#japanese history 366

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日本の歴史366 Day 11

1月11日 Summary:

Have you ever heard of the Japanese proverb "Give salt to your enemies?" No? Well, neither did I until today. This phrase comes from the time that Uesugi Kenshin (daimyo of Echigo Province during the Sengoku period) delivered salt to his longtime rival, Takeda Shingen, (daimyo of the Kai province) after everyone else had blocked him from salt imports. Uesugi says that wars are to be fought with bows and arrows, not salt. Uesugi doesn't believe in using such underhanded tactics to win war (supposedly lmao).

Vocab beneath break:

上杉 謙信 うえすぎ けんしん Uesugi Kenshin (daimyō who ruled Echigo Province in the Sengoku period)

敵に塩を送くる てきにしおをおくる lit. send an enemy salt/give salt to your enemies (to help an enemy in need)

卑怯な手を使う ひきょうなてをつかう to play a dirty trick; to use underhanded methods; to hit below the belt; to play foul

許す ゆるす to forgive; to pardon; to excuse; to tolerate

武士 ぶし samurai; warrior

弓 ゆみ bow (weapon)​; archery

刀 かたな sword (esp. Japanese single-edged); katan

戦う たたかう to make war (on); to wage war (against); to go to war (with); to fight (with); to do battle (against)

敵 てき opponent; rival; adversary​; enemy

今川氏 いまがわし Imagawa clan

北条氏 ほうじょうし Houjo clan

止める とめる to prevent; to suppress

苦しい くるしい painful; difficult; tough; hard

立場 たちば position; situation

武田 信玄 たけだ しんげん Takeda Shingen (daimyo of Kai Province during the Sengoku period of Japan)

救いの手 すくいのて helping hand; help; support; aid

差し伸べる さしのべる to offer (e.g. aid, help, etc.)​

長年 ながねん long time; many years

宿敵 しゅくてき old enemy; longtime enemy; arch-enemy; arch-nemesis; longstanding foe

貴公 きこう you (primarily used by males when addressing their male equals or inferiors)

争う あらそう to compete; to contest; to contend

弓矢 ゆみや bow and arrow

あらず not​

泣かせる なかせる to make someone cry; to move someone to tears​

当時 とうじ at that time; in those days

人々 ひとびと people; men and women; everybody; each person

命 いのち life; life force; most important thing

保つ たもつ to keep; to preserve

命を保つ いのちをたもつ to preserve life

大切 たいせつ important; precious; valuable

手紙 てがみ letter; missive

必要 ひつよう necessary; needed; essential; indispensable

約束 やくそく promise; agreement; arrangement; one's word;

ライバル rival

宿命 しゅくめい fate; destiny; predestination

大事 だいじ important; serious; crucial; valuable

流通 りゅうつう circulation (of money, goods, etc.); distribution

困る こまる to be troubled; to have difficulty; to be in a fix; to be in straitened circumstances; to be badly off

何たる なんたる what (e.g. "what rudeness")​; what (something) is like​

白黒をつける しろくろをつける to determine whether something is right or wrong; to make something clear; to settle a matter​

苦しめる くるしめる to torment; to pain; to inflict (physical) pain; to hurt; to harass; to cause (emotional) pain; to afflict; to distress; to bother; to trouble; to stump; to baffle

ひきょう cowardly; unfair

きわまりない extremely; in the extreme; knows no bounds (e.g. rudeness); unparalleled; boundless; limitless

心配 しんぱい worry; concern; anxiety

いくらでも as many as one likes; as much as one likes; great many; plenty (of)

正々堂々 せいせいどうどう fair and square; open and aboveboard

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The Day English was Banned from Baseball

On 1943年3月2日 (昭和18年), English words were banned from baseball terminology. Japan did not want to use the language of its enemies (remember, this was during World War II), and therefore switched to using only Japanese words in baseball and many other aspects of daily life. Today, many of these English words have returned to daily use.

用語　ようご　term; terminology

言い換える　いいかえる　to say in other words; to put another way; to express in different words; to reword; to rephrase

改名　かいめい　name change

史上初　しじょうはつ　first in history

通算　つうさん　total; sum; aggregate

勝　しょう　win; victory

達成　たっせい　achievement; attainment; accomplishment; realization

大投手　だいとうしゅ　great pitcher

Baseball Terms (and other words changed from English to Japanese, but no longer used today)

正打　せいだ ヒット; hit (baseball terminology)

軽打　けいだ バント; bunt (baseball terminology)

よし3本、それまで！　よしさんぼん、それまで！ スリーストライク、アウト！; three strikes, you're out!

放送員　ほうそういん アナウンサー; announcer

送話器　そうわき マイク; mic; microphone

油あげ肉まんじゅう　あぶらあげにくまんじゅう コロッケ; croquette

から味入り汁かけ飯　からみいりしるかけめし カレーライス; curry rice

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Events 1.2 (before 1960)

69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire. 533 – Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy. 1492 – Reconquista: The Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders. 1680 – Trunajaya rebellion: Amangkurat II of Mataram and his bodyguards execute the rebel leader Trunajaya. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey. 1788 – Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1791 – Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War. 1818 – The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded by a group of six engineers; Thomas Telford would later become its first president. 1865 – Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay. 1900 – American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. 1900 – Chicago Canal opens. 1920 – The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial.[13] 1921 – World premiere of the science fiction play R.U.R. by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a theater in Hradec Králové. 1941 – World War II: The Cardiff Blitz severely damages the cathedral in Cardiff, Wales. 1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history; Also known as the Duquesne Spy Ring. 1942 – World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces, enabling them to control the Philippines. 1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. 1954 – India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan. 1955 – Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered. 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.

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Today in Christian History

Today is Friday, September 24th, the 267th day of 2021. There are 98 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

366: Death of controversial Pope Liberius who seems to have been restored from exile only after swearing to a heretical Arian creed.

