Japanese Tones

One:

a high, manic vibration
the sonorous totality that emerges from the Pachinko parlor,
or the cuteness. The graphic design: smiling fishes, cartoonification. The exclamation points! The schoolgirls posing with peace-signs for photographs. OK!





The school bunny...





The cute train. OK!

Two. But there is also a sleeker side; quieter in a swooshy modern way. Displayed in the bullet trains, of course; the plastic-and-metal kind of order...






Three. The hushed, reverberating tone; quieter in a deep way. The lowest tone of Japan, underlying it all, I like to imagine... before the more recent tones added to the mix...







altogether, a sonorous place; not quite harmonic enough to be called a symphony, but fascinating in its notes--