FIXES

Lady at the crossing pumps her sun umbrella vigorously in front of her, creating a powerful cooling breeze while waiting for the lights to change.

Materials: Umbrella
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo

The temporary stalls in Shinjuku Station are powered by overhead sockets, necessitating umbrella storage on-site for the morning plug-in.

Materials: Umbrella
Location: Shinjuku Station, Tokyo

[Thanks to Joseph Tame, Tokyo-based freelance marketing manager, new media producer, entrepreneur, performer and marathoner for this garden fix originally posted on his microblog]

“With the onset of string winds, I replace *Twinkle’s* ex-jewellery stand with this ex-umbrella, carefully dismembered with my favourite pair of pliers.” (Joseph adds – “I did actually ask my wife before I took her jewellery stand to use as a stake to hold the sunflowers up.”)

Materials: Umbrella, Plastic Twine
Location: Meguro, Tokyo

A row of tomato vines protected from the harsh Tokyo summer with a whole lot of umbrellas.

Japan’s annual umbrella consumption is estimated to be around 130 million (more than one per person, per year) [ref] (324,102 were lost and turned over to the police lost-and-found in Tokyo, 2001 [ref]). Now you know where part of that ends up….

Materials: Umbrellas
Location: Tachikawa, Tokyo

Umbrellas attached to wooden stakes with wire protect newly planted shrubs in an informal garden along the Tamagawa cycling track in western Tokyo.



Materials: Wire, Wooden Stakes, Umbrellas
Location: Fussa, Tokyo