Video: Watch your step! Patterns on sewer manholes in Japan
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
It would seem that it is a bad habit to walk with your head down - so you can miss everything in the world. Although sometimes it happens that the most interesting can be on the ground, and until you lower your gaze, you will not see anything! For example, in Japan you can find wonderful sewer manhole covers, painted with patterns in any manner.
Painted hatches are a real flight of imagination of artists! There are images of flora and fauna, emblems of festivals and national holidays, as well as completely intricate patterns and bizarre children's fantasy drawings. Note that for each city, manhole covers are made to a special order, so it is difficult to find duplicate images!
The first unusual hatches began to appear on the streets in the 1980s, before that in Japan, as in other countries, covers of the correct geometric shape were used without any liberties. The standardization of the sewer system provoked a protest among the population, but one of the officials solved this problem quite simply: he invited the townspeople to develop their own hatch design. Since then, this unusual art has reached unprecedented proportions in Japan, becoming a national obsession.
The author's hatch designs in Japan are treated very carefully: each approved wooden model is kept in the Central Library. The book by the writer Remo Camerota, published in English, is also dedicated to the creation of unusual works of art, which tells about the history of the creation of unusual hatches, as well as photographs of the best examples!
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