Splendour in the Grass: Tokyo Picnic Club Dreaming Large

Let’s ponder the picnic. Most of us take this form of frivolity for granted, spontaneously dashing out to the park with a blanket and a few provisions whenever we fancy it (as long as the weather complies). Not so in Tokyo. It happens that this modest activity is revered here, which is not all that surprising considering that green patches are scant in the metropolis. With this in mind, a whole movement sprang up and after more than a decade is still going strong. Approaching the subject from various angles and sometimes involving the positioning of small, mobile tracts of lawn (of often wondrous shape) in different places, it is all simply about facilitating the glorious act of picnicking.