Week 5
In the last chapter of this week I was confused by the Setouchi reference. When I looked it up on a map, I found Setouchi City in Okayama. But Shirokuma seems to be pointing at the sea on the map, and in the next panel he’s presenting Ehime prefecture mandarins.
With some further reading I found that the whole coastal area around the Seto inland sea is often referred to as Setouchi, or the Setouchi region - 瀬戸内地方.
This is the area included in this regiaccording the map on the Japanese page for 瀬戸内地方:
Incidentally, we read about Ehime mandarins in another ABBC book club a few years ago