673: Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, opens the Synod of Hertford, the first council representing the whole English church. Five bishops are in attendance.

1059: Emperor Isaac Comnenus, on a mission against the barbarians along the Danube, has a narrow escape during a terrific storm. He had taken shelter under a giant oak but suddenly felt compelled to move. Moments later the wind tore the tree out by its roots. In gratitude he will rebuild the Church of Thekla upon his return to Constantinople.

1734: Pastor George Weiss leads a group of Schwenkfelders in a thanksgiving service for their safe passage from Europe and for their new home in Pennsylvania.

1794: Ten Orthodox monks arrive at Kodiak, Alaska, to establish a mission among the natives.

1868: Death of Henry H. Milman, Anglican clergyman and scholar. He had also been a poet and historian who wrote thirteen hymns, including the Easter song, “Ride On! Ride On in Majesty.”

1934: Death of A.T. Robertson, educator, soul-winner, inner-city preacher, and author of a monumental New Testament grammar.

1938: Death of Silouan of Athos, an uneducated Russian monk and ascetic who had become famous for his spiritual counsel, prayer, and love of enemies.

1939: Death of Juji Nakada, a Japanese evangelist. At his invitation, Charles and Lettie Cowman of the US established a Bible Institute in Japan. He also inspired the formation of the Wesleyan-tradition OMS (Oriental Missionary Society— now One Mission Society).

1986: Five Muslim professors confront Daniel Scot in Pakistan, demanding he convert to Islam— commencing a persecution that will result in him becoming the first Christian charged under Pakistan’s blasphemy law.

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Horses and Grooms in the Stable, Tosa School, early 1500s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese Art

The size of this intriguing pair of byøbu is noteworthy because its original dimensions were different. The horizontal band of golden paper at the top was probably added between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. What is more, comparing these screens with others de-picting stable scenes suggests that the bottom may have been trimmed, seemingly bringing the viewer closer to the setting and its activities. The impressive steeds are tethered in separate stalls beneath a cedar bark roof much like those still used in traditional Shinto shrines. Each horse is rendered as a particular animal through placement, pose, and colora-tion. In front of the divider posts for the stalls, which coincide with the individual panel borders, is a fascinat-ing mélange of medieval people and animals. Arranged on and along the double band of deep green tatami mats or the brown wood veranda upon which the tatami are placed, these vignettes provide insights into the culture and society of the later Muromachi period. The horses exhibit the isolated, graceful stateliness long associated in Japan with their power and beauty, and the human figures are comfortable with one another despite their considerable age and social differences. We see stable grooms, courtiers, aged priests, a page boy, a falconer, and a young child playing with a monkey. Also conspicuous are the riding and gaming equipment, animals and birds, and especially the various styles of textiles then in vogue. Not portraits, the figures instead represent types, but they do recall the enduring Japanese interest in mirror-ing real people from varying social levels. This genius for expressing human wit as well as the overall abstract design sense emanates from a deep familiarity with everyday reality. Following the earlier illuminated handscroll tradi-tions of the Heian and Kamakura periods in which views of everyday life occupy common ground with religious and aristocratic subject matter, the stable theme repre-sents the revival of attention to patently indigenous subject matter, executed with a palette of mineral pig-ments in yamato-e, the colorful native Japanese style. Such paintings stand in stark contrast to imported subject matter executed with ink washes in kara-e, or Chinese style. The Four Accomplishments [5] provides a timely example of that genre, instructive in contrasting palettes, techniques, settings, and depictions of figures. Of the byøbu known with this subject, it is cur-rently regarded as the earliest that survives. Its author remains a mystery, as is normally the case among yamato-e artists before 1600. Nevertheless, it has a distinguished history of ownership dating back to the sixteenth-century Tokugawa family, whose paulownia crest appears in gold lacquer on a saddle in the left screen. Size: Image: 146.1 x 346.6 cm (57 1/2 x 136 7/16 in.); Overall: 163.3 x 363 cm (64 5/16 x 142 15/16 in.); Closed: 163.8 x 62.3 x 11.5 cm (64 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); Panel: 160.3 x 60.5 cm (63 1/8 x 23 13/16 in.); with frame: 163.3 x 366 cm (64 5/16 x 144 1/8 in.) Medium: Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper

https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.373.1

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17 Questions and 17 People

Tagged by @anthropologist-on-the-loose. Thank you!

Nicknames: Mich (pronounced “meech”), or Michi (pronounced “meechee”)

Height: 5′3″

Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw.

Last thing I googled: I have a setting so google doesn’t save my search history and I don’t remember! It was probably a search for the Animal Crossing wiki though.

Song stuck in my head: Kanade Izuru’s cover of Telecaster B-Boy. It’s a damn shame he only covered the short version, his voice is too good and 1 min is far too short for that bop.

Number of followers: On this blog? 13. My main blog has 366 but at least 90% of those are bots so...

Amount of sleep: Usually only about 5 hours, but if left to my own devices I sleep like 10 lol.

Lucky number: 1s and 3s in any combination.

Dream Job: I have a few dream paths, but the one’s I’m working toward are: curator at a museum for Japanese and/or East Asian artifacts, collections assistant at a museum or other institution that houses artifacts, youtuber and streamer whose content is mostly Sonic Adventure 2 speedruns

Wearing: T-shirt and pajama pants. I’ve been working from home a couple of days each week, so unless I remember to grab new clothes before I take a shower I keep ending up wearing the exact same shirt and pants for like 3-4 days in a row lol.

Favorite song: I don’t have just one favorite song, and it kinda changes depending on my mood. I’ll give you a song I’ve been really feeling lately though; Holding Out for a Hero by Jennifer Saunders (the Shrek 2 one).

