Ginryuu Smeargle paint their marks in order to distinguish their territory. When in cities...this comes across more as graffiti, but that is just their nature. An artist is an artist no matter where they go...graffiti art is still art, no matter how it's seen.

Anyways...while walking through Hakone gardens with friends we saw that somebody had carved drawings into the bamboo. After getting a little peeved at how disrespectful people can be (although this was just me personally, I won't speak for others)...we decided to take advantage of it since it was there and that how this photo was born.

Smeargle: me
Photographer: kimu