MASCOTE LUSA QUINHENTISTA NO jAPÃO

Via Mondo Mascots, an account that posts dispatches from Japan’s extraordinarily rich and diverse world of mascots (city, corporate, etc.): “The tallest Japanese mascot, at 358cm, is Captain Veiga (center), from Minamishimabara City, who is based on a Portuguese guy who helped set up a port there in the 1500s.”