This is Hannah on the Shinkansen on the way out of Tokyo. Its one of my favorite spots because it feels like the train is flying through the buildings.
Hannah walking out of Baba's garden to go and see the vending machine at the bottom of the drive.
The rice plants were heavy with grains.
This is the view from the top field
Sunflowers by the roadside.
After the harvest on Saturday we all went out to a restaurant for a meal. Hannah surprised us all by picking up a pair of chopsticks and using them for the first time. I'd not seen her practice before, but she held them correctly and was able to eat with them (with just a little help to get enough strength to pick things up).
Hannah, Rika and Baba.
Ni-chan, Hannah and Nao-chan.
Ya-chan, Hannah and Mako-ji-chan.
Kanpai! with Mako-ji-chan
Dad, Hannah and Rika.
On Sunday, we all visited the family grave, as the weather closed in. As well as the usual tidying, we had to straighten the gravestone which had been shifted by the Shizuoka earthquake a few weeks ago.
Here are some other gravestones shifted by the quake.
The Shizuoka earthquake of 11 Aug, was magniture 6.4, with its epicenter in Shizuoka prefecture about 60 km west of Baba's house on the other side of Susuga bay, and a depth of 24km.
One person was killed, 134 people were injured and more than 6,000 buildings suffered minor damage. Near the epicenter part of the shoulder of an expressway collapsed. 60km away, the roof tiles on Baba's house were damaged by the quake, and need repair.
This region of fault-line in Shizuoka is the area considered most likely in Japan to have a major earthquake in the near future. Based on past patterns, the expected 'Tokai earthquake' is predicted to be around magniture 8 (or around 5o times as powerful as last month's). The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) hbas a service aiming to warn of the Tokai earthquake based on anomalous activity (http://www.jma.go.jp/en/quake_tokai/), but there is no warning in place at the moment.
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