Monthly Archives: August 2010

Perfume promoting the benefits of spraying water on concrete

Uchimizu for the Akiba crowd

23 Aug Filed under Events, Food, Japan. No comments.

The practice of uchimizu is, these days, not quite as aesthetically important as Wikipedia makes it out to be, but is still a surprisingly prominent part of Japanese culture. Originally done with wooden buckets and ladles  to keep down the dust on ancient Yamato streets, … Read More →