... but it turned out that this wasn't really necessary. Once he moved around to the other side and took a few whacks with a little sledgehammer we have, it took only seconds before he broke through:

And the thing then basically fell apart as he whacked at it. We were a bit taken aback to find that there was some rebar in there ...

... but it was only very lightly tied to the main concrete, and was easily removed without any cutting.

Neighbour Yamaguchi-san was (understandably) curious about the noise, and dropped over just in time to see Lee-san get to the bottom of it.

After a couple of hours of cleanup - we smashed up and buried the chips around the foundation of the building - it was all done.

I spent the rest of the day involved in interesting conversations with collector Serge A, who was visiting from France, and after pouring him onto his return train (that's an exaggeration - we only had two beers each!), returned to begin the preparations for this weekend's Design Festa event.

Tsushima-san and I will be manning a booth at this humungous show, and hopefully we'll have a chance to meet some people with an interest in our work - either in buying it, or helping us make it!