On our first afternoon in Tokyo, I remember being quite disappointed. It all seemed rather, well, normal. I was expecting Japan to be different. But the closer we looked, the more different things became, and there were very many times we had to ask for sign language explanations of what we were seeing. Some things simply remained mysterious.
One of the things I liked most about Japan was the order in everything. Shop displays, gardens, railway stations, even forests, were incredibly neat and tidy and laid out with minute attention to detail. The repetitive rhythms made for interesting photos.
So can you guess what the photos are of? To make it more interesting, I’m going to give a prize to the first person who gets them all right. Yes, you heard me, a prize. I haven’t decided what yet. Maybe a packet of wotsits. So get guessing.
This post is for the Gallery who’s prompt this week is ‘Can you see what it is yet?‘
Wow! So many interesting things to see! Here’s a go – bags of rice, chicken coops,lots of labels (!) , no idea!!
You got two right. Try again.
sorry – missed out strings of sweets & candle holders!
hmmm no idea on the first one – glass tubes?, sweets, noodle pot holders, rice, bookmarks/horoscopes? and a school?
Again, two right. Try again…
Hmmm. Bags of rice, prayer sheets (says B who worked for a Japanese company for a while), strings of sweets, a temple (a public loo?!, I really have no idea), noodle bowls (or possibly again something religious says B) and bamboo…?
Am I close?
Close, but no cigar. Three and a half right.
The only thing I can make out is rice. I think?
Rice yes. No wotsits for you.
Pics of umm stuff?! I like wotsits…
So do I. But I can’t just give them away for no reason.
But how do we know that you know what it really is and I don’t know what it is really….
You have to trust me. Mwah ha ha ha ha.
OK *clears throat*
1) The entrance to the karaoke bar that you spent most of your time in
2) The wall of lollipops that constituted the prize-wall in the karaoke bar – needless to say they remained intact while you were there
3) Toilet brushes
4) Money wallets for the many bribes that you offered the karaoke master
5) Rice – constant karaoke singing uses a lot of energy..and;
6) The local jail where you were incarcerated for crimes against karaoke
Did I win? xx
No. You didn’t.
1) wrong
2) ish
3) wrong
4) wrong
5) yes
6) wrong
The wotsits are still mine. Do you like wotsits?
I love Wotsits – surely everyone loves Wotsits?
As a student, they were main constiuent of my diet. They’re probably even slightly nutritious. They’ve got cheese in them I think.
I really don’t know all of them but the photos are absolutely wonderful!
1)Some kind of bamboo cage?
2)Strings of sweets
3)Bowls
4)Prayer sheets
5)Bags of Rice
6)Some kind of takeaway food shop?
You got the same three right as the others. No wotsits.
Ok, here’s my go (and I really like wotsits so I am feeling just a little bit competitive)
Sweet strings, prayers sheets, soup bowls, rice, bamboo screen, post office
Can you wrap them in bubble wrap please so they don’t get squashed? Ta.
I could, if you got them all right. But you didn’t. I was thinking of a box actually, packed with foam pellets.
I don’t like wotsits…… but luckily it’s too hard so I am in no danger of winning any
)
here goes …total guessing …
Lollies/ sweets
Temple offering candle pots
Bags of different rice
Prayer cards
Seaweed strips
Library
The wotsits are still mine. Mwah ha ha ha.
Fantastic photos, don’t even know where to begin, so I won’t x
Apart from the rice and sweets – I have no idea – hopeless
rice… a restaurand a shirt… stuff!!!!
A shirt?
1. Curtains to entrance of “Sexy Bar Looky Looky”
2. Fly screen which attracts flies which are then too busy with the sweeties to want to come inside.
3. Very small wells.
4. Luggage labels for holidaying tomatoes
5. Small bags of peat (looks like our garden centre)
6. Public toilets with signs for male, female and lady-boys.
I don’t like wotsits anyway.
You sure you don’t want some wotsits?They weren’t right, but they were very entertaining.
OK people, here are the answers:
1. tree trunks in a pine forest (think pic may actually be upside down, but it looks same both ways)
2. strings of sweets
3. buckets at a temple well, each bucket belongs to a different family and the symbols on the front represent the family name
4. prayer cards, you write your prayers on them and hang them up in the temple grounds
5. sacks of rice in a rice shop
6. a sweet shop
Ooh, what an awesome idea! I have no clue what they all are though
look at the bottom of the comments for the answers