Autumn on Shiraishi island -- the tourists are gone and weekends are for cycling, sailing and holding impromptu beer parties.
Ring, ring, goes my mobile phone. "Moshi moshi?" It's Hide and he's on a cargo ship headed through the Inland Sea toward Osaka. He's been out at sea for three days now.
On Wednesday evening at my house on the port I heard him take up his ship's anchor.
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