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Weather: Sunny
Lunch: Kaiseki-zen @ Yotei-an, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo-to
Dinner: Temakizushi @ friend's house, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo-to

We saw Mark's former advisor, a retired Japanese historian, at a beautiful Japanese restaurant that is surrounded by a beautiful garden. He lost his sight last January, only a week after I saw him in January 2006. He told me two stories that I could not forget:

He was told by a doctor; "You are lucky that the bleeding was not in your brain, but in your eye." Then he was told by another doctor, "You are lucky to lose your sight in your 70's, not in your 80's. You can still adjust to life without sight."

He is fulfilling a longstanding desire to revise and expand a book that he published four decades ago, with the aid of his former students and his wife. His students made audio recordings of each chapter of the original text, so that he can add, delete, and make changes as he listens.