Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University

Every morning, deliverymen carry tall bowls of noodles made from buckwheat flour to customers who love to eat them. The delivery from the sobaya chef to the customers is possible by talented bike riders who balance large towers of bowls on their shoulders while their other arms steady the bikes down crowded busy streets with potholes and city pedestrians and cars. Hungry customers wait because they know they will be so happy to eat the delicious noodles. The deliverymen are exhausted by the end of the long day of cycling for a living, but they too get to join their families in the feast. In a few short hours after a hot bath and sleep, the deliverymen start their routine again and again.

An extraordinary new piano composition is released by John Cage. An extraordinary pianist, David Tudor, enters the stage to play the composition. He sits at the piano for four minutes and thirty-three seconds. Even though some people in the audience are angry, the composition becomes a classic and is performed often. And everyone basically does nothing.

Saohiko, Kenji, and their mother take a trip into town, to the market to sell their crafts and goods. They come across the famous Shrine of the Seven Gods of Luck.