I had spotted the wrestler mask in a tiny place in Tokyo years before but couldn’t afford it – and I always regretted it
near Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall: the sort of place that has autographs in the stairwell and posters from obscure 70s grappling matches peeling off the walls. He sat, resplendent, among a couple of dozen lesser masks: most with patterns, a couple with horns, none as mesmerising as my sweet golden prince with his floppy ears and strokable fur lining.Tiger Mask is the alternative persona of a wrestler , inspired by a manga, with a 40-year history too complicated to evenexplaining here.
The mask would have been the perfect souvenir, but I just couldn’t afford it: on the same trip to Japan I had slept in an internet cafe to save cash, and as I slid towards my late 20s without a toehold on the property ladder, dropping the price of dinner for two on a superhero mask felt … frivolous.
morning a couple of years later, I broke open a cardboard box to see a familiar flash of fur and gold.With today’s youngsters raised on frictionless online shopping, it’s tricky to explain how difficult that mask was to source back then: it turned out that my girlfriend had found the shop, liaised with a Japanese friend of ours to do the ordering, and navigated the tricky parts of customs forms and getting the thing delivered without me having a clue.
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