Favorite instrument: To play? Viola is the only instrument I’ve learned to play well. Orchestral music is just fun to play in general, really. To listen to? Drums of all kinds bay-beeeee

Aesthetic: Not sloppily-dressed but not nicely-dressed either. Jeans and a t-shirt all the way down. Is that what this is asking? My decoration style is “ not necessarily dirty but very cluttered, none of the furniture matches because it’s all second-hand, I don’t have any decorative knick-knacks because where would I put them?, etc.” I don’t have any aesthetics like “goth” or “cottage-core” or whatever.

Favourite Author: I don’t know... hard to choose just one... I’ll give you a few authors I like though: I enjoyed Martha Wells’ Murderbot Diaries series, and both Zora Neale Hurston’s novels and anthropological writings are great. I’m also a fan of the quality of the writing in Yoo Ryeo Han’s Trash of the Count’s Family.

Favourite animal sounds: My cat’s little purr-meow “pprrnnyaawrr” she makes to me and no one else. Also a huge fan of videos of various talking birds imitating the noises other animals make.

Random: I feel like I wrote too much for some of these. But I feel like simple answers don’t really tell anyone anything. There also aren’t a lot of anthropology-related responses here, huh...

Tagging: I don’t know. Followers! Go ahead and fill this out if you want to and tag me so I can get to know you all!

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Pulgasari (1985)

Film review #366

SYNOPSIS: A small village is by invaders who try to force the blacksmith to make weapons for them. When he refuses, he is sent to prison without food until he changes his mind. In his dying moments, he creates a small figure that he vows will destroy the invaders. When the figure comes alive in front of Ami, the blacksmith’s daughter, she realises the creature grows bigger with the more iron it eats, and the villagers begin feeding the creature their iron in order to fight the imperial invaders…

THOUGHTS/ANALYSIS: Pulgasari is a 1985 monster film and the first film I have reviewed from North Korea. The story behind the film is just as interesting as the film itself. The director, Shin Sang-ok, was kidnapped with his wife by North Korea for the intention of producing films such as Pulgasari for the government. Kim Jong-il, the leader of North Korea, was apparently a huge fan of the Godzilla films, and wanted to create his own version, thus why he is listed as the executive producer on this film. For around ten years Shin Sang-ok and his wife (an actress in her own right) were forced to make films for the government before eventually escaping when they were visiting a film festival in Austria and fleeing their North Korean minders. Pulgasari was the last film he directed before he made this escape.This whole story would probably make an interesting film in and of itself…

With regards to Pulgasari itself, the film opens up in a remote village in the past. A young man named Inde wants to leave the village to join a group of rebels/bandits living in the mountains, but Ami, a woman in the village who he is due to wed, does not want him to go. This drama is interrupted as an army enters the town to commission the blacksmith, Ami’s Father, to create weapons for their army. They take all of the iron items from the villagers to use in creating these weapons, which leads the blacksmith to refuse to help them. They respond by locking him up without food until he changes his mind. Just before he dies of starvation, the blacksmith creates a small figurine of the mythical monster Pulgasari which he puts his soul into, with the aim of protecting the village. When Ami gets the figure, she accidentally drips some of her blood onto it and causes it to come alive and start eating anything made of iron. As Pulgasari grows with everything he eats, the villagers and the rebels in the mountains rally behind the indestructible Pulgasari to drive away the invaders. The story as a whole is fairly simple, with a number of battles between the villagers and the imperial army, with a number of schemes by the King to stop Pulgasari as he relentlessly advances towards him. I suppose it doesn’t need to be much more complicated than a giant monster smashing stuff, and in that respect the film does its job fairly well. Some of the scenes centred around the other characters can dragon a little too long, and there are large gaps in between when Pulgasari makes an appearance which become rather dull. Nevertheless, Ami is a decent (and rare) female lead, and the setting is fairly well established.

The film is set in the past, and feels like it relies a lot on the history of Korea during that era. The villains are clearly meant to be Japanese, which is a typical portrayal of the country given it’s past in occupying Korea, and North Korea’s particular resentment of them. As you might expect, the film not so subtly fulfils the propaganda of the North Korean narrative, with the common workers banding together to overthrow the invading, imperial rule. In the end, Pulgasari becomes too big and continues to eat all the iron even after the invaders are gone. This leads to Ami sacrificing herself to stop Pulgasari. This is perhaps a reference to the revolution in North Korea leading to the creation of a monster that will bring about their destruction was a slight dig by the captive director at the regime that was holding him hostage, but it’s difficult to say for sure.

I was expecting a rather barebones film out of North Korea, and it more or less met those expectations. The production values and special effects aren’t much improved on the Godzilla films made thirty years prior. Nevertheless, just as those films still hold up well, some of the scenes in this film look fairly decent, particularly watching Pulgasari destroying buildings. The battle scenes as well feature a host of extras to give the feel of armies clashing. Some of the effects though, are pretty bad, such as when Pulgasari is small, you can clearly tell it is a hand puppet. The body suit of Pulgasari is again pretty decent, and has some moving parts and facial animations to make it more convincing. The soundtrack consists of a single synthesiser being played in more dramatic scenes, and is nothing special, but overall the film ended up being more well made than I was expecting. Pulgasari doesn’t offer anything new or exciting to the genre, and it loses some of it’s significance outside of it’s home country, but it is a rare and interesting example of cinema from a place you wouldn’t normally see.

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Expedition 56 Trio Undocks from ISS and landed safely on Earth

ROSCOSMOS - Soyuz MS-08 Mission patch. October 4, 2018 Expedition 56 Commander Drew Feustel and Flight Engineer Ricky Arnold of NASA, along with Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos undocked from the International Space Station at 3:57 a.m. EDT to begin their trip home.

Image above: The Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft that is returning three Expedition 56 crew members back to Earth is pictured from a space station camera just before to undocking from the Poisk module. Image Credit: NASA TV. Deorbit burn is scheduled for approximately 6:51 a.m., with landing in Kazakhstan targeted for 7:45 a.m. (5:45 p.m. Kazakhstan time).

