After 11 hours by plain (7 hours forward in time) and nearly any sleep I got a warmhearted welcome from the people from the KCCC, the Doshisha University and the owners of the house.
My apartment is big and full of things from the family: some traditional (photographs from the family, paper rolls, low tables, but … also a big television screen, western table and old-fashioned chairs, an inkpainting from a cathedral drawn with musicnotes.
Interesting first meeting with the Machiya and its furniture.
Tonight dinner at my owners house next-door. Curious how that will look like.
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