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Kitani-san and I went to the island of Shodoshima to try some olive-dyeing! It was fabulously fun, but I felt a little out of place around these old ladies. They really stuck it to me that not only was I foreign, but I was 30 year younger than the youngest of them. Aw, people!
The dye turned out like a muted olive drab. Maybe that's why it's called olive drab? Hey!
Henry Dyer, c.1898. My great-grandfather. He had not long taken over the license of the Red Lion from his father when this pic was taken.