This summer of 2012, the "Vayager of The Seas" visited Kobe Port 4 times.

    　　   I saw her beutiful sailings from my house all of them with big surprise.

　　                                      なでしこジャパン : http://nadeshikojapan.jp/  

                             　　  My Nephew Came to See Me     　  　      9.11, 2012

　Last Saturday, my nephew Ryota visited me suddenly. It was 3 years since I met him last time and this time he attended some party in Kobe and he had a short time to see me. He is my brother’s youngest son of his twins and Ryota Ikeda, my nephew, is working as a Managing Director of an American measurement machine company in Tokyo. His father was a businessman of a Japanese lumber company and he and his family went to the States, Oregon, in 1977 when Ryota was 7 years old. He studied hard and graduated from the University of Washington and he got a job in the States. The head office of the company which he entered is in Texas and soon he was sent to Japan. He became the president of his company in a short time although he was only 27 years old at that time. He was very lucky because he found big success in his company because of speaking English very well. Naturally, he tried hard in Japan as a businessman. At first when he came back to Japan it was very difficult because his Japanese was not so good because he grew up 15 years in America. We met at Sannomiya station at 12 o’clock and we went to eat lunch at café Freundlieb restaurant, in Ninomiya-cho. Freundlieb was originally a German bakery but these days, they sell cakes and cookies and also they have a restaurant / café of sandwiches. The double cheese BLT sandwiche ( sandwiche with bacon,lettace and tomato) was very delicious so he enjoyed it and was satisfied with lunch. The building is a remodeled old church and it was rebuilt in 1999 after the great Hanshin earthquake. My mother and her American friend, Janet Ward, were always attending worship at the old church, Kobe Union Church. I introduced many stories to Ryota and he was interested in my explanations very much. We talked about his lunch, bread, cake and his grandmother’s christian faith. After lunch I took him to Motomachi Chinatown and Motomachi street but he compared it with Yokohama Chinatown and he thought it was a little small but very crowded on a Saturday afternoon.

　Ｗe had a nice time for about 4 hours and he wished to come to Kobe again in the near future. He had much interest about his father’s youth too-how he grew up in Kobe in his young days. I told him not only good things but also some failures . I must apologize to my brother Masanori about I exposing his failure to his son.

　　　  　　        Freundlieb : http://freundlieb.jp/core/access_index.html  

　　　　　　　                         My Computer             　　　　         9.18, 2012

　Last week, my computer internet system suddenly went out. The wireless local area network, WLAN didn’t work. The modem didn’t work at all. I asked NTT for a fix immediately. A man from NTT came soon and he exchanged a new modem so it recovered soon after changing to the new one. I have two computers and they are a Mac. G4 and Windows 7 and they are controlled by the same wireless network, Lan.

　It was in April 1999 that I bought a Mac. G3 computer for the first time and I studied hard. In August 2011, I changed to a Mac G4 because the G3 machine got old. When I first got the machine, my brother Koji was working as a pilot of JAL and usually used a computer for his fright work, so he knew well about Macs and computers. As a teacher, he was very fearful irrespective of me being his younger brother. But I enjoyed my computer and gradually became skillful. In 2010, I bought a new Windows 7, Toshiba Dynabook conputer. My Mac. is a desktop and Windows is a notebook type. Toshiba Dynabook works very nicely. It’s handy and quick but I like Mac better and I usually use my Mac. G4 in my house.

　This summer I had a lot of time because of sickness so I began to make a computer homepage . I enjoy myself on the Internet usually but as I can’t get used to Facebook and I don’t like chats carried out by blogs, I began to work on a KDDI Jimdo homepage. KDD is an Internet service provider, or ISP and they are also a mobile phone company. Recently, as I became absorbed in the computer so much, my wife Chieko calls me computer geek, “Otaku” , or “Internet addiction disorder man “.

　Because as the old Mac. G3 was broken, I bought a used Mac G4 machine and I am enjoying it: making photo and music libraries, using it as a word processor and checking e-mail. I am using the Dynabook mainly for making New Year cards and for Skype telephpne. I am enjoying them very much.

　If you have time, please see my home page. The address is 

　　　　　　http://hcikeda.jimdo.com/

　Thank you a lot for helping make my blog, Dan.

