#kanze

[horsegirlzero]

all my toxic otps have one dynamic:

the selfish one x the selfless one

[habuku-kokoro]

[tanuki-kimono]

Fantastic greens for this tsuwabuki (leopard plant, Japanese silverleaf) themed summer outfit.

The kimono has a kanzemizu (swirling water pattern, originated from Kanze school of Noh) ground, while the obi also presents kikyo (Chinese bellflower) over ryuusui (running water/stream).

[roseillith]

KANAWA // THE IRON CROWN (1972) dir. KANETO SHINDO

[kyotodreamtrips]

Tenkawa Daibenzaiten-sha is located Deep in the Mountains of Nara-ken.

[yathrib]

بعالم افتراضي

بقع بحبل نظراتي

وانا اراكي بـ انا

راضي راضي

بأحزاني راضي

بأمراضي راضي

[trashexplorer]

BLCD Review: Kuroe to Mesu no Sono

Title: Kuroe to Mesu no Sono (クロエと雌の園)

Author/Artist: Chifuyu

Release Date: 2021/11/26

Cast:

Tachibana Shinnosuke x Yamaya Yoshitaka

Masuyama Takeaki

Komatsu Shouhei

Kakiage Haruna

Aikawa Natsuki

Kisui Shio

Shibuya Ayano

Fujisaki Yuuta

Amano Hirosato

Kanze Noriaki

Synopsis: Sonogi, an employee at the host club "Eden," is in the biggest crisis of his life. He's woken up with female parts in addition to his male ones! After hearing that the number one host at the club, Kuroe, with his beautiful face, baritone voice, and relentlessly womanizing nature, went to med school, Sonogi tries confiding to him in private. Not only does Kuroe wildly misunderstand him, he's weirdly intrigued. Even after hearing Sonogi's story, he's still keen to "study" up on what's happening inside Sonogi's pants! A scary-faced, lovable psychopath toys with a vulnerable, shaved, and untouched new "girl" in this gender-bending romance!

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You know, for however stupid that initial plot was, Kuroe to Mesu was actually, dare I say, great.

I know. It’s annoying lmao.

On the surface, it’s like something Momose An or Takasaki Bosco would pull, but it’s unnecessarily deep. 😂 It’s like Ouran High but smutty BL. There. I said it. It doesn’t help that Tachi’s execution of Kuroe was very Mamo-chan Tamaki. I can’t say I can fully forgive the stupid futanari plot, but this shit was funny when it was funny and sad when it was sad. The BLCD’s much more dynamic for obvious reasons, but it maintains the same energy throughout both paper and audio, so I recommend reading the manga along.

Anyway, onto the technicalities,

Dang. Welcome back, Papá Tachi. I was initially annoyed with this casting ‘cause y’all know Tachi’s one of my fave bottoms of all time (Ten Count hello???), and I hate that he only ever gets top roles whenever he comes back to the scene. But if y’all know me, I’m also a whore.

MY GOD. IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE I’VE HEARD CHAOTIC TACHI. I really went from “stop it, Tachi” to “step on me, Tachi” back there lmaooooo. It’s like I forgot that one of my fave BLCDs was Shihaisha no Koi where he tops Hirarin (which you should all listen to if you haven’t ‘cause FUCK). I also put him in the “sounds like a bottom but will top you 100%” and “younger guy that will 100% dubcon you”. HIS NAME IS LITERALLY TACHI YANNO (also look at just how accurate my lists are). 😂 Kuroe’s much more of a sadist kookoo-path than Rasheed who’s much more of an ass who thinks he’s hot shit just ‘cause he’s the prince yanno, so there is a bit of a difference in how Tachi performed them. Though, I am sure movic cast him as Kuroe with said performance in mind. I’ve read the manga before I listened to the BLCD and I did have a different idea of how Kuroe would sound like, but when Tachi hit me with that first “Sonomeroooo” I just fell in love. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA SONOMEROOOO I WILL NEVER GET OVER IT. I might not love Kuroe as a character, but shit, this was such a genius portrayal I can’t.

