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James said to me a new word yokujou last night Do u know what it means ?
It caused five minutes of laughter at our house last night
He looked up bath house on Google and that what it said
Second night here he's at the shimekaikan judo hostel and he's asking someone where the bathhouse was
They no understand so he google bathhouse and up came yokujou
Which means bath house or I want a woman depending on the text.
Fortunately it was not an obaasan from the 1st floor rouji(old people) rehab centre.
So he's saying yokujou and making having a bath gestures , so the old guy must thought these henna(strange) gaijin must have strange sex.
This every year for the last 30 years I have come to Japan for the all Japan High Grades masters shiai and this year is no different.
To do battle where 1400 hundred 5th dans over thirty years of age are fighting for their lives yet again is a privilege.
The youngest is 30 and the current oldest Sensei is Ota Sensei at 87 yr although i have seen the odd 92 yr old there.
This time as we wanted to see a married with three kids japanese chef working at his small sake bar we decided to stay at a hotel in Tsukiji by the famous fish market.
The next day we interviewed yet another I want to come to N.Z. to work as a Japanese chef.He too we found out had a wife and three kids.
Japanese chef are getting harder and harder to find because young people don't like the long hours and poor wages.
Caught the Nozomi bullet express (280 kilometers per hour}to Kyoto my home town.
The next day Wednesday James McComb brown belt from Auckland uni judo turns up at my house with nice young thing on his arm, an x employee of Kura Japanese sake bar.Auckland.
Despite telling james to change at least 100,000 yen he arrives with a $5.00 note only, what a white boy.
Excuse i didn't have time to go the a t m.
Off to the local fish and sake bar for a late nite snack we go.James 1st experience of a Japanese izakaya.
Thursday , raining no judo, we went to the ward office and get James a gaijin foreign card which gives him Japanese insurance .Back to BIC big camera and now he can get a Japanese sim card.
Friday more mucking around with visit to the local bath house where the local tattoo gangsters go and we were not disappointed.
There's nothing like meeting a naked fully tattoo gangster in the local bath house, ask khan or stu.
Saturday its off to Doshisha uni for judo at 1pm in the rain .
Doshisha is at Shintanabe which is between Kyoto and Osaka and by the time u change trains takes one hour, then a 30 minute walk.The whole exercise including renshu took 5 hours.
Last year Doshisha which has 50 students placed in the 1st 8 at he all japan student championships (1 st time in 30 yrs ) and is currently the 2nd strongest in the kansai area after Tenri uni which has 150 black belts is the strongest .
Doshisha uni seeing James wearing a brown belt were nice to him falling over for good waza which gave James a feel good factor until the next day when we went to another uni and they didn't fall over for him.
Sunday
Had a chance to to take the boys to Osaka for judo in the morning with Brian Shaw an x uni member but flagged that in favour of Nenbutsu temple near Arashiyama, always a favorite.
Monday, Ritsumei uni . Mens class, James gets beaten up
Tuesday, Ristsumei uni Womens class ,James gets beaten up, they are tough little bitches here.
Wednesday, Kyodai uni , newaza only, James gets beaten up , I'm on my bike going home slightly uphill,its a grind for a 74 yr old, legs hurt,thinking what hell am i doing here? 40 minutes later home with a Asahi i p a 500ml can in my hand feeling better,Solomon from Sydney arrives at Shimekaikan judo dorm.
Thursday, Rakunan high school , James and Solomon finds their level. ha ha!
Friday, my wife's birthday today, everything's stops,
Saturday,student champions at the Budokan Kyoto.James and Solomon go for a look
Sunday , the kohaku red and white shiai at the Osaka Castle , James and Solomon go for a look.
Monday , Ritsumei uni from 4pm .
Shodan shiai dates . 9th may in Kyoto and 24th may in Osaka.they get their black belts?
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday . Ritsumei uni but alternates day would be best as every second day is at 4-6pm , othwise 6-8pm from Sydney uni judo has a present for Kasuga sensei.
Solomon to Kasaga sensei , sensei in pidgin english i give you present.
Kasuga sensei , gee thanks mate!
James is still laughting.
to be continued
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