Japan Pop Art, Okazaemon

Okazaemon, is the City of Okazaki's unofficial but ever popular mascot character. Kouheita Saito, a local artist, was asked to submit an artwork for the  Okazaki Art and Jazz Festival 2012 and submitted Okazaemon. He originally created Okazaemon in a drawing. Now, in a costume, Okazaemon makes appearances on variety of events. The popular character has a Facebook with over 24,000 likes ;-)
Saito's inspiriation to create art came to him when he was in 9th grade when he saw Marcel Duchamp's "Spring".

Photo: http://okazaemon.co/link/




More on Okazaemon (in Japanese only):
http://ameblo.jp/oka-zaemon/
http://ameblo.jp/oka-zaemon/
http://okazaemon.co/
https://ja-jp.facebook.com/okazaemon
More on Kouhei Saito (in Japanese only):
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%96%89%E3%81%A8%E5%85%AC%E5%B9%B3%E5%A4%AA