#山藤

[totorohblog]

ちびっと間が空きましてすんません。

さてさて旅も後半、たじま高原植物園からつぎの目的地「猿尾滝」へと向かいます。途中山藤やらモミジやら目の保養をガンガンしながら現地着。なにこのアクセスの良さ。ほぼドアツードアじゃん。おかげでさぁ体力温存できたから撮影に全力だぁ。

…滝撮んのむっつかしいわぁ…

saruwotaki.

It was difficult to photograph the waterfall.

[magical-magyars]

川の両岸に咲く白と紫の山藤　2025.5.1　埼玉県都幾川町明神淵

[poddyshobbies]

2024.4.12 ～ 春うらら

爽やかな春の陽射しの中、

春の息吹を感じる一日でした。

足元にはスミレ、そして各所で藤の紫が目に留まります。

ソメイヨシノに代わって八重桜が満開に。

ハードオフ（春日市）

新幹線の見える丘から

福岡市博多区（竹下）

暖かい日がつづきます。

YouTube > 爽やかな春の日差しと風の中（5分30秒）

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) and Yumiko Katayama (片山由美子) in Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (女囚７０１号　さそり), 1972, directed by Shunya Ito (伊藤 俊也). Scanned by me.

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『NIPPONグラドル58人』

参加モデル（五十音順）／

葵成美,青山天南,青山ひかる,蒼山みこと,赤城ありさ,朝比奈みゆう,天木じゅん,天野麻菜,亜和,伊織いお,池田ゆうな,池本しおり,石井優希,市原薫,遠藤まめ,大嶋みく,木南美々,久我るり,草野綾,榑林里奈,紅羽りお,小島まゆみ,佐野なぎさ,篠見星奈,霜月めあ,鈴木聖,鈴木ふみ奈,世良ののか,蒼馬月葵,高砂ミドリ,高梨瑞樹,竹川由華,ちとせよしの,塚越愛実,東条澪,徳江かな,中川心,長澤茉里奈,名取くるみ,名波なな,西綾乃,西永彩奈,花咲楓香,花乃衣美優,林凛,原つむぎ,ぷにたん（能美真奈）,まいてぃ,三田悠貴,三橋くん,美輪咲月,もものすけ,森くるみ,森脇梨々夏,やしろじゅり。,柳瀬さき,雪村花鈴,弓川いち華

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[gon-iii]

揺らぐ記憶

2019年、端山藤園。

藤沢市の「フジロード」で辿り着いた端山藤園の藤。

[hirohiro0001]

[chrislov]

[pugnole]

一眼∞年

[tsubameyado]

名華祭19の色紙

大変遅ればせながら、先日の名華祭19の色紙です。

イベントに合わせてシリーズを揃えてみたりすることもありますが、この回は好きなように、その時描きたいキャラを描いたものです！初めて描いてみたキャラも数人います！ とにかくどんどん描いた回で、もし推しが居たら嬉しいです～😊

[redlerred7]

Bocchi Misreads an Acronym

Based on a really funny interaction in my stream chat. Fin, Cheese, your dialogue has been immortalized as a comic between cute girls.

For more unhinged internet conversations turned into comics of cute girls, click here and support me on Ko-fi!

[asnowperson]

Tanbi to Heroine - Literary classics adapted into shoujo manga

I want to talk about the book of my dreams: Mangaka! Sekai Bungaku - Tanbi to Heroine (マンガ化! 世界文学 耽美とヒロイン). It's a compilation of shoujo manga from the 1970s and 1980s which are adaptations of classics from world literature. Each manga has a little introduction about its artist, and the work it was adapted from. Thank you, our Tosho no Ie overlords.

It came out in 2022, and I'm so happy to own this book. After watching Aoi Bungaku and falling in love with what they did with Kokoro there, I've always wanted to see more anime/manga adaptations of literature. Seeing how authors/directors give the works their own interpretations while still staying faithful to the original work, and not trying to do a 1:1 adaptation can be great, as long as they don't jump the shark. Speaking of which, I even liked Gankutsuou despite the bizarre 3D space mecha fights because Edmond Dantès was still there. I can't get mad at it when the director gets the core of the work right.

Anyway, I want to present this awesome book and the manga collected in this volume!

Hagio Moto – Shiroi Tori ni Natta Shoujo (白い鳥になった少女)

Adapted from Andersen's The Girl Who Trod on A Loaf, and first published in Bessatsu Shoujo Comic 1972/12.

