Through the class, Visual Anthropology of Japan, the changes which happened to me was that I’ve got to see the stuffs around myself critically having wonder. Around the time that I started this kind of activity, I didn’t have any habit to take a picture constantly and any idea how to deal with that unfamiliar subject, so I guess the things that I tried to capture at the beginning was the major representative Japanese culture, like this photo, or the scenery apparently recognized as Japan, but I just realized I could find something that really represent Japan easier by getting some ideas to compare Japan with others and objectively seeing something Japanese thinking how “Gaizins” would feel about it because, for native Japanese me, it takes a long way to have a wonder in my life.
I ran into it at Hirakata station. It is the umbrellas for someone who doesn’t carry it when it rains from lovely consideration. I thought it represented kindness of Japanese. |