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Participated in the "Seasonal Lover's Meeting"

April 4th, Sunday.The weather that I heard was going to collapse in the weekly forecast is off and it's sunny.Mr. Yasumasa Suzuki, a Japanese-style painter living in Otsu, invited me to participate in the "Seasonal Lover's Club", in which he digs bamboo shoots that grow wild in his home and cooks and eats them on the same day.It was a summer day that reminded me of early summer, and I saw women in tank tops on the street.Under the guidance of Mr. Suzuki (who seems to have more than 27 recipes for cooking bamboo shoots), he cooks the dug bamboo shoots and enjoys drinking local sake with the bamboo shoots as a side dish. .The location is Shuzanso, a training building of the health station Kenkosha run by Mr. and Mrs. Yasuhito and Keiko Yamaoka, a long-established natural food store with a 100-year history near Karahashi in Seta, Otsu City.I arrived at the venue in the evening due to work.Immediately, we were guided to a tea ceremony room on the second floor, where Ms. Sachiko Choi, dressed in a neat Japanese dress, welcomed us with a smile.   In the downstairs hall, various kinds of bamboo shoot dishes were lined up.Participants spend the day digging for bamboo shoots and cooking bamboo shoots together, creating a friendly atmosphere.Among those who attended was Mr. Shuji Yamada, who lives in Awaji Island and has turned from a professional photographer to Kawaraman (a roof tile craftsman).He asked about his contemporaries Kishin Shinoyama, Masayoshi Sukita and Shinpei Asai.The Yufuin watercress and Kojoshi's aemono that Mr. Yamada brought and cooked were very delicious.   The main event was "Flute, Koto, and Talk" by Mr. and Mrs. Keimei and Ikuyo Kanno from Minamisoma City, Fukushima Prefecture.The story of the Great East Japan Earthquake touched my heart.The land that they had lived and loved for many years—the rice fields, the fields, the mountains, the blue sea, and all of the other beautiful nature—had become dirty in an instant. . (Terry)