　     Kaiten-zushi-Rotation Sushi (conveyor-belt sushi bar) 　  9.25, 2012

　Last Friday, my wife and I went to kaiten-zushi, a rotation sushi restaurant, and we ate 15 plates of sushi and 2 chawan-mushi（kind of egg stew）. At kaiten-zudhi, small plates with various kinds of sushi circulate in succession on a chain conveyor top installed among tables and seats. A visitor takes sushi freely, plate and all. It is a cheap half-self-service type sushi restaurant and many families go there. There are also desserts and drinks. Japanese horseradish, wasabi, is also available in moderate quantities. Yoshiaki Shiraishi of the stand-up sushi bar store in Osaka, in front of Fuse station, devised the conveyor belt of beer manufacturing for the purpose of distributing many visitors’ orders efficiently at low cost. His shop, Genroku-zushi, met the needs of the people with cheapness, handiness and clear accounting.

　The top 10 kaitenzushi chains by the number of shops in Japan are:

1) かっぱ寿司Kappa-zushi 2) スシローSushiro 3) 無添くら寿司Muten-Kura-zushi   

4)  はま寿司 Hama-zushi 5) 元気寿司、すしおんど Genki-zushi, Sushi-Ondo　

6) マリンポリス、しーじゃっく Marine-police, Sea-jack 7) がってん寿司 Gatten-zushi    8) 銚子丸 Choshimaru 9) 平禄寿司 Heiroku-zushi 10) アトムボーイ、にぎりの徳兵衛 Atom-Boy, Nigiri-no-Tokubei

　I usually go to Muten-Kura-zushi more than Sushiro- once or twice a month. I like maguro, tuna; tai , sea bream; and ika, squad. When we go to a kaitenzushi, we pay about 2,000 yen for 2 people so it’s very cheap and the care of a kitchen is not needed. Kura-zushi is very near my house so it’s very convenient. In Nada ward, there are 2 Kura-zushi, Bote-Rokko and Sushiro Kaitenzushi. In Chuo-ku, there are Uoki, Kurazushi and Hakodate-ichiba. 　　　

　When I was in Osaka, I didn’t know cheap sushi shops like this but Sakaezushi in Kuromon market , Fukizushi, Yoshinozushi, etc. are very good and expensive restaurants and we often went to eat sushi there. Kaitenzushi is very reasonably priced but also crowded with visitors so you must select the right time. I like sushi so I will visit kaitenzushi more often in this nice season of ‘autum appetite’. How about you ? Kura-zushi is good so try it!

　　　　　　 Kurazushi :  http://www.kura-corpo.co.jp/eng/index.html

                              　   http://www.kura-corpo.co.jp  

　　　　　　　　　　　すし、寿司、鮨、鮓、Sushi

                              　　    Katsu-Curry or Curry and Rice   　       10.2, 2012

　I like ‘ curry and rice’. We say ‘ curry rice ’ or ‘ rice curry ’ and we Japanese are fond of curry rice and also sushi, donburi , udon noodle and hamburg steak. As I was sick half this year, I could not eat curry and rice because my doctor prohibited me from taking spicy food and alcohol. But now I’ve recovered my health from colitis, so I can eat anything.

　I like my wife’s curry & rice very much but sometimes I prefer to eat out. I haven’t gone to a curry rice restaurant for a long time, so now I like to go   and eat it. I usually go to the curry shop ‘ Coco Ichiban-ya ’, （CoCo 壱番屋）’ of JR Sannomiya station East Shop. CoCo Ichiban has 5 branches in Chuo-ku district and CoCo Ichiban is the biggest curry rice restaurant chain. They came from Aichi Prefecture and there are other big curry restaurants like ‘ GoGo Curry ’, ‘ Curry Shop C&C ’ and ‘ King of Curry Rice’ etc.. I like CoCo Ichiban’s ‘ curried rice with a pork cutlet ’,( katsu curry) best. Ichibanya was established in 1982 and they have many branches in Japan, and including Okinawa, and the restaurant near Okinawa Kadena Air Base is very popular among American servicemen. At that shop, the American servicemen make up most of the customers and the popularity in Hawaii is also said to have spread from the Okinawa base’s American soldiers.

