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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...
Now to be auctioned off to pay for casino-related litigation. Wish I had a couple million HKD to spare.
30.10.2025 15:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
Some tidbits from the show:
Chiba's mom makes good omusubi.
The person playing violin with Fishmans is a woman.
Start with Long Season.
The music is cut from the radio show but they play this all-time classic:
youtu.be/5smoygt-b2c
Kind of surprising how close they were given how their musical styles diverged. Shinji Sato of Fishmans was also in the same club but was a couple years older than Chiba. I would love to have been in the same room when those two future legends first met.
30.10.2025 02:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Crackly 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
![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)
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).
Eruption of Sakurajima volcano, the most powerful in twentieth-century Japan, with Kagoshima, Japan in foreground, 1914
26.10.2025 08:36 — 👍 115 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0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
25.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 283 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 1"I am not a suspicious person," said the suspicious person.
25.10.2025 12:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0このカステラうまそう
きっと高級なやつだ
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese getting off a plane while wearing slim black pants, black boots, and a black Joy Division t-shirt.
how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people
25.10.2025 05:04 — 👍 6453 🔁 475 💬 178 📌 85Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets. —Dr. Benway, in Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
24.10.2025 18:29 — 👍 418 🔁 81 💬 21 📌 3✕ Colloquium
〇 Colloquiuim
英語力がまだまだ足りんようだな
That one stray Sega dot in 2022. My man from Isekai Ojisan would be proud.
20.10.2025 22:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New music from Sugar? As a person who still regularly drinks from the Copper Blue well to get my Sugar fix, this is incredible news.
youtu.be/-S72djtUIFk
Illustration of Kikurage from Dorohedoro jumping on big mushrooms
Kikurage frolicking (2020)
#art #Dorohedoro #ドロヘドロ
Various FFT jobs are depicted including White Mages, Knight, Mimic, Summoner, Time Mage, Dragoon, Chemist, Monk, and more.
Final Fantasy Tactics The Ivalice Chronicles illustration by Ryoko Kui (Delicious in Dungeon) for Weekly Famitsu No. 1915:
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そ、そうなの？
てか、そっち？
“Ultraviolence”
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That hotel is famous in Japan and is still in business, with the original buildings.
fujiyahotel.net
Oh, I didn't even realize that article I linked has capsule biographies of all the sons at the end.
11.10.2025 22:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They're respectively the sons of the two men. Fascinating.
www.tsuyama-yougaku.jp/kuharamituru...
www.tsuyama-yougaku.jp/mitukurikaki...
If I'm not mistaken, they're related to these two, who were early practitioners of western medicine (蘭学).
www.e-tsuyama.com/report/2025/...
ビザンツ帝国ガイド本ほしいですよね～
11.10.2025 08:28 — 👍 115 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 0"Moriocae, quod oppidum situm est in terra Japanensi"
A stronghold in Trajan's lesser known far eastern campaigns against the barbarian Emishi tribes
it doesn't matter. The creepiness is already ingrained in his world. See also Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance.
09.10.2025 14:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finally a Nobel goes to someone I've actually read. I usually don't like to read stories set in Japan by non-Japanese writers because the disconnect from my experience can creep me out but Krasznahorkai's world already feels so utterly alien that...
www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2013...
I remember watching Gachinko on air but don't recall hearing this Dinosaur Jr song. All I recall is lots of glaring (menchi kiri) and collar-grabbing followed by scuffling to the accompaniment of metal riffs. The last battle cry of the beleaguered yankee.
youtu.be/ZxkQYK0ovFM
