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At noon, I met two classmates of high school at a cafe on the 1st basement of Tokyo Culture Town in Shibuya and enjoyed talks until 2:30 in afternoon. After the meeting, I went directly to the Tokyo Kyosai Hospital in Nakameguro and had a machine massage on both legs for thirty minutes.
The Hiroshi Murata Exhibition, which I introduced on a page dated October 2, 2002 of Travel Diary, ended yesterday with a big success. One of his works (Hidden space: Green) , which I like the most, was delivered to my home early this morning. After the hospital, I brought his work to the Sodosha in Todoroki and ordered put a black frame with a glass sheet. I have been in their Kanda store a few times, but it was the first time for me to visit the store in Todoroki. A manager received me kindly and helped me to select a frame. I satisfied with my choice. It will take a few days to make it.
Then I went to a coin car washer near the frame store. Although it became dusky already, two helpers washed my Prius with their hands, getting wet through. They assisted the automatic washing machine to work better.
It was past six in evening when I got back to my home. I could do all these things in a half of day because of my Prius. In the center of Metropolis, there is always the traffic congestion. Still a car is convenient. It is a necessity of aged people's life like me. Just after I got home, I went into bed.
By the way, Mr. Shin Kuniyasu brought me three copies of old audio magazines from his trip to London. One of them is "Classic Record Collector Spring 2001." They published such magazines, as is expected of England. Until the LP discs faded away from record shops, I subscribed a few audio magazines from U.K. But as I disposed them from my book shelves only a few weeks ago, I browsed through them with special interests. ( I kept even now a few copies of "Absolute Sounds,"American audio magazines. One of them has an article of mine about the "Koetsu,"a state of art cartridge for disc players which was hand made by late Mr. Yoshinobu Sugano.)
At a classmate meeting, I told them that I have some doubts about the death of Mr. Toshio Mizui who was launched from a Japanese submarine riding on a human torpedo on August 10, 1945, only five days before the end of war. Then we talked about our life during the war and also about our fathers or ground fathers. The fathers of Mr. Kuniyasu and Mr. Yoshiro Kobayshi were typical successors in life. They overcame many difficulties with their excellent intelligence. My father contracted tuberculosis when he was a law student of Tokyo Imperial University. After long years battle with illness, he returned to a student life at Kyoto Imperial University. He entered a bank right after the graduation but he had to resign it because of relapse. Although he recovered again, he was weak physically. But he lived up to 86 years old.
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