　On September 26, before the presidential election of the Liberal Democratic Party, Shinzo Abe new President held a rally in a hotel in Tokyo. At that time, they ate ‘ katsu curry ’. He stuffed curried rice with a pork cutlet with sufficient vigor into his mouth to symbolize winning the election. We say ‘ Gen katsugi ’. I t means wishing for victory before the battle , because ‘ katsu ’ means ‘ win ’, or ‘ victory ’. Victory by katsu curry. He won that election as they wished by Gen-katsugi pork curry rice. Also, the newspaper says they ate very expensive curry rice because the price of that dish was ¥3,500 so it’s not good because he does not have people’s understanding. Anything over ¥1,000 is too expensive for curry rice.

　My pork curry rice at CoCo is only ¥600 but it’s very delicious. I’d like to go there in the near future and eat it because I can eat curry rice any time now.

                               Curry house CoCo 壱番屋  http://www.ichibanya.co.jp/ 

               　　　　　　　 Two Captains, Sea and Sky       　　 　   10. 9, 2012

　Last week, I was invited to go on a sail and flight from 2 captains of the sea and sky. One captain is a sailboat owner and captain. He is a friend from work and he was a lighting director of Kansai Telecasting Company in Osaka before he retired. When I was young, in my 30’s, we often went sailing with him around Osaka Bay. His sailboat is his 6^th now and this boat has a kitchen, toilet and 4 beds. When we were young, we often went sailing around Setonaikai Sea. I stopped sailing with him about 10 years later but my captain still owns the boat and loves to go sailing even now. He worked until 68 and now he’s retired from his job so he can go sailing anytime, anywhere and he invited me sailing last week to go to Beppu, Kyushu. He was thinking to sail alone to Kyushu and when I called by chance, he invited me. However, sadly, since I did not have confidence about my body, I refused his invitation. I will sail with him if my condition recover. Maybe next summer we will sail to Goto-Retto, Nagasaki Pref.. He loves ships and sailing.

　The another invitation was from my younger brother, Koji. He was a captain with JAL and he retired 3 years ago. Now he is free and this time he will come to Kobe by small airplane from Tokyo. He flies to Kobe and the Kansai district in a small airplane, a Piper, and he also invited me to fly around the Kobe area. He lands at Kobe Airport and he will invite me to go with him around Kobe city by plane. He is coming to Kobe Oct. 18, Thursday. But I also refused this nice idea for the same reason as the boat proposal! As I had been sick with Colitis, I am anxious about any trouble of facilities or urination in the plane or boat.

　So I refused two nice proposals last week and 2 captains will sail and fly this week. I am very envious of them and very sorry to say no to the captains of sea and sky. I must quickly recover my health as much as possible. I envy seeing the nice sky and nice ocean of autumn where they are going. I hope they invite me next time.  

     　　　　　  Too bad! They both sound like fun! …… From Dan 

  　　　　　　　　　　　 　　         ☆        ☆       ☆　

                              Two Captains, Sky and Sea (Part-2)              10.16, 2012

　Last week I had a chance to meet 2 captains after a long time. One captain is my youngest brother Koji. He is a retired JAL pilot and he flew Jumbo jet planes and this time he came to Kobe airport by small plane, called a ‘piper’, with 4 friends from Chofu, Tokyo. He said it took 2 hours from there to fly to Osaka and came to Kobe in 20 minutes. They landed Tuesday afternoon but I could not go to Kobe airport. However, I went to see him off on Wednesday morning at the hotel and went to the airport together with his friend. Three of them were retired pilots of JAL and one was a guest. They took off at 10 o’clock in the morning and flew over Akashi –ohhashi, Rokko, Kobe, Kawanishi, Kyoto, Kinkakuji, Maizuru, Miyazu, and Amanohashidate. The plane landed at Tajima-Konotori Airport after nearly 2 hours. The weather was good so their flight was wonderful, they said. I was very envious that I could not go with them. 

　My brother started to become a pilot when he was in his 2^nd year of Kansei-gakuin University and he entered JAL and his career was 40 years long. He sometimes had accidents by doing some sports like paragliding. Next time when he comes I must go with him. It must be a very fantastic experience for me.

