This little piggy

I was enjoying the nice cool autumn weather this week, when without warning the temperature dropped to winter-level cold. I turned on my heater, and my throat was getting scratchy from an incoming head-cold, so I did what someone recommended: I went to Trial (Japanese Wal-Mart) and bought a humidifier.

This doesn't sound like something noteworthy enough to write a blog post about, but the humidifier was so cute I just had to post pictures.



It's a　黒豚, or kurobuta, which literally translates to "black pig." This is a special pig that Kagoshima prefecture is famous for. In fact, I recently got kurobuta miso as a souvenir from Kagoshima prefecture.

And that's how my buying of a humidifier relates to Japanese culture. ;)