Apparently this is Posting Week.

I have a folder full of gig reports and travel write-ups and photo posts at anything from 10% - 98% complete... :| Most of this was written a couple months ago, after watching three previously unseen Ghibli films in one weekend. (Looking back I never seem to post about films here. Huh.) No real spoilers.

( Umi ga kikoeru (Ocean Waves) )

Reading up on female writers of the Meiji and Taisho periods was not where I expected to run into the term "doujinshi". But it's short for "doujin zasshi" (for non-Japanese speakers, "group magazine", roughly) and originally the doujin in question were literary societies/salons/circles. They sprung up during the Meiji period, organized around ( Read more... )

( Kame no Ongaeshi, 05/02 )

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