I suspect that if I lived in Japan through a winter, I would become a kotatsu person.
(My favorite episode of Kamichu! is the one where the eponymous middle-school goddess spends the entire episode ensconced under the kotatsu. This strikes me as a very sensible way to spend winter vacation.)
7. Department stores. Especially, department store basements.
What are the department store basements like? About all I can remember reading about Japanese department stores is in one of Calvin Trillin's essays, about the food samples. ("A person could have lunch here." "I think you just did.")
We buy six-packs of canned coffee from an import grocery store. One can left under a running hot water tap for about a minute, then rolled down a book to a groggy person lying around in bed, quite convincingly replicates the hot can of coffee from the vending machine in the morning experience.
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(My favorite episode of Kamichu! is the one where the eponymous middle-school goddess spends the entire episode ensconced under the kotatsu. This strikes me as a very sensible way to spend winter vacation.)
---L.
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What are the department store basements like? About all I can remember reading about Japanese department stores is in one of Calvin Trillin's essays, about the food samples. ("A person could have lunch here." "I think you just did.")
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Just noting.
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