And who is the racially-ambiguous woman depicted on the cover?
The Kamakura Ham Sandwich ekiben has been on sale at Japanese train stations for more than 127 years. It’s a single slice of ham between two pieces of shokupan with mustard, plus half of a cheese sandwich, sliced into fingers and laid flat in a box.
Inside, the colors of the ingredients on plush bread bleed into each other like a Rothko painting. The res…
