Bashô:  On Buddha’s birthday a spotted fawn is born
just like that

Akira Kurosawa: ¿Which are the most important things for men?
Clean air and fresh water

Yasuhiro Hamano: Here in Tokyo blue sky for “Little Spring Day”,
good day to tie flies for Patagonia summer.

Kumiko: Recipe for Kimuko´s sauce

1 of soy sauce
1 of sesame oil
1/3 of honey1 spoon of grated garlic
1  spoon of shiben toban san
Mix the soy sauce and the honey,
warm, then add the rest.

Kumiko is Hamano san´s wife, and she cooked for us during our five days at their house in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I was invited to fish with him and Ricardo, my partner, joined us. Hospitality is a word too short to express how they treated us.

Japan is somehow part of my tradition, its culture, its thinking, its architecture, the Zen, the poetry, the literature, the films of Kurosawa, the gardening, the Bonsai, its strong tradition of make things just good.

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