<body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar.g?targetBlogID\x3d11451155\x26blogName\x3dan+englishman+in+osaka\x26publishMode\x3dPUBLISH_MODE_BLOGSPOT\x26navbarType\x3dBLUE\x26layoutType\x3dCLASSIC\x26searchRoot\x3dhttps://anenglishmaninosaka.blogspot.com/search\x26blogLocale\x3den_GB\x26v\x3d2\x26homepageUrl\x3dhttp://anenglishmaninosaka.blogspot.com/\x26vt\x3d-654230516656993543', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe", messageHandlersFilter: gapi.iframes.CROSS_ORIGIN_IFRAMES_FILTER, messageHandlers: { 'blogger-ping': function() {} } }); } }); </script>

home sweet home



Among the modern office blocks near the centre of Osaka, I stumbled across this ramshackle house. Somehow it has survived the modernisation that has taken place in the neighbourhood, a testament to the might and power of the oba-san who, no doubt, lives within.

No bulldozer, no construction company, no planning department can defeat the oba-san.

People say that after a nucelar holocaust only cockroaches will survive. I think we can add the oba-san to that list.


A small door for a small elderly lady.
« Home | Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »
| Next »

On Monday, 12 June, 2006, Blogger Citizen_Stu said:

I wonder what it looks like on the inside  



» Post a Comment