get 5 to 10 minutes of relaxation in the middle. I have also used a version of the "everyone gets bingo at the same time"-trick, where I usually make all the kids get bingo at the same time, and none of the teachers get bingo at all (though they get lots of numbers that fall on their bingo cards too).

Anyway, I had fun, the kids seemed to have lots of fun, and the teachers had fun, so it was a success I think.

Stage magic at a wedding

My room

During the weekend, I was asked to do some magic at a wedding. I did 15 minutes of magic on a small stage in front of everyone, and later did some table magic at some of the tables too. There were around 80 guests there, and they were seated so that it was a bit difficult to make sure everyone could see me at the same time (there were pillars and staircases blocking the view). I moved around a bit so everyone should be able to see what was going on, and there was a camera crew there shooting the whole thing and showing it live on lots of big screen TVs spread out through the room too.

I did the magic coloring book, a very quick card trick with a huge deck of cards, produced large amounts of flowers from an empty paper bag, and did a reversed mind read trick where the groom was supposed to mind read from my mind which card I had put in an envelope (John Archer's version of the Kolossal Killer). I also did a gag trick with some small silk handkerchiefs and a panda, and then as a finale a card signed by the bride ended up inside a sealed (unopened) bottle of tea.

It was a lot of fun for me, and the guests seemed to enjoy it too. There was especially one older (?) man at a table near the stage that kept shouting funny comments to the things I were saying.

I had a huge room (bigger than my apartment) to wait around in back stage, and since the sound check was at 17:30 and my stage show at 20:00, I spent quite a lot of time there, haha.

Tenyo Special Magic 2014 ・ 透視力検査、テンヨープラスワンキャンペーン2014年

This is the Tenyo Special Magic trick for 2014. If you buy three Tenyo products and send in the little stamps they come with, Tenyo sends you a free trick in their "plus one campaign", and this year the trick is an x-ray vision test kind of effect.

2014年のテンヨーのプラスワンキャンペーンの「透視力」の検査のマジック。テンヨーのマジック3つを買って、付いているウサギマークをテンヨーに送ると毎年新しいマジック１つ貰える。

First you have the spectator shuffle the cards and you can sort them into black and red cards using your x-ray vision (looking only at the backs).

観客にカードを混ぜて貰ってから、透視を使って赤と黒のカードを分ける。

Next, the spectator can cut the (already more or less shuffled) cards and then deal the top three cards. Using your x-ray vision and a vision test helping patch (to cover one of your eyes), you can determine exactly which cards these are.

観客にカードをカットして貰って、上から3枚を出して貰う。透視と目のカバーになる黒の道具を使って、その3枚のCの向きを当てる。

You can do it with more than three cards if you want to, and if you are a little bit clever you can do it with only two cards too. You can have spectators look at the backs of the cards for quite some time and they will (most likely) not notice anything. Taking a picture of the backs of the cards with a camera will usually make them look really suspicious, though, so making this movie took some effort.

3枚以上なら、何枚でも大丈夫だ。ちょっと考えたら、2枚でも出来る。カードを観客に調べて貰っても（多分）大丈夫だ。写真や動画では、カードの裏が怪しく見える可能性が高いけど。

Magic show for a yosakoi team

The stage was pretty far away from the audience

I spent Sunday afternoon with the owner of our magic bar at a fancy hotel in the northern part of Sapporo. We did a magic show for a yosakoi team. There were 10 tables with about 10 persons per table. We did a stage show first, with my boss producing a bowling ball from a sketchbook and me hammering a nail into my nose and then doing my "perfect match" magic trick. Finally we did a funny two man ESP card routine.

日曜日の午後によさこいチームの宴会でマジックショーをやってきた。うちのマジックバーのオーナーと2人で札幌の北区のホテルでやっていた。10人くらい座れるテーブルが10テーブルあった。最初ステージで、うちのボスがスケッチブックからボーリングボールを出した。僕が鼻に釘を刺してから女の人の相性占いのマジックを披露した。最後のESPカードを使って2人でやるマジックも見せた。

A bunch of props to use on stage

After the stage show, we walked around doing table magic too. I covered three tables, though a lot of people kept following me from table to table. My boss said he only did one table because more and more people kept congregating on that one table so he just stayed there.

