Day 3731: Mundane and Yukizuri.

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Japan’s Jimi ‘Mundane’ Halloween Costumes, Last Week!

Japanese festival "Jimi Halloween", where people dress up in costumes so mundane they have to be explained. The tradition was started in 2014 by a group of adults at Daily Portal Z who “kind of wanted to participate in the festivities of Halloween, but were too embarrassed to go all out in witch or zombie costumes.” So instead of the flashy and flamboyant costumes they had been seeing gain popularity in Japan, where they dress up in mundane, everyday costumes.

Shop attendant trying really hard to look away as you enter your PIN number

Left the apartment right at the same time as the next door neighbor and ran back inside to wait until they leave

Probably looking at Pixiv or something on the train

An elementary schooler on the last day of school

 

Didn’t really want anything from IKEA but my friend insisted on driving us there

  

That person who keeps adjusting the gyoza dipping sauce ratio and now has too much sauce.

 

You can look through social media using the hashtag #地味ハロウィン above are some favorites from this year’s festivities. You can also take a look at some past years (2018) too!

 

 

Yukizuri

It's November, which means it the time of year when gardeners across Japan begin preparing for snow in an activity known as yukizuri. And nowhere is this tradition more beautifully displayed than at Kenrokuen Garden in Kanazawa.

   Over 500 gardeners work through November and mid-December tying up 800 trees with a total of 4 tons of rope in radial patterns to give them extra support when it snows.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A 4-minute video, Bower bird, here.

 

Just because ...

 

   

Violet Turaco

 

 

Smiles for Sunday ...

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

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