To get to know you better (あなたを・もっと・知りたくて)

[CSCO]

[Christmas Eve (クリスマス・イヴ)]　


Three years ago, you and I worked together on Christmas Eve.
Your mom and a man came to buy legs of chicken.
He is your new papa I conceive.
Your embarrassment sticks in.

Two years ago, we passed each other before Christmas Eve.
My bicycle rang the bell.
You bowed and a teardrop fell.
You were so naive.

Powdery snow began to fall for me, dare.
The last summer you moved to somewhere.
But this year doesn't very bad.
I am fine.
Now I'm drinking Jesus's bloody wine
With Jesus and Chick and her mom and new dad.

[CSCO]

[Toyohashi Oni Festival (とよはしおにまつり, or 豊橋鬼祭)]　(On February 10 and 11 each year)
https://onimatsuri.jimdofree.com/%E8%B1%8A%E6%A9%8B%E9%AC%BC%E7%A5%AD/
https://onimatsuri.jimdofree.com/%E6%9D%A5%E7%A4%BE%E6%96%B9%E6%B3%95/
(You must go towards the Toyohashi City Hall. Then, the crowd would teach you where Tengu and Oni are. Caution: the Japanese Government keeps out the audience from the shrine in 2022 because of COVID. But reporters can take the photo's and make the films if they will offer to the shrine until February 8. The Oni would parade the city. So, the audience could see the scenes, maybe. (If not, don't blame me.))



"Chick, have you got a regular job?"
"No."
"Why? If I were a president, I would want a young lady like you."
"CSCO, I will become the president. I will open a barbecue restaurant soon."
"A yakiniku restaurant? Too many rivals."
"I will serve Tengu Yakiniku."　
("That's one to you!" thought CSCO. But he said calmly, )
"If I were you, I would serve Oni Yakiniku. Chick, Yen has been weak!"
"!"
"We must go Tengu hunting first."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oni



Japanese people believe that most of yakinikku restaurant's owners are Koreans in Japan. (This is a fact, maybe.) And Japanese people believe that a man and a woman, who eat yakiniku together, are ONE already. (Are you sure? But, because of you, I can compose this story. Thanks.)


When I was age 6 or 7, I went to see the Toyohashi Oni Festival with my grandma. (When I was age 5, my mama divorced. When I was age 7, my grandma passed away.) When we went to Toyohashi, we got on a bus always. I disliked exhaust gas smell. And I had car sickness. So, I wanted to take a train. But we took a bus in most cases. I would countdown busstops on our way. (It is only 5 km bus travel. But it was a long and hard travel for kid CSCO.) She used a free bus ticket for aged people and I pretended to be a kid under age 5 to freeride. At the Toyohashi Oni Festival with my grandma, I saw Sumo Wrestler for the first time. (They were in the audience.) Japanese people believe a baby, who was lifed up by Sumo Wrestler, grows big. So, the wrestles were very busy. (Tokugawa Ieyasu also saw the festival when he was young. The festival has a very long history.) The oni in the festival has a large hammer as his arms in his hand. This is Syumoku (しゅもく, or 橦木). Which is a priest's tool to ring a bell. And the oni sprinkles white candies and white powders when he runs away. (The powder is Ame Kiri Ko (あめきりこ, or 飴切り粉). Which is used to prevent the white candies from being one in the factory.) I wanted a shyumoku toy but I foget I could get it or not.
https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E6%A9%A6%E6%9C%A8%E3%81%A8%E9%90%98&hl=ja&gbv=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWjuSRwr31AhWFMd4KHTJiA3EQ_AUICSgC
My grandma was a foolish woman. But I believe she loved me in her foolish way. A war killed her husband and left her two sons (my feeble minded father and his older brother). In spite of the facts, she had loved the Tenno's family (her husband turned into a medal). CSCO started to steal selling items in the nearest candy store Hanaya and was killing insects as his play on his own. Nevertheless, I want to believe she enjoyed her life. I helped her by removing a string of snow peas, by pasting a service stamp on the sheet. And I helped her by threading a needle. This was my duty and privilege. (Oh, I can't do it without a threading tool now.)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Toyohashi_Oni_Festival?uselang=ja
https://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&q=YouTube+%E8%B1%8A%E6%A9%8B%E9%AC%BC%E7%A5%AD&oq=&aqs=
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B1%8A%E6%A9%8B%E9%AC%BC%E7%A5%AD
https://www.city.toyohashi.lg.jp/1758.htm?turef=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.city.toyohashi.lg.jp%2F33843.htm#itemid3255



