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Breakfast - rice, umeboshi, miso soup, tamago yaki and some pickles.13:51:06
Chie and her Mum making lunch.14:00:16
Lunch - wa fu spaghetti.16:07:58
We went to visit Chie's Grandfather, who is in hospital at the moment. Just outside the hospital there was a rice field.
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This flower often grows beside rice fields.16:08:56
Rice up close.16:09:28
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In another field some of the rice had already been cut and hung up to dry.16:14:45
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A frog.16:23:26
A persimmon tree with a sign on it.16:24:33
Pigs eating mochi (rice cakes).16:24:44
Rabbits making mochi.
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The bell in this Buddhist temple had an automated ringer.17:52:18
Chie with her Grandmother outside Sushi-Tei.18:05:52
Tamago (Japanese omelette) - note the rice inside.18:06:29
Chie's Dad pouring me some sake.
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Grilled matsutake - a highly prized Japanese mushroom, apparently now in season. I'm not sure this was a particularly great example.18:11:54
Chie's Grandmother and Mum.18:12:07
The three ladies.18:21:06
Umibudou - literally "sea grapes" - a type of seaweed. Here served as a gunkan.
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Hiroshima-na - a kind of leafy vegetable which comes from the area around Hiroshima.18:24:15
Daikon pickled in beer.18:29:32
My personal favourite - hawasabi temaki. Leaves from the wasabi plant, pickled.18:59:36
Outside Sushi-Tei.
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Taken on the way back.