A clear and cool day. We set off for Nara where we were met by Hisato Harada, one of Win's students, the oldest one. He and his wife have a lovely house and small Japanese garden, and they treated us to a long, leisurely and excellent meal, including one dish of rice, tuna and shrimp, another of boiled eggplant, chicken, leek and sesame, soy, ginger dressing, soup with delicious little clams, among other dishes. Wish I had the recipes. We exchanged many stories and pictures of grandchildren. Their daughter is married to a Peruvian and lives in Peru. Also spoke Yosuke Tomatsu by phone. He works with traumatized children in a school near the area of the Tsunami.
After lunch we drove up into the southern hills of Kyoto to see a very ancient temple, Joruri-ji, built in 1157 by a small lake, containing 9 Buddha statues, lords of the Western Paradise. A very peaceful end of the day.
By 6 we said good bye and returned to our little apartment, organizing our belongings in order to carry as little as possible on the trek and send the suitcase on to Tokyo. It has been our good fortune to be in the Oyama's apartment, and we feel we could almost settle into our life again in Kyoto!
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| Pagoda at Joruri-ji Templer |
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| Hisato san, Win and Kumiko san |
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| Lake at Joruri-Ji |
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