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Kosode Soga, from the series “Pictures of No Performances (Nogaku Zue)”, Tsukioka Kôgyo, 1893, Art Institute of Chicago: Asian Art

Frederick W. Gookin Collection Size: Approx. 25.2 x 37.4 cm (10 x 14 4/3 in.) Medium: Color woodblock print

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/154951/

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Furisode specialty store Ondine 

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Snow & Hiroshige ❄️

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Japanese hair accessory. Floral Hair Ornaments. - Cherry Blossom. Kanzashi - by Sakae, Japan

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“A Winter Party” by Utagawa Toyoharu (1735-1814). Color and gold on silk. Gift of Charles Lang Freer

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James Tissot [1836–1902] 

Holyday [1876]

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Delicate early Spring kimono in light tones, depicting lovely butterflies among plum blossoms. The obi has embroidered botan (peony) and ayame (iris)

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Girly outfit with romantic sakura (cherry blossom) furisode, and auspicious patterns obi (phoenix/hôô, karahana/Chinese flower, diamond clouds/kumobishi).

You can also see here fluffy looking shibori obiage (sash) and haneri (decorative collar). Traditionally shibori is considered pretty formal and worn by young girls/ladies.

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Historical Fashion Details in Art: ca.1625-1630

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Fashion on Canvas, No. 25

Portrait of a lady as Diana, Jan Mijtens, 1600s

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Fashion on Canvas, No. 55

Portrait of Elizabeth, Sister of Thomas, Lord Viscount Wenman, and Wife of Grevile Verney, Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck, 1600s

oil on canvas

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You don't like bows? How sad...

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Jews are Indigenous

On Indigenous Peoples Day, this is a friendly reminder that Jews are indigenous to Israel. That Jewish traditions, the historical records, the archology, genetic studies all support this.

That Hebrew is the last Canaanite language spoken in the world today, meaning that the Jews speaking it today in Israel are the last speakers of the land’s indigenous language.

That erasing Jewish history and the very forming of Jewish identity, language, religion, values and customs in the Jewish ancestral homeland is a distortion of historical fact and a denial of indigenous rights.

That Jews do fit the UN criteria for indigenous people in Israel.

That those who started the narrative that erases Jewish indigeneity in Israel, implying Jews have no place that they are indigenous to, are interested in the destruction of Israel as the one Jewish state, meaning they are supporting the dispossession of the indigenous people of this land.

This following link isn’t the usual pile of proof I would normally add to support each claim, but for now it will do. Because I need to make this statement. Because it is incredibly distressing to see the indigeneity of the Jews being erased and denied on the very day that celebrates indigenous people and should include them.

https://www.newsweek.com/are-jews-indigenous-people-heres-what-native-american-jew-thinks-opinion-1539233

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I don't think it really hits for most people how much topsoil is an incredibly depleted resource that is virtually nonrenewable under current land management practices.

Topsoil you buy at a garden center most likely is not real topsoil, but rather simply compost mixed with sand. Many people have never touched topsoil. In vast swathes of inhabited land, topsoil simply does not exist anymore.

On the lawn care subreddit, people will occasionally be alarmed that their soil feels "mushy" and "soft" after the addition of lots of organic matter, or post something greatly alarmed about the area of "soft" soil in their yard.

These people would shit their pants in awe if they felt the soil in a forest. Their frame of reference for "soil" is so completely, sadly spoiled by compacted, concrete-like lawn dirt. This is a big reason I'm "anti-lawn." Lawns consistently have some of the worst, most devastated soil imaginable.

Topsoil is a LIVING community of microbes, plant roots, decaying organic matter, and perhaps most importantly of all, fungal mycelium. You cannot buy it. You cannot synthesize it. No amount of fertilizer will turn compacted lawn dirt into topsoil. It takes a hundred years to build one inch of topsoil.

In the USA, prairie soil was plowed up to make fields, and we all learned about the Dust Bowl in school, but we don't talk enough about the fact that plowing up the prairies engulfed half the country in devastating dirt storms that turned the sky black and had people choking and coughing up dirt all the time and sweeping deep drifts of dirt out of their houses. Like that happened. Damn.

What we did was something utterly devastating, the near total destruction of hundreds and hundreds of years' worth of an irreplaceable natural resource. And it's happened all over the country. We will never comprehend how much we lost when we lost the topsoil.

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For real, it drives me nuts when people act like I’m “behind the times” for still collecting physical movies and books.

Like when I blind bought Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange on bluray and the classmate who recommended it to me looked at me like I confessed to writing on stone tablets.

“But it’s on Netflix!”

And guess what was taken off of Netflix a few months later?

I like watching my movies when I want to watch them.

And you know what else? I like not depending on the internet to watch things. The internet in my apartment? Dodgy as hell. There are periods where streaming won’t even pull up on my TV because the internet will blip for 5-10 minutes. And it gets REALLY annoying when you’re in the middle of a show.

Also, there are people who live in more rural areas who can’t get decent internet either. Those people tend to still use cable and rent a lot of DVDs from the library.

So yeah, between streaming companies censoring content and pulling stuff down, and the internet not always being consistent, long live physical media.

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EMERALD GREEN CUT VELVET CAPE, 1870’s - 1880’s. 

Velvet triangle having a deep floral border with cord and velvet trim having knotted fringe and quilted silk lining.