True to the spirit of the days (tomorrow is Obon/お盆 i.e. the day of the dead), a grim novelty from a shop selling Buddhist altars or "butsudan" (仏壇): candles shaped as beer mugs or sake cups to be used as offerings to the altars -these is where pictures of the family's recently departed are kept.
(For a bigger version of this picture both in color and black and white, check my "Japan Arekore" set on Flickr)
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