ステージマジックの後、テーブルを回ってクローズアップもやった。僕が3テーブルを回ったがボスが最初のテーブルで止まったみたい。僕が必死に動いていても、同じお客さんが結構一緒に次のテーブルにも行ったから、結局同じネタは1回しかやらなかった。ボスはあるテーブルでやり始めたら、人がそこにどんどん集まってきたからそのまんまそこでやり続けたって。

Two magicians concentrating hard before going on stage

Everyone seemed to have a good time, and people were screaming a lot, in a good way. We had lots of fun ourselves too. The team, 新琴似天舞龍神 (Shin-Kotoni Tenbu Ryuujin) is one of my favorite teams to watch during the Sapporo Yosakoi festival too, so I hope they do well this year too (they usually do very well).

皆喜んでくれたみたい。悲鳴（いい意味の）が結構あったりした。うちらも結構楽しめた。札幌のよさこい騒乱祭りでこの「新琴似天舞龍神」というチームのパフォーマンスも結構好きなんだ。今年もうまくいくといいね。だいたいうまくいくチームだけど、ｗ。

Yearly magic duel

Every year at the university staff "new year party", a professor who is learning magic finds me and asks me to show him some magic. This is a lot of fun, and it happened in 2013 and in 2012, as reported on this blog. It happened this year too, and I wrote about it on my other blog.

毎年、北大の情報科学研究科のスタッフの新年会で、マジックを勉強している先生とマジックのやり合いになる。結構楽しい、ｗ。2013年の新年会でも、2012年の新年会でもやった。今年の新年会の話は僕の別のブログで書いた。

Visiting American magician

William Rader the mentalist, and me

A few weeks ago, I got a Facebook friend request from someone I did not know. Quickly checking his profile, I learned that he was a magician so I figured that was why he wanted to connect. He then sent me a message saying: "I am going to Japan! Can we meet up?" Since I live in Sapporo and most people that come to "Japan" go to Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, or some of the famous places in the south, I was a bit surprised. A few messages later, I learned that he was going to stay in Sapporo for three weeks or so, because his wife is from Sapporo and they would be here to visit relatives over the New Year.

何週間前に、フェイスブックでメッセージが来た。知らない人から「友達になって下さい」。プロフィールを見たら、マジシャンだったからそういう話とかしたいかなと思った。その後もメッセージで「日本に行くから会おう！」って。大体、日本の来る人が東京や京都に行くから、札幌に来ないんじゃないと思っていたが何回かメッセージをしたら、実は札幌に3週間くらい泊まると言っていた。奥さんが札幌出身なので、年越しは札幌の家族と。

Me, doing a Christmas magic show at Bottom Cafe

He said that he had been in Sapporo before, but that he had not managed to find any magic to watch at that time. This time, they had found my blog. When I told him there are at least six magic bars in Sapporo (and many many more in Tokyo etc.) he was very surprised.

前にも札幌に来たことがあるがその時にマジックの関係のことが何も見つからなかったそうだ。今回、僕のブログを見つけたから連絡とってくれた。札幌にマジックバー6つもあるよと言ったら、かなり驚かれた。

The university magic club performers of this years Christmas show

This time, his timing was very good and there were many other things related to magic to see too. He came to our magic bar (Magic Bar Twister) when I was working, and we went to the other magic bar in our chain (Trick Bar Twister) together too. He also came to see my Christmas Magic Show at Bottom Cafe, and he came to see the Hokudai Kijutsu Kenkyuukai (the university magic club) at the Christmas show. We also went together to the magic bar Hey Pola and to Cocktail Bar Harada and saw lots of magic there too.

今回のタイミングも良かった。マジックバー以外のマジックのイベントも色々あった。僕が出ていた日に彼がうちのマジックバー（マジックバーツイスター）にきてくれたし、一緒にもう一店舗（トリックバーツイスター）にも行ったし、僕がボトムカフェでやったクリスマスマジックショーも見に来てくれたし、北大の奇術研究会（部活のサークル）のクリスマスショーも見に来てくれたし、一緒にマジックバーヘイ・ポーラに行ったし、一緒にカクテルバー原田でマジックを見せて貰ったし、今回マジック沢山見れたね。

Hey Pola (magician Nihei)

Once we went out for soup curry (a Sapporo specialty) and discussed magic for a few hours too. He showed me a lot of things that he does when he performs, and I showed some things that I had not done when he saw me in the magic bar.

2人でスープカレー（札幌の名物）を食べに行って、マジックの話を何時間したこともあった。彼がアメリカでやるマジックを色々見せてくれたし、僕がマジックバーでやらなかったネタ何個かを見せたし。

The fluent in English magician Harada in Cocktail Bar Harada

He was very nice, and it was interesting to talk to someone from abroad about magic. I learned magic in Sapporo, and though I talk to my Sapporo friends about magic it was very interesting to hear what is "hot" in the U.S. now etc. I also got some gifts; American playing cards of different types. So blogging does pay off sometimes.