We went to the Toyohashi Oni Festival. The sky was blue. The air was cold and clear. There was a cry and laughter. The audience had white powders on them like millers. We also were the sama. The crowd pushed Chick. She hugged my arm and smiled on me.

We asked a policeman, "Where is a tengu?" (てんぐは　どこに　いますか？)
"He might be eating Udon around the Toyohashi Station."
We got on a streetcar (ちんちんでんしゃ, or ちんちん電車) for the station.
https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E8%B1%8A%E6%A9%8B%E5%B8%82%E3%80%80%E8%B7%AF%E9%9D%A2%E9%9B%BB%E8%BB%8A&hl=ja&tbm=isch&ei=ql3kYaOMDI7T-Qa51InoAw&start=0&sa=N
https://www.toyotetsu.com/shinaisen/


Now we were in front of Meihou Building.
We asked a passerby, "Where is a tengu?"
"Many tengu's were here once. They are around the Toyohashi Port now."


There was the Toyohashi Dried Silk Cocoon Exchange (とよはしかんけんとりひきじょ, or 豊橋乾繭取引所) next to Meihou Building. Toyohashi was a trade center of the cocoon. There was many cocoon merchants before the Toyohashi Station in the old days. Udon at Toyohashi was as thick as a finger at that time. The cargo workers would eat the Udon in black soup and work hard again. Udon at Toyohashi loses its thickness today and the old people who knew the thickness passed away. Now, Toyohashi is proud of its Curry Udon. (Meihou Building has the Toyohashi Central Bus Terminal under the ground. We went to the Toyohashi Port on a bus.)
https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E5%90%8D%E8%B1%8A%E3%83%93%E3%83%AB&hl=ja&gbv=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGyYOEhcX1AhWtsVYBHQ9qBNUQ_AUICSgC
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B1%8A%E6%A9%8B%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC%E3%81%86%E3%81%A9%E3%82%93
https://www.jalan.net/news/article/376453/



We asked a docker, "Where is a tengu?"
"A tengu? Hahaha! Tengu's went on a world cruise!"

"Oh, a tengu has run away. CSCO, you were right. I will open the Oni Yakiniku restaurant. I will follow your suggestion."
"Chick, TOPIX is high unnaturally! I will help your yakiniku restaurant."
"CSCO, we need a deluxe kitchen crew (DeluXe 人材)."
"I know, CEO. I will hire them for you. Chick, we need a yakiniku meeting now. Let's go."
"Yakiniku together? With you?　I want to eat Curry Udon."
Chick pretended to be in high spirits.

[Dulcamara]

Hi,
I enjoy your stories. Thank you for sharing!

[CSCO]

Hi, Dulcamara-san,


Thank you very much. My rival is J. K. Rowling!
Next time, you will give me 5 praises!!
(Any Muse wasn't with me this time.)

[CSCO]

[Setsubun (せつぶん, or 節分)]　


Once upon a time, a medical doctor named CSCO lived in Yawata Village. His object was high. He healed a patient. But this was not enough for him. He had a hope to heal the world. He would catch a villager and preach an ideal politics. He had bothered Yawata people.


