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This is an Ema, a Japanese wooden wishing plaque. You usually buy those at Shinto shrines, write a wish on the back and hang it up at a dedicated space. This one we bought beginning of 2016 – the zodiac year of the monkey – at a shrine close to Ueno Park. We liked the design so much that we took the plaque home with us, wrote our wish on the back and hung it on one of the trees in our garden. Continue reading “memory archive – day 3”
This is a paper-mache dinosaur made by my son at around age 2 at his then, caring but dubious, daycare. It’s been around for quite a while now – most recently sitting on the top of our fridge so my son can’t reach it. Continue reading “memory archive – day 2”
A pretty bad picture of some nasty items. These are fridge magnets; advertising for a Tokyo plumbing company. When we found the first one of this collection in our letterbox we thought it was hilarious; a prime example of the other typical Japanese design aesthetics: make it loud and make sure that even the smallest bit of information that might be of relevance is on there; a migraine-trigger. Continue reading “memory archive – day 1”
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