I love these kinds of collisions of sensibilities and circumstances. Your knowing eye recognizing an old hand-painted sign for a business seemingly long-since obsolete in a back alley of the city of Nara. The pressure applied to some letters is harder than in others so the fading is uneven. A design of double vertical stripes the colour of copper or tea no longer has any cultural relevance. Your are grateful for the fact it's been allowed to stay here undisturbed waiting for you to find it.