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Saimi Hanma ⚔️
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Author of 'The Naturalist at Home' and 'Nature Obscura'. Writer, artist, photographer. ND

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website: www.metrofieldguide.com
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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · Jan 15
I am Saimi Hanma (formerly Kelly Brenner) and the author of The Naturalist at Home as well as Nature Obscura. I'm also an artist and photographer, focusing largely on invertebrates.

You can find my art, photos, writing, info and web shop on my website: www.metrofieldguide.com
the book cover for the naturalist at home: projects for discovering the hidden world around us by kelly brenner. the central image is a curiosity cabinet with various items like skulls, shells and lichens. the book cover for nature obscura: a city's hidden natural world by kelly brenner. it's a pencil illustration featuring a variety of nature such as a ladybug, crow, invertebrates, moss, slime molds and so on a charcoal illustration of a sea angel, which is a sea slug which looks like a winged sluggy devil a photo of a horned nudibranch from the front against a dark background. the sea slug is translucent with spiky cerata on the back which have brown lines and are tipped in orange
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I'm pretty sure it's a rule that if you have lots of coins left before going home you have to head to the closest vending machine to get rid of them

In other news, I really don't want to head back to the hellscape country I unfortunately call home. Japan, please adopt me
A can of some sort of alcoholic lemon drink and chocolate ice cream from vending machines
January 6, 2026 at 10:36 AM
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I come to you live from the natural history museum in Tokyo
A fossil of archaeopteryx A huge painting of a crocodilian Paintings of crocodilian species on a scroll
January 6, 2026 at 12:36 AM
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Dear Japan, I apologize for the idiot Americans who visit, like the mob of half a dozen standing in the middle of the station, having a conversation and blocking traffic at rush hour, and the woman with the giant handbag and absolutely no spacial awareness, bumping into everyone, including me.
January 6, 2026 at 12:03 AM
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hedgehog1963.bsky.social
Beautiful.
January 2, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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Every day I keep seeing the most incredible things in Japan. Yesterday @shimakiron.bsky.social took me to the Lafcadio Hearn museum and residence. I've read nearly all his books so it was a fascinating experience.
The outside of the museum with a Hearn banner and snowy Japanese garden A snowy Japanese garden viewed through large shoji type windows The back snowy Japanese garden through windows A Hearn memorial stone in a snowy garden
January 2, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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And then last night we walked along Mizuki Shigeru Road, the creator of Gege no Kitaro, in the dark and found the most incredibly creative experience with yokai shadows in the snow that turned on when you walked by, illuminated yokai statues, flickering and fading lights and a yokai shrine.
A shrine entrance in the dark A light on the snow casting the figure on the ground A bronze statue of a skeleton along the street where dozens more were A light casting a shadow on the snow is a yokai
January 2, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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Every day I keep seeing the most incredible things in Japan. Yesterday @shimakiron.bsky.social took me to the Lafcadio Hearn museum and residence. I've read nearly all his books so it was a fascinating experience.
The outside of the museum with a Hearn banner and snowy Japanese garden A snowy Japanese garden viewed through large shoji type windows The back snowy Japanese garden through windows A Hearn memorial stone in a snowy garden
January 2, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Sorry, there's no #InvertArtChallenge this month because I'm still traveling.
January 1, 2026 at 11:27 PM
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I visited Ise Shrine with @shimakiron.bsky.social for New Year's Day and realized I ended up directly across the river from the first place @tutaikobushisawa.bsky.social took me when I first arrived in Japan. I've gone in a big circle over the last month.
A river at dusk A tori with a lot of people
January 1, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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Happy New Year from Japan where it's now 2026.
A red Japanese shrine with a lot of people
January 1, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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#InverteFest is nearly over here in Japan, so here's a reminder to all anthology participants to submit your art and writing! Thank you to everyone who already has. If you need a little more time, that's not a problem, just email me and let me know you're still working on it.
December 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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あけましておめでとう！
December 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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#InverteFest is nearly over here in Japan, so here's a reminder to all anthology participants to submit your art and writing! Thank you to everyone who already has. If you need a little more time, that's not a problem, just email me and let me know you're still working on it.
December 31, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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I am always on the look out for papers to write about for the Parasite of the Day blog, but because I can only write 12 posts each year, there are always interesting papers on my short list, that I didn't end up writing about on the blog. 🧪

The thread 🧵 below are the PotD honourable mentions.
December 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Do you like my gashapon?