　Another captain is a sailboat captain. His sailboat is about 10m long and 10m high at the top of the mast and it has a strong engine too. He came from Okayama and became a TV company engineer when he was 18 and now he is 68. He worked 50 years and now he is retired and free. This is his 6^th boat, so this must be his last. He’s been operating this ship 7 years. He is a veteran captain of sailboats but he has one fault. He likes to drink and especially on the water. But it is very fantastic on the boat with a nice breeze, sunshine and wine . I also like to drink with him but now it’s no good for me. Mr. Matsuura is my friend and we started sailing on by his boat when I was in my 30’s. It’s been quite a long time since I stopped sailing, but now we have a lot of time so I want to begin sailing with him again. Last Sunday I went to Nishinomiya harbor and met him. He is enjoying himself fishing these days : swordfish are in season now and drinking wine on the boat is always nice. I am sure to go to his boat and have a drink and go fishing in the near future. How about coming with us? Shall we go to fly and sail someday with these captains?  

　　　　　　　　　　　　　Dan's comment: Sounds great!

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Koji's Flight

                              　　　　　　Two Meetings        　　　　   　    10.23, 2012

　Last week, I attended two meetings of two association’s councils. One was my museum of art volunteer’s and the other was for Maya Seaside Place West (MSPW) Mansion association. At Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, there are about 200 volunteers cooperating in management of the art museum. I am involved with the data arrangement from newspaper aticles and the information of many exhibitions by many artists in Hyogo Prefecture. Other volunteers work on descriptions of the artists’ paintings for the audience at the exhibition and the another team works to help children understand the paintings at the museum. There are many other volunteers who work for our museum. I have been serving the museum for eight years by volunteering every week. We have a conference once every 3 months and last week was the autumn conference for us volunteers.

　The other conference was the town association council of MSPW and we have it once a month. This time we talked about holding an autumn festival of our MSPW town association. We are going to have an autumn festival next Sunday, October 28. We are going to have a magic show, puppet play, paper airplane flight convention and brass band concert. The festival include these events and also we’ll have delicious food booths of yakisoba, Frankfurt sausage, popcorn, juice, kushikatsu, die steak, takoyaki and oden. There will be another pleasant attractions like super ball games , lottery-type games, ring toss and an open air flea market. It’s been 11 years since our town opened and this event is in its seventh year. It is the first time for me to participate in Akimaturi, or Autumn Festa, because this time is my first time to be an officer of our town association. I myself don’t like that Akimaturi festival but it’s useless to say that among the other officers. It will be opening from 11 am to 3:30 pm so if you like, please come and enjoy it with us.

In this way, I am very busy these days. It’s autumn and quite nice and I want to go sailing or flying in the sky but maybe it will be after November and also soon it will be winter, Christmas and New Years Day, and Iwill be very busy then, too.     

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Ｋｏｂｅ　Ｎｉｇｈｔ

　　　　　  http://www.feel-kobe.jp/night_view/index.html　　　　

　　　　　  http://kobe.travel.coocan.jp/kobe_nightview/nightspot_map.htm 

                               　    Akimatsuri or Autum Festa   　            10 .28, 2012

　Compared with fine last Saturday, it was rainy from the morning on Sunday. The autumn festival of our Maya Seaside Place West area began unluckily with occasional rain from set-up. Our Autumn Festival started at 11:00 in the morning and we could not postpone our event because it was impossible due to article, food and performer’s arrangements, When waiting for and advancing the visitors, little by little, the weather became clear and we were able to sell most of food by the end. By the 3:30 finale we were able to finish the event safely. There weren’t any very wonderful performers because only people related to this area had come. Due to the freshmen of Nagisa Junior Highschool brass band’s performance and others, the audience felt relieved because they are all very familiar for them. Boys and girls of the band live here or near here. As a deficit did not come out with the accounts of the festival the children of this town were also pleased and they thought it was very good. Since I personally do not welcome holding the autumn festival here, as the vice president of the association, I had a serious feeling. Since my role in the autumn festival was program director, and a second grade student of the Broadcast Department of Kobe University was the emcee (MC), I wrote the script and had a meeting in advance with her. It had been long time since I did anything like writing a script or controling an event. Anyway, the steak in a stall and the paper airplane fling contest were the most popular food and events. I drank beer after the breakdown, looking at the cloudy evening sky with complicated thoughts.

　About 400 families and more than 1,000 people live here in MSP west after 10 years. We are hardly acquaintances with each other usually, but this kind of festival gets us acquainted with each other. Such gatherings can aid cooperating at the time of something like an earthquake or some other kind of accident or difficulty. I felt more familiar with them at the Akimaturi Festa. I must work for our association next year too because our term of office is for two years. 

