Went out to Sakae yesterday to photograph the interesting Christmas displays.Japanese celebrate Christmas much as we celebrate valentines day, and New Years is celebrated like Christmas.
No idea what is up with the mustaches but they featured heavily in this shops decorations. I dig them. ^_^
Red,black, upsidown trees, Santa pandas, tree outfits and of course Christmas Cake shortcake which is marketed to couples, were among some of the fantastic odes to this Commercialitic Christmas.
No matter how much my love of Japan, Christmas here always leaves me asking "Why?"
Despite occasional quaint mixes of Japanese style and Western theme which make me smile and are rather creative, the plastic waste of packaging, cheap trees, tacky decorations and outfits always seems to leave me feeling a little uneasy. Sure, we have some similar things in Australia, though we have also Christians and Pagans, people who bring a real rounded feeling to the holiday season and remind us of it's earthy and mystical roots. We celebrate as a family, how it should be.
Tonight is the Christmas party. Got up early, put on my silly obligatory antlers sent by Mum, got my obedient housewife face on, made cookies. ^_^
Hope people like them.
Pics of the party will be posted once the hangover subsides....keep an eye out for them.
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