So, a return to Iwako with these little Asian, cartoonish, Ninja-head type
chappies? But Brian sent something which made me look twice, however first we
need to go back to previous posts on these . . .
. . . as I thought I'd pretty-much sorted
the Iwako cats, managing to track
down most of the colour variations and a set of three copies . . . but it seems
Iwako had anticipated cat-people
doing such things, at such speed, and have taken steps to force more shekels
from our pockets . . .
. . . as Brian also sent us these two (and
I've since seen the right-hand one in Paperchase),
and - upon viewing - you quickly realise that some of the cats have big, open
eyes, thicker collars and the other hand up!
The card is the same card as last year's,
but the cat is a new sculpt, clearly trying to be the Chinese 'Lucky Cat' . . .
. . . as I shot here in the window of the little
import shop Affinity East in Basingrad's Festival Place shopping precinct, although; they all have the same
collar and both eye-types, but they all have the left hand up? Is there any
significance to all this? Does anyone care? I have a bunch more Iwako cats to track-down, that's the important fact - Doh!
4 comments:
The raised paw relates apparently to an incident when a cat warned the Buddha to be careful, and where he had been standing was then hit by lightning (think that's about right!).
Cheers Andy! You can't explain the little Ninja-heads while you're at it?!!!
They look like something you might see on a menu - highlighting the Chef's choices!
H!
Look like a spin-off from a Japanese TV series?
I wondered if they'd evolved or morphed from a Japanese language alphabet-letter or pictogram? I f you get me . . . 'warrior' or 'war' or something? Hey-ho!
H
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