Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Recovered Statuary Memory
There was a story today about the recovery in Osaka of a statue of Colonel Sanders (of fried chicken fame) that had been tossed into a river by celebrating Hanshin Tigers baseball fans who saw a resemblance to one of their players.
Now that's odd enough on its own merits to get some repeat airplay, but it also reminded me of a mysterious piece of Japanese public art that I saw a few years ago in Nagoya (I believe):
outside the railroad station there is this lifesized statue of a three legged seeing eye dog. I asked the colleague I was with if he knew anything about that, but all he could think of was the famous (as these things go) statue of the faithful dog in Tokyo who waited at the station for his/her commuter master, who unfortunately had died downtown.
On three legged seeing eye dogs he had nothing. And neither do I, to this day, although apparently there is a subculture of three legged dog afficionados that I may try to tap into.
Now that's odd enough on its own merits to get some repeat airplay, but it also reminded me of a mysterious piece of Japanese public art that I saw a few years ago in Nagoya (I believe):
outside the railroad station there is this lifesized statue of a three legged seeing eye dog. I asked the colleague I was with if he knew anything about that, but all he could think of was the famous (as these things go) statue of the faithful dog in Tokyo who waited at the station for his/her commuter master, who unfortunately had died downtown.On three legged seeing eye dogs he had nothing. And neither do I, to this day, although apparently there is a subculture of three legged dog afficionados that I may try to tap into.
