Well, sorry for the lack of blog updates. This has been due to being chaos out here. I've now covered nearly 6000kms of driving so far, and each day, it's just leaving me exhausted. I'm trying to keep on top of emails, and uploading new fish to the site. It's difficult though.
Today, I attended the Momotaro auction. Sadly, I drew a blank on this one. After that, I drove to see Takigawa to tie up a few loose ends, and went out to dinner with him, before then driving down to Omosako. I arrived pretty late at the hotel this eve, and in the morning, will be attending one of the last Nisai harvests, as well as photographing customers Koi that have been left here.
I was due to be coming home tomorrow morning, but the schedule this time has proved pretty much impossible! As such, I have changed my flights, and will be coming home late on the evening of the 24th November (Sunday).
So far, it's been a great trip, and very fruitful. There won't be many more purchases over the remaining few days though...
As an aside... bumped into an elderly gent this evening in the restaurant this evening. He was a tad intoxicated, and very keen to talk! I usually find that when people are drunk, their Japanese is very hard to understand, but not this time. Anyway... He explained that when he was a young lad of 15 years old, he went fishing. His father however, was very angry when he found out that he had caught a very nice Sandan Kuchibeni Kohaku (presumably Nisai judging by his 'fisherman's tales' hand gestures). When I asked if he knew where he caught the fish, he explained that it was one of Sakai's mudponds!
Many thanks,
Mike.