We have Touei-chyou in Oku Mikawa (おくみかわ, or 奥三河) region in Aichi-ken. I will introduce Oku Mikawa someday. The Oku Mikawa Hana Festvals are very interesting. But Oni is important at this time. Japanese people scatter roast soybeans on February 3, a Setsubun, to chase away evil spirits from the house.
https://www.town.toei.aichi.jp/hana/top/top.html
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8A%B1%E7%A5%AD_%28%E9%9C%9C%E6%9C%88%E7%A5%9E%E6%A5%BD%29
https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E6%9D%B1%E6%A0%84%E7%94%BA%E3%80%80%E8%8A%B1%E7%A5%AD%E3%82%8A&hl=ja&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj74J3rl-T1AhUKRd4KHeDuCdgQ_AUICCgB
https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E6%9D%B1%E6%A0%84%E7%94%BA%E3%80%80%E8%8A%B1%E7%A5%AD%E3%82%8A&hl=ja&tbm=vid&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjisbP3l-T1AhWOP5QKHVFcB_0Q_AUIBygD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setsubun#Mamemaki


One night with a full moon, CSCO went home from his patient and faced an oni's drinking party in a wooded area in Yawata Village. CSCO run away and three oni's walled him and told to drink with them. Sake (Rice Wine) had CSCO preach what the world must be. Oni's had laughed to tears.

Before daylight came, Blue Oni gave CSCO a happiness in return for his fun talk. Red Oni also gave him a happiness. Yellow Oni didn't have any happiness to give, so that Yellow Oni told to drink together again with a nod. From the morning, CSCO's invisible wrap would toss a roasted soybean whenever he said anything. No, it wasn't a roasted soybean. It was as small as a soybean; it was brown or black; it was soft; it had a very bad smell. But he dared to call it BEAN. The BEANs were bad? It took away his patients at once. Nevertheless, a villager, who encountered CSCO on the road, couldn't escape from his preaching. He had cultivated his small field behind his house; he had planted rice in his small rice field; he had farmed to live from hand to mouth.


Japanese people call a quack doctor as a Yabu Ishya (やぶいしゃ, or 藪医者). The short form is Yabu. A Yabu Ishya in the worst class is called as a Takenoko Ishya (たけのこいしゃ, or 筍医者). The short form is Takenoko. The Yabu means a bamboo grove. The Takenoko means a bamboo shoot. Oppositely, we praise a national excellent doctor as a Kokusyu (こくしゅ, or 国手). We also praise a national excellent statesman as a Kokusyu.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%97%AA%E5%8C%BB%E8%80%85


Chick was CSCO's distant relation, a daughter of a farmer. She was born dumb. Chick and CSCO lived together. She was his medical assistant and housekeeper. She had collected the BEANs patiently; she had buried the BEANs in CSCO's field corner. Because she thought the BEANs had troubled the villagers. The BEANs had denied the half of the field any crop. But he never had blamed her. When their rice stock run low, she would cook rice gruel to share with him.

One morning, CSCO had already died. When Chick came to disturb him, he was cold in his Futon (Japanese bedclothes). There was a stinky BEAN on the wooden floor. It was his the last words. Chick roared beastly. Her teardrops started to drop onto his face. And CSCO returned to the world. Whenever he said something, it tossed a white BEAN which has very good smell. Chick tried a white BEAN on the floor. She started to speak. His BEAN was a miracle drug now.

Makino-sama's wife heard CSCO's reputation. She was a barren woman. The BEANs gave him a son and daughters. The BEAN healed a Shogun's lung disease. The Shogun praised CSCO as a Kokushu. But CSCO had preached Emperor Yao's and Emperor Shun's ways until CSCO died. CSCO passed away; Chick passed away at the next month while she was sleeping as she fell a sleep. There is their grave in the wooden area of Yawata Village.

There comes a jolly pipe and drum music from the wooden area on nights with a full moon sometimes. Yawata people still say oni's are drinking with Mr. and Mrs. CSCO also tonight.



