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Some underappreciated Toho kaiju.

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KAMACURAS

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Superman confronts his archenemy, Lex Luthor, in this colorized still autographed by Luthor actor Lyle Talbot.

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Ornella Muti as Princess Aura - Flash Gordon (1980)

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Hashiguchi Goyô, Woman in Blue Combing Her Hair (1920)

The girl, twenty – her black hair flows through her comb, how arrogant, how beautiful her spring!

Yosano Akiko, tr. Hiroaki Sato (Japanese)

Lying alone, my black hair tangled, uncombed, I long for the one who touched it first.

Izumi Shikibu, tr. Jane Hirshfield and Mariko Aratani (Japanese)

Will he love me forever? There’s no way I can tell. Since sun-rise my thoughts have been as disheveled as my black hair.

Lady Horikawa, tr. I. W. Furukami (Japanese)

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Mike Hinge, 1973.

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Yvonne Craig as Batgirl - Batman (1967)

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Stjepan Sejic - Zatanna

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“Merchant’s Daughter” by Mizuno Toshikata (1866-1908). Based on a Japanese fairy-tale called the “cat guardian” or “the story of the faithful cat”. The young daughter of a rich wine merchant in Osaka, was constantly followed around by the family’s tom-cat. The father, thinking that the tom-cat had fallen in love with his daughter and planned to bewitch her, determined to kill the cat at the first opportunity. However, the cat appeared to his master in a dream, telling him that it was a giant rat living in his granary which was in love with his daughter, and that the cat was following the young girl to protect her. The cat told his master that he was no match for the rat by himself, but there was a famous cat named Buchi (Spots, Speckles or Mottles) that his master should borrow and that the two cats would defeat the monster rat. The master did as the cat asked, both cats went into the granary and fought a fierce battle with the monster rat, and although the rat was killed, both cats were so badly injured that they died from their wounds. The two cats were buried with honours in the neighbouring temple, and the family still celebrated the death of the valiant cat one hundred years after the event. (see: www.archive.org/stream/talesofoldjapan00redeuoft#page/252…)

— from Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/blue_ruin_1/9722045328/in/photostream/

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Ogawa Kazumasa / kazama 小川一眞 (1860 - 1929) photographe japonais

1895, Japanese Costume Before the Restoration, Photographed by K. Ogawa

photos :

1 - court lady of the fujiwara period / Heian period

2 - High vassal of the Fujiwara period / Heian period

3 - A nobleman of the fujiwara period / Heian period

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Elstner Hilton (1887 - ?) photographe

Photos extraites d'un album composé par Elstner Hilton au Japon entre 1914 et 1918.