Kakashi: the question-mark in the scarecrow summer

[imomus]

When I was wearing a straw hat recently, Hisae told me I looked like a kakashi, a Japanese scarecrow. So today I've made a strip of pictures showing these folk creations.



The straw figures are used in Japan to scare birds away from crops, obviously, but also to enact political satire or pop culture commentary out in the fields: 3D inaka media, if you like. They appear mostly in September, the harvest season. There's even a horror film (Kakashi, 2001) based on them. They appear in my 2004 song Life of the Fields too:

Life of the Fields (stereo mp3 file, 5.3MB)

PS: Hamburgers, I play live in your city this afternoon!

Comments

[onethinwallaway.livejournal.com]

Otto Spooky is a great album!

[stanleylieber.livejournal.com]

still my favorite

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

Patiently waiting for "Autumnisle", "Winterisle" and "Springisle", myself.

[(Anonymous)]

not now kato!

[(Anonymous)]

you sure she doesn’t mean this kakashi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakashi_Hatake)? you even got down the one-eyed thing…

[(Anonymous)]

Thank God. A couple who don't look like brother and sister. I spent a day surrounded by those types in Brick Lane. Eesh.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Scarecrow and crow is the new brother and sister.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe there's a certain kind of young person who can afford to move to London these days. "Yeah I meant Sus in second year at Warwick Uni. She was really into the Guillemots and so was I. She was totally peed off with her housemates and so was I. I guess I felt like I'd known her my whole life."

Kakashi

[pay-option07.livejournal.com]

Nuked colon looks like a tolerable place to inhabit even as a Kakashi.

[obliterati.livejournal.com]

there is a garden

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks Momus for creating an extravagant afternoon at golden pudel club/park fiction. We enjoyed your performance and you made us happy. Thanks for those good moments in our lives.