Soyuz MS-08 undocking and departure

At the time of undocking, Expedition 57 will begin formally aboard the station, with Commander Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency), NASA’s Serena Aunon-Chancellor and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev comprising a three-person crew for one week. Station Crew Back on Earth After 197 Days in Space Three crew members who have been living and working aboard the International Space Station have landed safely in Kazakhstan. Expedition 56 Commander Drew Feustel and Flight Engineer Ricky Arnold of NASA, along with Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Oleg Artemyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed at 7:44 a.m. EDT (5:44 p.m. in Kazakhstan) southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan.

Image above: The Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft that is carrying Expedition 55/56 crew members Ricky Arnold, Drew Feustel and Oleg Artemyev is pictured seconds away from landing under a parachute in Kazakhstan. Image Credit: NASA TV. The crew completed hundreds of experiments during its 197-day expedition. Highlights included an investigation to study ultra-cold quantum gases using the first commercial European facility for microgravity research, and a system that uses surface forces to accomplish liquid-liquid separation. The crew also welcomed five cargo spacecraft that delivered several tons of supplies and research experiments. The 14th SpaceX Dragon arrived in April, shortly after the three crew members did, bringing supplies and equipment, and the 15th Dragon arrived in July. The ninth Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft arrived in May before the end of Expedition 55. A Russian Progress completed a record rapid rendezvous of less than four hours in August. And, the seventh Japanese Konotouri cargo craft arrived just a week before the Expedition 56 trio departed for home. Both Feustel and Arnold participated in dozens of educational events while in space as part of NASA’s Year of Education on Station, reaching more than 200,000 students in 29 states. Feustel now has logged more than 226 days in space on three spaceflights, and Arnold more than 209 days on two missions.

Soyuz MS-08 landing

The duo ventured outside the space station on three spacewalks to effect maintenance and upgrades during Expeditions 55 and 56. Their work included replacing and upgrading external cameras, including those that will facilitate the approach and docking of the Boeing Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon commercial crew spacecraft when they begin launching soon from American soil. The spacewalkers also replaced components of the space station’s cooling system and communications network, and installed new wireless communication antennas for external experiments. Feustel has accumulated 61 hours and 48 minutes over nine career spacewalks, and ranks third overall among American astronauts. Arnold has 32 hours and 4 minutes over five career spacewalks. Artemyev conducted one spacewalk with fellow cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev to manually launch four small technology satellites and install an experiment called Icarus onto the Russian segment of the space station. The spacewalk timed out at 7 hours and 46 minutes, the longest in Russian space program history. Artemyev now has spent 366 days in space on his two flights. Expedition 57 continues station research and operations with a crew comprised of Serena Auñón-Chancellor of NASA, Alexander Gerst of ESA (European Space Agency) and Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos. Gerst assumed command of the station as Feustel prepared to depart. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin are scheduled to launch Oct. 11 for a same-day arrival, increasing the crew size to five. Related article: Dragon delivers some ICE: https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2018/06/dragon-delivers-some-ice.html Related links: Expedition 57: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition56/index.html NASA’s Year of Education on Station: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/stem-on-station/year-of-education.html Icarus: https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/iss-icarus Ultra-cold quantum gases: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Facility.html?#id=7396 Commercial European facility: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Research/Ice_Cubes_cool_new_commercial_opportunity_on_the_International_Space_Station Liquid-liquid separation: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=7696 Commercial crew: http://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew Spacewalks: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/spacewalks Space Station Research and Technology: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/index.html International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html Images (mentioned), Videos, Text, Credits: NASA/Mark Garcia/NASA TV/SciNews. Best regards, Orbiter.ch Full article

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7 Must-Visit Architecture in the Philippines

7.Where We Build Your Visions

GALUA PLUS Architectural Design Studio is an architecture firm established in 1998 ( the former name was RD Galua Associates). It is dedicated to providing a diversified range of services from space planning and design, to project development and management. It also offers consultancy services not only for architectural design but as well as for sustainable development.

Pursuant to Executive Order No. 366 , the BIR offices throughout the country will stablished their own Document Processing Division in every Regional Offices, or proximate to the same office, ensuring for the exclusivity of such Division where returns shall be archived in its storage facility. Thus, results to the creation of a permanent DPD Building for each Regional Office throughout the country. This three storey Document Processing Division Records building comprises of offices, conference room, and huge document storage.

6. Zuellig Building, Makati

Situated at the busy intersection of Makati Avenue and Paseo de Roxas, Zuellig Building sits right in Makati City’s heart, the Philippines’ business hub located in Metro Manila.

Known for its financial institutions and upmarket hotels, the area is home to some impressive skyscrapers; but nothing quite compares to the glistening sky-rise that is the Zuellig.

Notable for its environmentally conscious design and modern technologies, the 155-meter high building has daylight dimming sensors, rainwater harvesting facilities and a double glazed low emission curtain wall.

In 2013 it was the Philippines’ first building to qualify for the Platinum certification level by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED).

Unfortunately, with it being a primary office tower, you can’t quickly go inside unless you have an official business meeting. But admiring the sun reflecting off this impressive contemporary building from the outside is reason enough to visit this spot.

While you’re there, be sure to talk for a walk in the neighbouring Ayala Triangle, a famous park in Manila. You can also join Manila tours that include attractions in Makati City.

5. The Ruins, Talisay, Negros Occidental

On a sugar plantation in Negros Occidental province near Bacolod City lies The Ruins in Talisay, a massive ancestral Italianate mansion.

Join trips and experiences in Bacolod City that includes The Ruins

As the story goes, in the 1900s, a sugarcane baron named Don Mariano Ledesma Lacson built this ten-bedroomed mansion in memory of his beloved wife, who had died during the pregnancy of their 11th child.

If that wasn’t tragic enough, the building was set on fire by WWII Filipino guerrillas employed by the US Army to prevent the Japanese from using it as their headquarters.

Check out other activities and attractions in Bacolod City.