As for Yamati, I can’t believe it’s been 4 years since I last heard him HAHAHAHA THE FUCK. I remember him performing well in Knocking, but he was just ill-suited to that role that it spazzed me out. Thankfully, he was perfect for Sonomero here and had great chemistry with Tachi. Now that’s how you cast! True to his Hanae Natsuki range, the dang man showcased just how good he could squeak here. And even though I majorly dislike those types of bottoms that kinda tread the line of girl almost losing their minds during sex in hentai, Yamati made it so that I didn’t hate Sonomero in bed too much. Tachi himself has stated that he was very impressed with Yamati performing so well when he hadn’t been around that much. Idk. Maybe you’re born with it, maybe it’s Yamati. 

Again, both the manga and BLCD are good buys. In terms of accuracy, though, I’m not sure if censorship is different when it comes to BLCDs, but they had to censor a lot of graphic dialogue in the BLCD and change them into something else. This would’ve been a good Japanese anatomy class (I’m serious) but unfortunately, it becomes more abstract in the BLCD. I did have a few issues with their timing of the bgm (just movic being movic). That scene when the sad piano music played when Sonomero quit and Kurose chases after him— I laughed out loud when it stopped when Kurose went back in to resign then immediately start up again when he came back. Like wtf??? HAHAHAHAHA. But that’s about it. I 100% recommend this if you’re looking for stupid porn with sad plot. I don’t believe I have anything that’s similar in ratio, though, so this might be a first of its kind. 

[thejoyofseax]

Apple Experiments in Arabic Medieval Cookery

Today, at Dun in Mara's Arts & Sciences Day, my ward Gabrielle and I tried out two of the recipes we're looking at for Féile na nÚll. Both are Arabic, one from al-Warraq, one from the Kanz, both from Nasrullah's translations.

From the Kanz, we did Receipe 119, tuffāḥiyya bi-zaʿfarān (meat with apple and saffron). It's a fairly simple stew of meat (lamb, in this case) and apples, with spices, and a thickener made of vinegar, sugar and wheat starch. For a variety of reasons, we had a few substitutions in there - the wheat starch was replaced with rice flour, the saffron with turmeric, and the aṭrāf al-ṭīb spice mix was definitely debatable in its makeup (spikenard replaced with fennel, and the lisān al-ʿaṣāfīr (fruit of Syrian ash) replaced with a little Sichuan pepper). It came out pretty good, I think, although the three kinds of pepper (long pepper, black pepper, sichuan pepper) put it at the edge of some people's spice tolerance, so I'll want to go easy on those for larger amounts. From my own point of view, the betel leaf in the aṭrāf al-ṭīb was strong enough to be distinctly tastable in the end product, even though there was only a tiny amount in there. But overall, it was a good stew, and with some adjustments to the spicing, I'll make it again. I probably won't look to include saffron in it; the amount won't really carry much taste against the peppers and betel and cloves, and the colour is adequately provided by the turmeric.

From al-Warraq, we did a ḵẖabīṣ of apples from Chapter 95 (except with apricots, because getting dried apples proved impossible, for no good reason I can imagine except the mysteries of supply lines). From the recipes around it, and from the words used in the translations, I expected the outcome to be a thick mousse, or thereabouts. What we got was a slightly apricot flavoured toffee, pretty much. It was good, but it was very unexpected.

Now, there were a number of substitutions (most notably apricot for apple, walnut oil for the almond and pistachio, and rice flour for wheat starch), any of which may have made it go weird; we didn't have anything like the exact utensils described, and we had no idea of how thick it should have been in the pot. I think our substitutions were ok (all were made in the context of recipes in the same chapter), and I don't think we went too far from the the instructions. However, I don't think we added nearly enough oil. There are actual amounts given in the recipe, for once, which makes that an even more egregious error, but they do look like vast amounts in proportion. So when we're trying that recipe again, we'll use more oil (and also see if we can get the proper apple powder, almond oil and pistachio oil).

