You are very welcome and thanks for stopping by @mariannewest! Ahh... that's very interesting! I've posted last time about Bast in Berlin, you can check the photo here. I think this is what you worked for, isn't it? And I found a tea with the Bast(Nettle family) leaf and the name is "Brennnessel tea" in Berlin.
Wow... this is the reason why I started writing about textile, I want to learn about many things from the people all over the world especially bast fiber. I know some things about Jpns one, but don't have others so much so... :)
Well, it's funny I found you because you posted a video to Dtube "No more garden videos". Lol... and once I watched it then I see you are experienced and fun person and I like your positive vibes very much... actually I visited your podcast too, I'm not so good at listening English yet but I may visit there and improve my listening skills.
And wow, your children are half Japanese? Then probably you also speak a little Japanese I guess... haha. Well, I live in Japan now but sometimes live in Berlin in these years, because my partner live in Berlin and he is from NY... so US, Germany, Japan... interesting but many things are in common with you!
Thank you very much again for your comment, I'm very looking forward to see your moving and probably sometimes about garden video! :P
Aregato is pretty much all I know. My ex-husband was third generation. I met his grandma who had immigrated and she only spoke Japanese. But she was already almost 100 when I met him. His parents spoke it but never with their kids. His mom had been in camp here in the US during the war when all the Japanese on the west coast got put in a prison camp.