Well, when you know you were gonna die at 60 (ch. 11), and you’re getting close to that age, you probably stopped fretting about the small things and try to enjoy whatever time you have left….. Oh, Sohei…
the picture for the blurb is for iburi-gakko, which are smoked first then pickled. i can't find any article about daikon that are pickled first then smoked.