{"id":34326,"date":"2016-04-07T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/decouvertes-avec-kanji-san\/"},"modified":"2020-07-12T18:17:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T16:17:50","slug":"discoveries-with-kanji-san","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peregrinusmundi.com\/en\/discoveries-with-kanji-san\/","title":{"rendered":"Discoveries with Kanji-san"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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On March 24, I joined my last team in the R&D center: the New Material Team. On one day, around 10 am, Kanji-san took me with him to the Akechi Ceramics factory to collect products. I thought the round trip would be done in three hours, so I was very surprised when Kanji-san started to make detours to show me different places of the region! Kanji Kat\u00f4 is someone very friendly and easy to approach. He was one of the first people I exchanged a few words with in my early days at TYK. Always lively, curious and with an easy smile, it is a pleasure to chat with him despite the fact that I do not speak much Japanese and he speaks very little English. Kanji-san likes to organize parties or outings with friends. He is 49 years old and comes from Toki, a town just outside Tajimi. He has worked at TYK for thirty years in the New Material Team.<\/p>

First stop on the way: a very large water wheel. Located in a small park above a river and a gigantic dam, the 24-meter-high wheel turns thanks to the power of the wind, transporting water in an infinite loop and sending droplets on visitors depending on wind direction. Real water wheels (smaller in size) were once used to bring water into the rice fields. Its gigantic size is more a tourist attraction than a reality. A few steps from the wheel is a portal with a bell. The custom is to ring the bell. In shrines, before praying, people wave a bell to announce themselves to the spirits. The park bell seems to be a humorous reminder of religious practices. Before continuing our journey, we taste Kanji-san and I, a small skewer of dangos<\/em> bought at the stall at the entrance of the park. Dangos are dumplings made from “mochi<\/em>” (sticky rice). Soft and coated with shoyu<\/em>\u00a0(soy sauce), these are very good.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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