Posts Tagged ‘sushi’

below: People walking on Queen Street West.  Do you think that they realize that a large yellow eye is watching them from behind?  This is the eye of a very large painting of a cat, probably a Japanese cat.

people walking on sidewalk on Queen Street West near Claremont, with mural on the Sanko Trading company in the background, the JapanTown mural

The mural, the  JapanTown mural on the side of the Sanko Trading Company, has been re-painted.  The previous mural dates from 2013/4. A blog post with photos of what that looked like in 2015 is at:  Sanko Wall.  This blog post should give you an idea what it looks like now.

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West, south end of mural

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West, with two windows, images of sushi, graffiti painters,

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West, images of sushi, salmon and roe

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West, image of Canada goose, part in origami and part realistic, flying over a large blue wave

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West, large cat face

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West, blue aligator

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West, blue fish with large eye, open mouth with teeth, also a yellow cat and a red Japanese gate

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West, chopsticks reaching into a soup bowl with egg, noodles, and a bit of pinkish meat

a portion of Japan Town 5 mural on the side of Sanko Trading Company store on Queen Street West

 

The group of artists  (‘The Summit’) who painted the mural also made a video for youtube: The JapanTown Project No. 5

 

 

Mural on the wall of the Sanko Trading Company
(a Japanese Canadian business, since 1968),

corner of Claremont and Queen St. West,

Looking across a city intersection to a store on the corner that has a large mural painted on the side of it.  Many Japanese motifs, many colours too.
There are many Japanese motifs in the mural including sushi.

sushi street art, part of a mural on the side of a store on a corner lot that has a number of Japanese motifs.

A robot is at the door.

Street art, part of Japanese-Canadian mural, of a robot looking down at the door.

part of a mural on the side of a store on a corner lot that has a number of Japanese motifs.  left part of the mural

part of a mural on the side of a store on a corner lot that has a number of Japanese motifs.   Arched bridge over a stream with a fish jumping out of the water, Japanese maple tree beside the water, street art, large mural

part of a mural on the side of a store on a corner lot that has a number of Japanese motifs.  A girls face.  Her hair is pink and blue and she has big green eyes.

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looking up the side of a two storey building to the underside of the overhang above.  part of a mural on the side of a store on a corner lot that has a number of Japanese motifs.

Painted by Ken Galloway, Timothy Fukakusa, Mitsuo Kimura, Takashi Iwasaki, Darcy Obokata, and Shogo Okada in the winter of 2013-2014

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