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Invasion of the Kitschy Carpets

Don’t worry, you’re not tripping. Give your eyes another rub, and you’ll realise you’re just being momentarily hypnotised by the felted creations of Makoto Egashira, the Japanese artist with a Midas touch. Only, swap the gold for your granny’s gaudy carpeting. From pineapples, to rocking chairs, teacups, even entire bathrooms and groups of people — nothing…

The Wondrous, Slightly Creepy World of Japanese Retro Futurism

Getting to work on propellor-driven high-speed swans, robots babysitting the kids while the parents are having tea in space and epic underwater battles with giant starfish; just another day in Japanese retro future! A series of vintage magazine illustrations reveal Japan’s grandparents of today had a very imaginative, if not worrying vision for the future– let’s…

So in Japan, Their Public Toilets are Actually Worth Documenting

Japanese people are known to be fanatical about cleanliness and take their lavatories very seriously. A Tokyo-based publisher produced a guide book to the best rest rooms in the city, and there’s even an annual award for “Toilet of the year”, awarded by the ministry of land, infrastructure and transportation. One very unique instagram account, called…

Antique Chronicles of Japanese, erm, Fart Competitions

To send you off for the weekend, here are the seventeenth century Japanese fart scrolls you didn’t ask for. The unusual images from an Edo period between 1603 and 1868, are known as ‘He-gassen’, which can only be translated as “fart battle” or “competition” and they’re all about, well, farting! It’s Friday, and on Fridays, I get…

These Miniature Japanese Paper Crafts are the Antidote to Pokemon

Somewhere in between Lego and Origami, is the world of Japanese miniature paper crafts. I know, I’ve been on the weird and wonderful side of the internet again today, getting very familiar with a company called Sankei, a Japanese paper craft company that sells all their scale model paper craft kits on Amazon. While you’re…

NYC’s Secret Japanese Kitchen

Inside a nondescript Brooklyn building, there’s a door to an imaginary world with beautiful random objects, edible flowers, bicycles … and a secret Japanese restaurant. We’re not talking about just another social dining club and a have-a-go chef, but a seriously gifted host whose level of cooking is being whispered about as a talent which far surpasses anything…
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