Nobori

When we went to Japan for the first time in 1999, I was fascinated by the visual display of long banners everywhere. They ranged from elegant traditional to garish commercial.

I now have a word for them: nobori.

I have noticed that they are much more common here now. You see them on lampposts in many towns. Friendly's at the end of my street has a teardrop banner advertising their kid's meal. Pizza Hut has a feather style. Don't quote me on it. I meant to stop to take a picture of it.

This morning I happened upon this display from a corner of picture from 2010. I knew it was perfect to include on this Labor Day Saturday. It is outside the Chuck Jones Cinema, Telluride Film Festival.

SHOW, we are there in spirit and will return to you again.