THE ACT Memorial on Ainslie Avenue appears to have fallen victim to a very neat series of stencil graffiti.
Emailing the image to our Tokyo Bureau elicited this curious response to the question of what it means:
It’s read in Japanese as Kure or Go. Used at the start of Gofukuya which is the traditional word for a kimono shop. Or an island name near Hiroshima (Kure)
Wu – in Chinese, a last name or commonly used as a place name. Commonly comes up in the three kingdoms stories. Then there is a famous dude, after the three kingdoms period who betrayed the Han (and thus the emperor) who had it as his last name. Quite a few in the Ching dynasty anyway.
Asked why that character might occur in this setting all we got back was:
Mindless vandalism by someone who thinks Kanji are cool???
Any theories are welcome in the comments.
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