SHOSHA YAMA

Cable car up Shosha (Mt.) Yama to Temple complex

Ishii-san in main Temple

(not  a Nazi swastika)

My lifeboats and Ishii-san's shoes!

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English-speaking monk giving us directions to site of Last Samurai shooting

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Part of the Last Samurai scenes

LUNCH

Ishii-san and Tsuda-san treated us to Japanese lunch

MORUTSU

Fishing boats in old, small traditional fishing village

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PARTY

Tuesday our hosts gave us a party in a private upstairs room of a
traditional Japanese restaurant;  here, Fujimori-san and Ishii-san

Back row, left to right:  Ishii-san, Ito-san, Tsuda-san, Nakagawa-san,
the Western Devil, Kitamura-san
Front row, left to right:  Hisagawa-san, Fujimori-san, da girlz

My "little buddies," Ishii-san and Ito-san