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The cultural milieu of Japan has proven itself one of the fiercest and strangest in the world. It is a hyperactive froth of shiny pop, technology, and fetishism of every stripe imaginable. Those looking to encounter the Zen-like interior and smiling geishas will more likely be met with glaring neon, tinny synthesizers and a life-like geisha robot doll.
This photograph is no exception. Here we see an inert rabbit, stiff, locked in a rigor-mortis pose. However, the cuteness we expect is still there, forcing us to realize at once our need for nostalgia and the realization of death that is it's source.
This is what has become of the null set of Zen thought in the harsh klieg light of the 21st century.
Instead of chanting monks, we see the same interior meditative qualities in a dead rabbit deposited against a room divider. The epiphany of nirvana is now coming to us through cute, fuzzy, pink-nosed and expired bunnies.
photo by splunge
photo by TheophileEscargot
photo by Kronos_to_Earth
photo by ethylene
