maybe that was a shakuhachi playing t-shirt makers way of making it
easier to strike up conversations...
>
> T-shirts with strange English on them have a history in Japan, but Tokyo in the new millenium is
> noticeably different from Kyoto ca. 1990. It's now common to see T-shirts with perfect English on
> them, with choice phrases like "I hate myself and want to die;" I've also seen three young women
> in the last few weeks wearing shirts with very graphic (and in one case very detailed) sexual
> statements on them, and I'd wager they had no idea what they said--I guess the designers find it
> funny, or perhaps titillating. But the biggest double-take I've had was this morning, when I
> turned around after buying a train ticket and saw a woman wearing a T-shirt that said simply
> "shakuhachi." In gold-lame letters no less :-).
>
> PH
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