Originally Posted by rina@aibakaland

This is quite old but I noticed nothing has been written about it so I though I'd share.

This is according to Utada's 2007.10.10 message.

She went to the Arashi Dome concert and was speaking about her experience there.

Sakurai had invited her to attend and gave her a bag of Arashi goodies.

In it was the rumoured Johnny's uchiwa!
It had Sakurai's face on it and she was commenting on how if you are going to attend a Johnny's concert, you needed an uchiwa. He had given her a small one.

After a while she asked about the uchiwa to Sakurai and he explained to her that there was a large version as well and he had pondered on which size he would give to all the guests (the small one or large one). But he had thought that if he gave her a big one with his portrait, that it would be harder to throw away and so he gave her a small one. Here she says "How thoughtful is he (laugh) Sakurai Kun you are too nice (laugh)"

She promised him "No no no! I will use it!" And so that day (10.10) she used it to cool herself off after taking a bath.

She said she felt bad that she was using it for this purpose as she was just in her underwear and every time she waved it, she could see his face...lol..so she promised next time to use it for other things...like....drying her nails~

She mentions she is very happy because she has a lot of uchiwa in her house now.