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すますりく＊いりめ
According to the National Archives, this is the very first image of Santa Claus to appear in Japan in 1900.
His name name was too foreign sounding so the author called him 三太九郎 (さんたくろう)
dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1168287/...
His name name was too foreign sounding so the author called him 三太九郎 (さんたくろう)
dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1168287/...
December 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
すますりく＊いりめ
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Map shows the different names European languages assign to the Bishop chess piece. Clear winner here is Georgia who calls the piece a turtle. Source: buff.ly/2WvenQo
December 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Map shows the different names European languages assign to the Bishop chess piece. Clear winner here is Georgia who calls the piece a turtle. Source: buff.ly/2WvenQo
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Animation by Koji Morimoto, Takashi Nakamura & Toyoaki Emura* | Akira (1988)
#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation
#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation
December 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Animation by Koji Morimoto, Takashi Nakamura & Toyoaki Emura* | Akira (1988)
#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation
#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation
"「など」の場合、一番簡単なのは無視すること"
そうしたいよ。うん、そうしたい。そうさせてくれ〜!
そうしたいよ。うん、そうしたい。そうさせてくれ〜!
>いったい、何を総合するのか分からなくて。英文に訳すのに苦労したことが幾度となくあります。90年代、大学に「総合○○学部」といった名称の学部が出てきた時もひっかかりました。広い視野から物事を考え、研究する学部だと思いつつ、いったい何をする学部なのだろうか、と。 digital.asahi.com/articles/AST...
「総合的」って何？ カナダ人翻訳家に聞く、日本の「ぼかし言葉」：朝日新聞
■カナダ人の翻訳家イアン・アーシーさんインタビュー 「総合的に判断して」「総合的・俯瞰（ふかん）的に検討しまして」。判断の理由がわかったようなわからないような……。政治ニュースでよく聞くこの言葉、国会…
digital.asahi.com
December 6, 2025 at 5:53 AM
"「など」の場合、一番簡単なのは無視すること"
そうしたいよ。うん、そうしたい。そうさせてくれ〜!
そうしたいよ。うん、そうしたい。そうさせてくれ〜!
"oriental painstaking":
Explain the rise and fall of Confucian Asia in two words
Explain the rise and fall of Confucian Asia in two words
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"oriental painstaking":
Explain the rise and fall of Confucian Asia in two words
Explain the rise and fall of Confucian Asia in two words
Egrets, and not a few
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Egrets, and not a few
The spamsible
I swear if our species ever invents a means of faster-than-light communication it will take us less than a generation to ignore it entirely what for all offers of a timeshares off Alpha Centauri and urgent messages from a boss stuck in the Kuiper Belt and in need of an urgent favor.
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The spamsible
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November 22, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Great Ball Contraption (GBC) at Japan Brickfest 2025
YouTube video by Akiyuki Brick Channel
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 8:53 AM
あぁ、巨大案件を引き受けてしまった。
いつ終わんのこれ…
いつ終わんのこれ…
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
あぁ、巨大案件を引き受けてしまった。
いつ終わんのこれ…
いつ終わんのこれ…
Changing "行" to "御中" with my crappy handwriting never goes well.
Makes me wonder if there is any other country in the world where there are unwritten rules of social etiquette relating to the use of honorifics on return mail envelopes.
Makes me wonder if there is any other country in the world where there are unwritten rules of social etiquette relating to the use of honorifics on return mail envelopes.
November 13, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Changing "行" to "御中" with my crappy handwriting never goes well.
Makes me wonder if there is any other country in the world where there are unwritten rules of social etiquette relating to the use of honorifics on return mail envelopes.
Makes me wonder if there is any other country in the world where there are unwritten rules of social etiquette relating to the use of honorifics on return mail envelopes.
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Newspaper clipping from April 28, 1993.
In Hirase Village (Gifu Prefecture) a tanuki and fox were found passed out together after drinking 2 cups of sake left out as an offering to the gods.
A local snapped this photo several hours before the pair woke up and staggered back into the forest.
In Hirase Village (Gifu Prefecture) a tanuki and fox were found passed out together after drinking 2 cups of sake left out as an offering to the gods.
A local snapped this photo several hours before the pair woke up and staggered back into the forest.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Newspaper clipping from April 28, 1993.
In Hirase Village (Gifu Prefecture) a tanuki and fox were found passed out together after drinking 2 cups of sake left out as an offering to the gods.
A local snapped this photo several hours before the pair woke up and staggered back into the forest.
In Hirase Village (Gifu Prefecture) a tanuki and fox were found passed out together after drinking 2 cups of sake left out as an offering to the gods.
A local snapped this photo several hours before the pair woke up and staggered back into the forest.
I feel like a lot of what's wrong with AI can be explained by the fact that the people developing it talk like this.
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I feel like a lot of what's wrong with AI can be explained by the fact that the people developing it talk like this.
Dear Ms. Okiku,
I hope this email finds your well.
I hope this email finds your well.
I hope this email finds you well.
って定番の書き出しだから使うけど、自分のなかで全然しっくりはきてない。なんやねん、emailがfindsするyouのwellって。
って定番の書き出しだから使うけど、自分のなかで全然しっくりはきてない。なんやねん、emailがfindsするyouのwellって。
November 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Dear Ms. Okiku,
I hope this email finds your well.
I hope this email finds your well.
