flashback

So we're chilling late at night in the awesome beach guest house(dont look at the high rise, its the small shacks in the front) and after one too many Okinawa aowamori sake's with fake cola, Ryota,this guy who drove us around the island earlier, asks me if he can use my legs as a hiza makura. I didn' t really understand but I do know what a makura(=pillow) is and the way his eyes were fixed on my bare legs, i could guess what he meant. I obviously diverted his attention away from my legs and made some lame joke out of it and got out of the situation.. That was then...3 days ago.
Now I come back from my holiday and am back at what I do best when i'm home i.e surfing the WWW, the geek that i be. I came across this hiza makura concept in some japan site and nearly fell out of my chair!!I had forgotten about it but just reading the word ..I remembered it and it came back all too well. I finally get it!

So the deal with this Hiza makura is that there is apparently a bit of culture behind it. In Japan, men and women, seem to have this thing about laying their heads on their mothers knees and having their ears cleaned with a Q-Tip. So that feeling of lying your head on your mothers', or girlfriends' lap is apparently really really desireable for males as they get older. Weird?? Read on...


As things go in Japan, everything needs to be made ready-to-use for the ever willing consumers.Hiza makura bearing no exception to this rule. This product consists of the lower half of a woman in a skirt, sitting in the seiza position, and is made out of some ultra skin like material!! BBC even had an news story about it way back in 2004! Apparently it was all sold out!! each for about $90! NB* Do not miss the guy's face in the article. What a creep!*


So then, thats the story about my very own hiza makura incident!! Although , I would still like to think of Ryota as the cool local guy with that hot tan, instead of a 38 yr old, single, creep! He was hilarious!