#books about japan

[bookymcbookface]

Kokoro, by Beth Kempton

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[take-me-to-valhalla]

No self control

[heartshinebeauty]

Currently reading Stranger in the Shogun’s city. Definitely a must read if you like stories set in Edo period.

The book follows Tsuneno from her childhood in Japan’s snowy country through her escape to the shogun’s capital. How a woman used the city to recreate herself as a maidservant, a samurai’s wife and how she and others like her built the global megalopolis we know today.

And for today’s healthy snack, it’s cinnamon apples and home made peanut butter-dates Rilakkuma cups.🧸🍎✨

[sappho-rose]

Aged up E4

[shu-of-the-wind]

The Ainu have not intentionally forgotten their culture and their language. It is the modern Japanese state that, from the Meiji era on, usurped our land, destroyed our culture, and deprived us of our language under the euphemism of assimilation. In the space of a mere 100 years, they nearly decimated the Ainu culture and language that had taken tens of thousands of years to come into being on this earth. ~Kayano Shigeru (1926-2006) Our Land Was a Forest: An Ainu Memoir

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

You were supposed to be talking about Gaza, not fucking silent about it

Now that I have your attention:

[khaopybara]

There are many layers to this.

The official subtitles say "I've heard that P'Khaotung and P'First are close", when Fourth says P'Book. Of course, First and Khaotung are close. Have you seen them?

Khaotung is a shopaholic apparently, but we already knew that. First always says that Khaotung takes him out to shop whenever they are abroad.

Even when First isn't there, he is there somehow.

[kleefkruid]

I'm reading these tattoo history books (because I am an eternal art student that can't do an apprenticeship without being a nerd about it) and because of Japans huge influence on all Western tattooing and it's ties to the yakuza, I am now above averagely educated on yakuza tattoos... But honestly I've never been into reading about organised crime so I don't know shit about anything else yakuza related.

The 'yakuza' section of my brain is now a big folder with tattoo information and images and next to it is just a note titled 'anything I know about the yakuza' which reads: - weirdly chill and accommodating to '50s to '70s American and Dutch tattooers coming over asking all kinds of questions about their tattoos - weirdly chill and accommodating to that guy asking them to review one of the yakuza video games

So my conclusion based on my extremely limited information is that just like on a first date, when communicating with the yakuza you should find some common interests or ask them about themselves. This will go great. what crime.

[lastflunky-draws]

It's the Chick Tract sins but with Lupin III. In 2019 I was in America and saw a Chick Tract with my own two eyes, this was the inspiration for this. You can look at the original under the cut.

[antigonick]

BLUE EYED SAMURAI IS SO GOOD I FREAKED WHEN I SAW YOUR PFP SJFJDJJRF

I KNOW IT FUCKS TO THE MOON AND BACK it's been AGES since I've had such a raw and active watching experience I was on the edge of my seat for the entire time. The writing? Incredible. The animation? The music? The geopolitical commentary? The gender? The physicality? The details? INCREDIBLE. Mizu has never been wrong ONE minute in their life and I personally think unhinged revenge is both normal and stunning behaviour. Next question

[dirtreally]

Guillermo del toro is NOT good enough of a director to warrant how much he gets dicksucked and how quirky he is

[bookymcbookface]

From ‘Zen and Japanese Buddhism’ by Daisetsu T. Suzuki

Quoted in ‘History of Japan’ by Ienaga Saburo

[historicity-was-already-taken]

Me, opening chapter 4 with Operation Barbarossa

[lobotomy-lady]

my cousin has a strong fear of being attacked by a sharks & he was talking about how he's never gonna swim in the ocean ever again & I was like "that's silly, there's 1 fatal shark attack every other year in the US & only around 15 per year in the entire world. unless you're an australian surfer your chances are basically zero" & he was like "hm. fascinating. now tell me about the plane crash stats" -_-

[theclasharchives]

photos from the clash's japan tour book in 1982. full scan here!

[hearthfire-heartfire]

sadako and the thousand paper cranes is a famous true story that, in my early life, was sort of emblematic of how radiation poisoning impacted japan long after the bombs dropped.

it feels foreboding. apparently, statue theft is getting really common for the copper content, but 😓 physical evidence of nikkei history in the US has already been largely stripped and sold for parts.