#japan apartment

[nipahnan]

[zegalba]

A bedroom inside the Nakagin Capsule Tower Building by Kisho Kurokawa (1972)

[bevioletskies]

meanwhile, william and est:

[maxpawb]

remedies for depersonalization

[arc-hus]

Apartment Building, Tokyo - Yuko Nagayama

[pichichustudios]

Kiss kiss ❤️

[takeuchiitsuka]

#9373 Copyright © Takeuchi Itsuka. All Rights Reserved.

[nipahnan]

[sunburnacoustic]

I first came into contact with musical instruments when I was around 6 years old, when I started playing with the piano we had at home as a toy, so I didn't learn how to play formally. I started playing an instrument purely for my own enjoyment.

My parents had such a painful past, so they tried to create an environment where I could discover the joy of music in a more natural way. They didn't pressure me to take piano or guitar lessons every day, but instead encouraged me to just naturally start playing with the instruments around me when I liked them, and eventually discover the joy of playing them myself. Thanks to that, my relationship with music is still very positive. I'm very grateful to my parents in that sense.

I did learn some rudimentary playing techniques on the clarinet during music lessons at school when I was in primary school, though. That's the only time I've ever had any kind of formal lessons on an instrument.

Everything else was self-taught, whether it was the guitar, which I started playing when I was about 11 or 12 out of curiosity, or the Hammond organ, Mellotron and synths, which I gradually got into after I started playing in school bands.

—Matt Bellamy on his relationship with music growing up | Rockin' On Magazine, Sept 2012, interviewed by Yukiko Kojima

taken from @cherrylng's scans here.

[courtmartialme]

can we see your royai shrine?

humble but built with so much love

[davetada]

Myriad of apartments

Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

[nataliliv]

Villa - Interior Design, Japan Style, Best Exterior 2024 japanstyle

[athenaismdb]

[takeuchiitsuka]

#9394 Copyright © Takeuchi Itsuka. All Rights Reserved.

[probablygayattorneys]

Has anyone here ever seen Whisper of the Heart? It's a pretty good film, though admittedly has a weird focus on Take Me Home, Country Roads, but anyway, to those who aren't familiar, a subplot in it features an old man who runs an antique shop and a figurine he has of a cat in a suit named the Baron (the Baron also appears in the movie The Cat Returns which is absolutely excellent, I cannot suggest it highly enough, the English dub features the guy from Princess Bride and Anne Hathaway!). It's revealed over the course of the movie that the Baron is actually part of a set and there's a Baroness. When he was living in Germany, he and his sweetheart Luisa fell in love with the Baron but the owner refused to sell him without the Baroness, who had been sent away for repairs. Finally, Luisa convinced him to sell the man the Baron and when the Baroness was repaired, she would buy her, and then when he was able to return, both pairs would be reunited. So he leaves for Japan with the Baron, but then World War II breaks out, and he's unable to return until after the war, and when he does, he can't find Luisa and it's heavily implied she died, but we do have a picture of the two figurines in the movie.

But, since we don't know for sure that Luisa died, just that she was German, I propose that instead she married another German and passed the Baroness on to her daughter, who then gave it to her daughter, and so on until we get to the present day. What evidence do I have for my theory?

[bluenightlights]

waterfront scene, Tokyo