Jaaapaan...love in Tokyo!!

Strolling down Azabu Juban last weekend, we saw this beauty. It was a normal Tokyo morning with everyone routinely airing class and fashion in a cafe and where the coffee is only incidental.

Remember how I am prone to venting about the ethereal Japanese beauty. That how Tokyo's streets are never short on eye candy and Joy Mukherjee just doesnt stop yoddling in your head "Legayee dil...gudiya Japan ki...pagal mujhe kar diya"! I mean, shouldnt beauty have limits?

Only this time the real show stopper was the sleek black beauty on the side .The giant black Great Dane was breath takingly beautiful. Since 'kawaii' (cute) was too small a word to fit the big creature, people settled for a tamer 'sugoii' (interesting). Which of course didnt do any justice to the hunk....neither does this picture..

I have become some kind of a fashion observer in Tokyo.Typically words that you would never hear from a fashion dummy like me but there it is. There is no other choice in Tokyo where fashion is in the air you breath. Like a 'pollution index' there should be a daily 'fashion index' here. Purple apparently is one of the dictats on Tokyo's fashion calendars this year, which extends even to stockings (purple, yellow...why limit) as are long, knee-ankle length sweaters...sugoii ne..

And then there was this lovely day spent at Mashiko - a potters village, 2 hours away from Tokyo, in neighbouring Tochigi prefecture. This was the annual autumn potters fair where potters from around congregate to diplay their ceramic creations. What joy. Millions of stalls, oodlles of clay tempations...enough to cripple all decision making skills and saddle you with uselss bits and baubles and tons of regret. Anyway Mashiko seemed to have got into the autumn fury thing well ahead of Tokyo..much of its leaves had turned red/yellow. Double joy.