面白い人だった。海外の人とマジックの話をするのも面白かった。僕が札幌に来てからマジックを勉強し始めたので、海外ではやっているマジックとか、知らない。札幌のマジシャン友達とマジックの話をするが、海外の人とそういう話をするのがほとんどない（1回スウェーデンに帰っていた時にマジックバーストックホルムで会ったマジシャンと話したことがある）。プレゼントでアメリカのトランプを貰ったし。やっぱりブログをしたら、いいこともあるんだね。

Presents (and a heating pack the post office gave me for buying stamps)

Rabbit magic in Saitama

Here is a clip of me doing some magic with Tenyo sponge rabbits at New Years. I was visiting my brother and his wife who were in Saitama at her parents' place. One evening some friends of hers also showed up, and I was asked to do "the trick with the rabbits", haha. I also did some other magic, but this is the trick people like the most.

お正月に弟と弟の嫁が日本に来たので、皆で嫁さんの埼玉にある実家でお正月を過ごした。ある日、友達も何人か来たので、「マジックをやって」って言われた。「うさぎのやつ見たい！」って言われたから、テンヨーのスポンジのウサギを使ったマジックを見せた。他のマジックも色々やったが一番人気なのがこれだ。

Other than the rabbits, I also hammered a nail into my nose to psychically detect what card had been picked, used a small iPhone accessory to find other cards, did a "perfect match" magic trick for one of the girls, and had a signed card end up inside an unopened PET-bottle.

うさぎのマジックの他に、鼻に釘を刺して選んだカードをエスパ的に読み取ったし、アイフォーンのアクセサリを使ってカード当てをしたし、相性占いのマジックもやったし、サインカードが新品のペットボトルに入るマジックもやったし、色々見せた。

Me Doing Magic at a BDSM Event

The last Friday of November, I did a magic show at the Rootstock Side Action 2013 bondage event. There were performances by bondage teams, by several bands (rock music), by a funny transvestite, and there was my magic show and a laser show. About 160 people showed up to watch, and there was a quite big stage to perform on. Apart from the performances on the stage, there were snakes and birds of prey to play with, food, drinks, strange clothes and fashion accessories on sale, and you could have tattoos and fangs fixed for you on the spot. You could also try being tied up by bondage experts.

11月の最後の金曜日にルートストック・サイド・アクション2013年というSMイベントでマジックショーをやった。SMショー2組が縛りとかのパフォーマンスをしたし、バンド3組の生演奏もあったし、面白いオカマがいたし、レザーショーもあったし、僕のマジックショー以外も色々あった。お客さん160人くらいが来たそうだ。割と広いステージがあった。ステージのパフォーマンス以外も色々あった。例えば、蛇やふくろう（本物）・フェッチのファッションアクセサリ・牙・タトゥー・飲み物・食べ物。SMのプロに縛って貰う体験コーナーもあった。

I was asked to show up and do my show as a zombie, and if possible to do some bondage themed magic tricks. After leaving work at the university I rushed home and started painting my face. I arrived more or less in time to see the first performance on the stage. My own performance was much later, so I was a bit worried that my makeup would melt away if I started sweating, so I tried to stay away from the hotter rooms and not to exert myself too much.

マジックショー頼まれた時に、ゾンビの格好でやって下さいと言われた。SMショーっぽいマジック何かあったらやって欲しいと言われたし。大学の仕事が終わって、家に帰って必死にゾンビメイクで頑張った。最初のステージパフォーマンスをぎりぎり見れた感じで会場に着いた。僕のパフォーマンスがもっともっと遅い時間だった。メイクが水の弱いので溶けるかって心配していたから、暑くない部屋に行ったり、出来るだけ運動しない様にしたりしていた。

Talking about mind reading

The magic show went fairly well. People seemed to enjoy my tricks. I started with a Tenyo made magic coloring book. It is a fast trick (less than a minute) that is visual, easy to see from far away, and easy to understand even for people who are not listening to what the magician is saying. I often use this as an opener to quickly introduce myself.

マジックショーは割りと無事に終わった。喜んで貰えたみたい。最初はテンヨーネタの絵本を使った。すぐ終わるマジック（1分もかからない）で、ビジュアルで分かり易いマジックで、遠くまで見れるマジックで、説明をちゃんと聞いていなくても伝わるマジックなので、最初の紹介ネタに使う時が多い。

Explaining that the mind reading waves are too weak so the antenna (nail) I am holding in my left hand might be necessary

Next, I had a card picked from a jumbo sized deck of cards, and then tried to mind read what the selected card was using telepathy. The telepathic waves were not strong enough, so I used an antenna (a nail) that I hammered into my nose. Then I could mind read the card.

