



Some scenes from quiet days in a provincial Japanese city, including the remarkable instant soup from a famous tofu house in Kanazawa, worn sign of a seedy coffee shop/bar, drip coffee for one, a grim bubble-era
arts center with colored concrete balls on rebar stalks instead of flowers, a deliciously sour lemon extract called "adult's first love"... and the Louis Vuitton-loving frog mascot of a comic/coffee shop.