世界が終わりそうな夕焼け
Sunset like the world's about to end
Sunset like the world's about to end
November 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
世界が終わりそうな夕焼け
Sunset like the world's about to end
Sunset like the world's about to end
In Japan, even the toilets are polite.
"TOTO’s toilets are imbued with the Japanese spirit of hospitality. This is reflected in the automatic closing and opening of the lids (a movement that resembles the Japanese tradition of bowing)"
www.toto.com/en/wtjapan/l...
"TOTO’s toilets are imbued with the Japanese spirit of hospitality. This is reflected in the automatic closing and opening of the lids (a movement that resembles the Japanese tradition of bowing)"
www.toto.com/en/wtjapan/l...
TOILET CULTURE IN JAPAN | TOTO GLOBAL SITE
Learn about the “toilet culture” of Japan and TOTO WASHLETS through our informative video. Come and experience the wonders of the latest toilets and toilet technology in Japan.
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November 1, 2025 at 12:08 AM
In Japan, even the toilets are polite.
"TOTO’s toilets are imbued with the Japanese spirit of hospitality. This is reflected in the automatic closing and opening of the lids (a movement that resembles the Japanese tradition of bowing)"
www.toto.com/en/wtjapan/l...
"TOTO’s toilets are imbued with the Japanese spirit of hospitality. This is reflected in the automatic closing and opening of the lids (a movement that resembles the Japanese tradition of bowing)"
www.toto.com/en/wtjapan/l...
Raven in Snow by Katsushika Hokusai, painted at the age of 87, two years before his death. I remember being transfixed by this striking image when I saw it at the Okada Museum of Art in Hakone.
He's clearly saying "nevermore."
EA Poe and Hokusai both died in 1849.
www.sothebys.com/buy/e6e420d0...
He's clearly saying "nevermore."
EA Poe and Hokusai both died in 1849.
www.sothebys.com/buy/e6e420d0...
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Raven in snow, Edo period, 19th century | 葛飾北斎 雪中鴉図 江戸時代 19世紀 | Masterpieces of Asian Art from the Okada Museum of Art | Chinese Works of Art | Sotheby's
<p>hanging scroll: ink and colour on paper, signed <em>Gakyo rojin Manji rei hachijuhassai</em> (Manji, the Old Man Crazy to Paint, at the age of eighty-eight), sealed <em>Hyaku </em>(One Hundred), si...
www.sothebys.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Raven in Snow by Katsushika Hokusai, painted at the age of 87, two years before his death. I remember being transfixed by this striking image when I saw it at the Okada Museum of Art in Hakone.
He's clearly saying "nevermore."
EA Poe and Hokusai both died in 1849.
www.sothebys.com/buy/e6e420d0...
He's clearly saying "nevermore."
EA Poe and Hokusai both died in 1849.
www.sothebys.com/buy/e6e420d0...
Crackly radio dub of Thee Michelle Gun Elephant's Yusuke Chiba interviewing Fishmans' Kinichi Motegi just after Uchu Nippon Setagaya was released. Good friends reminiscing about old times when they were members of the same music club at Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama.
youtu.be/JFltIlHoT9c
youtu.be/JFltIlHoT9c
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Crackly radio dub of Thee Michelle Gun Elephant's Yusuke Chiba interviewing Fishmans' Kinichi Motegi just after Uchu Nippon Setagaya was released. Good friends reminiscing about old times when they were members of the same music club at Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama.
youtu.be/JFltIlHoT9c
youtu.be/JFltIlHoT9c
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Eruption of Sakurajima volcano, the most powerful in twentieth-century Japan, with Kagoshima, Japan in foreground, 1914
![photo over a city and docks, a huge volcanic eruption in the back ground dominates the scene.
Sakurajima is an active composite volcano stratovolcano and a former island in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyūshū, Japan. The lava flows of the 1914 eruption caused the former island to be connected with the Osumi Peninsula. The volcanic activity still continues, dropping large amounts of volcanic ash on the surroundings. Earlier eruptions built the white sands highlands in the region. Sakurajima is a composite mountain. Its summit is split into three peaks, Kita-dake (northern peak), Naka-dake (central peak) and Minami-dake (southern peak) which is active now. Today's Kita-dake is Sakurajima's highest, rising to 1, 117 m (3, 665 ft) above sea level. The mountain is located in a part of Kagoshima Bay known as Kinkō-wan. The former island is part of the city of Kagoshima.[3] The surface of this volcanic peninsula is about 77 km2 (30 sq mi).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dfdn5h5ejeloscqpou577jvy/bafkreihkar4koe6mawvxovgp2wylhd762nldour5lpeefogamkndiwfe7i@jpeg)
October 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Eruption of Sakurajima volcano, the most powerful in twentieth-century Japan, with Kagoshima, Japan in foreground, 1914
こんにちウィーン
October 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
こんにちウィーン
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shoutout to my boy at haeinsa temple who told me to stick my arm through the grate if I wanted the best picture of the tripitaka koreana
October 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
shoutout to my boy at haeinsa temple who told me to stick my arm through the grate if I wanted the best picture of the tripitaka koreana
"I am not a suspicious person," said the suspicious person.
このコマを見るたび、
「わたしは あやしい者じゃない」
に類するセリフと状況ばかり集めたらどんなことになるかしら、と空想するのだった。
「わたしは あやしい者じゃない」
に類するセリフと状況ばかり集めたらどんなことになるかしら、と空想するのだった。
October 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"I am not a suspicious person," said the suspicious person.