Katsumi Asaba Art director, designer, and calligrapher, active in Japanese advertising and design The joy of heavy drinking starts with beer, then shōchu , then sake,and is finished off with whiskey. In my younger days, people told me that mixing drinks would lead to hangovers, but now I can take anything alcoholic within an evening. The best part is wrapping up the whole night with a bowl of ramen. I have eaten ramen in many cities, including Sapporo, Niigata, Hiroshima, Kumamoto, Yokohama, and Tokyo, but I don’t have distinctive memories of the designs of the ramen bowls. Is there a unified specification across Japan for ramen bowls? To me, the patterns of the bowls should deliver some kind of message. One of my hobbies is flag semaphore, so I am sending a message through the flags. I hope some visitors will be able to decipher it.
Photo by Hiroshi Tsujitani (Nacasa & Partners Inc.)
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