#Japanese silverleaf

[tanuki-kimono]

MOST ADORABLY CHEEKY corvid (maybe a young miyamagarasu/rook?) embroidered obi, paired with a lovely blue ground kimono with large tsuwabuki (Japanese silverleaf)

[myxbxsidexlifexfourxseasons]

長久保公園 藤沢市 四阿（あずまや）付近 ツワブキ

富士フィルム X-E1 XF35mmF2R WR

※近隣のモールにてランチ：幸楽苑の背脂中華そば※

[lunarharp]

love's shadow will surround - 6k T orufrey fic about a witch and a silverleaf

He's left the lights of his small house on, his tiny atelier, waiting - he likes to see the glint of it on the leaves, his light reach the tree here. Give him what he can. It's always a comfort.

But when his physical senses are dulled, it brings it all back like fog, the flashes of memory. Of that day, all of them around the twisted body. He cups a few straggling branches, letting the hurt filter through him, almost as if keen to. They called him the Witch of Light in those days, eulogise his work still - but that was his masterpiece.

[typhlonectes]

Shodo Kawarazaki - "Japanese Silverleaf"

woodblock print, c. 1930-39

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nightshade C

B test still has yet to appear on the wikipedia list, presumably relating to reliability of sources, since i could only ever find it on defense daily and exchange monitor (paywalled). interestingly, my third source, NNSA director jill hruby's twitter, appears to have been wiped. unarchived on wayback. guess i should have saved a screenshot when she announced a test there the same day it occurred (B, i think)

this is all a bit academic since nightshade has been known as a trilogy of tests, to follow silverleaf (proof of concept), in the red sage program, since at least 2016 (from the nightshade A wikipedia citation), and we have since moved on to wolfsbane and hemlock (no source available, but logically, wolfsbane was completed in 2021, so we've probably moved onto another as yet un-de-classified test)

it is, after all, a FOIA-exempt topic

but, much like the congressional investigation that effectively promoted senator truman into the line of succession for the presidency... you can misname a line item, and you can put it in black-budget expenditures, but it is very difficult to hide the outward cashflow altogether. and anyway they usually don't bother misnaming or black-budgeting it (search results for FY 2022, since 2021 is now declassified, but i haven't found anything yet, and DOE search is more like a shotgun than a laser)

for the layman audience: subcritical testing is not the same as launch vehicle testing, neither of which are the same as explosive tests

[anonymousedward]

1. Number of works on ao3? 64

2. Total ao3 wordcount? 917,125

3. What fandoms do you write for? One punch man, ok ko let's be heroes, resident evil, detroit become human... i even wrote a supernatural fic!

4. Top fics by kudos?

5. Do you respond to comments? Every single one. You take time to comment, I'll take time to respond.

6. Fic with the angstiest ending? Probably The Silverleaf Horror. I don't think it's particularly angsty, but idk.

7. Fic with the happiest ending? They're all pretty happy, tbh. I think Seraphim Story stands out a bit though.

8. Do you get hate on fics? I've gotten a few nitpicky comments, but no outright hate, i don't think?

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Yes. Most of my fics have smut. Lots of male/male stuff, though I'm most "famous" (for a given value of fame) for my monsterfuckery. I'm always pleased when i get comments like "i hope this doesn't awaken anything in me" or "new kink acquired!"

10. Do you write crossovers? Nah. Not much opportunity. Most of my fics aren't particularly heavy on plot, if you know what i mean.

11. Stolen fic? No, thankfully.

12. Fic translated? People have asked to translate my fics, but never sent me any links or anything.

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before? No. I planned to with Kakera but neither of us knew how to do it.

14. All time favorite ship? Mumarou got me into writing again, so it's got a special place in my heart.

15. A WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? A slenderman!ethan winters/heisenberg fic. I wrote it in discord over months but it's hard to find the pieces, let alone rewrite it.

16. Writing strength? I actually enjoy writing smut a lot. I've also been told I'm good at dialogue.

17. Writing weakness? Action scenes. Any sort of heavy plot. Plot is just the filler connecting smut scenes, to me. I'm trying to branch out more, at least a little.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language? As a certified weeb, I've seen fics with bits of romanized Japanese in them. Most of them were by younger writers and, well, i was a younger reader back then and that was the style. These days, it doesn't suit my style. Maybe a word or two, especially if i know a native speaker who can confirm that it makes sense - a curseword/phrase, a concept with no english equivalent, that sort of thing.

19. First fandom you wrote for? First stuff published on ao3 is One Punch Man. First ever? Yugioh. Never published anywhere, just typed up on Word, lol.