Despite its turbulent history, which included burning for three days, the frame of the enormous residence still stands, surrounded by perfectly manicured lawns. Today The Ruins are an architectural marvel and a much-visited tourist attraction.

As you walk through the shell of what was once a luxury family mansion and admire the intricate Italian-inspired decor, you can all but picture what life was like for its residents a long time ago.

4. The Mind Museum, Taguig

If you’re in the mood for something more modern, it doesn’t get much more inspiring than the Mind Museum. Taking five years to complete, this futuristic building in Taguig is the brainchild of father and son duo Lor and Ed Calma, who is said to be a formidable force in architecture.

What sets this building apart is its unusual design. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? The structure is inspired by cellular network and growth, fitting for the country’s first interactive science museum.

In 2014 this landmark work won an international award from the 20th annual Thea Awards for taking the “extra step in expanding science into a fully experiential world.”

It would be a real shame to visit this mind-boggling structure without spending hours of fun interacting with its 250 science galleries and exhibits.

3. San Agustin Church, Manila

San Agustin Church, Immaculate Conception Parish, or the Archdiocesan Shrine of Nuestra Señora de Consolacion y Correa is a sight to behold.

Located in the historic Intramuros or Walled City in Manila, this massive stone building is the oldest and most iconic religious buildings in the Philippines.

Browse Intramuros tours that include the San Agustin Church

The Spaniards built the perfect example of early Baroque in the 16-century, who brought both Spanish and Chinese influences to its architectural style. As you enter the hollow interiors of this historic church, pause a moment to take in the details.

The symmetric Latin cross plan, the abundance of religious relics and those beautiful trompe l’oeil frescos on the vaulted ceiling are enough to take your breathe away. San Agustin Church is a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site and still an active church today.

2. Calle Crisologo, Vigan

Another UNESCO World Heritage spot to tick off your list, the Calle Crisologo, is not so much a specific building as it is an entire street of architectural wonders.

Considered the most beautiful street in the Philippines, the more than 500-meter long Crisologo Street sits within Vigan, the best-preserved example of a planned Spanish colonial town in Asia.

Browse Calle Crisologo tours for your Vigan getaway

Taking a stroll along the cobblestone streets is like taking a walk back in time. Filled with colonial architecture from Spanish colonization in the 18th century, take note of the preserved rustic mansions, giant antique wooden doors and overall festive street ambience.

Find out what other Vigan activities and attractions you shouldn’t miss

If you’re really in the mood for some old-world charm, catch one of the many calesas, the beautifully bright horse-drawn carriages used as the country’s main form of transportation up until the early 20th century.

1. Intramuros, Manila

No list of the Phillippines’ most beautiful architectural spots would be complete without mentioning Intramuros.

The historic centre and oldest district in Manila, Intramuros, literally meaning “within the walls” in Latin, is a fortified city surrounded by ancient walls dating back to the 16th century.

Established as the Spanish capital by conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in the late 1500s, the walled city is brimming with centuries-old history architecture to admire.

Right in the heart of it all is Fort Santiago Fortress, the historic citadel with picturesque gardens where national hero, José Rizal, spent his last days.

The Casa Manila Museum depicts what 19th century Manila homes would have looked like inside and out, while the Manila Cathedral is an example of Romanesque Revival architecture.

Whether you’re a history buff, an Rey Galua architecture lover, or merely a curious tourist, Intramuros is a must-visit.

With one of Asia’s longest and most multicultural histories, the Philippines is home to some truly unique and inspiring architecture.

This list has only just scratched the surface of places for architecture lovers to explore, but no doubt that once you visit this incredible country, you’ll find much, much more.

SOURCE: guidetothephilippines

[onigiriforears]

日本の歴史366 Day 31

1月31日 Summary:

I FINALLY CAUGHT UP--NOW I ONLY HAVE TO DO ONE PAGE A DAY! HALLELUJAH!

*cough* moving on...

I'm sure many of us have heard of women's-only passenger cars in Japan. The adoption of such train cars in Japan didn't come into practice until around the end of the Meiji era. They were first introduced on what is now known as the Chuo Main Line to keep female students separated from male students. Nowadays, women-only cars on trains are commonplace and are used as a measure against chikan.

Vocab beneath the break:

女性専用車両 じょせいせんようしゃりょう women-only passenger car/carriage (e.g. on a train)

登場 とうじょう entrance; introduction (into a market)

男子 だんし men; male; boys

乗る のる to get on (train, plane, bus, ship, etc.); to get in; to board; to take; to embark

専用 せんよう (one's) exclusive use; private use; personal use; dedicated use; use for a particular purpose

安心 あんしん relief; peace of mind

電車 でんしゃ train

運行 うんこう operation (of a bus or train service); service; running

始まる はじまる to begin; to start

鉄道 てつどう railroad; railway; rail transport

初めて はじめて first time; for the first time

採用 さいよう use; adoption; appointment

こちら this way; this direction​; here

入る はいる to enter; to come in; to go in

走る はしる to run (of a vehicle); to drive; to travel; to move

当たり前 あたりまえ usual; common; ordinary; commonplace; the norm

最初 さいしょ beginning; outset; first; onset

当時 とうじ at that time; in those days

中央本線 ちゅうおうほんせん Chuo Main Line

沿線 えんせん alongside a railway line, bus route, major thoroughfare, etc.

女学校 じょがっこう girls school

朝夕 あさゆう morning and evening; from morning until night; constantly

通学 つうがく commuting to school; school commute

女学生 じょがくせい female students; schoolgirl

乗車 じょうしゃ boarding (a train, bus, etc.); getting into (e.g. a taxi)

時間帯 じかんたい period of time; time slot

本格的 ほんかくてき full-scale; full-blown; all-out; full-fledged

運用 うんよう making use of; application; practical use; effective management (e.g. of funds)

[tokidokitokyo]

The Birthday of the Father of Japan's Postal System

Maejima Hisoka, the father of Japan's modern postal system, was born on 1835年2月4日 (天保6年1月6日). He modernized the postal system to make it more efficient and affordable and his likeness appears on the 1-yen stamp.

