The bento box is perhaps one of the more recognizable products of Japanese culture for those who have a keen interesting in Japanese food culture. Essentially a boxed lunch of sorts, they can be found at all convenience stores in Japan; however, the ones photographed above are seasonally exclusive ones that are constructed to evoke the image and atmosphere of spring. For someone like me coming from an a coastal Californian environment in which most foods I eat on a daily basis can be obtained throughout the year, I hear that those born and raised in a Japan have a higher sensitivity to seasonal change due to cultural and environmental reasons, one of those being food culture. For example, one things we can identify spring with is the orange slice placed in the bottom bento box. Of course, that’s not to say that there aren’t seasonally exclusive foods here in America as well; however, fruits and vegetables of all kinds are easy to come by from my experience.
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