                                                    　  Port of Kobe  

       　 　　      http://www.feel-kobe.jp/model_course/005/index.html

　　　　　　  　http://kobe.travel.coocan.jp/kobeport/merikenpark.htm 

                   　　　　　　　  Mozart, My Sleeping Drug         　      11.6, 2012

　Do you like Mozart? I do. When I was in high school, I began to learn clarinet in my high school brass band. One day I saw the movie “ Benny Goodman Story” at a movie theater. Benny Goodman was a very skillful jazz clarinet player and I was charmed with him. He played “Let’s Dance”, “Sing, Sing, Sing ”,“Shine”,“Memories of You” and also he played Mozart’s “Clarinet Concerto” in that movie. It was the first time I heard Mozart’s concerto and I learned that musical piece and liked to play it myself. When I was young, I liked classic symphonies and especially Beethoven’s, but these days, I prefer Mozart’s piano concertos better than Beethoven’s.

　Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756〜1791) was a composer and genius piano player of Austria and Mozart is one of the maestros of the three major classic schools on par with Haydn and Beethoven. He began to play harpsichord from the age of 3, began composing from the age of 5 and he passed away in his youth at 35 years old. His works cross all genres of music and there are said to be 700 or more. His typical work is a piano concerto. Mozart was an expert of the piano and No.20, No.21, No.23, No.26 ( “Coronation”) and No. 27 are said to be excellent tunes. I have his No. 9 and other 8 piano concertos and I like especially No. 23 and No. 26 with Friedrich Gulda’s playing and Mitsuko Uchida’s No. 20, No. 21, No. 22 and No. 23, also Vladimir Ashkenazy’s playing of No. 23 and No.27. That music was copied to my iTunes computer library from Music CDs and while reading newspapers by net or surfing the net, that music starts every day from my speakers. In other works by Mozart, clarinet concertos, bassoon concertos, and flute concertos are my favorites BGM before sleeping. In particular, listening to clarinet concertos is my sleeping drug.

　In this way, I like Mozart. Not only do I like classics, but I like jazz, rock, electronic, country, latin, pop, tango and chanson music too. In my college days, I wanted to be a musician but my parents didn’t like that because I am the eldest of my 3 brothers. I gave up my dream of becoming a musician. I am envious of those who can play Mozart’s great works.

  　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Dan’s comment: Good job!

  Mozart : http://classic.music.coocan.jp/concerto/mozart/mozartpc.htm                                   　　　 

         　　　     One Week Which was Emotional for Me    　      11.13, 2012

　This week was a very tough week for me. On Nov. 7, I was planning to visit my father’s grave in Kyushu and on the way back, my wife and I were thinking to go to the atomic bomb scientific library in Hiroshima and Itsukushima Shrine. I have never been to the atomic bomb scientific library and we reserved a hotel in Hiroshima one week before but a sudden occurrence happened. My wife Chieko’s eldest sister Michiko, who lives in Saitama Pref., got in a serious condition. She has been sick for a long time and she had trouble with liver cancer. Chieko’s parents and brothers had already all passed away, and her elder sister was the one surviving family member. We cancelled our hotel reservation in Hiroshima immediately and cancelled our plan to visit my father’s grave and Chieko went to her sister’s house in Saitama on Tue.the 6th. The next day, on Nov. 7, my sister in-law, Michiko, died despite the doctors' and nurses' efforts. The news came to me quickly after her death and a funeral plan was made for Sat. Nov. 10 and a vigil would be performed on Fri. the 9^th. I went to Saitama on the vigil day and stayed one night in a hotel. The next day, the day of the farewell service, Chieko and I attended the funeral. Michiko died at 69, too early for her life indeed. Everybody felt very sad.

　After her funeral we came back to Kobe and the next day, Sunday the 11th, I went to my church and in the afternoon, my friend Hide came to Kobe. Hide is living in San Francisco and working as flight attendant for American Airlines and we have known each other more than 20 years. Last autumn he came to visit his mother in Saga Pref. and dropped by my house so it has been one year since I met him. We couldn't go outside due to unlucky rain, so we went to eat Chinese food on Motomachi street. This time he went back to visit his 95-year old mother and came to Kobe on the way back. He also mourned over the elder sister Michiko’s death, and lamented and encouraged us. We talked a lot over with delicious food and out of the restaurant, there was a cold rain. Hide enjoyed his short stay in Kobe and went to Kyoto.

