Wednesday, December 4, 2024

(3273) Pacific culture

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In Kamakura, at a shop selling kakigori (かき氷), a shaved ice dessert, a mixture of Japan and perhaps Samoa or Polynesia: a yokozuna sumo champion with Pacific tribal tattoos --the things he is holding are the kakigori.  (In Japan the word "yokozuna" is often used to mean something big and of top quality.)

(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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