I know the essential pleasure of the fossil does exist in excavating it by my own hands. Although some rare dinosaur fossils have been found recently in Japan, fossil resources are poor by nature here in quantity and quality. In addition, I do not have enough time to do it rightly, so I cannot but buy some good fossils during my journey, especially to US. It is my real enjoyment and peace of mind to see them in my hands or arms (I have heavy one). In my daily life, the view of mine can spread not more than a few days or a few months. Those fossils, however, give me a big help to picture to myself the origin of life, tens of millions of years for the course of evolution, and an extremely tiny existence in it. Seeing the night sky might be the same kind of action, but fossils are easier for me to understand.

Since December, 1998

Last Update = July 7, 2001