In Japanese:
むかしむかし八幡村にCSCOという医者がいた。彼の志は高かった。病を癒すのみならず、世をも救わんとしておった。会う人は皆、ご政道はかくあるべしと彼に聞かされ、うんざりした。

ある満月の夜、CSCOは往診の帰りに八幡村の雑木林で鬼の宴会に出くわした。逃げるCSCOを三匹の鬼が囲み、お前も一杯やれと言った。一杯、また一杯と飲むうちに、CSCOは例の話を始めていた。聞く鬼達は、涙を流して笑い続けた。

朝日が昇る前に、青鬼は、楽しい話のお礼にとCSCOに福を一つ授けた。赤鬼も福を一つ授けた。黄鬼には与える福がなかった。黄鬼は、また飲もうぞと頷いた。その朝から、CSCOが何か喋る度に、CSCOの近くのどこかから一粒の炒り豆が撒かれた。いや、それは炒り豆などではなかった。その大きさは一粒の炒り豆であったが、茶色であったり黒かったり、柔らかく、そして臭かった。彼はその粒を敢えて豆と呼んだ。この豆ゆえか、患者はぱたりと絶えた。それでも、彼は道で人に会えば救国の策を語った。家の裏にある小さな畑を耕し、小さな田で米を作り、どうやら暮らしていた。

Chickは遠縁の百姓の娘であった。生まれつきの唖であった。ChickはCSCOと暮らしていた。彼女は彼の女中であった。助手でもあった。彼女は豆を根気よく拾い集めては、畑の隅に埋めていた。村人の迷惑になると思ったのだ。畑の半分では何も生えなくなったが、彼は何も言わなかった。彼女は、米が少なくなれば、粥に伸ばして、彼と分け合った。

ある朝、CSCOは死んでいた。Chickが起こしに行ったら、布団の中で冷たくなっていた。床に臭い豆が一粒落ちていた。彼の最期の言葉であった。彼女は獣のような声をあげた。涙が彼の顔に次々と落ちた。すると、彼は甦った。彼が喋る度、芳香漂わす白い豆が一粒撒かれるようになった。Chickはその豆を食べてみた。途端に舌の縺れは解けた。豆は、万病に効く妙薬と転じた。

牧野様の奥方が、CSCOの評判を聞いた。彼女には子が無かった。豆は、彼女に男の子と姫達を授けた。豆は、将軍の肺病も治した。将軍は、CSCOを国手と讃えた。CSCOは死ぬまで堯舜の治を語り続けた。CSCOが死んだ翌月、Chickも眠っている間に、眠るように死んだ。二人の墓は八幡村の雑木林にある。

今でも、満月の夜には雑木林から笛の音や太鼓の音が聞こえる事がある。八幡村の村人達は、今夜も鬼達がCSCO夫妻と酒を飲んでいると言う。

[Dulcamara]

Thank you for sharing the story and images.

Happy (belated) Setsubun!

[CSCO]

Thank you very much!

[CSCO]

[The Longest Day in Japanese History (にほんのいちばんながいひ, or 日本の一番長い日)]


"CSCO, are you sure? Don't you know the Kiku Taboo (きくたぶー, or 菊タブー)? This is a taboo topic, isn't it? Ooe-sensei presented a question about the Tenno System and he couldn't live in Japan for years... I suggest you had better take up Hinamaturi (ひなまつり, or 雛祭り) topics at this time."
"Oh, my Hirohito! Chick, are you sure? The Japanese, the German, and the Italian can't stop crying out! We load a special responsibility!"
"Stop it! I'll make you a crow!!"



When Hirohito and Zaibatu were in the end stage of the Pacific War, Japan didn't have enough ships to bring soldiers back from distant islands to the mainland. So, the Imperial Japan ordered Gyokusai Meirei orders (ぎょくさいめいれい, 玉砕命令, or an order to die as a gem rather than surrender). Oh, my Hirohito! We had many many many gems. Why didn't they offer an unconditional surrender at that point? Why didn't they do it when the Imperial Japan lost the Saipan Island? Zaibatu was very very very bad.
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8E%89%E7%A0%95



CSCO turned into a crow.
"CSCO, do you reflect on your behavior?"
"Chick, don't stop me. I'll fly to the U.N. Headquarters to make a speech. The Japanese, the German, and the Italian can't stop crying out! We load a special responsibility!"




