I was out on a walk last week, on some back streets in Shibuya, and I stopped to take a photo of a dental clinic that had a sign out front saying: “Dental Clinic Gross”. I have a mini collection of weird signs - I’m assuming this was the typical L/R sound problem for Japanese people, and that they actually meant to name the clinic “GLOSS” (which makes more sense, but the “gross” is funnier).

Anyway, as I stopped to take a shot of the sign, I turned around and saw this great grouping of really classic Japanese images (a traditional umbrella, a wooden door, a cat, and somenegi). I took a few shots and then decided to turn one into a kind of ukiyoe-like image with a bit of photoshop magic:

You can see the original version here