O namae wa?

He kept staring at me. What's so special? :)
Each person can only register one seal to avoid fraud things.  Starting as lowest as 100Yen to the most expensive one, it depends on the quality.

Yesterday while wandering the area behind my apaato I saw this little shop selling all seal stuff. Inkan or signature seal is a personal seal used in place of signature. There are registered seals (jitsuin) for official document purpose and private seals (mitomein). Is it interesting to have our own stamp-seal like those Japanese, Korean and Chinese people do?. 

Yuri San : O namae wa? (What's your name?)

Hiro San: Hiro desu (Hiro)

Otsukaresama desuta...

And the winner is....

A show performed by one of the sake house employees.

Not only adults, children also took part performing a drama of sake making.

Sake brands from some region in Japan. From left top clockwise, Shikoku Kyushu region, Chugoku region ( Hiroshima area), Kinki region and Chubu region.

For your sake and green tea.

Sake barrels in front of a house.
The last post of sake houses, today I also uploaded some photos of sake festival in October 08.
I'm sorry I wasn't around for five days, have some trouble with Mozilla Firefox and Blogspot everytime I try to click links, it shut off.
Yuri San: Otsukaresama desuta (Finally, we're done)
Hiro San: Otsukaresama desuta. Ja ne (Finally. See you later)

Another finding from recycle store...

Aren't they awesome for serving green tea? I need to find well matched cups for these pots.
They're also nice for omiyage.
Ocha o onegaisimasu...

Okii...

Another tea cup I found at the recycle store last week. This cup can contain 0,5 litre of ocha. Ocha or green tea is an everyday drink for Japanese. At least that's what I see here.
Care for a cup of green tea, people?
PS: Okii = big

Have some tea...

Went to a recycle store last week and found some beautiful tea set. Saijo, despite its small area, has lots of recycle stores. As a university town of Hiroshima University, many people come stay in and move from Saijo quite frequently.
I'm gonna keep this for omiyage.
PS: omiyage= souvenir