When Zaibatu accepted the unconditional surrender, CSCO took a small and humble wagon and went to the U.S. King on his own. CSCO was in a Japanese funeral white dress and rounded a rope around his neck. CSCO knelt on the ground and said in front of the U.S. King, "All is my fault. Kill me to save Japanese people."
https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E6%AD%BB%E3%81%AB%E8%A3%85%E6%9D%9F&hl=ja&gbv=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwip75e6qqz2AhWOK5QKHZ3FAaYQ_AUICCgB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Missouri_%28BB-63%29#Signing_of_the_Japanese_Instrument_of_Surrender
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%BA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA_%28%E6%88%A6%E8%89%A6%29#%E9%99%8D%E4%BC%8F%E6%96%87%E6%9B%B8%E8%AA%BF%E5%8D%B0%E5%BC%8F



CSCO turned into a toad.
"CSCO, do you reflect on your behavior?"
"Chick, don't stop me. I'll croak to make a speech everyday. The Japanese, the German, and the Italian can't stop crying out! We load a special responsibility!"

"Chick, when the Imperial Japan was in the Pacific War, I was a fisherman's kid at the Amami Ooshima Island (あまみおおしま, or 奄美大島). One morning, I went to the nearest beach because a typhoon had passed away, and I was so frightened. The white beach had a very very very long line of the dead kids' bodies in the morning light. Oh, my Hirohito!! Chick, I fear the Kiku Taboo. But, when I would stop saying it, my bones burn up in red!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsushima_Maru
http://tsushimamaru.or.jp/?page_id=87
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AF%BE%E9%A6%AC%E4%B8%B8#%E5%AF%BE%E9%A6%AC%E4%B8%B8%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6
https://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&gbv=1&tbm=isch&oq=&aqs=&q=YouTube+%E5%AF%BE%E9%A6%AC%E4%B8%B8%E3%80%80%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1



"CSCO, this is my last resort."
Chick took a Gorgon's head out of her bag.
CSCO turned into a stone.
"CSCO, do you reflect on your behavior?"
"The Japanese, the German, and the Italian can't stop crying out!!! We load a special responsibility!!!"

[CSCO]

[Sanzu River (さんずのかわ, or 三途の川)]　


"I'm sorry. I'm too late, CSCO. Thank you for looking after our baby alone."
"Don't worry. It's my fate, Chick. Thank you for looking after our baby alone."

"CSCO, there are too many parties. The light is low. But their faces are bright."
"Chick, their family members meet again. So, they are in delight."

"CSCO, we reach a red river. The water is blood, isn't it?"
"Chick, the water is tears of mothers. Yes, it is red a bit."

"Yes, it was too hard to see our babies were dying.
So, in a distant place from her, I had been crying."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanzu_River
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%89%E9%80%94%E5%B7%9D

[CSCO]

[Han Xin (かんしん, or 韓信)]　


Once upon a time, CSCO built a small fire to warm himself in his dream. And behold! Here came a Katana motorcycle! The riders put off their helmets. One was a devil and the other was...
"Chick!" Tears were spurting from CSCO's eyes!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzuki_Katana
https://www1.suzuki.co.jp/motor/lineup/gsxs1000srqm2/



"Why are you crying? This girl is your wife?" said the devil. Chick was leaning on absorbedly. The devil took both CSCO and Chick to the summit of Mt. Fuji. "Pass through my crotch, and I give you anything," said the devil. So, CSCO did it. People on the summit laughed at CSCO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_Xin
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9F%93%E4%BF%A1



"All right. What do you want? You can become a great actor. You can become the Prime Minister of Japan. What do you want? "
"Money."
"This young girl is your wife?"
"No. She is a stranger."
The devil grinned and threw a thick check book out onto the earth. CSCO picked it up on all fours.
They returned to the first place. And the devil went away.



Chick was in a fury.
"Why didn't you fight against the devil!? Why didn't you chose me instead of money!?"
"Chick, this is in my dream. And he was very tall and strong. Chick, a man can fight only when he decide to eliminate out the enemies without a regret. If it isn't so, a man mustn't fight. Yes, I have the wisdom. Chick, we are rich now!"
CSCO handed the check book to Chick.
"Shit! This is in your dream. So, you could win! You are senile! You worshiped a devil and you must pay the price!" Chick threw the check book into the fire.
"What!! Water! Water! Where is water!?"
"Piss off, CSCO!"
"!!!"
CSCO started watering on the check book in his dream splendidly.