　In this way I had an uncanny week. It was sad and happy, but time goes on . 

                                             　 Tokyo Station

　　　　       　          　新東京駅ビル：New Tokyo Station Buil.　

                       　  東京駅で乗り換えの時間に：Transfered at Tokyo

　  Kinchan’s New House                     11.20, 2012

　The other day, I bought a new goldfish bowl at the antique shop on Toa-road , Kobe. It was potter’s ware.

　As I told you before, I've had a pet goldfish since Sep. 2003 and his or her name is “Kinchan”. He has lived more than 9 years since he came to my house from the tropical fish shop. He was going to be sold as food for tropical fish and my wife and I thought it was very sad and we bought ten fish in a short time. After coming back we thought we needed a new house for them.  We looked for a nice house for them and finally we found a bowl at a flower shop in a home center which was made of earthenware and it cost \10,000. This time the new house for him was \12,000. The last one was big enough for ten goldfish but as time passed, the ten fish fought each other for their territory. Every animal has its territory regardless of its size. Gradually the number of goldfish became fewer and finally Kinchan won the battle. After 2 years, Kinchan was the only pet for us and sometimes we kept Japanese killifish (medaka) in his bowl but they could not live with each other.

　Now he is the only one who lives in our house. I t is quite a big and nice new house this time - better than our house. He lives quietly and gently these days because he is now 9 years old. They say goldfish live 10 to 14 years and maybe Kinchan is reaching his 60^th year: Compared with a human being, he must be celebrating his 60^th birthday ('Kanreki' in Japanese) this year. He is living in quite a comfortable house now and he is probably going to live to be about 100, meaning 14 fish years for his life and I must help him.

　I dropped his old bowl quite often when I changed his water on my porch(veranda) and I made many cracks and it leaked water from its bottom. It is very expensive because his house is quite big and gorgeous so I should take good care. I must help Kinchan reach his long life of 100.

  　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Kinchan's New House

　　　　  My Year End Prayer     　    　     12.4, 2012

　Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

　Lord, this year is one year after the a terrible Tohoku earthquake and also it is 17 years since the Great Hanshin Earthquake happened in Japan. There are still people injured by the earthquake. May we think about them all the time.

　Lord, I enjoyed seeing many good exhibitions of great painters and I admired their masterpieces. They are Katsushika Hokusai in Jan., Pisalo in May and Mauritshuis museum and J. Vermeer’s works  in Nov.. Those pictures gave me courage and vitality in my daily life.

　Lord, this year I met many nice people who came to see me. They are my brother Masanori from Oregon in May, my nephew Ryota from Tokyo in Sep., my brother Koji from Kamakura in Oct., my company friend and captain of the sailboat Mr. Matsuura in Oct., my good friend Hide, an flight attendant, from San Francisco in Nov. and a new house from China for my goldfish Kinchan in Nov.. They are very kind to me and brought happy smiles to my face and mind.

　Lord, Blessed are you, creator of day and night to you be praise and glory forever. In May, my good friend Sadao Morishita died. He was only 72. Also in Nov.,my sister in-law Michiko Futami passed away at only 69 years old. I was very sad to hear it but pleased that they are at peace.

　Lord, I thank you for the recovered of my health from colitis that took a year and a half. Because of it I could not have a nice summer vacation but I could complete my blog in my computer with the great help of Mr. D. Krohn and I am greatful for the great work-manship. Also, my computer has failed now so I must fix it as soon as possible. And also Kinchan’s old house was cracked by me and I could buy a new house for him and he is very happy and pleased with it now.

　Lord, I could experience nice food too this year. They are katsu-curry rice and also the Autumn Festival’s food in the garden. They were very delicious and seemed like new tastes for me.

 　Lord, thank you for lots of things you gave me this year. Please give me a nice Year in 2013.

　In the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit, Amen.   

　　　　　　　　　　 　Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !

                                                                                         　     Book 3 End

　　　　　　　　　                                         Thank you for reading my Book 3

                                                                              　 　   Hiroyuki Ikeda

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　  　12. 4, 2012