次、ジャンボサイズのトランプからカード1枚選んで貰った。エスパ的に読み取ろうとしたが電波が悪くてなかなか読み取れなかった。もしかしたら、アンテナが必要ではないかって自分で分かった。アンテナ（釘）を鼻に刺した。刺してから、カードは何のカードだったか、読み取れた。

Hammering the antenna (nail) into my nose

Next I did a short rope trick, since the other performances relied heavily on ropes (tying people up and then whipping them). First I used a Tenyo rope with a Pikachu on it. The rope turns soft or hard depending on magic power. I also used a normal rope which I had a spectator cut in half, and then I made the rope whole again. I also pulled the rope through my body.

その次、ロープマジックをした。SMショーの人たちがよくロープ（縄）を使っていたから、ロープマジックもいいかなと思った。最初テンヨーのピカチュが付いた硬くなったり柔らかくなったりするロープを使った。その後、普通のロープを出して、お客さんに真ん中辺り切って貰った。切られたロープの復活の後、ロープが僕の体を貫通した。

Hammering the nail in the last few centimeters too

Next, I had a card selected, stuffed the whole deck of cards into a slightly suspicious looking bag. I also put the rope from the previous trick into the bag, and stuffed a stuffed rabbit toy in there too. I then had a woman use one of the bondage teams' whip to whip the bag. She was one of the "S" people from one of the other performances, so she whipped me (my hand) hard several times, before actually doing what I asked her to do, haha. After whipping the bag, when pulling the rope out it turned out that the stuffed rabbit had been tied up with the rope into a bondage position, and it had the selected stuck in the rope creations too.

普通のトランプから1枚選んで貰って、若干怪しげな袋にトランプ全部入れた。さっきのマジックのロープも入れた。最後に、ぬいぐるみのウサギも入れた。鞭のプロに鞭で袋たたいて欲しかったがやっぱりSの人で、最初の何回かは僕の手をたたいた。結構痛かった（笑）。やっと頼んだ様に袋をたたいて貰ってから、袋からロープを引っ張り出すとウサギが亀甲縛りになってて、あるところに選んだカードも付いていた。

Me with a nail stuck in my nose, successfully doing mind reading

I gave away the tied up stuffed toy to someone in the audience. I threw it pretty far away to someone who shouted that they wanted it. A month later, I saw the same toy rabbit hung in a bar I visited, so I guess the person who received either visits there or works there.

亀甲縛りになったぬいぐるみを奥のほうのお客さんにあげた。誰が貰ったか、よく見れなかったがその1ヶ月後、たまたま行ったバーに僕が使っていたウサギが飾ってあった！貰った人がそこのお客さんか店員か分からないが偶然でまた出会ったね。

The rabbit from my show, found by chance in a bar a month later

My final trick was a card trick where I signed card ended up inside an unopened (factory sealed) PET-bottle. I gave the PET-bottle with the card inside away to the girl who had signed the card.

最後にカード1枚選んで貰って、サインして貰った。サインされたカードが新品のペットボトルに入った。そのペットボトルをサインしてくれた女の子にあげた。

Me and the event organizer

The other performances were very good. I liked the bondage performances very much (I had only seen one bondage performance before this, when the event organizer took me to a bondage club to see a show so I knew what goes on in such shows so I could make magic tricks with a similar theme). The transvestite was very funny, I am told, though I missed almost all of it since I was on after him and had to be backstage getting ready. The bands were also very good, and they were super nice to talk too at the after party too. The things on sale were interesting, and the food was good too. The spectators were funny too. Some people showed up in quite spectacular outfits.

他のパフォーマンスも良かった。SMショーが両方凄いきれいだった。その前にSMショーを見たことが1回しかなかった。SMショーに合わせたマジックをやって欲しいと言われて、イベントの人と勉強のためにSMクラブのショーを見に行った。イベントのオカマも凄く面白かったと言われたが僕のパフォーマンスがその次だったからほとんど見れなかった。バンドも良かった。打ち上げでバンドのメンバーと話すのも楽しかったし。ブースも面白かった。食べ物も美味しかったし。来てくれたお客さんも面白い人がいっぱいいっぱいいた。面白い格好の人も沢山来ていた。

I also wrote about Rootstock Side Action 2013 and uploaded photos I took myself to my non-magic blog about things that happen to me in Sapporo.

ルートストック・サイド・アクション2013年の写真とかをマジック関係ないブログにもアップした。