[Gvbriel]

i enjoy these stories very much. Thanks for sharing

[Gvbriel]

Maybe i will have my own story to share one day

[CSCO]

Hi, Gvbriel-san,


You are my reader already! Thank you very much!

I have three inspiration sources: Rakugo (Japanese Classic Stand-up Comedy), The Holy Bible, and my experiences. (Chick is in reality. But modified.)

I have been a Rakugo fan. I have been a fan of Ensyou Rakugo (えんしょうらくご, 艶笑落語, or Funny Light Eroticas in Rakugo). And I'm very good at off-color humor. And my literary theme is Anti Social Evil. But these stories are not nice here. So, I must wrestle here with one finger. Oh, this is my destiny. (You could laugh and sob ten times if I am over-the-top!)

Yes, we can write stories! Yes!

[CSCO]

[Paper Tiger (はりこのとら, or 張り子の虎)]　


CSCO went to The Paper Tiger. Chick's mama was the bar-keeper.
"Fix me a whiskey on the rocks. Where is Chick, mama?"
"Listen, boy, you cannot see her. Tanaka-san said you would soon marry with your president's daughter, who had divorced. Get out!!"
But Chick came in and said nothing.
"Chick, this is my letter to you. Read it later."
Chick read it silently and shed many tears and groaned, "It's too late."
CSCO played A-16 on the jukebox.
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/franksinatra/thelastdance.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7KeTSu4cMA



At first, Nishizaki Yoshinobu (にしざき　よしのぶ, or 西崎 義展), the producer of Space Battleship Yamato, had been a private manager of Tezuka Osamu (てづかおさむ, or　手塚治虫) sensei, the greatest mangaka in Japan. Tezuka-sensei had his animation studio and he put his manga's into animation films. I didn't know Nishizaki-san's former career before Yamato. Nishizaki-san produced Tezuka-sensei's animation Wansa-kun (わんさくん, or ワンサくん). Yamato brought a big fortune and a death to Nishizaki-san. Some people say that SPACE BATTLESHIP ヤマト (2010 film) was a real papermoon and misfire, and the top actors were ruined in the film. Nishizaki-san died before the release. Jesus!

Yamato's finisher is Hadou Cannon (はどうほう, or 波動砲).
https://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&gbv=1&tbm=isch&oq=&aqs=&q=%E5%AE%87%E5%AE%99%E6%88%A6%E8%89%A6%E3%83%A4%E3%83%9E%E3%83%88%E3%80%80%E6%B3%A2%E5%8B%95%E7%A0%B2%E7%99%BA%E5%B0%84
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Battleship_Yamato_%282010_film%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Wansa



CSCO said, "International politics is mysterious. Yesterday, we, loyal subjects, had called the U.A.B.C. as a potential enemy. Today we swapped the government bonds as much as we could do." Everyone faked a smile.

CSCO had worked on commission. He belonged to a bond house. His client was Mao Zaibatsu (the biggest Zaibatsu in the South East Asia region). CSCO's account had ten billion yen. CSCO was stuck-up.

Honorable Mao also was mysterious. He was travelling always. He was a drifter. CSCO's trades only followed Mao's orders by postal mails, which came sometimes. CSCO was bored.



Japanese central bank is Nippon Ginkou (the Bank of Japan, にっぽんぎんこう, or 日本銀行). We call it Nichigin (にちぎん, or 日銀) for short. Nichigin is a governmental company and listed company. Bank of Japan Act (にちぎんほう, or 日銀法) rules Nichigin tight. Nichigin is also a player in stock market and bond market. Nichigin has much ETF (investment trusts) to support stock market. Nichigin's market intervention has been called as Nichigin Hou (にちぎんほう, or 日銀砲), or Nichigin Cannon. [ 法 (Hou) means the law and 砲 (Hou) means a cannon.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Japan
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E9%8A%80%E8%A1%8C
https://www3.boj.or.jp/market/jp/stat/ba220328.htm
https://www.boj.or.jp/



The Imperial Japan had suffered because yield on its government bond (IJGB) had risen. (When a bond price goes down, the bond yield goes up.)
CSCO did limited bids, which offered he will buy any IJGB 10-year at 0.25% unlimitedly. Clerks were writing agreed prices on blackbords with a chalk. CSCO checked some prices and went to a tearoom to sleep. He couldn't sleep the last night.



