Yokohama's Graffiti Wall

Graffiti, street art, & mural wall
Yokohama, Japan

From "My Travelogue Manga of Japan (Sans Drawings)," by Kat Avila, Sequential Tart, May 2006: Monday, 27 March 2006 Overnight lodging: Yokohama-Kanagawa Youth Hostel That evening, on my way to the youth hostel, I am shocked to discover a particular mural/graffiti wall. In 1992, I interviewed Chicano muralist Victor Ochoa about his month-long trip to Yokohama to paint a mural. The project was part of the San Diego-Tijuana-Yokohama Art Exchange that celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Yokohama-San Diego sister city pact. This very wall beneath the Sakuragi-cho Station was where Latino muralists Victor Ochoa, Richard Martinez, Roberto Salas, and Ruben Seja had joined Japanese muralists such as Rocco Satoshi, Satoru Uehara, and Morimasa Sagaya to paint. The original murals are long gone.		At the youth hostel, a crayon drawing on how to use a traditional Japanese toilet.
view from across the street toward the train station and wall










Princess Mononoke

	The image on the left read something like: "I will then turn 20 on September 24st [sic]. / If on that day, this piece of art was / still left and you could come to see it [?]. / ... and if we would still be going out together / [?] these feelings" [The rest was covered up by later graffiti.]