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Meet at Maman
Looking for a striking and memorable meeting spot in Roppongi? Tell your friends to meet you at Maman, the nearly 10-metre-tall steel sculpture on the plaza at Roppongi Hills. I'm not a big fan of spiders, and my friends know this. They pranked me one evening, telling me to meet them at "Big Mama". She gave me the shivers at first, but then her long, graceful legs made me feel enclosed and protected. You've got to look up to her thorax, which contains marble eggs. She's mysteriously comforting with her maternal air. Standing under her is an experience.
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on Jan 18
Sculptural icon of Roppongi
If you've ever been to Roppongi Hills you've almost definitely seen the Maman Spider, which is an icon of the area if you ask me. It's the work of French-American artist Louise Bourgeois, and Tokyo isn't home to the only one of these -- there are several others around the world, including Qatar, Spain, and Canada to name just a few. Bourgeois had an interesting philosophy about these, and on her Wikipedia she's quoted as saying the spider is an ode to her mother (Maman = mother in French), and that spiders eat mosquitoes and are helpful creatures. Probably need to be extra grateful for the Maman Spider in the summertime! ;)
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