We spent the morning running some last minute errands in our neighborhood, Azabu Juban. Masako loved this place that is famous for a type of Japanese treat... maybe the same way that Kimball's is well known for icecream:). They make "Tai Yaki". Yaki means grilled, and Tai is a sort of sea bream that's red (lucky). So the name refers to the shape of the sweet (a fish), and the color red refers not to seafood but to the beans that fill the sweets. (Most Japanese sweet are based on... beans!).
It was hard to say goodbye to Masako. I am reminded of the "Dosojin" figures so common around her hometown of Matsumoto. The stones are always rounded, and depict a man and a woman, sometimes holding hands. They are the "gods" who protect travelers.
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