daydreamer's escapism
you mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
(ask me.)
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1 year ago
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３３３ｍ by eitaro-takeishi on Flickr.
1 year ago
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rainydayintokyo by tapeandfilm on Flickr.
Today, I told my dad that I want to go to Japan again. I miss it so much.
1 year ago
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de Guzman;: Interesting Fact About 千と千尋の神隠し
I’ve noticed that several of my followers are Miyazaki fans, so I thought I share this little tidbit of information with you about Spirited Away.
I always wondered why the symbol “ゆ” (said “yu”) was on the door to the bath house. I asked my Japanese teacher, and he wasn’t too sure so I did a little research.
The symbol is used on the entrance to 温泉 (onsen) and 銭湯 (sento), or Japanese bath houses. The word “yu” is translated to “hot water”. So, makes sense to be on a bath house, yes?
Then I did more reading. During the Edo period, these public baths became popular for men because of women who started working at these communal baths, washing men and selling sex. These bath houses were called “yuna baro”. The woman were known as 湯女, or “yuna”. This directly translates to “hot water woman”. So basically, they were brothels. Guess what the woman who ran this bath house would be called?
ゆばば。
Yubaba.
(translates directly to “hot water old woman”)
Yubaba is the name of the woman who runs the bath house in Spirited Away. If you watch Spirited Away in Japanese, the female workers are referred to as yuna.
Chihiro was forced to change her name to Sen. Kinda like how strippers get names like “Candy”.
カオナシ/No-Face keeps offering Chihiro money. He “wants her”.
THEN I read interviews with Miyazaki. This was all put in intentionally. As we all know. Miyazaki’s stories are weaved with different themes and metaphors. He said he was tackling the issue of the sex industry rapidly growing in Japan, and that children being exposed to it at such early ages is a problem.
To me, this makes me respect Miyazaki even more as a film maker.
And also, frustrates me because so much gets lost in translation, and people see it as this cute childrens movie and this “master piece of animation” (which it definately is) instead of the real statement that it is.
Thought I’d share :).
I told this to my Japanese teacher today. He was speechless for a bit and then said “I NEED TO WATCH THAT MOVIE AGAIN OBVIOUSLY.” Haha.
1 year ago
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1 year ago
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J-Literature that I’d recommend *^-^*
this list is for my followers who are interested in J-literature (not anime, manga, dramas, but fiction novels)! a lot of the authors on this list are translated into English so you can pick them up at the bookstore or like, amazon. if you are familiar with Japanese language enough to be reading the original text, go for it (you might even have covered the orignal text). anyway, here are a few well-known authors that i would recommend!
yessss, thank you Alissa :)
(Source: howatto-izu-disu)
1 year ago
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Dreams come true together by Toyokazu on Flickr.
1 year ago
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1 year ago
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Colored Valley | Shiga Kogen, Japan
© takay
1 year ago
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1 year ago
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Honest Japanese Return $78 Million in Cash Found in Quake Rubble
By AKIKO FUJITA (@akikofujita)
TOKYO Aug. 17, 2011
The earthquake and tsunami that walloped Japan left much of its coastline ravaged, but left one thing intact: the Japanese reputation for honesty.
In the five months since the disaster struck, people have turned in thousands of wallets found in the debris, containing $48 million in cash.
More than 5,700 safes that washed ashore along Japan’s tsunami-ravaged coast have also been hauled to police centers by volunteers and search and rescue crews. Inside those safes officials found $30 million in cash. One safe alone, contained the equivalent of $1 million.
The National Police Agency says nearly all the valuables found in the three hardest hit prefectures, have been returned to their owners.
“In most cases, the keyholes on these safes were filled with mud,” said Koetsu Saiki with the Miyagi Prefectural Police. “We had to start by cutting apart the metal doors with grinders and other tools.”
Determining who the safes belonged to, proved to be the easy part. Saiki says most kept bankbooks or land rights documents inside the boxes, containing their names and address. Tracking the owners down, was much more challenging.
Total of $78 Million Was Returned to Owners in Wake of Japan Catastrophe“The fact that these safes were washed away, meant the homes were washed away too,” he said. “We had to first determine if the owners were alive, then find where they had evacuated to.”
Saiki says Miyagi police fanned out across the region, searching for names of residents posted at evacuation centers, digging through missing person reports at town halls, sorting through change of address forms at the post office, to see if the owner had moved away. When they couldn’t find the documents, police called listed cell phone numbers, met with mayors or village leaders to see if they recognized the names.
The number of safes continued to increase as the clearing of tsunami debris led to more discoveries. Police stations struggling to find space for them housed the valuables in parking garages and meeting rooms.
Saiki says 20 percent of the 2,450 safes found in Miyagi turned out to be empty. But, the remaining 250 boxes contained much more than cash. Some included bars of gold, antiques, even crafted boxes containing a child’s umbilical cord, a common memento of child birth. Police had to delicately comb through the keepsakes, since many of the items were damaged, after being soaked in seawater and mud for days or weeks.
The stashing of cash in safes isn’t a unique problem in Japan, where many people prefer to keep their money at home, but Saiki says the number of boxes is especially high in the coastal region where fishermen make up a large part of the population. Fisheries companies prefer cash transactions, and keep employee salaries in safes, he said.
The number of lost items recovered has declined with every month, but Saiki says his department continues to receive a handful of safes a week.
1 year ago
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1 year ago
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1 year ago
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a holiday in tokyo
1 year ago
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