Official Kendama - Ozora

Boarding gate intrigue to obsession

Boarding gates for looming thirteen hour midnight flights can be bleak but not when a young personable Japanese is talking, texting and smiling while displaying casual dexterity with a Kendama. It was, he explained, a Japanese child’s toy. Here on the south coast of England, just short of my 75th birthday, I took delivery of a genuine Ozora Kendama courtesy of Japan Store and Japan Post. I feel it will become an obsession.