A day full of pleasure. A temple of morning sun, the smell of incense, taiyaki, and chestnuts mixing freely in the open air festivities. Long walk along the river to Osaka-Jo, getting lost in the space between maps. Finally arriving there, the dwindling minutes of the castle's access hours spent watching an aikido tournament within the fortress walls, bodies feeling, strategizing, balancing, sensing and acting. The goal of our walk clearly otherwise than we had plotted. After a perfunctory but beautiful visit to the top of the castle and the inside downward spiraling museum exhibits, a long walk along a night river to dinner on the 27th floor. House miso paste on raw vegetables, radish soup, sake, sashimi, exquisite salad, delicate raw tofu, toro sushi, miso broccolini with monkfish liver, sea bream rice cake in a bowl of Japanese tea, seafood miso soup, and green tea azuki ice cream, all with a night view of Osaka, perched over the cooks chopping and arranging the dishes meticulously.
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| eating taiyaki |
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| Mondoyakujin |
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| Japanese cakes |
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| river walk |
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| Osaka Castle |
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| view from Osaka castle |
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| raw vegetables and radish soup |
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| overflowing sake |
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| house miso paste |
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| delicious salad |
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| sashimi |
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| raw tofu before.... |
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| and after |
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| miso broccolini with monkfish liver |
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| toro sushi |
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| sea bream rice ball in Japanese soup |
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| seafood miso soup |
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| box of sake |
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| dessert! |
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| green tea ice cream with azuki |
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| finished |
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| the view |
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