Hyakken

Hyakken Uchida was a Japanese prominent writer known for his elegant essays. I read a number of his essays and novels when I was in high school.
Do you like to eat doughnut hole? Hyakken liked to taste sort of like that, such as lotus root holes. He was also famous for being very difficult. I heard an anecdote about him when he was gifted a premium sake. He rebuked the donor that it will spoil his taste for his favorite sake. I thought that I want to find such my favorite things than having luxuries in life, although I do not like to be so difficult like him.

Photo is a bottle of umeshu. I bought it in Niigata in August. It is rich in aroma and sweet like honey.