3:12pm:
I should head back soon. Wednesdays at 7pm there’s a regular gathering of international English teachers and other people at Minato-ya Okonomiyaki in Ako that I’m looking forward to. I’m sitting in a downstairs area where there’s a café, gift shop, bathrooms and a few additional displays. One was wooden carved hands in different positions from buddhist sculpture. I’m hoping I can be forgiven for thinking the last one was the international symbol for “up your butt.” The explanatory signs were all in Japanese and one hand was cupped into a vertical tube and the other had a pointing index finger inserted into said tube.