After four days of travel, we are finally at home in Oyama-sensei's second apartment in Fushimi-ku. We arrived the night of March 9, after dealing with a canceled UA flight, and then the long wait for rebooking in San Francisco where we got to spend an unwanted extra night, and finally a flight which took us to Honolulu for all of two hours! So much for our first trip to Hawaii. Anyway, when we arrived at Kyoto Eki around 9:30pm, we were going through the gate when we heard someone shout "stop!" I figured we had violated some mysterious regulation, but it was Oyama-sensei and Satoki, which was the best possible welcome and cheered us greatly as we had expected to find a cab on our own.
Yesterday, the 10th, was the day of my talk on intergeneration transmission of trauma from a child psychiatry perspective. By some miracle, I was able to talk (I think mostly intelligibly) for two hours and it all went pretty well (at least the English speakers in the crowd seemed positive). My sense is that child maltreatment is a sort of taboo topic and very awkward for Japanese to discuss.
We had a very relaxed dinner with two of Win's old students, Taro and his new wife Midori, both of whom work in Kobe now. We went to a tiny Izakaya with a cozy charcoal fire right in the middle of the table. Ate food that was described as being from the Nagano region. Some vegetables grilled in a miso paste on a large leaf of some sort - don't know the name…Good conversation.
We seem to have brought a hint of snow and rather cold weather (30's) with us from Boston, alas. Our Monday plans to visit a famous plum tree garden in Nara with Harada and his wife of course never happened, but we may see some gardens in Kyoto later in the week.
This afternoon is Win's turn to lecture, then a few days to relax and sight see.
We send love to all.
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