The Loving Embrace – 1950s ASAHI Beer Poster
05/18/2013 by Leave a Comment
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. Frank Zappa
Okochi Sanso Villa
05/15/2013 by 1 Comment
The former villa of the silent actor Denjirō Ōkōchi (大河内 傳次郎 — 1896-1962)–most famous for starring in Akira Kurosawa`s Sanshiro Sugata, among many others and at his peak, was one of the top jidaigeki stars–lies lost in the back of Arashiyama’s bamboo groves. Called Ōkōchi Sansō (meaning Ōkōchi mountain villa) the estate of one of [...]
What are these Japanese alcohol vending machines in Kyoto really suggesting?
05/12/2013 by Leave a Comment
