This picture perhaps was taken in a backstreet, considering the …show more content…
And her outfit is so radically different from Japanese traditional kimono She has the heavy make-up on: scarlet red lip matches with heavy purple eye shadows and bright blushes. Speaking of gestures, she is holding a very Avant-Garde cell phone. Her slightly open lips suggest that she is questioning something. I can tell her confusions while she is looking somewhere outside the picture while " calling " to someone else. The young's energy, self-awareness and norm-breaking attitude are hinted because the style and color are so modern. Furthermore, the position she is standing (in the center of the whole picture) might suggest the teenagers ' egocentric character and their important role in Japanese night culture. Apart from the main female figure that shows the young 's lifestyle, other elements in the backstreet suggest some ways that common people would live during night.
Interestingly, some shop signs are placed vertically, which differs from American and Chinese shop signs. The shop signs are dense and small in scale, the texts are concise and clear and fonts vary in different signs. There is no explicit division between types of shops. Perhaps the shops do not have to be organized according to the type because some shops may just open seasonally for the nearby residents because they are so small in shop