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Urban Chicagoan
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Resident of Chicago, citizen of the world
シカゴ在住、世界市民
Residente de Chicago, ciudadano del mundo
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Friday morning along the Chicago River
#Chicago #DowntownChicago #UrbanLandscape #PaisajeUrbano #都市景観
September 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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"Freshly Kept Fade We Design" by Marcellous Lovelace: mural under the Metra tracks along 53rd Street in Hyde Park, Chicago. #Chicago #mural
August 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Vintage residential stone engraving in Lincoln Park, Chicago: "eyes on the street" #Chicago
August 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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"The best way to learn a language...is to live it! Study French and German abroad"
The El in Chicago on a chilly April morning
#Chicago #DowntownChicago #langsky #PublicTransit
April 9, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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The river at night
El río por la noche
夜の川
#chicago #UrbanLandscape #PaisajeUrbano #都市景観
March 22, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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Multilingual street signage in Seattle's Japantown area
#Seattle #langsky
March 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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A key advantage of this edition is that it transliterates the original text seen above from cursive into standard block style below, also converting premodern variant kana into their modern equivalents. Here's an example of the format, the page describing the tale of the bell of Dōjōji Temple (道成寺).
February 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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At the Kinokuniya Bookstore in Seattle I chanced upon this handy little volume: "Gazu Hyakki Yakō Zengashū" (画図百鬼夜行全画集) by Toriyama Sekien (鳥山石燕)(1712-1788), published by Kadokawa, 2005.
#langsky #booksky #JapaneseStudy
February 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Murals in unlikely places in the Japantown area of Seattle

Unos murales en lugares enesperados en el barrio de Japantown de Seattle

シアトル市の日本町地区の意外な場所にある壁画
#Seattle #mural #UrbanLandscape #PaisajeUrbano #都市景観
February 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Monorail tracks in Seattle
Vías de monorraíl en Seattle
シアトル市内のモノレール線路
#Seattle #シアトル市 #UrbanLandscape #PaisajeUrbano #都市景観
February 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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An ornate gate in Seattle's Chinatown

Una puerta adornada en el barrio chino de Seattle
#Seattle #Chinatown #UrbanLandscape #PaisajeUrbano #都市景観
February 18, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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"Never Again is Now" ~ an alley mural by Erin Shigaki, 2018, in Seattle, Washington
#seattle #mural #AsianAmericanHistory
February 16, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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The entrance to a Hawaiian restaurant in the South Loop, Chicago

La entrada a un restaurante hawaiano en el South Loop, Chicago
#Chicago
#SouthLoop
January 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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City lights and the Chicago River (1/8/2025)

Las luces de la ciudad y el río Chicago (8/1/2025)
#Chicago
#DowntownChicago
#UrbanLandscape
#PaisajeUrbano
#都市景観
January 11, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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An alley mural in downtown Chicago by Liz Flores

Mural en un callejón del centro de Chicago, obra de Liz Flores
#Chicago
#DowntownChicago
#mural
#WomenArtists
January 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Origami cranes at the Chinatown branch of the Chicago Public Library

Grullas de origami en la sucursal de Chinatown de la Biblioteca Pública de Chicago
#Chicago
#Chinatown
#library
#biblioteca
#origami
December 28, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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Mural in the Paseo Prairie Garden in Logan Square, Chicago (4/2017)

Un mural en el jardín Paseo Prairie en Logan Square, Chicago (abril de 2017)
#chicago
#LoganSquare
#mural
December 26, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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Sidestreet mural in Uptown, Chicago (April 2017)

Un mural en un calle lateral en Uptown, Chicago (abril de 2017)
#chicago
#uptown
#mural
December 23, 2024 at 10:38 PM
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A side street mural in Uptown, Chicago (12/7/2024)

Un mural en un calle lateral en Uptown, Chicago (7/12/2024)
#Chicago
#Uptown
#mural
December 16, 2024 at 2:25 AM
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The flier comes in three versions: English, Spanish, and Japanese. Captions and explanatory text at the exhibit itself are likewise trilingual
#langsky
December 14, 2024 at 7:54 PM
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A flier for a special exhibit at Harold Washington Library of photographs of everyday life in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood by Tsuda Akito (津田明人) in the early 1990's
#chicago
#pilsen
#library
#HistoricPhotos
December 14, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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Alley mural in Uptown, Chicago (12/7/2024)

Un mural en un callejón en Uptown, Chicago (7/12/2024)
#Chicago
#Uptown
#mural
December 14, 2024 at 3:47 AM
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On [the other site] some time ago someone once posted this hard-hitting poster from 1950 for fire prevention & the protection of national treasures
December 12, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Backstage at the annual Anori Ningyō Shibai (安乗人形芝居) puppet play at Anori Jinja Shrine (安乗神社) in what was then Ago Town (阿児町)* in Mie Prefecture: one of the master puppeteers graciously demonstrates the movements and expressions of a female puppet
#japan
#三重県
#MiePrefecture
#文楽
#bunraku
#puppet
December 12, 2024 at 12:56 AM
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"Altar of the Unbanned" by Theaster Gates, 2023

Steel, neon, and banned books; art installation in the main branch of the Chicago Public Library
#chicago
#Library
#booksky
#ChicagoArtists
December 10, 2024 at 10:50 PM