Friday, September 24, 2021

(2457) Right next door to yesterday's café...

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...in Kappabashi, a mailbox decorated with drawings of kappa (合羽), the river sprites that are a cross between a human, a turtle and a frog and that give the area its name: "Kappabashi" (合羽橋) means "kappa bridge". 

(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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