

TOKYO good people!
"Yamamba", is a species which is believed to have been extinct a few years ago.
But I found them at a " street " in Shibuya last month. They've still survived !
So I rushed toward them and talked to, and finally took pictures.
You may think they are fierce and dagerous because of their weird appearances.
But when you talk to them, you will realize soon that they are not offensive at all.
They have beautiful minds. this is a "street" in Tokyo, reality of Tokyo.
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YamanbaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yamanba, sometimes written as "yamamba", is a fashion trend among Japanese young women. Starting with the bleached white hair and heavy tan of the ganguro girl, the yamanba adds white lipstick, white eye makeup, and sometimes brightly colored contacts, plastic clothing, and inappropriate accessories. Some yamanba wear stuffed animals as decorations, talk with a slurred speech, and enjoy shiny neon or dayglo colors. Some say that the result is a caricature of a blond Caucasian woman. The male equivalents are called "Center Guys".
The term yamanba comes from a mountain hag, known as Yama-uba, in Japanese folk culture. It belongs uniquely to the Tohoku Region which consists of the northern prefectures of Honshu, Japan’s main island. Figures occupying similar roles can be found in stories from other areas of Japan, but Yamanba is a Tohoku native. The myth of Yamanba is interpreted as a psychologic excuse for the local population's acts of cannibalism which were enforced by frequent waves of famines in the region. Bearing form of a seemingly harmless figure, for example an old woman or a fellow villager, Yamanba was believed to lure her victims out of the village to eat them. Thus Yamamba came about to displace Tohoku villagers’ guilt over being forced to eat their own people. Blaming a demon rather than the people themselves served as a moral catharsis of the inhabitants of Tohoku.
by wikipedia at May 20, 2006