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Kohada Koheiji is an actor, believed to have lived in Edo later Edo Period. It's believed that his wife had an affair, conspired and killed him with her boyfriend, Koheiji became a ghost and haunted them, killed the wife, her lover went crazy and killed himself. This story later was written as a novel by Santō Kyōden in 1807, also made to be several Kabuki plays including the one by Tsuriya Nanboku in 1808, the other by Suzuki Senzaburō in 1925.

The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji https://collections.artsmia.org/art/65734/

Two Famous Bizen Pottery Pieces for Kibi Province Circle

Two Famous Bizen Pottery Pieces for Kibi Province Circle https://collections.artsmia.org/art/81279/

18. The Ōji Inari Shrine

18. The Ōji Inari Shrine https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/18-the-oji-inari-shrine-1857

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel

Three Women and Two Children on Balcony by Temple https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/207873

Coalition Urges California to Revoke Permits for Federal License Plate Reader Surveillance SAN FRANCISCO – California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to put automated license plate readers al...

California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as CBP and the DEA to put automated license plate readers along border highways, a coalition of 38 groups led by EFF and the Imperial Valley Equity & Justice Coalition demanded today of @governor.ca.gov and the CA Dept of Transportation.

View of Scheveningen - 1882
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/12685

Still life, the meat quarter - 1864
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/3109741

Dance-hall - 1885
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13587

field with fence in background; graphite sketch of building façade, verso Suffering from increasingly acute attacks of mental illness, Vincent van Gogh voluntarily entered an asylum in the spring of 1889, just over a year before his suicide. The hospital of Saint Paul’s was in a 12th-century monastery in the countryside near Arles, in southern France. This view of wheat fields was likely the one van Gogh saw from his small cell in the asylum. He focused on the sparseness of the environment and texture of the wheat grass. Using the field’s walled enclosure and distant horizon, he convincingly structured the space in perspective and simultaneously evoked the vastness and loneliness of the rural landscape.

View of the Field behind Saint Paul’s Asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/1241440

Cliff at Petit Ailly - 1896
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10628

Pine Trees against a Red Sky with Setting Sun

Pine Trees against a Red Sky with Setting Sun
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/14618

Pollard Birches - 1884
https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13459

Currently reading Kioka Nobuo's "Shunkan to setsuna", a book on "Western" and Buddhist conceptions of time and the moment. Kioka gives a useful overview of modern Japanese philosophy of time before reviewing Buddhist positions.

The Great Carnivore

The Great Carnivore https://www.wikiart.org/en/joan-miro/the-great-carnivore-1969

Clarence Buckingham Collection

Sei Shonagon, from the series "A True Mirror of Japanese and Chinese Poems (Shiika shashin kyo)" https://www.artic.edu/artworks/24993/

Evening Shower at Nihonbashi Bridge

Evening Shower at Nihonbashi Bridge https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/evening-shower-at-nihonbashi-bridge

Benzaiten Shrine at Inokashira in Snow

Benzaiten Shrine at Inokashira in Snow https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/benzaiten-shrine-at-inokashira-in-snow

Sparrows and Camellias in the Snow

Sparrows and Camellias in the Snow https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/sparrows-and-camellias-in-the-snow-1838

52 (48) The Paulownia Garden at Akasaka

52 (48) The Paulownia Garden at Akasaka https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/52-48-the-paulownia-garden-at-akasaka-1857

Fisherman

Fisherman https://collections.artsmia.org/art/22766/

War zu erwarten. Gute Nacht groẞer Bruder.

Stromausfall: Senat setzt nach Stromanschlag auf mehr Videoüberwachung Nach dem Stromausfall in 45.000 Haushalten will Berlin neuralgische Punkte mit mehr Kameras und KI sichern. Wie weit darf Videoüberwachung im öffentlichen Raum gehen?

Statt Vorsorge: Berliner Senat setzt nach Stromanschlag auf mehr Videoüberwachung mit „KI“. Wegner (CDU) will das „schnell machen“ www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/strom...

UK urged to cut out US Big Tech for sake of digi sovereignty : Campaigners say Britain's dependence on Big Tech leaves critical systems exposed to political pressure

Germany as well. The strategic blind spot: The reliance on companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and #Palantir for everything from cloud hosting to sensitive public sector systems www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/u...

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference | TechCrunch A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

The Pink Ranger hacker deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in real time at the end of a talk at the #39c3 techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/h...

Katsuwonus pelamis

Katsuwonus pelamis https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/katsuwonus-pelamis

white-robed female figure in profile laying horizontally, red circle with black outline at chest; red line extending from circle at chest down top of robe to ankles; black and blue necklace, black hair; transparent blue cloth behind head; black background

Maya's Sacrifice https://collections.artsmia.org/art/117646/

72 The Ferry at Haneda and the Benten Shrine

72 The Ferry at Haneda and the Benten Shrine https://www.wikiart.org/en/hiroshige/72-the-ferry-at-haneda-and-the-benten-shrine-1857

Sarumaru Daiyu

Sarumaru Daiyu https://www.wikiart.org/en/katsushika-hokusai/sarumaru-daiyu

I saw three other JLit covers on the list—two for the same book. They’re good covers, though not my faves of the year.

Grotto Design with Automata (1615), from Les raisons des forces mouvantes
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Source: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/df34ceaa-504c-4248-84b2-464ad4685293

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