Chapter 23
A servant from the Nakamura estate brought Michael a basket of fruit and rolls the next morning. Included was a note from Mrs. Nakamura:
Power line has been damaged. Expect power out all day. Soon fixed. Please do not worry. See me if you are inconvenienced. –H. Nakamura
He wasn’t inconvenienced, and in fact, found it rather nice to be cut off from the outside world—for a while, at least, in this idyllic corner where past and present met perfectly.
At noon, he returned to the Nakamura estate and spent a pleasant and interesting afternoon with Seiji and Haruko Nakamura talking about Japanese history and artifacts.
They also gave Michael several English-language books on the subject, ordered in anticipation that he—or someone else—might be willing to help them with their coll
