I realized recently that I'd yet to finish posting about my brother-in-law Shogo's wedding to Namiko. My flow had been interrupted by the sudden idea to make a photo book for them, and I neglected to pick it up even after posting the candid bride portrait last month. This post continues from "Reception, Part V: Entertainment", and completes the story.

And what comes after the entertainment? Dessert.

Of course, the main feature is the wedding cake.

The bride and groom stood by the table and handed out cake as the guests filed by, after which the guest could add additional [...]

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Early last month, at the start of a most photogenic fall-foliage season in the Kyoto area, I posted "First Taste of Fall Colors at Shiga's Amazing Kongourinji Temple", ending that post with this photo:

I had intended a quick followup post to explain the "300 meters of sorrow and anguish await" caption of that photo, but I was precluded from doing so by a subsequent succession of visits to other amazing places (including the Konzou Temple, the Kotou-in Temple, the most impressive Yoshiminedera Temple, the Sanzen-in Temple, the Sokusouji Temple, the gardens at Shouzan, the Iwato Ochiba Shrine, among others). [...]

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Collectively, Americans have a reputation for being a touch litigious (such as someone suing McDonald's because their hot coffee was hot, for example), but this article about a suit in Japan perhaps takes the cake:

Woman sues Google for displaying image of her hanging underwear in search results

Someone took a photo from a public place that included within its scene the publicly-visible view of her apartment building, including the publicly-visible view of the laundry she chose to hang outside on her balcony in full view of anyone walking by. This photo was then put up by someone on some [...]
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I like Amazon.com, and use both its US and Japan sites all the time, but I've never seen such wasteful packaging as I did with an order that recently arrived via forklift from Amazon Japan. The six boxes in the lower part of the stack are fairly spacious, but five of them each contain exactly one sliver-thin 15" × 15" LEGO® Base Plate, a couple of crumpled pieces of paper as ineffective padding, and a lot of air...

It's fantastically ridiculous. The entire order, shown below, could have easily fit into any two of the boxes..

Heck, the empty boxes, [...]

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I ended my previous post, Kyoto Mountain Restaurant "Yama no Ie Hasegawa", commenting that I wanted to take Fumie to the middle-of-nowhere restaurant I'd visited the other day with Paul Barr, after having seen it mentioned on a friend's blog. I did that today, visiting for lunch with Fumie and Anthony.

We sat out on the enclosed-for-the-winter porch.

After our delicious lunch, I got out my camera, Fumie had a cup of coffee, and Anthony clowned around...

When a cat started meowing loudly just outside the porch, Anthony went over and meowed back. Back and forth they had a conversation....

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