statues

A plinth topped by a statue of a young woman standing helmeted with her bicycle, with one leg raised backward and above her head in gymnast fashion.

A house in disrepair with a cherry tree in bloom in the foreground and several unclothed mannekins behind standing on a porch partially shrouded in plastic blue sheet as a hedge against rains.

A plinth between an elevated expressway and a frontage road, topped with a statue of an elephant, with a label reading (in Japanese), “Village of the Naumann Elephant: Nakagawara”

A white, lifesize statue of a cow, but with the hindquarters in the shape of a box of milk with milk pouring from its spout.