His name is Takano-yama.

His name is Pavel Bojar but he is given another name,Taka-no-yama.
He is the first Sumo wrestler from Czech Republic.

His weight was only 88kg when he started his career as Sumo wrestler. Now he weighs 101kg.

The six Grand Sumo tournaments are held each year. One of the tournaments is over on Sunday.Each tournament begins on Sunday and runs 15days.

Taka-no-yama won only 5 in 15. But he is getting popular. Though he is smaller than other wrestler but he does his best. We love those kind of people.

ps. He is getting married. none of my business though.

The Gift of the Magi

This is a story of the day I moved.



Our cafe started the coffee tickets service. The costomer pay for 10 tickets but 1 sheet has 11 tickets.
We keep their tickets on the wall.When costomers want to pay by tickets,they tear up 1 ticket by themself.

One of the costomer who got tickets sent message on his facebook this morning. He said his mother and her friends,who visit him, from western Japan might visit us today. He wants to use his tickets for her coffee.

We were looking foward to seeing woman who is mother of our friend.
Then she came in the afternoon. Drank coffee.

When she was leaving,she said she wanted to get the tickets.
We told her "your son already pay for the coffee by tickets."
She said,"I know,but I want to get those tickets for my son."

I rememered the story of O.Henry. The husband sold his watch to get comb for his wife,and the wife sold her hair to get chain for husband's watch.
I know that is not exactly the same but there is full of consideration toward each other.

Eventhough he still have 5 tickets but he already get next sheet today.

An annual event??

It's mostly sunny today. The leaves start to change their color.

My husband took me to Karaoke on my B-day.
We haven't been there long.I haven't even sung lately.I dreamed to be a singer when I was little though.

It seemed we forgot how to vocal in the first 30min (include spending some time to comprehend about brand new those machines.)

But then,it was like match race. It was about how many song can be requested while the other one was singing. We sung 80S,90S,etc. for three hours.

I tried La Isla Bonita,Madonna but that was just disaster...

That was so much fun!! Let's do that again, I said to my husband but he said it's gonna be happened only my birthday.

the bookcover project.

One day,one of a young girl costomers asked me to make the bookcover for her favorite book. Her request was using pink fabric. I haven't used pink fabric for those cover before but that was a fun challenge.



I use the race as a bookmark.

And,that's reversible.

 These are the color of covers I usually make.

A Stormy Wednesday.

It's Wednesday. The cafe is closed.
But it was not good weather for shopping due to typhoon. Too bad..

We decided to visit some stores and restaurants where we have never been around the town.
We visited a gallery located just a couple of minutes from my house,ate buckwheat noodles at famos restaurant,went to my favorite popular hot springs. etc.

Then,we took a candle making class at the candle store. It took about half an hour to be done.
The clear wax is poured into the glass then colored wax is put on the above. I put a small heart object bottom of the glass before clear wax is poured.It was very fun!

Great Experience,Great Gratitude.

It's already been almost 3 weeks since the event,the tour-guide exam.
That was tough but I really, really did try my best,I swear!

I want to thank my husband who let me take the exam eventhough it was end of August Sunday which the cafe supposed to be very busy.I couldn't do it without his cooperation.

That was a great day.Not only I could take the exam but I knew some great things.
Never be too late to start things.
You always be surrounded by people who support you then don't forget to thank them.