Hellenonipponism II
![[Souvlaki-yakitori.]](../images/nihon-omonia.jpg)
Last Wednesday I visited a photography exhibition by Yukari Ueda, a Japanese who has lived in Greece for ten years. The photographs in the show, which was entitled “Japan-Omonoia,” successfully attempted to underline the similarities between Athens and Japanese cities. Although this was not brought up in the first Hellenonipponism entry, it has been something that I noticed ever since first looking at photographs of Tadao Ando’s houses in Osaka. (And Momus noticed it when he first moved to Japan.) I suppose that the similarities due to climate, aerial electricity cables, concrete, and earthquakes are more pronounced when all other cultural heuristics are so different. First-hand confirmation pending.
Anyway, Yukari-san was very friendly, and we chatted in a mixture of Greek and Japanese. The exhibition is running until the 7th of November, at the Alumni Union of the School of Fine Arts in Plaka.
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Remember? When I first visited city center of Athens, it reminded me of Osaka. That was quite funny and interesting experience.
As much as i like Souvlaki…when given the choice…i will go for Yakitori… :) sorry! just cant get enough of the soya sauce and honey combo!!!
dood, has nothing happened since the 31st?!
Oops. It seems while de-spamming my comments I inadvertently deleted some good ones, including these two by Stella which I reclaimed through the Google cache:
stella Friday 19 November 2004, 22:17
oh dear. the opening of the apple store on regent street is tomorrow morning at 10am and the scene outside the store is pretty freaky. a fairly large lot of serious apple fans have *camped* outside in snowy weather. in snowy weather…sitting on the pavement, freezing their butts off, doing things on their ibooks. they’re waiting there for the grand opening. they’re mad, these apple fans.
stella Friday 19 November 2004, 22:18
one of them came all the way from china. LOL.