郵便事業　ゆうびんじぎょう　postal service

配達　はいたつ　delivery

料金　りょうきん　fee

職業　しょくぎょう　occupation

飛脚　ひきゃく　express courier from the shogunate era

肖像　しょうぞう　portrait, likeness

発行　はっこう　issue (of stamps)

設置　せっち　establishment

主導　しゅどう　leadership

製造　せいぞう　production

終了　しゅうりょう　end, close, termination

[russellian-j]

Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 with images, n2669 ( Feb. 21, 2024)

The submissive lose initiative, both in thought and action; moreover, the anger generated by the feeling of being thwarted tends to find an outlet in bullying those who are weaker. That is why tyrannical institutions are self-perpetuating. Source: Bertrand Russell: In Praise of Idleness, 1935, chap. 12: Education and Discipline More info.:https://russell-j.com/cool/32T-1201.HTM

a brief comment: original text in Japanese, translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Russell illustrates this tendency more clearly with the following statement from one boy.

「I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated but he replied: "The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair." In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.] (Source： Education and the Social Order, 1932, p.32)

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 1.2

69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empire. 533 – Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy. 1492 – Reconquista: The Emirate of Granada, the last Moorish stronghold in Spain, surrenders. 1680 – Trunajaya rebellion: Amangkurat II of Mataram and his bodyguards execute the rebel leader Trunajaya. 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces under the command of George Washington repulsed a British attack at the Battle of the Assunpink Creek near Trenton, New Jersey. 1788 – Georgia becomes the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1791 – Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, North America, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War. 1818 – The British Institution of Civil Engineers is founded by a group of six engineers; Thomas Telford would later become its first president. 1865 – Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay. 1900 – American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China. 1900 – Chicago Canal opens. 1920 – The second Palmer Raid, ordered by the US Department of Justice, results in 6,000 suspected communists and anarchists being arrested and held without trial. 1921 – World premiere of the science fiction play by the Czech writer Karel Čapek R.U.R. in theater in Hradec Králové. 1941 – World War II: The Cardiff Blitz severely damages the cathedral in Cardiff, Wales. 1942 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtains the conviction of 33 members of a German spy ring headed by Fritz Joubert Duquesne in the largest espionage case in United States history; Also known as the Duquesne Spy Ring. 1942 – World War II: Manila is captured by Japanese forces, enabling them to control the Philippines. 1949 – Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. 1954 – India establishes its highest civilian awards, the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan. 1955 – Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered. 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union. 1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac. 1967 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California. 1971 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match. 1974 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. 1975 – At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. 1975 – The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. 1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage. 1978 – On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills. 1981 – One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. 1988 – Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 crashes near Seferihisar, Turkey, killing 16 people. 1991 – Sharon Pratt Dixon becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia. 1993 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon. 2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth.

[danceofsins]

KISUKE MURAKAMI is a HOMOSEXUAL GANG LEADER and work with SAKURA GROUP and some say he looks awfully like SEN MITSUJI. The VAMPIRE is 366 years old and have been said to be INTELLIGENT & OBSERVANT and RESERVED & COLD. Let’s see what they bring to Maladh… ( Liza, she/her, 31, GMT )

⇘ ⇘ ⇘  NAME: Kisuke Murakami  ⇘ ⇘ ⇘  AGE: 366 ⇘ ⇘ ⇘  GENDER: Male ⇘ ⇘ ⇘  HEIGHT: 6 ft 1 (185 cm) ⇘ ⇘ ⇘  SEXUAL ORIENTATION: Homosexual ⇘ ⇘ ⇘  ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: Homoromantic ⇘ ⇘ ⇘  SPECIES: Vampire    ⇘ ⇘ ⇘  PROFESSION: Gang Leader ⇘ ⇘ ⇘  D.O.B. : 13th July 1668

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FACTS

- Kisuke doesn’t do nicknames. If you work for him Dr. Murakami or Murakami Sensei is fine. If you don’t Murakami Sama is how he likes to be referred to. If he feels like there is a good enough connection friendship or otherwise he will let you call him Kisuke. Disrespect that at your own risk. - Kisuke can usually be found in some sort of book. Fictional or non fictional.  - Speaks fluent Japanese, English, Korean, Punjabi and Chinese. He likes to learn the languages of his fellow progeny. It’s his way of showing he cares. - Used to specialise in Neurology medicine, but has been in medical administration for a very long time.  - Kisuke does care, but he hates when people sneak away to do their own thing without letting him know. It’s an insult to him. Best to approach him first, asking for forgiveness is not going to go well.  - Does donate a lot to charity. Keeps enough for him to have a nice apartment and good clothes but any extra is donated to research projects that can benefit lives.  - Just because he cares don’t think he can kill you without a second though he will should he sense that it is the right thing to do.

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HISTORY

Born in the edo era of Japan in Kyoto originally a water witch and born in a healing coven. Kisuke was adored by the coven and was a prodigy when it came to the healing ares and the magic. He found it easy to tap into his magical energy and  was quick at picking up stuff from the scrolls. However he always felt limited on the knowledge he could gain. It did not take him long to have read and learned everything. He decided to put his focus on kendo and then by extension learning about bushido. Busihido is something he still subscribes to in a way but modernises it. 

He eventually went on the road Becoming a medicine man with a killer blade. Bandits who came across him met their end generally until a minor mishap but thankfully Yue and Young had come across and save him. The three had a talk after and both Yue and Kisuke realised they were not too dissimilar and a fast friendship was formed. At this point vampires were only becoming something known. A whisper in the wind about an abomination of a creation. They were cursed beings. Meeting Yue and Young he did not see it. They travelled together and the two vampires shared stories of the decades he has lived through as a vampire. The twenty something year old was fascinated. 

