#japanese

[vintage-tigre]

Credits to @Hakusi_Katei from X/Twitter

[the-other-bob-the-lurker]

Ai Hongo

[balkanparamo]

The Art of Tea: Matcha Chanoyu

[kensatou]

good thing from jp twitter this week is queen of old man yaoi michiru sonoo discovering the term old man yaoi

update: somehow it got impossibly more wholesome

quick translation: おかえり: welcome home あ 終わった 終わった: ahhh, it's over! it's done! コーヒー? お茶?: coffee? tea? コ~ヒ~ ありがと: coffee, thank you~ ネクタイレア★★ ネクタイ取るレア★★★★: seeing him with a tie on, rarity level ★★, seeing him take a tie off, rarity level ★★★★ にあうな~: it suits him~

also please do follow: AraigumaSha: sensei's twitter account marureviere: maru, who does such valuable work highlighting bl manga for an international audience

[la-chacha-gris]

I'm going to save you from having to make a long and obvious comment on how sexist societies create dangerous and deadly female characters in their myths and legends so that, coincidentally, the male, who happens to be unaware of the evil of something that, coincidentally again, is feminine and should be feared and/or restrained.

Os voy a librar de hacer un largo y obvio comentario mío sobre como las sociedades machistas configuran en sus mitos y leyendas personajes femeninos peligrosos y mortales para, que casualidad, el macho de paso y desprevenido sobre la maldad de algo que, de nuevo casualidad, es femenino y debe temerse y/o contenerse.

Banquet of Mermaids - Ryoko Kimura

[777lx]

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[fly-the-pattern]

The dino benches are super cute. The angle is a little weird, though. And there's other seating if you're scared of dinosaurs. Looks like there's non-dino flat benches in the back on the right and a raised stone bench / retaining wall area on the left with grass and trees. I'm a little worried that there's no arm rests on any of the seating areas, though. It might be difficult for people with mobility issues to stand back up. Super cute for in front of a dino museum, though! And I totally want one.

[eroticlamb]

Cover art illustrated by Satsuko Okamoto for Teen Look magazine, circa 1960s ★

[vintagehomecollection]

Laurie and John Fairman, owners of Honeychurch Antiques, Seattle, transformed a room with a vaulted ceiling into one reminiscent of village houses in Japan, where John grew up. The master bedroom, executed by craftsman Steve Dowling, has concealed storage space. The back of the headboard is a storage chest; antique doors from the interior of a traditional house hide a wall of closets. The woodblock print is by Okino Hashimoto.

At Home With Japanese Design: Accents, Structure and Spirit, 1990

[kwu-haku]

꒰꒰ 🍭🌈👧🏽 𝗖𝗨𝗧𝗘 𝗧𝗘𝗫𝗧𝗦 。。。

[ishikorokoroishi]

“  snapshot in Japan “

Photo by Ishikoro.

Love & Peace!

[psychedelic-charm]

I want to try the dorayaki.

[strawlita]

♬ ⋅.˳˳.⋅ ♬ ⋅.˳˳.⋅ Versace Crystal Noire ( リキのバージョン ) 𓆩❤︎𓆪

[simplysensual]

Mashiro Sana 純白彩永

[easternmind]

Here's my gift to true MetalGearSolid fans: a full scan of "Metal Gear Solid The Twin Snakes Survival Guide In The Darkness of Shadow Moses", published in Japan in 2004. It is one of the most unique videogame guidebooks ever created. See more of this post to find out why.

This book comes in an unusually narrow format which made it particularly difficult to scan, namely due to the miniscule page margins. If someone is able to achieve better results with a flatbed scanner, they have my instant respect.

The second and perhaps the most remarkable aspect of all is that this guidebook to the Gamecube remake of Metal Gear Solid was edited by Kazutoshi Iida, the game designer behind Doshin The Giant, Tail of the Sun and Aquanaut's Holiday.

The book includes interviews with military advisor Motosada Mouri, real-time demo director Ryuhei Kitamura, developer Dennis Dyack, as well as a conversation between Iida and Kojima that I have translated recently:

https://archive.org/details/mgs-the-twin-snakes-survival-guide-interview-translation_202506/page/n10/mode/1up

It also includes a very unique biography of Hideo Kojima which is provocatively illustrated with CT scans that he performed at Roppongi Hills clinic. Yes, these are actual scans of Kojima's brain.

If anyone is interested in taking on the task of translating this book to English, I can provide higher quality scans of the material.