20. Favorite fic I've ever written? Hmmm... Summer Heat was my first Big Fic. That one is super special to me.

Thank you for tagging me!

Fic tag game!

tagged by my Master @sunwarmed-ash

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

33 (plus 1 draft) 😊

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

145,720 🤓

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Detroit become human (still looooove it) 🤖

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

ʙᴇғᴏʀᴇ, ᴀғᴛᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ɴᴏᴡ (Reed900) / 161

ᴅʀᴜɴᴋ (Reed900) / 130

ᴄᴏɴɴᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ (HankCon) / 123

ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴇsᴛ ɢɪғᴛ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs ᴄᴀᴍᴇ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴅ (Reed900) / 119

ᴄᴏɴɴᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜ (HankCon) / 115

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yesss 🤩 My heart always skips a beat when I get one! It makes me sooo happy and I just have to say thank you, that's the least I can do.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

sɪʟᴇɴᴄᴇ - Refers to the end when Connor is on the container...and you know….

ᴛʜᴇ sᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴏғ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ - Nines was eight years old when his mother tried to kill him…

I can't decide!!! 😅👉🏻👈🏻

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

ᴄᴏɴɴᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ - loooove! 💗

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Yes -.- Annoying…and sad...🥺💔

9. Do you write smut? If so what kind?

Lololololo~~~ Yes, at least I'm trying my best ;) smutty smut! Simple, you knooooow~ Kinks, prompts, I'm open to anything x3

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Never tried xD

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Puuuh, fortunately not yet!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nooooo~ not that I'm aware of 🤔

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

Nooooo~

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Uff, tough choice. Reed900 is at the top, but now I also love Hankcon, RK1700, Convin…

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Mhmhm, ᴘᴀʏʙᴀᴄᴋ? I have a similar fic going on, so....mhmhmhn...Never say never ☝🏻

16. What are your writing strengths?

Descriptions definitely! I love describing environments, scenes or feelings!

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Uhuuu, dialogues... my dialogues are expandable…

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

As English is not my mother tongue, I do it all the time xD

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Koisuru Boukun (anime/manga)

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

I love all my babies! If I have to choose, ʙᴇғᴏʀᴇ, ᴀғᴛᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ɴᴏᴡ.

@leelany-world @negative-citadel @moviemuncherao3 @nothinggathers @andthekitchensinkao3 @anonymousedward @glass-noodle @connorsjorts @glxyqst

[sqb]

[huariqueje]

Night Scene 3 -    Hajime Namiki, 2019.

Japanese, b.1947-

Colour woodblock  print on silverleaf,  

[hisa-hiro]

size: 227 x 227 x 22 mm #gold #goldleaf #silver #silverleaf #asia #japan #japanese #金箔 #銀箔 #文様 #箔 #亀甲 #毘沙門亀甲 #hisahirofukasawa #深沢尚宏

[littleeyesofpallas]

Revolutionary Girl Utena - Name Games

桐生 Kiryuu 冬芽 Touga

So the basic reading of the surname Kiryuu here is something like “Paulownia Birth/Life/Origin,” referring to the tree, and in conjunction with that meaning either something like where the “Paulownia Tree(s) Grow” as a fairly conventional place name.  But I think there’s kind of a joke in here.  In different contexts [生] can also mean “Student,” which doesn’t immediately make sense here as part of a surname, but the Paulownia tree is also strongly associated with the Prime Minister seat in the Japanese government. (it’s the official seal of the Prime Minister, chosen during the Meiji Restoration and in parallel with the Emperor’s throne being represented by a Chrysanthemum seal)  So although Japan doesn’t have a president, their chief elected official is represented by the Paulownia crest.  So in an obtuse reading, Kiryuu’s last name is a pun on “Student President.”

Touga [冬芽] is a nice super easy one; it means “Winter Bud.“  Appropriate for someone who grew up too early, and into inhospitable circumstances, and with a cold and lonely disposition.  The growing up too soon bit in particular is reflective of his hyper sexual identity as a ladies man, while his refusal (and later apparent inability) to connect with the girls he fools around with are the cold and the lonely parts.  In the Adolescence of Utena movie he is also given an alternative backstory in which he is adopted by his father and sexually abused, giving a new angle to the idea that he grew up too soon, but not by his own choice or natural disposition.

In a stunningly deft move, Ikuhara staged Kiryuu’s childhood rape scene in the movie in a field of what appear to be cabbages, which are a winter blooming crop.  To snag a line out of the wiki page for the broader entry on Cabbage plants:

“Flowering induced by periods of low temperatures (a process called Vernalization: The induction of a plant's flowering process by exposure to the prolonged cold of winter, or by an artificial equivalent.) only occurs if the plant is past the juvenile period... Vernalization allows the plant to grow to an adequate size before flowering.”

