TOBY’s JAPAN BLOG: 04/09/19

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Moon Restaurant Blue Sky Floating World Wedding Dinner on the 58th floor of the Mori Museum, Rippongi Hills, Tokyo. Treasured friends and family, some travelling nearly 6,000 miles to help us celebrate!

Note the celebratory sake on the table (white bottle).

Senju Shrine

10,000 People

Japan Art Book Project

#10 Misata Ehara at Ginza Book Cafe April 7, 2019

We ordered two Cafe Lattes, she wrote congratulations in Kanji on the foam, then recommended a book for us to take home: Laws of the Sun.

Lost in Japan

In Japan, getting lost became for me a heart warming part of the journey. Its people are quite generous with their time and in short order I grew more comfortable asking for assistance. Don’t be surprised if someone stops where they’re going to walk you to where you need to go even if it takes them way out of their way. Once, an 80 year old man noticed I'd lost track memorizing the 5 turns required to be on my way. So he got off his train with me to walk me down my path. There remained this feeling when he returned to his track: “What a gentle man. This ocean of kindness is the way life ought to be.” --tnm