There were about 20 people at the gathering, and everyone I spoke to declared themselves happy with the stew, and some quite delighted with the toffee-ish-stuff. So in terms of feeding people ("Pelican cookery"), we did good. More experimental results as we have them!

[clemsfilmdiary]

Pitfall / Otoshiana (1962, Hiroshi Teshigahara)

おとし穴　（勅使河原）

11/6/22

[horsegirlzero]

anybody got any idea what a good otp tag for kaname x zero would be??

[habuku-kokoro]

[tanuki-kimono]

Striking antique summer weave outfit, pairing bold kanzemizu (water swirls) kimono, with a golden araiso (wave-beaten shore​ with jumping carps) obi

[viart]

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[kyotodreamtrips]

Tenkawa Daibenzaiten-sha is located Deep in the Mountains of Nara-ken.

[radiogornjigrad]

CHRISTINE KANZ – PAMĆENJE EMOCIJA

KNJIŽEVNI SPOR OKO CHRISTE WOLF IZ PERSPEKTIVE NJENIH POSLJEDNJIH TEKSTOVA . Konačni dokazi pristigli su povodom njenog pogreba i naknadne javne ceremonije. Christa Wolf je preminula 1 Decembra 2011 godine u Berlinu. Ne-prisustvo intelektualaca, političara i kolega sa Zapada toga jutra na berlinskom groblju Dorotheenstadt i naveče na berlinskoj Akademiji umjetnosti bilo je zapanjujuće; Günther…

[trashexplorer]

BLCD Review: Risouteki Renai Jouken

Title: Risouteki Renai Jouken (理想的恋愛の条件)

Author/Artist: Haida Nanako

Release Date: 2021/11/24

Cast: 

Satou Takuya x Taku Yashiro

Fujita Nao

Amano Hirosato

Ikuta Hikaru

Kanze Noriaki

Kurose Yuuko

Shibuya Ayano

Yuina Mizuki

Synopsis: Katagiri's new editor was looking forward to working with his talented, handsome boss Nishiwaki. However, for some reason, he ended up in a sticky situation with Nishiwaki. Can the incident be blamed on the vicissitudes of love? The answer is unknown… On top of that; Katagiri is also treated like a jerk…!

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My expectations were so fucking low.

And it truly served me that real lowness. Thank you very much. 

I mean, sorry Haida Nanako the art alone already looks like this whole shebang was a 2003 revival. Iz like a mix between Hasumi Hana and Minami Haruka lmao both art and plot-wise. It was really just your run-of-the-mill rapist boss top and spineless subordinate bottom combo. The one where they’ll just make the bottom mess up so the top gets an excuse to be appreciated after all his assholery so that the bottom apologizes to him and catches feelings. Anyway, the set-ups here are so damn stupid too, I had to laugh most of the time. Even their first encounter was so dumb ‘cause Nishiwaki drags the drunk Katagiri to bed, sees how he ticks his Miley Cyrus’ 7 Things I Like About You That Are Just Things I Hated In My Ex, assaults him in his sleep, and REDOES HIS DISHEVELLED WINDSOR TIE AFTER HE’S DONE.

I will say tho, dumbass plot aside, that this was okay production wise. Sans the bgm that sounds like it was ripped from Project Makeover. The sequence was pretty accurate to the manga, and of course our boys delivered as always. I was expecting Satotaku to use a tone somewhat close to his Shinobu, so I was really surprised when it came out more Daath. And it kinda... sounded like Ishikawa Kaito lmaoooo. Ishikawa Kaito in like an R-18 otome cd. I SAID WHAT I SAID. 

Anyway, I guess if you’re bored and have nothing else to listen to, then I won’t judge you for picking this up. It’s good for Japanese studies too. Beginners, welcome! If you want something similar tho... uhhh... to my recollection, there’s only one other suits/fashion oriented BLCD released in recent years. Saville Row. Yuck. What is it with fashion BL, really? I think I’m the one in need of good recs for this one. 😂