His death was a little traumatic but one time Kisuke had caught a flu like illness but decided in his delirium it was okay to travel on his own to the nearest town from their residence on the outskirts. He got attacked and Yue found him too late. Yue gave him the option and Kisuke agreed remembering feeling a little jealous of the bond that they had. When he was turned it wasn’t easy his thirst was a little more than Young’s was. Though there was minor regret that passed away as the years went on. Though he could not longer perform magic he found that learning about medical advancements was something more up his street.

Fast forward to now. He owns the Sakura group a huge healthcare business, but just because they deal with healing others and caring. They are not a gang to mess with. Kisuke made sure that their teams were military trained and medically trained for retrieval just incase the gangs got ideas in trying to harm them. They are ruthless when it comes to other medical companies though their insurace rates are fair they are fair because there is a lack of competition and Sakura will stand behind ANY Furao gang that requires their services. 

[cma-japanese-art]

Horses and Grooms in the Stable, Tosa School, early 1500s, Cleveland Museum of Art: Japanese Art

The size of this intriguing pair of byøbu is noteworthy because its original dimensions were different. The horizontal band of golden paper at the top was probably added between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. What is more, comparing these screens with others de-picting stable scenes suggests that the bottom may have been trimmed, seemingly bringing the viewer closer to the setting and its activities. The impressive steeds are tethered in separate stalls beneath a cedar bark roof much like those still used in traditional Shinto shrines. Each horse is rendered as a particular animal through placement, pose, and colora-tion. In front of the divider posts for the stalls, which coincide with the individual panel borders, is a fascinat-ing mélange of medieval people and animals. Arranged on and along the double band of deep green tatami mats or the brown wood veranda upon which the tatami are placed, these vignettes provide insights into the culture and society of the later Muromachi period. The horses exhibit the isolated, graceful stateliness long associated in Japan with their power and beauty, and the human figures are comfortable with one another despite their considerable age and social differences. We see stable grooms, courtiers, aged priests, a page boy, a falconer, and a young child playing with a monkey. Also conspicuous are the riding and gaming equipment, animals and birds, and especially the various styles of textiles then in vogue. Not portraits, the figures instead represent types, but they do recall the enduring Japanese interest in mirror-ing real people from varying social levels. This genius for expressing human wit as well as the overall abstract design sense emanates from a deep familiarity with everyday reality. Following the earlier illuminated handscroll tradi-tions of the Heian and Kamakura periods in which views of everyday life occupy common ground with religious and aristocratic subject matter, the stable theme repre-sents the revival of attention to patently indigenous subject matter, executed with a palette of mineral pig-ments in yamato-e, the colorful native Japanese style. Such paintings stand in stark contrast to imported subject matter executed with ink washes in kara-e, or Chinese style. The Four Accomplishments [5] provides a timely example of that genre, instructive in contrasting palettes, techniques, settings, and depictions of figures. Of the byøbu known with this subject, it is cur-rently regarded as the earliest that survives. Its author remains a mystery, as is normally the case among yamato-e artists before 1600. Nevertheless, it has a distinguished history of ownership dating back to the sixteenth-century Tokugawa family, whose paulownia crest appears in gold lacquer on a saddle in the left screen. Size: Image: 146.1 x 346.6 cm (57 1/2 x 136 7/16 in.); Overall: 163.3 x 363 cm (64 5/16 x 142 15/16 in.); Closed: 163.8 x 62.3 x 11.5 cm (64 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); Panel: 160.3 x 60.5 cm (63 1/8 x 23 13/16 in.); with frame: 163.3 x 366 cm (64 5/16 x 144 1/8 in.) Medium: Six-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper

https://clevelandart.org/art/1934.373.1

[365creativechallenge]

365 Creative Challenge

2020 has been a hell of a ride. But I want to try something different for 2021. I want to get back to my creative roots. I used to write all the time, I wanna get back in that habit.

So, here’s the idea:

I have created 365 (and then some) prompts for me in 2021. The aim is, each day I will pick one at random (except 1. and 365) and I will do something creative with that prompt. 

I might write something, cook something, sew something. It might not get completely finished that same day because #life and also my job is going to keep me busy. But the point of it is that I will have 365 days of doing SOMETHING creative.

So, here is my list. Hopefully under the cut. Feel free to follow me on this journey. We’ll see what happens!

