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i love you, Two Catfish as Street Musicians in the Kashina district, ca 1855 of an unidentified artist, you go so hard

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New Release: 【-Whales In Dream-】 Series

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My ootd for coffee and chat! More stories & pictures on my blog ♥

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Amavel cardigan in four colours

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Sorry ive been busy at work!!

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Simonetta-Visconti Haute Couture Collection Fall/Winter 1952-53. Dorian Leigh in evening dress.

Simonetta-Visconti Collection Haute Couture Automne/Hiver 1952-53. Dorian Leigh en tenue de soirée.

Photo Genevieve Naylor Rome 1952.

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US Vogue November 1, 1952

Ceil Chapman for American Viscose Corporation

Model : Dorian Leigh

vogue archive

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(Friday Night History) Members' Episode 12: Shinsengumi, Part One

By patron request: Part One of a short history of the Shinsengumi, one of the most popular and in my opinion least understood units of the Bakumatsu era in Japan: https://www.patreon.com/posts/friday-night-1-115803469 As you will note, this post is the first post on Patreon that I have enabled for individual sale. Given the topic it covers, I thought that might be a good idea. This is an…

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Kiyomasa and Tiger - Twelve Months of Geographical Names

Toyohara Kunichika - c. 1890's

"Chimei Juni ka Getsu no Uchi" (Twelve Months of Geopraphical Names)

November

Kabuki actor Ichikawa Sadanji is in the role of Kato Kiyomasa battling against a tiger. The landscape in the ogi-fan shape inset was done by Kyosai.

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On the Tohoku Roots of the Typhlosion Tale (Analyzing the Pokemon Leak, Part One)

Historical and cultural context for the recent Pokemon leaks

Yesterday, as I write this, I was tagged into some analysis of a Pokemon leak on Bluesky. I haven’t actively kept up with Pokemon since stadium was new. In the time since, I have earned a doctorate in Japanese history and regularly included study of Japanese rural folklore in my research. So what follows is my historian’s analysis of the stories in the leaked document, one at a time, adding…

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Folks, in the midst of the Internet Archive's outage, I am reminded of both its importance as well as my preference for having paper copies of books I regularly use, or locally saved digital downloads of them. That being the case, you can support my work by helping me acquire something specific via the link above. Thanks for making everything I do possible.

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Ascent, Shiodome 汐留