On my way to the Sendai Book Club, I saw another building being torn down. There is so much reconstruction going on that equipment is in short supply and delaying many of the projects. Also raw materials are hard to find, even concrete is hard to get. Also many places are trying to do repairs but are finding that that things that need to be replaced are no longer being made, many of the companies having been destroyed by the tsunami.
Here is another building with a lot of damage. Repairs seem to be just getting underway.
The building in the distance is the center where the Book Club meets. I have shown this wall a few times. For close to a year, it was cover with blue sheets. They are finally repairing the surface.
One of our neighbors brought is some kusa manju. These are balls of sweetened bean paste covered with rice that has been beaten with herbs. I love them. When they arrived there were about ten of them. They are wrapped in dried leaves and tied with something string-like that has been stripped from a plant.
When I thought to take pictures, the rest of them were already eaten. They go very fast when we can get them.
This is one that has just been opened. The beaten rice/herb combination is a translucent green and quite pretty.
This picture, in which then end of the manju has been bitten off, shows the bean paste in the inside. Manju go very well with various kinds of green tea. I also like them with coffee.
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