Giving a new more highly specific interpretation of the name “Winter Bud,” and the specific implications that name has on Kiryuu’s psycho-sexual development as a teenage sexual assault survivor.

桐生 Kiryuu 七実 Nanami

Nanami’s name is written [七] the number “Seven” and, [実] “Truth” or “Reality.”  Given her somewhat delusional interpretation of her relationship with her brother, I’m tempted to read this as a nod to her fairly persistent denial of reality throughout the story; but if I’m being honest, I don’t think feel like that kind of reading is really Ikuhara’s style.  But apart from that I don’t really know what to make of this name in the context of everything Nanami is and does in the story.  I certainly don’t think Ikuhara didn’t mean anything by it, but I just don’t know what.  Feel free to try and dig into this one yourself if you’ve got an inkling, and let me know what you come up with.

苑田 Sonoda 茎子 Keiko, 大瀬 Oose 優子 Yuko,

& 脇谷 Wakiya 愛子 Aiko

“Garden Field (plant)Stem-child,” “Big Current/Rapids Gentle-child,” and “Side Valley Love-child” respectively.  These names aren’t made to really mean anything on their own, they’re all pretty generic and even normal sounding names for Nanami’s trio of schoolgirl bullies.  BUT! 

...The joke here is that the kanji -ko [子] is a super generic suffix for names (you can basically take any common noun and slap a [子] to turn it from sounding like just word into sounding like a name)  In turn it can almost be ignored when reading a name for its meaning, and what the leaves is that each of the girls also has a name that sounds like a letter.

So, their given names sound like “Girl-K,” “Girl-U,” and “Girl-I.”  This is in the common style of Japanese news reporting or police procedural tropes where anonymity (very often upheld specifically where minors are involved) are referred to as Girl A, Girl B, or Boy A, Boy B, or Child A, etc...  (This is also how the shadow puppet girls in the interludes of the show are named:  A子, B子, C子, F子, and E子.)  So, basically Nanami’s trio of goons are meant to be a halfstep away from being literally faceless extras: Anonymous.

Oh, and together they spell IKU as in Ikuhara Kunihiko [幾原 邦彦] the creator of the show. (I’ll be honest, other than Keiko being the Black Rose duelist in arc two, I can’t actually tell which of the other two is which...)

石蕗 Tsuwabuki 美蔓 Mitsuru

Tsuwabuki [石蕗] is the name of the “Japanese Silverleaf” and Mitsuru [美蔓] reads “Beautiful Vine” or maybe better read as “Beauty Vine.”  The “Vine” part here pretty clearly refers to his clingy nature as Nanami’s little pet goon.  I can’t tell if the meaning is that his clinginess is (in a kind of misguided innocent way) beautiful, or if its beauty that he clings to.

I can’t help but notice that the Farfugium japonicum is in the same Family, Asteraceae, as the Petasites japonicus(The Giant Butterbur); The kanji [蕗] is the general name for Butterbur.  I point this out because the Ainu people of the Hokkaido region have a folk lore creature called a [コロポックル] Koropokkuru, from Ainu words meaning, “(Lives) Under the Butterbur.“  Mythologically they are tiny spirits who live under the broad leaves of the butterbur plant.  They were benevolent spirits who would leave gifts for the Ainu people, but on the condition that they could never be seen.  But I feel like that’s not necessarily an intended reading of that...

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[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).

[validwofhybridnames]

Hi! Prepare to be bombarded with names! Bluejay (silk/sky) Adder (sand/hive adder bug) Silverleaf (leaf/hive silverleaf whitefly) Sakura (rain/leaf, japanese for cherry blossom), Chrysothemis (rain/any, tropical plant), Khione (ice, greek goddess of snow)Umbra (rain/night) Chuparosa (sand/rain), Amber Phantom (silk/night/rain, amber phantom butterfly) Scorpionfly (sand/hive, a real bug) Arcane (night/any)Elodea (leaf/sea), Wood-Nymph (silk/leaf) and Duskywing (silk/night, duskywing butterfly)

:0 ty anon!

[heaveninawildflower]

1) Dove and Mulberry

2) Returning Swallows and Tampala

3) Green Parakeet and Japanese Allspice

4) Chicks and Japanese Silverleaf

5) Manchurian Great Tit and Late Blooming Cherry

6) Japanese White-eye and Persimmon

7) Dusky Thrush and Ground Cherry

8) Kingfisher and Kerria Roses

9) Sparrows and Poppies

10) Wagtail and Narcissus.

