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”….
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?