{"id":1928,"date":"2021-10-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/?p=1928"},"modified":"2021-08-22T14:27:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T20:27:33","slug":"sena-jun-words-for-the-day-chapters-16-and-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zukalations.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/01\/sena-jun-words-for-the-day-chapters-16-and-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Sena Jun – Words for the Day: Chapters 16 and 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This photo and essay book was written by Moon Troupe Top Star Sena Jun and published during promotions for the 2008 show ME AND MY GIRL<\/em>, where Top Musumeyaku Ayano Kanami retired. It\u2019s very charming and occasionally emotional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some chapters are very short, or contain only pictures, and thus are combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book also featured dual Japanese and English chapter titles, which were not always the same. Where these differ, both are included, with the translation of the Japanese title following in brackets. (For example, Chapter 8 is That time [The era of Asa and Osako]<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

016. Accident! [The Socks Affair<\/strong>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My dandy boy, Boo, made his first appearance in this photo and essay book1<\/sup>.
He\u2019s such a little rascal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One day during a Tokyo production, I was in a car on the way home,
With Boo wearing non-slip socks.
And when we got home, he wasn\u2019t wearing the socks.
He must have pulled them off and left them in the car\u2026I thought.
But they weren\u2019t there! I couldn\u2019t find the socks anywhere!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Did he eat them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, he ate them.
After that there was a huge commotion, I called the vet, and the next day I brought him in\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the worst case, we may have to cut open his stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What, seppuku2<\/sup><\/em>!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was hospitalized right away.
They gave him laxatives and waited for [the socks] to emerge from his butt.
But with Boo, nothing really comes out if he isn\u2019t being walked.
I rushed over after the performance and took him on a walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing came oooout~
It felt too pitiful leaving him hospitalized, and anyway, since I felt like if he could just walk a little bit more they might come out, I decided to take him home.
I promised to bring him straight to the hospital if anything happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We went back home and went on a walk.
It seemed like he did something.
Hm? There they are!!
The two now ve~ry thin and long socks finally exited his butt!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What a day\u2026thank goodness \ud83d\udca6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have two friends who can talk to dogs.
I told one of them about this \u201cSocks Affair\u201d and got them to ask Boo why exactly he ate the socks (laughs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026They really had a conversation as they stared into each other\u2019s eyes\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friend:<\/em> So basically, it seems like he was happy to be going home, and as he was frolicking he pulled the socks off, so when he started playing with them he ate them accidentally\u2026just gulped them down.
Boo:<\/em> \u2026
Me:<\/em> \u2026
Friend:<\/em> But he didn\u2019t think it would end up as such a big deal, and at the animal hospital people were saying \u2018Why would you eat something like that\u2019, \u2018You\u2019ll eat anything, won\u2019t you\u2019, so it seems like he was reeeeeally embarrassed.
Me:<\/em> \u2026
Friend:<\/em> So he says he won\u2019t eat them again.
Boo:<\/em> \u2728\u2728\u2728<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sena: “So don’t eat those again.” Boo: “I’m sowwy.”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At the time I thought, could this be true?
But according to the friend who went with him to the hospital\u2014since I couldn\u2019t go myself due to the performance\u2014the doctor at the animal hospital kept saying \u201cWhy would he eat a pair of socks?\u201d and on top of that they had to listen for aaaaages to the doctor talking about how \u201cFrench Bulldogs will just eat anything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ever since then, if I bring up the time he ate a pair of socks,
No matter how soundly Buu is sleeping, or how happily he\u2019s playing with a toy, he\u2019ll come over looking ashamed and press his paws against me as if to say \u201cPlease stop, please stop~ \u2728\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026He\u2019s too cute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(end)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1 – See chapter 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2 – Shogunate-era method of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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017. Photograph [exclusive photographs]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photos only; a few examples are included here.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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