Taki’s Golden Bowl
—by Matt Holman
B50 Note: Hisashi “Taki” Takimoto died on February 9th, 2009, after almost 20 years of serving delicious and healthy food on east Colfax in Denver. Kyle Wagner wrote an excellent appreciation of Taki for the Denver Post. See more of Matt-san Holman’s comics on his website, Square 1 Comics.
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June 25th, 2009 at 8:53 pm
This website is absolutely incredible!
I love Taki’s.
March 12th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
Sad, I was not aware that Taki had passed away.
I knew Hisashi Takimoto back in the eighties as we both members of the same Buddhist Organization. Brian Takimoto as we knew him at the Buddhist center (of course everyone called him Taki) was just a great, great person. One memorable experience that I shall always cherish is a trip that we made to Dallas, Texas together to help build a stage for a Buddhist function. Another member (Pistol Pete) and I drove a tractor/trailer loaded with tree bark slats to be used on the stage. Taki was sent along with us in the truck as spiritual adviser.
Shortly after that trip I had moved from Denver to California. The last time I saw Taki was back in the early nineties as I was in Denver for work-related training. I heard that he had open a restaurant on East Colfax (the first place, the one that caught on fire), so I decided to surprise him by stopping in unannounced to have lunch. He wouldn’t let pay for my meals the entire week that I was there.
Farewell Taki, my old friend, very few people in this world have left such a lasting positive impact on my life as you have. You were the one that made me truly understand the wisdom of the Gosho passage “Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life. …”