Monday, January 25, 2021

(2283) As you probably know by now, tengu...

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 ...the red-faced, long-nosed mountain goblins are my other totem after Daruma and I go after them wherever I find them. Here. they took me by surprise at the deli meat section of a super-market in Ueno: roast ham, bacon and sausages from the Tengu Ham company from Kanazawa  (金沢), capital of Ishikawa (石川) Prefecture in Honshu's west coast, about 300 miles from Tokyo. 

(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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