"Wake up, CSCO!" said the president. He continued, "YOU have a serious problem now. The Imperial Japan asked for a loan of 2,000 trillion yen to the Long Land Republic secretly. They contracted the loan one hour before and the U.A.B.C sold all its own IJGBs in the bond market as a retaliatory action. Your account has no money now and IJGB prices keep going down. I think Hon. Mao will abandon you."
"President, my hair is all white now, isn't it?"
"I don't know. I hate to talk on hairs."

"What can I do now?" thought CSCO.
CSCO took out Mao's order mail from his pocket and read out loudly:
"Dear Chick, please forgive me. What Tanaka-san said is a true story. I must leave you. Please be healthy and happy."
Jesus!!



A paper tiger:
https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E5%BC%B5%E3%82%8A%E5%AD%90%E3%81%AE%E8%99%8E&hl=ja&gbv=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAy5aH15v3AhVSQPUHHRpIDWQQ_AUICCgB
https://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&gbv=1&q=%E5%BC%B5%E3%82%8A%E5%AD%90%E3%81%AE%E8%99%8E+%E4%BD%9C%E3%82%8A%E6%96%B9&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjAy5aH15v3AhVSQPUHHRpIDWQQ1QJ6BAgFEAo



CSCO went to The Paper Tiger. Chick's mama was the bar-keeper.
"Chick, I will retire. I will marry with you. And I will be a barman."
Chick rushed into CSCO's arms with tears.
CSCO said, "By the way, why did you weep the last night?"
"The letter was in English. I couldn't read it. When my papa was alive, papa always said to me, 'Chick, you must learn English more harder because it is very useful.' But I was an idle girl. Oh, it's too late. I remenbered papa."

It was a steamy summer night. Kids were shooting-up of small aerial fireworks outside the opened door. A knock; a bang; a sputtering. Their cries were comfortable. CSCO thought we would also shoot up tonight...
"CSCO, do come quick!"
"Do come quick!"
"Do come quick!"
"All right!"


Chick's mama said, "Are you fit for a bartender? Make a cocktail Nichigin Cannon for trial."
"It's a child's play, mama."
CSCO poured Rum, Vodka, Gin, and Sake into a shaker and said in a sad small voice, "I would have to decline the trial tonight."
"Why not?"
"It sounds I would misfire tonight."

[CSCO]

[Spirit photography (しんれいしゃしん, or 心霊写真)]　


MC: "Hi, everybody! It's time for Scientific Unscience. The great pleasure to welcome two good folks: Professor Chick and CSCO-san. Chick-san is a doctor of philosophy in physics and professor of Toyokawa College of Physical Education. CSCO-san is a psychic and the director of Toyokawa Psychical Research. Professor Chick, you look down. What happened?"
"Yesterday an electrical fire burned a part of my mother's house."
CSCO said, "Professor Chick, it was not an electrical fire. Red Cat run and caused the small fire."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhij%C3%B1%C4%81
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic
https://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&gbv=1&tbm=isch&oq=&aqs=&q=%E8%B5%A4%E3%83%8D%E3%82%B3%E3%81%8C%E8%B5%B0%E3%81%A3%E3%81%9F%E3%80%80%E3%81%A4%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A0%E3%81%98%E3%82%8D%E3%81%86


When I was a kid, there was an occult boom in Japan. A TV program for housewives had a small show あなたの知らない世界 (A World Unknown). Which had presented spirit photography. I watched it always in the summer holidays. At that time, an occult manga うしろの百太郎 (うしろのひゃくたろう, or Guardian Spirit Hyakutarou) was booming. I want to introduce them to the world. But we don't have the informations in English language. Because they are very minor topics in the world. (It's my pity.)