1.       The beginning

2.       Butterfly

3.       Jay bird

4.       Pumpkin

5.       Yellow

6.       War

7.       Talisman

8.       Fish

9.       Quote to live by

10.   Haiku

11.   Three best words

12.   Song lyric

13.   Garden

14.   Award

15.   So weird

16.   Comfort food

17.   Dull

18.   Challenge

19.   Fruit

20.   Hope

21.   Sidekick

22.   Three wishes

23.   A magic spell

24.   Sloth

25.   Cider

26.   You and what army?

27.   Happy place

28.   Slug

29.   Sailor Moon

30.   Vanilla

31.   Family

32.   Dragon

33.   Goodbye

34.   Insanity

35.   Mermaid

36.   Whisper

37.   Brilliant

38.   Overgrown

39.   Autumn

40.   Break away

41.   Forgotten

42.   Wear it

43.   Heart of glass

44.   Sprint

45.   Wild

46.   Invisible

47.   Birthday

48.   Japanese

49.   King

50.   Spill your guts

51.   Villain

52.   Beyond the Oath

53.   Sun

54.   The locket

55.   Tomorrow

56.   Leather

57.   Rumour

58.   Vent

59.   Sin

60.   Rawr

61.   Slaughter

62.   Dog

63.   Dungeons and Dragons

64.   Forgiveness

65.   Thrill

66.   Enemies

67.   Sex

68.   Cheat

69.   Crime

70.   Betrayal

71.   Mute

72.   Chink in your armour

73.   Legend

74.   Gold

75.   Snail

76.   Angel

77.   Forest

78.   Eyes

79.   Breathe

80.   Demon

81.   Dragon

82.   Tiefling

83.   Magpie

84.   Secret

85.   Original character

86.   Queen

87.   Hunter

88.   Error

89.   Tame

90.   Bride

91.   Letter to my future self

92.   Blackmail

93.   Bright

94.   Stolen

95.   Envy

96.   Twin

97.   Eternal

98.   Cat

99.   Just one night

100.            Treasure

101.            Chibi

102.            Freedom

103.            Chains

104.            Gems

105.            Bravo

106.            Moon

107.            Apocalypse

108.            Hate

109.            Circle

110.            Float

111.            Strong

112.            Sinking

113.            Legend of Zelda

114.            Help

115.            Ghost

116.            Cliff

117.            Letter

118.            Tickets

119.            Adventure

120.            Rescue

121.            Advice

122.            Transformed

123.            Coral

124.            Flooded

125.            Blank page

126.            Happiness

127.            Shiver

128.            Fist

129.            Lullaby

130.            Rainy day

131.            Found

132.            Dusk

133.            Can you hear me?

134.            Delivered

135.            The gift

136.            Post man

137.            Wtf?

138.            My hero

139.            Roses

140.            The Woman in the Portrait

141.            Frail

142.            Shadow

143.            Survival

144.            Water

145.            Twilight

146.            Shield of Oak

147.            Friends

148.            Sugar and Spice

149.            Eulogy

150.            Greed

151.            I will never regret…

152.            Ancient

153.            Sacred

154.            Guilty

155.            The Blood in the Winter

156.            Locked

157.            Stars

158.            Imagination

159.            Mine

160.            Cosy

161.            Absent

162.            Shoes

163.            I found a key…

164.            Pastel

165.            First step

166.            Who are you?

167.            Anxiety

168.            Drunk

169.            Out of breath

170.            Wet

171.            No entry

172.            Stiff

173.            Mist

174.            Frozen

175.            Paladin’s shrine

176.            Metamorphosis

177.            Pokémon

178.            No pen

179.            Hello

180.            Dear Diary…

181.            Dawn

182.            Purple

183.            Wooden

184.            The new guy

185.            Temptation

186.            Blur

187.            Horses

188.            Hero

189.            Always

190.            Necklace

191.            Runaway

192.            Death

193.            Gunshot

194.            Free delivery

195.            Laughter

196.            Hustle

197.            Luck

198.            Love

199.            Video games

200.            Moonlight

201.            Mirror

202.            Flicker

203.      ��     Disease

204.            Scribe

205.            Unopened

206.            Rainbow

207.            Night

208.            Day

209.            Dreams

210.            Sushi

211.            Five years from now…

212.            Fire

213.            Blind

214.            Don’t look down

215.            Surprise me

216.            Daughter

217.            Ripples

218.            Harry Potter

219.            Zodiac

220.            Childhood

221.            Tarot

222.            Apart

223.            Memory

224.            The Lightning Heavens

225.            Train

226.            Snow

227.            Ocean

228.            Revelation

229.            Handful of light

230.            Beach

231.            Blue

232.            You bastard.

233.            Summer

234.            Dizzy

235.            Teacher

236.            Call your name

237.            History

238.            Plague

239.            Paradise

240.            Starry night

241.            Horror

242.            Lunar

243.            Hunger

244.            Quiet

245.            The clouds gather

246.            Tea

247.            Loud

248.            Peace

249.            LGBTQ+

250.            Bread and honey

251.            Injured

252.            Pier

253.            School

254.            Murder

255.            Nightmare

256.            Curse

257.            Doom

258.            Burning the midnight oil

259.            Spring

260.            Air

261.            Superstition

262.            Lost

263.            Thunder

264.            Heart chains

265.            Magic

266.            Yeet

267.            Spare parts

268.            Candle

269.            Look back

270.            The Oracle in the Sea

271.            Glitter

272.            Innocent

273.            Embrace

274.            Son

275.            Dinosaur

276.            Heal

277.            Immortal

278.            Unexpected kindness

279.            Embers

280.            Earth

281.            Spirit

282.            Me

283.            Strange sign

284.            Tension

285.            Fallen angel

286.            Banned

287.            Silence

288.            Window

289.            Daydreaming

290.            Escape

291.            Succulents

292.            The fight

293.            Giant

294.            Chocolate

295.            Surrender

296.            Potion

297.            Frog

298.            Eclipse

299.            Glass

300.            The three friends

301.            Halo

302.            Siren

303.            Thief

304.            Oracle

305.            Breaking the rules

306.            Tiny

307.            Broken

308.            Voices

309.            Purity

310.            Charm

311.            Drowning

312.            After all this time?

313.            Stunned

314.            Solitary

315.            Infinite

316.            Patience

317.            Regret

318.            Lean on me

319.            Sleep

320.            To catch a dream

321.            Collapse

322.            Wake

323.            Imprisoned

324.            Thief of Smoke

325.            Feather

326.            Constellations

327.            Tired

328.            Coat

329.            Justice

330.            Left hand

331.            Waiting

332.            Reflection

333.            Grey

334.            Threat

335.            Music

336.            Can I come in?

337.            The main character

338.            Space

339.            Impatient

340.            Son of the Devil

341.            Ever a Never After

342.            This time

343.            Get your hands dirty

344.            Fangs

345.            Together

346.            Hidden

347.            Here and now

348.            Spider

349.            Cruel

350.            You knew?

351.            Tangle

352.            Joy

353.            Idea

354.            Revive

355.            Wild things

356.            Half

357.            Glimmer

358.            Storm

359.            Clear

360.            Winter

361.            Puzzle

362.            Sanctuary

363.            Tower

364.            Doubt

365.            The end

Extras

366.            Pour

367.            Drop

368.            Support

369.            Kindness

370.            Friendship

371.            Ransom

372.            Hostage