Five day holiday starts with laundry and shopping

From Saturday I have five days off from my university job. I spent the first day doing laundry and then going shopping. I wanted to find a white yukata for a costume party event, but did not manage to find that. I did buy a t-shirt in the "samurais of the sengoku period"-series of shirts; namely the Maeda Toshimasu shirt (because of the visuals, I do not know enough of these samurais to selects shirt based on how cool the samurai himself was).

I also bought a pair of trousers that had phoenix embroidery. One on the front of the left leg and one on the back of the right leg. There is also some nice embroidery on the back pocket. Sadly, they only came in white. All my white trousers get dirty really fast (from riding a bicycle on rainy days, for instance), so they look a bit less cool than when you originally buy them...

I also bought two projection mapping boxes. You put your smart phone on top and play YouTube movies (there are QR code links to the appropriate movies on the side of the boxes) and this causes the plastic model parts to be projection mapped with moving pictures. Pretty nice. They are super cheap too. I bought one with a model of a Japanese building and one with the Sapporo symbol Hatsune Miku singing and dancing.

Shopping for clothes

A huge bath towel

Shopping is said to be the number one hobby of people in Japan, so I did my best to act Japanese during the weekend and bought some new clothes. The famous ukiyoe print of Fuji as a pair of underwear might come in handy when wearing a yukata (which has a high risk of exposing your underwear if you sit down or try to walk).

The bath towel has a picture of Yukimura Sanada and the writing is something he is famous for having said. It says 「人の死すべき時至らば、潔く身を失いてこそ勇士の本意なるべし」which means something like "When the time to die comes, the honorable warrior must die a pure death".

Cherry blossom t-shirt, Hokusai's view of Fuji underwear, and Japanese sandals

T-shirts