Saturday's Rakugo (Feb. 23)

Whoops. Forgot to finish up last week's story. Let's see. On Friday, we were left with Kiyomi on the phone, saying hello, yes . . . and looking around the table at the other students, Ako, and the new student, Yusuke, who seemed to duck.
( Lots of details . . . )

So Yusuke lies, and lies, but . . . we'll keep him!

Couple more little scenes on Saturday. First, Soso is in the garden, and Kiyomi asks him if he is still thinking about Yusuke. He says yes, but at least he'll talk to parents. And there's a card in the mail. From an old lady in Senri, thanking them for student, talking about great teacher, good rakugo. Soso starts to smile, then thinks, and says, "Lies, right?" Kiyomi, "No, I think it's real." Soso, "Nah, lies, I think." Having a habitual liar around sure makes reality fray.

Second, Kiyomi walking into the garden, and Ako at the gate. Kiyomi, "Sorry about all the fuss. I wondered about meeting you." Ako, "I'm going home. Get married." Kiyomi, "What? Who?" Ako, "Oh, anybody." Kiyomi, "Huh?" And Ako, "It's all lies. Because of you, my life is a wreck."

To be continued! (Just to make sure we come back on Monday, I guess.)

Now that's odd

There's an ad for an upcoming biography. Apparently an artist who got his start hiding in a storage box so he could knit. I guess someone didn't think a young boy should be doing this, so he did it in secret.

Now, the box had a pinhole and one day as he sat there wielding his needles, he noticed a beautiful view of grass and flowers on the wall.  So later he constructed a large box, put a copper sheet with a hole in it on ore side, and happily painted away at the projected image.

I think this is called a camera obscura in the west. But what fascinated me was the original knitting in a box. I'm a little surprised that a kid would be that fascinated by knitting.