Today started with me sleeping through the village farm-workers' tannoy, and scrambling down the stairs to breakfast, late. It was then a heavy-duty morning hacking up a mound of huge plastic-hessian sacks ("not cut chicken today") in hot hot hot sun.
But no chance of a hot shower until the water is heated late afternoon. So I slooshed down with cold and then, at Masan's invitation, had a macomo (Manchurian wild rice) bath. For once the temperature was perfect and I had a blissful 20 minutes immersed up to my chin in coffee-dark water that has been continuously heated (and the water not changed) since the spring. The colour is given by a yeast taken from the macomo plant. It was an effort not to fall asleep.
I've put some photos of macomo on FB, taken in the small-holding. Even for Japan a macomo bath is unusual; people visit Masan's from far and wide. It has fabulous healing properties, particularly for skin problems. Lucky me!
Masan has been spending today with a regular guest who seems to be learning his "energy work". He needed people to practice on. So the 3 Woofers had their toes and fingers jiggled; a process of toxin elimination. Hard to feel the effect, tired and macomo-relaxed as I was. Then crawled to my bed space and hung out with the Radio 3 breakfast show until the under-the-eaves heat became intolerable. Oh for a comfy chair! But life is sweet...
But more lives have been lost in the Mt Ontake eruption than first appeared; Japanese bureaucracy (requirement for death certificate) slowing down the release of a figure. Next week I'll be even closer to the volcano than I already am, and planning a day of walking. Might need to revise plans.
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