Fish of the Seto Inland Sea by Ruri Pilgrim

When I started this blog way back in 2000 and something, I named it a thousand blue fish because my mush for brain told me that was the name of Ruri Pilgrim's book Fish of the Seto Inland Sea. I'd just read the book and had obviously been moved by it enough to 'name' my blog after it. Truth be told it was only when I began packing up our house that I came upon the book and my error. And then to make life just that more interesting, I only remembered the story when I Googled the book last week. Why I Googled it I don't know, but the result was quite startling. This book by Ruri Pilgrim, a JAPANESE woman, is set in JAPAN around what is called the SETO INLAND SEA. I decided to Google the Seto Inland Sea and just guess where it is... Osaka, where will be living is on the coast of the sea. I provided this lovely little map picture thing to show you.

Photo taken from Kansai Scene

Much love

Philippa

I have so much more to write about and I will be doing it as soon as I'm done picking up Alexander from school.

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