This morning, we are heading out to Mount Fuji and we are to catch our bus at the Shinjuku I-Land Tower in Nishi-Shinjuku district. We were instructed to wait by the Love Statue...
This was the first time we were seeing the Love Statue - apparently there are over thirty of them around the world, with the majority located in the United States...
This pop art image by an American artist, Robert Indiana. The letters are in bold Didone type, with the O slanted. The original image, with green and blue spaces backing red lettering, served as a print image for a Museum of Modern Art Christmas card in 1964, and then the design appeared on a popular postage stamp in the United States.
LOVE's first sculpture was made in 1970 and is displayed at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Then the world caught on to it...
And we were reminded of the 1966 Bollywood hit, Love In Tokyo that starred Asha Parekh and Joy Mukherjee that featured the still popular song, Sayonara, Sayonara! (The movie was incidentally shot here in Tokyo, besides Hiroshima.)
As for us, it was Sayonara Tokyo for a few hours!
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