Sendai City, in the vicinity of the NHK
Broadcasting Office.
Every year, at the time that the National Personnel Authority’s Annual
Salary recommendations are made, as the wind blows and the weather improves,
ripe ginko nuts fall out of the trees on to the roads below. Should you be so careless as to step on
one, all hell breaks out; the smell is disgusting. The row of blazing ginko
trees dazzles. 
Moving one’s body in time with the music.
‘Mikan’or ‘tangerines’ from Shizuoka
Prefecture sent to the
Jonet Salon for everyone to eat.
Making a double door for the entrance to
temporary accommodation.
The morning gathering (‘salon’) held in
Tagajo-City is a ‘Qigong’ session. As the class finished, the man in the
wheelchair was able to stand up, without the help of a cane! Everyone was
amazed that someone with such awful back pain could stretch his back like that
- and so was he. It’s a miracle!
Driving towards Matsushima, evidence of
earthquake damage is still visible.
As we move ahead in the car, my companion
explains what ‘Qigong’ is about, and I encounter philosophy.
One of the group says that when scraping mud away from her/his home a frog
jumped out of the closet. Dead mullets and mantis shrimps were also unearthed. 
On the streets of Matsushima – not a soul
to be seen.
Onagawa Town. We go around to inform people of the
events
held at the Jonet salon.
She is 80. All participants are between
75 and 80 years old. As you can observe, they are extremely supple. The
teachers are impressed at the way they can stretch with ease.
Chestnuts drying.
The only light. The ‘inn’ or ‘ryokan’ in
Otakamori.
Teizan Canal. Those two ‘bits’ hanging on
the pine tree to the left of the photograph are items of rubbish which have
remained on the branches since the disaster.
This huge drum-shaped billboard was thrown onto the road by the tsunami; now it has been removed to the median strip.
JR Nobiru Station, Senseki Line.
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