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The second day of the luau passed much as the first, with demonstrations and classes during the day, and Saturday night filled with food and entertainment. With festivities still in full swing, O’Sensei again decided to retire early, and called for his otomo (valet) to assist him. However, his otomo was nowhere to be found; it was soon discovered he had instead elected to enjoy the Honolulu nightlife. Suenaka recalls his first glimpse of O’Sensei’s formidable anger:

“He was enraged—he was yelling and carrying on and everybody was scared. Everybody just spread out, nobody wanted to be around him—they thought the world was going to explode! . . . [But] he got right over it. That’s the way I am now, and maybe it was something he ingrained in me. I told O’Sensei later I had learned that from him—he said, ‘Well, you maintain that frame of mind!”’

His otomo absent, O’Sensei changed his mind about retiring and instead decided to take a walk along the beach to enjoy the cool of the early evening. Even though O’Sensei didn’t even know the name of the young Hawaiian who had just recently unceremoniously invaded his privacy, to his delight, Suenaka was invited to join him: