Haruki's way

先週彼の元職場同僚であり、剣道仲間でもあるTさん、W菜さんから、素敵な婚約祝が届きました。ラッピングも流石日本！素敵すぎて感心しちゃいました。熨斗紙付きのタイのカードも粋ですね。贈り物は備長炭の猫の置物。最初は「招き猫？」って思ったけど、前足が地についていました。愛らしい目をしていて、本当に可愛らしいです。ただ、セットの座布団に乗せると座布団に炭が着いちゃいそうなので、これは大事に箱に閉まっておこうかしら。結婚する時にリングピローにしようかな（笑）Tさん、W菜さん、本当にありがとうございます！こちらにも是非遊びにいらして下さいね！

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Guille’s ex-colleagues sent us a small engagement gift, which we received last week. It was such a cute cat made of special bamboo charcoal. In Japan, this material is used for cleaning air.

There was also a little cushion to put the cat on top, but we decided to keep it in a box, as it might get black because of the charcoal. Maybe when we get married, we’ll use it as a ring pillow 🙂 But I guess it’s an American tradition. How are they going to do here??

The card was cute, too! In Japan, traditionally we would eat the fish “bream (“tai” in Japanese)” for an important/glorious occasion, because it was expensive and also because “auspicious” in Japanese is “medetai” which has “tai” :-9 Got it?

Thank you so much, T-san and W-san!