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Mar 08 2022 17 Comments

Tokyo colour coordination

Last year I posted a series of photos that featured some Tokyo citizens nicely in synch with their surroundings. Since then I’ve managed to take a few more, so here’s another instalment of colour coordination that includes bleak concrete, and much more unexpectedly, a big cat.

Tokyo colour coordination

Tokyo colour coordination

Tokyo colour coordination

Tokyo colour coordination

Tokyo colour coordination

Tokyo colour coordination

Tokyo colour coordination

Tokyo colour coordination

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  1. Linda says

    3/8/2022 at 8:44 am

    oh you know I am crazy about these. I don’t know which I love the most. the first one where the curb is also painted to match the color scheme? the one where the guy is perfectly wearing a tiny little bit of *both* colors that are on the octopus sign? the one with the bicycle, because it’s also a bicycle in Tokyo photo AND the matching trash can? the yellow and blue jacket that’s so weirdly divided into two colors that the only possible reason for its existence was so it would match for the photo? the woman wearing unbelievably exactly the same blue as the awning? I just can’t choose.

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    • Lee says

      3/8/2022 at 3:34 pm

      Thank you. Very happy how some of these in particular have come out. Quite a few little details I didn’t notice at the time. Always nice when that happens. Even better was they all just happened with almost no waiting whatsoever.

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  2. ellen says

    3/8/2022 at 10:56 am

    Oh these are so good! I like them all but how can I not choose the tiger as my favorite! 🙂

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    • Lee says

      3/8/2022 at 3:37 pm

      Thank you very much. He’s quite a common sight on Shinjuku’s streets, but very pleased to get a shot of him with a matching background.

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  3. cdilla says

    3/8/2022 at 5:25 pm

    What a collection! Whilst the blue and yellow in the park could be a show of solidarity for the Ukraine, and those yellow kerbs are contenders, the standout is the Shinjuku Tiger energing from the rising sun – delivering newspapers behind that mask since 1972!
    Though not quite as colour co-ordinated as this photograph of yours of him from three years ago
    https://www.tokyotimes.org/shinjuku-tiger-the-man-and-the-movie-poster/

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    • Lee says

      3/8/2022 at 11:37 pm

      Cheers. Getting Shinjuku Tiger in that spot was especially pleasing, but yeah, getting him next to a Shinjuku Tiger poster was never going to beaten!

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  4. John says

    3/9/2022 at 12:16 am

    This is on another level. It hits you as serendipitous and THEN you figure out why. Well done Lee.

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    • Lee says

      3/9/2022 at 10:10 am

      Thanks ever so much. That’s really kind of you. Very pleased with how a few of these in particular came out.

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      • Solveig says

        3/9/2022 at 5:13 pm

        Love them!

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        • Lee says

          3/9/2022 at 10:22 pm

          Thank you!

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  5. Richard says

    3/9/2022 at 8:49 am

    Serendipity can be the best. Thanks!!

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    • Lee says

      3/9/2022 at 10:10 am

      It really can!

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  6. Sean says

    3/9/2022 at 10:42 am

    Awesome set! Talk about right place at the right time! 🙂

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    • Lee says

      3/9/2022 at 10:22 pm

      Thanks a lot. Yes, always very nice to say the least when things work out like this.

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  7. Once an Expat says

    3/10/2022 at 10:07 pm

    As for the shot of the delivery bike coming out of the tunnel, find it ironic the graffiti’ artist’/ vandal complains about not having money, yet could afford the can of spray paint used to deface property.

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    • Lee says

      3/11/2022 at 4:09 pm

      Yes, good call. Maybe that was a can of the finest black spray paint money can buy. Talking of paint, above the vending machine was an Invader urban artwork. Always enjoyed seeing it, but it was unceremoniously painted over with the rest of the wall…

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  8. Matthew says

    4/13/2022 at 12:44 pm

    Hello, thank you so much for sharing your wonderful photographs and accompanying context. I visited Japan in 2016 including Tokyo and your photos bring back poignant memories of the unique “feeling” of this city. I look forward to another visit once international visitors are allowed to return there.

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