Tuesday, June 4, 2024

(3150) From Fukushima to Ueno

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Two mascots are advertising products of Fukushima at Ueno station: they are Kibitan (キビタン) who is the mascot for the whole prefecture and Yabusame-kun (やぶさめくん) who is the mascot of Furudono (古殿) town; the second one made an impression since "yabusame" is Japanese mounted archery and I didn't know it is also practice there. (Its base is Kamakura.)

(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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