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Leberecht Maas, I'm going to take a bath [Buch Nikkan Kirisawa 88 / Chinmu].
Lebe-kun and Max-san seem to be genuinely enjoying the sauna. Bismarck-san seems to be looking forward to a beer afterwards (in the case of our fleet).
Once upon a time there were many stone baths (a kind of sauna) in the Seto Inland Sea. The craftsmen who built ships in Kure also used to take a bath there to recover their energy.
The 95th installment of "Tatemono Meguri. The 95th stop on the "Tatemono Tour" is the Nagato Shipbuilding History Museum. Kure has been at the forefront of shipbuilding in Japan for a thousand years. http://comic-earthstar.jp/works/kirisawa/