Hagio tells the story from the point of view of the girl who becomes a bird at the end of the tale, which is a very nice touch.

2. Mizuno Hideko – Cendrillon (サンドリヨン)

Adapted from Grimm Brothers' Cinderella, and first published in LaLa 1977/9 & 11.

With Mizuno's exquisite art, this Cinderella adaptation is the perfect fairy tale. On the first and last pages Hideko-tan breaks the fourth wall to give us information about the original work, and going "bruh, these are supposed to be tales for kids but some brutal stuff goes on in them. What's with all the mutilations and eye-gouging?!" It's adorable!

3. Maki Miyako – Hanakagerou (花陽炎)

Adapted from Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, and first published in Big Comic for Lady 1987/2.

This excerpt is taken from vol. 2 of Maki's Genji Monogatari adaptation, and depicts a scene that doesn't exist in the original work: Hikaru meeting Lady Fujitsubo for the first time. I must say that all that Genji Monogatari Japanese went over my head ;_;

4. Miuchi Suzue – Takekurabe (たけくらべ)

Adapted From Higuchi Ichiyou's Takekurabe, and first published in Hana to Yume 1977/1 & 2. This story is actually part of Miuchi's Glass Mask. In the manga, it was acted in the third act, “Kaze no Naka wo Iku.” Compiled in vol.s 3-4 Hana to Yume comics version, vol.s 2-3 of Hakusensha Bunko, and vol.s 3-4 of the digital ebook.

Conveying the subtleties of the character through the way Ayumi and Maya acts is quite ingenious. We get adaptation-ception with this one, and I loved it. It really made me want to read the book to get to know Midori better.

5. Sakata Keiko – Okisaki to Nemuri Hime (お妃と眠り姫)

Adapted from Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty, and first published in Comic Tom 1989/1.

I haven't read Sakata's works, but she always strikes me as being the odd one in the shoujo scene. And this manga just strengthened my conviction. Her adaptation of Sleeping Beauty focuses on the ogre mother of the Prince, and her loneliness. Which is another ingenious way of going about adapting a fairy tale from a completely point of view. Her funny-looking art and humor adds to it.

6. Fumizuki Kyouko – Shiroki Mori no Chi ni (白き森の地に)

You get this color image I found online, because scanning this gorgeous double spread was impossible. And it's in grayscale in the book.

Adapted from Louis Hémon's Maria Chapdelaine, and first published in Bessatsu Shoujo Friend 1977/3.

I had no idea about this story, but wow, Hémon sure lived a life... This story that takes place in Canada feels really comforting. I'm surprised this didn't get an anime adaptation. Sure, it's not long enough for one, but it'd make a perfect comfort shoujo. "Comfort shoujo" as in people dying and the protagonist growing up after being hit by misery and having to make life-altering choices. I can see why this was popular in Japan.

7. Yamagishi Ryouko – Rapunzel Rapunzel (ラプンツェル・ラプンツェル)

Feast your eyes on this color Rapunzel illustration from the Yamagishi artbook I have.

Adapted from Grimm Brothers's Rapunzel, and first published in Bessatsu Shoujo Friend 1974/6.

Queen Yamagishi does not disappoint: We go full psychological and read about how parents ruin childrens' lives by projecting their shortcomings in life onto them, and their twisted sense of "love" can be worse than a sorceress's curse. Prince charming therapy time, baby!

8. Sato Shio – Bijo to Yajuu (美女と野獣)

Adapted from Madame de Beumont's Beauty and the Beast, and first published in Papermoon Shoujo Manga Fantasy Shoujo Manga – 1001 Nights (5.11.1980).

This short yet poignant adaptation really brings out the love in the story. She distilled the tale, and left what touches your heart the most in these 8 pages.

This work was also originally published in full color, and it's so gorgeous that I bought the book it was first published in. I hope to have it within the month.

So yeah, if you need to gift something to your old-shoujo loving friend, you now know what to get :)

[fuckyeahmeikokaji]

Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) and Yumiko Katayama (片山由美子) in Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (女囚７０１号 さそり), directed by Shunya Ito (伊藤俊也).

Scanned from Shukan Pureiboi (週刊プレイボーイ),  July 24, 1972.

[anamon-book]

エンジェル・トーク ～天使の涙～完全版 クリストファー・ドイル＝著・写真、芝山幹郎＝訳 プレノン・アッシュ 1998年第3版 装丁：アートディレクション＝祖父江慎、デザイン＝藤井裕子（COZ-FISH）

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