Japan Boxes, a photo from Tokyo, Kanto

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Japan boxes such as the one you can find in temples. I do not know what they represent, what is their usage etc... but i found them "funny". There was tens of them all around the place (was in a temple in Kamakura).

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yusff23 (470) 2007-07-11 6:09

Hi Stephane .
I can tell you what those boxes are because I'm Japanese .
We keep Sake there ,that is to say ,those boxes are Sake Barrel that is same as wine cask.
Usuallly a wholesale store has this cask but some temple also have them for a festival that is something like a happy new year festival .
But I've never seen such a lot of many sake boxes like this picture.

Anyway this picture is very sharp and well-coloured .

Thanks for sharing this picture .

Yusuke