March 7 - A Person Can Develop A Cough

By Rosebud -
March 7, 2019 
This morning, Jonathan is down. 

Everyone, go back to bed.  We'll see you when you're healthy.  



By 2pm they were going stir crazy


So we went out for the 1.5km walk... which, with Irene hobbling along, took us 45 minutes..... 
to Tofukuji Temple.  

What continued to fascinate us is that this is still a religious pilgrimage for so many people.  In most of my life thus far, everyone I've met has been either atheist or monotheist.

                        
Not understanding signs is killing us!
We think this is the bridge that is important.  Somewhere in this temple complex is the oldest wooden bridge surviving in Japan.  That whole "burning down" thing happened a lot. 



Westerners think of pantheons as something the ancient (read: stupid, uneducated) Greeks and Romans believed.  We're above such things. We're enlightened.  

Seeing the profound faith of the people here humbles me.  Though I (obviously) believe that their faith is misplaced, that they seek so openly and earnestly gives me joy. 





                 
A few signs do have English translations. 



                 
Who is that Masked Wonder? 

It was cold and people were sniffley, so next was dinner! 
Time to try okonomiyaki Osaka-style!  

Talk about a hole in the wall. 
They had to turn people away because the restaurant only has 3 tables.  

We were such a novelty, the restaurant regulars walked in just to take video of us.  I'm not sure if it was because tourists never came to the restaurant. 


Or if they had never seen a family this large before.

Or if they had never seen people this large before. 


 They only serve one thing.  And they kept asking us, "Okonomiyaki?"  
"Hi! Yes." 
"Okonomiyaki." Holds up one finger  "Okonomiyaki. No no okonomiyaki."  

All this restaurant serves is okonomiyaki.  If you don't want it, don't come here. 

              


This place would never pass muster with the health inspector.  

They serve sauce from one common bowl on the cooked and the uncooked alike. 

                
Multiple kids: "What is that they're adding on?" 
Susan: "Well, it kind of looks like red cabbage.  Or maybe radishes." 
Rebecca: "Is that squid?" 
Susan:  SHHHHHH!!!!! 


Any time I tried to use my limited Japanese, they would over compensate, offering anything I might have even come close to pronouncing.  Or pointing at.  Or looking towards. By the end, Irene had 3 drinks and 4 cups of water and salt and a chair to put her leg on and... and... and....

We got a picture with the owners at the end.  They were so sweet. 
                 
She posed nicely.  He kept saying (I assume) that he had to do one more quick thing. 

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