On the weekdend, our friend invited us to the summer night festival. People were dancing Bon Odori in the middle of tall buildings, and it looked quite different from our summer festival at a local temple, where we go every year. That is because it was held in Japan Defence Agency headquarters in Ichigaya!

These are pineapples from Ishigaki Island in Okinawa. I bought them ten days ago and I probably wouldn't have received them if I hadn't called the shop two days ago. We were meant to eat these pineapples last weekend with our friends, so we bought six of them. I don't know what to do now... I guess I'll freeze them and eat them as ice candy or use them for frozen margaritas.

I bought a roll of fabric from Chikusen (in Japanese), an old established store in Nihonbashi, and I had my yukata tailored. The salesman told me that the ultimate coolness in Edo times was for women to wear fabric designed for men, and vise versa. I liked the idea and the women's fabric size is a little bit small for me anyway, so I chose my fabric from the men's section. I even chose the most masculine pattern, it shows a fireman's standard. During Edo times, people in Kyoto didn't like this Tokyo-style bold design.

We had been very busy for a month, so we went to Okinawa for a relaxed holiday. Everything was the same as when we visited there three years ago, we even had a typhoon again! Doh!