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Girl in fancy dress, perhaps derived from Santa Claus, though tailored
to the female form, outside Kinokuniya Bookshop, at Shinjuku
in Tokyo. She is giving away small packets of tissue-paper to passers-by,
and this is useful, since the public lavatories often do not provide any.
During the oil crisis of 1974, lavatory paper was in short supply, and
it is said that housewives sometimes quarreled over it in the shops. In
Japanese English this tissue-paper is commonly called Tish-Oo, making
it sound like a Babylonian (or Sumerian, or Akkadian) goddess.
