Happy Halloween!

For those of you ghosts and ghouls still awake, Happy Halloween! Your treat is a super scary photo of one of our house decorations that's been up all month.

Nothing says absolute terror like a cuddly bat decoration hanging on top of a Hiroshige print calendar. The pine trees make a strangely fitting background...

Random Japanese fact for the night: Unlike Western tradition, the bat can have positive and lucky connotations.