#InverteFest
A large isopod model on my hand, as big as my hand The underside of the isopod model with all the legs The isopod model all rolled up into a large ball the size of a baseball
December 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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I found a gashapon museum and there were a lot of old invertebrate gashapon.

#InverteFest
A glass case with a large selection of insect models A display of insect models A display of marine models including inverts A display of models including crabs
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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Yesterday @shimakiron.bsky.social and @kibarashi-25.bsky.social took me on a pilgrimage to the setting of one of my favorite films, Your Name. There were many shrines, good food and I learned a lot.
A large lake surrounded by mountains and towns Shine stamps in a book with beautiful calligraphy A shrine through a tori at dusk with lamps glowing 3 Green dango on a skewer
December 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
saimihanma.bsky.social
Do you like my gashapon?

#InverteFest
A large isopod model on my hand, as big as my hand The underside of the isopod model with all the legs The isopod model all rolled up into a large ball the size of a baseball
December 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
saimihanma.bsky.social
I found a gashapon museum and there were a lot of old invertebrate gashapon.

#InverteFest
A glass case with a large selection of insect models A display of insect models A display of marine models including inverts A display of models including crabs
December 30, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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pikaole.bsky.social
2025 ✍️
December 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Yesterday @shimakiron.bsky.social and @kibarashi-25.bsky.social took me on a pilgrimage to the setting of one of my favorite films, Your Name. There were many shrines, good food and I learned a lot.
A large lake surrounded by mountains and towns Shine stamps in a book with beautiful calligraphy A shrine through a tori at dusk with lamps glowing 3 Green dango on a skewer
December 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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kiabugboy.bsky.social
Here's another crinoid (for a tutorial video in Patreon)
#crinoid #InverteFest #SciArt
Calyx/cup of Archaeocrinus, it has ten arms that fork twice. The center of the cup has a raised funnel where the anal sac is. Full body of Archaeocrinus, the stalk ends in a taper, and root like structures called cirri emerge out of it Another view of the Archaeocrinus from the back, showing the plates of the cup clearer
December 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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whistberry.bsky.social
Happy #InverteFest!

I admire creatures with good camouflage because I would also like to disappear into the background from time to time 😂

#SciArt
Digital painting of a buff tip moth in two poses. One has wings spread to show the soft gray brown wings with buff colored "eye" spots at the tip while the other is the moth sitting on a tree branch. When its wings are closed, the moth resembles very much a twig as it is an expert in camouflage.
December 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I haven't been able to post for #InverteFest this week bc I'm prioritizing rest and 2026 planning. But I'm having so much fun scrolling through this season's book! Here's my Escarabajo Rinoceronte 🖤👇🪲

@whistberry.bsky.social your red-banded leafhopper is beautiful!!
Screenshot of an entry from Destiny Toro in the December 2026 Inverte Fest book. An illustration of a brown and blue horned beetle on a light blue background with a dark blue border. Text reads "Escarabajo Rinoceronte, digital, Destiny Toro, website destinytoro.com, Bluesky @destinytoro.com"
December 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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xenomatt.bsky.social
The nudibranchs are arriving for the #Invertefest party!
Chromodoris lochi, Anilao

#MarineLife 🌿
A nudibranch on algae-covered rock. It is light blue, with yellow rhinopores and gills. It has black dorsal and marginal stripes and black stripes on the side under the mantle. There is a white marginal band and another white band around the foot. #UnderwaterPhotography #MacroPhotography #Macro #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography
December 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM