There always water where people get together.
In those days, housewives gathered around the water well for socializing, and nowadays it may be café, pub, coffee shop, or club. Water makes for better and smoother communication.
Japanese tea room is not only for drinking tea. Moreover, it is a place where people sit to quiet their mind. Under any circumstances, they put efforts to think calmly and make things in the right direction. The room has simplified and become a place for a host and guests to cherish the encounter as a once-in-a-lifetime one. As a result, the secret of communication became a level of culture.
Also, we have Sake culture, and Sake wineries throughout Japan compete each other how to utilize the local water for the better taste. Usually, they use underground or river-bed water to make Sake, and it is crucial for Sake wineries to secure the source of water.
In Japanese, ‘Water Business’ stands for a place like restaurant, bar, and cabaret, in which they amuse customers offering liquors and service. The origin of the name seems to come from the liquor they sell. However, it actually named after the situation that it all depends on the place’s popularity and their income is somewhat unstable; which is the similar to the character of the water which also does not stay still and keep changing all the time.
Even the businesses like Kabuki, Smou, and show business are in that category. For Kabuki actor’s outstanding performance, we complement it as clear and beautiful as ‘edge of water’. In Sumo rule, wrestlers are made to rest when a match becomes too long, and we call it ‘putting water in’. For show business celebrity, we describe a breathtakingly handsome male as ‘water dripping’ handsome. Therefore, it can be said that the businesses do somewhat related to the water.