The summer in Japan is very steamy. Japanese people would hear ghost stories to be chilled in the summer.

The Eastern ghost stories are very different from the Western ones. Because the Eastern ones are based on Buddhism and so on. It is too hard to show the moods by using English articles in Wikipedia.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%82%E3%81%AA%E3%81%9F%E3%81%AE%E7%9F%A5%E3%82%89%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E4%B8%96%E7%95%8C
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BF%83%E9%9C%8A%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F
https://www.google.co.jp/search?hl=ja&tbm=isch&oq=&aqs=&q=%E3%81%86%E3%81%97%E3%82%8D%E3%81%AE%E7%99%BE%E5%A4%AA%E9%83%8E



"Here we go. This is the first photograph."
Chick said, "This is a plasma phenomenon."
CSCO was dangling a hint: "Professor Chick, look at the ripples."
"Oh! Many human faces!!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegon_Falls
https://www.google.co.jp/search?q=%E8%8F%AF%E5%8E%B3%E3%81%AE%E6%BB%9D%E3%80%80%E5%BF%83%E9%9C%8A%E5%86%99%E7%9C%9F&hl=ja&gbv=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMs5C6mM33AhXQplYBHSvSDKkQ_AUICCgB

"Here we go. This is the second photograph."
Chick said, "This is a plasma phenomenon."
CSCO was dangling a hint: "Professor Chick, it was the secretary-general of the MMPP (みんみんとう, 眠眠党, or Min Min Political Party). He died of a bicycle accident. JCIA killed him. You know this face."
"Secretary-General Hamigaki (はみがきかんじちょう, or 歯磨幹事長)!! He died a regrettable death! This is his earthbound spirit!! He was our hope!!!"
(Chick, your cast is a scientist this time, isn't it?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onry%C5%8D

"Here we go. This is the third photograph."
Chick said, "This is a plasma phenomenon."
CSCO was dangling a hint: "Professor Chick, do you know Kitano Tenmanguu (きたのてんまんぐう, or 北野天満宮)? Do you know Tobi Ume (とびうめ, or 飛梅)?"
"Oh! This is the Onryou (おんりょう, 怨霊) of Sugawara no Michizane (すがわらみちざね, or 菅原道真)!! I couldn't go to the bathroom alone tonight!!!"
(Chick, are you sure? Do you want to get fired? Be a scientist!!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenjin_%28kami%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugawara_no_Michizane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitano_Tenmang%C5%AB
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%A3%9B%E6%A2%85


"Hi, folks, we welcome an Itako (いたこ, or イタコ) from Osorezan (おそれざん, or 恐山). She will call Chick-san's passed papa from another world. Professor Chick, are you OK?"
"God doesn't exist. Ghosts don't exist. I'm a scientsit. I must eliminate superstitions. I'm very sorry to Itako-san. But she will go into retirement tonight. She would be bad. She mustn't come here. It's a matter of self-responsibility (じこせきにん, or 自己責任). Yes, it's at her own risk. Don't blame me!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itako
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_possession

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagawayaki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiyaki

A sprit possessed the Itako soon and the Itako started to speak in a male voice:
"Chick, can you see me? I'm your papa. Chick, be nice. As a LINE user, you gather people, who lost their family members. You and they share a sadness. And now you are man hunters. You hunt evil people in the back. Don't be an evildoer, Chick. You must know that God and the law judge them. You think you are in a right way. But it's a sin. Are you a destroying angel? Never!! My lovely angel, don't be a witch."
"How about that, Professor Chick?"
"Bah! She is a liar! If my papa possesses her, give me our secrets!"
"Chick, when I and mama had a quarrel, I would come home with a brown bag of Imagawayaki. Then, she made up with me. Kid Chick wondered and her small mouth on my ear asked me why it is not Taiyaki."
"God doesn't exist! Ghosts don't exist! This is a plasma phenomenon indeed!!"
But her cheeks were in flood.