Road to numbers.
The market also has its accountants. Frantic during negotiations, busy and quiet in the final operations requires before closing.
Their kingdom is made up of numbers, but even those numbers are fish related. They flow before the heavy eyes of weariness: the prices, the receipts of the fish sold, the registers. The calendar of days spent at the market and now, with the dismantling in progress, will never be the same. The Olympics are calling, and Tsukiji’s story is about to become nothing more than a memory.
