O-bento (lunchboxes) are a whole chapter of Japan's culture --and not just its culinary culture- and the first page in that chapter cannot not be this one. It is one of the most standard o-bento you can get literally anywhere and costs anywhere between 350 and 500 yen i.e. $2.50 and 3.50. It contains, of course, rice and as accompanying dishes (or "okazu"/おかず), a patty (hambagu/ハンバーグ), one slice of fried fish (shiromi sakana frai/白身魚フライ), a micned meat patty (menchi-katsu/メンチカツ), one of the many fish byproducts called "chikuwa" (竹輪), fried chicken (kara-age/唐揚げ), omelet (omuretsu/オムレツ), red sauce pasta (napolitan/ナポリタン) and potato salad (pote-sara/ポテサラ). And while some of them are just a bite, for the taste, it fills you up in a way that is as Japanese as sushi --if not even more so.
(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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