Woodblock prints from the series ‘Forty-eight Hawks Drawn from Life’ (1859) by

Nakayama Sûgakudô (Japanese, active 1850–1860). Published by Tsutaya Kichizô (Kôeidô).

Images and text information courtesy MFA Boston.

[reysim]

Sunday January 15/2023

We took a bus to the outskirts of Kyoto Center. Simon had planned a walk along an ancient canal on a route that was mostly flat. Along the way, we saw plenty of shrines and temples. Kyoto is famous for its shrines and temples.

Our first stop was Higashiyama Jisho-ji: this was an unfinished temple that was supposed to be covered in Silverleaf, but never was. The rest of our walk today followed the philosophers path along the canal, with temples and shrines uphill on the left and ancient homes downhill on the right.

The canal contoured across the hillside with cherry trees arching over the canal. It would be a beautiful place to walk when the trees are in blossom.

At one point we met a man making bamboo leaf boats for people to drop into the water. He was offering them to everyone passing. I took one and dropped it to the clear running water of the canal. It sat right on the water, and the man cheered. By this simple act, he made us happy and brought smiles to our faces.

After a few more shrines and temples, I noticed a small shop selling different and unique pieces. Surprisingly, the owner was an artist. He would draw Japanese scenes on pairs of jeans or any other piece of clothing he had for sale. I bought two pieces of fabric suitable to make a child kimono, but I’m going to use them as a wall hanging.

We stopped at small shrine that was ceremoniously burning the festival amulets from the recent New Year’s celebrations. Simon spent some time chatting in English with Ito the head Shinto monk.

After passing through the Eikandocho Gardens and Nanzen-ji temple, we stopped at a brick aqueduct. It carried the water from a canal across a small valley. The scenic structure was being used as a backdrop by numerous young girls in traditional kimono attire.

I spent some time watching those girls and admired their look. Simon helped them with their photographs. We continued on the canal to reach the waterworks and catch a subway back to Kyoto station, where we had a late lunch.

[chuck-clenney]

#tbt to my trip to #tokunoshima a few weeks ago. Another beautiful #amami #island with tons of raw #natural beauty. To say “thank you”, people here say “Oboradaren” おぼらだれん! Pictured here is: - Agon's 300 year old Banyan tree and coral brick wall. 阿権の３００年ガジュマル - Tokunoshima’s deep coral, outside of Yohama Beach. It’s a challenge to swimmers to jump right in and for ships to dock. - Tokunoshima has rich forests, beautiful oceans, endemic species, and has these super long roads that stretch from the mountains to the coasts, all lined with black sugar crops. - Bullfighting is big on Tokunoshima, so the kids take their bulls for daily walks. - Tokunoshima Nakusami Indoor bullfighting venue. 徳之島なくさみ館 “Waido! Waido” is the local bullfighting chant! - Cycad Tunnel in Kanamisaki 金見崎のソテツトンネル - Enjoying the local Amami Cider, made using the local black sugar! These flavors are black sugar vinegar, mint shikuwaza, and regular shikuwaza. Also, these crazy fruits here are called Atemoya アテモヤ、or the "Pineapple Sugar Apple" - Mushiroze ムシロ瀬 - I met this woman and we talked a lot about her life in Tokunoshima and different plants that grow there including Haruichi, which are the first potatoes of the year to be harvested in Japan. Since it was almost new years, she fed me some Tsuwabuki ツワブキ or Japanese Silverleaf. She said everyone eats it around this time for good luck. - I ate some local サザエ Sazae, aka Turbo cornutus or Horned Turban Shell. #tokunoshimaisland #amami #banyantree #ガジュマル #徳之島 #奄美 #島 #山 #サンゴ #海 #bullfighting #bull #lovers_nippon #cycad #ソテツ #闘牛 #ムシロ瀬 #travel #tree (at 徳之島) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtA-1dKBdm0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pt8kejd8n53t

[teruriphoto]

Simplicity #086

🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

One Sunday afternoon

In late November

I took a walk across the pathway

In the mountain village.

I encountered a cluster of

Japanese silverleafs, or Tsuwabuki,

Blooming fully in that hidden path.

How silent !

Air was so pure and clean

Birds were singing

Bright golden yellow of Tsuwabuki

Imbued my heart so brilliantly

Realizing that a fresh winter was

Now just around in this islands nation.

🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴

山間の小径を散策していると

艶葉蕗（つやはぶき）の花が

微笑んでいた。

寂なり。

風は澄み

鳥は囀り

山蕗に

染まる心は

冬の花

🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

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