Did you plant your tree? These are ebony trees. They will be ready to harvest in another 30 years. If you want that home-grown sanshin within your lifetime, better plant that tree now.
"Chura" is an Okinawa word meaning "beautiful"--beautiful environment, beautiful souls, that kind of beauty. This weblog is my attempt to communicate the beauty of life in Japan... Wait... Make that the beauty of life anywhere. Be it weblog, a short story, fiction or non-fiction, that is what I believe good writing should do. So. Here we go. Let the blogging begin! [Updated bi-weekly. If you check in once a week, you'll always see something new]