For your viewing pleasure, here is a collection of things-seen.
Steel bamboo.
Flowers near an entry gate. Welcome to spring. 
Lamp in a park. 
Plants in a wall. 
Tended birds.
Quail eggs. Eighty-five yen for ten. 
Snack food. 
Plastic food. 
Department store floor. 
Individually wrapped onions?
Loooooong green onions. 
Wet Sammydog has towel and breakfast. 
Six hundred yen.
Grandson standing yen.
And I do not yet know who this character from a home’s entry path is.
My friend RW says: “The standing critter with big balls and straw hat is a tanuki…a guardian figure who invites good fortune – most often seen in front of businesses.”
For now…..
That’s “sayonara”….
thetompostpile 
The well endowed badger may also be seen at your local Toyota dealership. He’s a mythical guardian and mischief maker, very common in Japanese folklore
WHAT?! That is really disturbing! Why is he wearing a sombrero?