One of the most wicked and fab clothes stores of Tokyo is located in the Koenjikita suburb and didn’t just set Björn and me back more than a few Yen, but also disclosed a very impressive interior decoration idea, which I allowed myself to copy for the coffee corner of my new Berlin home: walls fully covered in japanese manga cutouts! I restricted myself to a vertical stripe though, instead of doing the entire apartment B-) Cutouts are from three different random mangas I purchased at Scifi bokhandeln in Stockholm recently. Producing the panel (substrate of very stiff paper/cartonage with pages of manga comic books individually glued on with photo glue spray) was quite a nice haptic piece of work. The panel is nailed to the wall and can thus be easily removed again. The lips and nose tag of this post is of course for the smell and tase of the coffee which is intrinsically linked to looking at the wall! Arigatooooooooooooo Tokyooooooooooo!
Something to look at, while coffee extraction is going on …
Ob des Tokio Aufenthalts wäre mir heuer beinahe die Magnolienblüte am Balkon entgangen, was extrem schade gewesen wäre, da – die japanischen Kirschblüten in Ehren – sich meine Magnolie heuer ordentlich ins Zeug gelegt hat! Die Münchner Abendsonne hat die Szenerie auch wieder in brilliantes Licht getaucht – kommt auf die Liste der schönen Dinge in der Stadt, die nicht so kurz ist wie manche vermuten 🙂
My second Asia experience led Björn and me to Tokyo for cherry blossom viewing! All senses apply in this crowded and super-busy megacity where everything from ultra-traditional to futuristically modern can be found. Fortunately it was impossible to loose Björn in the crowd – a blond lion’s mane in 1,85 above ground on top of a neon shirt was always easy to spot B-)
Skyscrapers, tea houses, manga, anime, Studio Ghibli, catbuses, wicked 60s vinyl, crowded streets with screaming screens and loudspeakers, quiet japanese gardens, lonely magnolia trees, rice merchants, labyrinthic train stations, hot green tea from vending machines, and of course cherry trees, cherry trees and more cherry trees!
Basic überrascht ja immer wieder mit neuen Pilzarten, diesmal im Angebot: Zitronenseitling. Wurde verspeist in Form eines sehr schmackhaften “pytt i panna” mit Süßkartoffeln, Zwiebel, rotem Paprika und einem Dressing aus Sauerrahm mit Granatapfelkernen!
Sieht giftig aus, aber wir haben ihn beide sehr schön behalten und erfreuen uns auch tags darauf noch bester Gesundheit!
