It is in the yard of neighborhood temple.


Oups, I did not take the Buddha statue. This might do. I borrowed it from the carpenter's page.


People are rushing for something and something is this.


Book fair.


Our neighborhood has many publishing related family business, not far from a number of publishers, the "Town of used books" Kanda and waseda. As you can see, having big centers near by, we only have small book businesses going on here. But it seems to be changing a bit these days.



Mr.Hatori is an editor just retired from Tokyo University Publishing Center. He decided to start his own publisher in our town. He was moving in and had to face his long time problem - he just can't stop buying books and now he and his family has no place to live, even in his new house.

He called our town's used book dealer Horo, and they were just astonished and had to tell him to wait because they could not prepare the storing space for this much of books. Then the owner of Horo had an idea. Let's have a book fair at this temple. At the beginning, it seemed like a crazy idea, but the Temple master said yes, our town's independent book store where Mr. Hatori is a regular customer said they can help. So they started to get ready to sell 10,000 books in four days.


More help came as the plan proceeded.
This is the first day of the fair. I am a customer of Oraio Book Store, too and therefore I was there.
Just look at these book craze people. I only bought 20 books together with my two daughters. Some said they bought over 70!

Today was the last day and I went again. I could pick up some pretty good books, still, but most are gone.
I really like my town when something like this happens.

羽鳥書店まつり初日風景です。
そこここで話題になっていましたので、ツイッターのこれでもごらんになっていただく方が良いかも知れません。
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http://d.hatena.ne.jp/koshohoro/20100112
住む場所が無くなるほど本を買う方というのは、私の旧業界では珍しくありませんでしたが、こういう形の放出は本当に珍しい。個人の蔵書なのでダブりも少なく、お値段も涙が出そうな値付け。それでも高い方から売れていくというのも、お客さんの質を現しています。

I almost forgot to put this picture of plum blossoms. White and Red are holly good luck colors.