In which we divert from visiting a sake brewery to see something both odd and wonderful.

One of the true joys, at least for me, of a holiday is seeing how people from other cultures live and work. You only ever get the smallest of glimpses into this, but it can be both fascinating and illuminating. This post celebrates those little things about Japan that give you a glimpse into the life of the people. One might argue that this is but another excuse to cobble together a bunch of otherwise unlinked photographs but that would, I believe, be a little harsh. 

I continue with my homage to signage in Japan. I'm conscious that I may have rambled in my last post; and equally conscious I will likely do the same here. Nonetheless, there are more images of signs, and more than a little typical Japanese quirkiness.

There's something about signage in Japan that I find endlessly attractive, this is the first of two posts exploring just that.

The first of what will be many posts with my 35mm work from Japan. It seems like an age has past since we were there for our fourth trip. Time has not made curating my images any easy but I have tried to group them together into loose themes. The first is most tenuous, aesthetics after all are in the eye of the beholder. Regardless, hopefully your eye will find something that pleases you.