9-23-12 - Our sculptor friend Yoshitada Ihara sent two photos with us in Japan from around 1989. That's him on the left and his wife Maki on the right, Elin and me and other friends of his, probably members of the Kamemushi Mura, a friendly group in Kakogawa near Himeji we met through Hideko Petchey. Below I'm making a brief greeting to the gang at their yearly get-together. See what a kamemushi is below that. Mushi means bug. It's a type of beetle. -  dc