Pinwheels at Yanagidani Kannon in Nagaoka-kyo.

Watch out!!!

Water harp at Enkoji. Sound on, please.🥰

Ruth was fictional, but she lived here. #thekimonotattoo

Returning to the beloved past. Tanizaki, Honen-in, and my fictional friend, Ruth. www.rebecca-copeland.com/edited-out-p...

Dang! Now what will I do!

Foxes and tanuki

I love a good cross breeze.

Seven lucky gods X infinity.

One of my favorite temples in Kyoto, high in the eastern hills.

Just here to say, not all of Kyoto is saturated with tourists. But never you mind about those unsaturated spots!

Heron vs lizard at Takaraike in Kyoto.

Too soon?

No Kings!! Manchester, St.Louis County! We numbered in the 1000s. Cars honked, children played, oldsters swapped protest stories. It was glorious.

Sunset from my city window! Loving you, St. Louis. ❤️

Tomorrow spring break ends and I will teach two classes. One will look at The Master Key by Togawa Masako. The other includes stories by Enchi Fumiko. All feature older women. Like me! Thank goodness for great role models! 🤪

I’m 70!!! Turning 60 was exciting, but that’s so old now. 70 is already a great year.

Happy 314 Day, St. Louis!

Hey Dissertators! Pick a topic you love. Such obvious advice , but it doesn’t hurt to repeat. Here’s my story. www.rebecca-copeland.com/pick-a-topic...

A few seconds of calm:gulls overhead and dolphins gliding. Virginia Beach.

Even with the fish kill, Virginia Beach is beautiful.

Trump demanded the removal of plaques in Philly honoring the people George Washington enslaved. A federal judge ordered the reinstatement, ruling that the removal constituted an attempt to alter historical records. The panels have yet to be returned. The obvious absence tells a chilling story.

Isaiah Zagar’s mosaics, South Street, Philadelphia. It was a chilly day, but the art was warm and beautiful.

For Brian McGinnis in his Dress Blues, who stood up to protest the illegal war in Iran. “There's red, white and blue in the rafters And there's silent old men from the Corps What did they say when they shipped you away To fight somebody's Hollywood war?” youtube.com/watch?v=aJb1...

Amidst all the horrors, it’s still Hina-matsuri. Here are my dolls, reaching out to comfort the little girls murdered in Iran.

Half of my posts don’t show up on my timeline here. It represents much of my life! So much of my labor had been hidden, overlooked, beneath notice. And I am not alone. Those in power will see what they want to see; or what they feel is unthreatening.

I travel to Japan once every 2-3 years. Before each trip I totally stress out about what shoes to pack. Is it just me???

I have fought the academy in the US to make the study of East Asia relevant. It’s been 40 years. And yet US academe remains Euro-centric. Ignorance at our own peril.

I’m ready to retire, and yet I feel I have so much left to do. When can we stop?

Last night I could not sleep. This isn’t an isolated event. It has happened more often since 2025. Should we all just do more gummies or what?

Recently released from University of Hawaii Press. Edited by Anne Sokolsky. A collection of mostly modern Japanese women writing on divorce. Translations and substantial introductions.

Everything sucks! Every piece of news we get is horrible. So let’s just laugh for a minute. (Even though it is quite possible this is not satire!)

Graduate students have invested their time, trust, and money in journeying to the United States to study. Now they are being told they cannot apply for appropriate post-graduation jobs here b/c their potential employer cannot afford the exorbitant costs of visas. 1/1

“And there were bloody footprints, where mercy should have stood.” Once again, Bruce puts his finger on the pulse of America.

Thinking about 19th-century Japanese women writers.

Makeup for hikers? I don’t know, I’d rather have water, emergency rations, a flare? Maybe moleskins?

Getting ready for the spring semester and my two Japanese literature classes: Mystery Fiction and Modern Women Writers

Mayor Jacob Frey did not mince words and his are the words we need today. youtu.be/1ghkDa-Tkds?si

Five years later and we have fallen deeper into chaos and corruption.

Happy New Year! May the Fiery Horse stamp out injustice and round up some much needed peace and calm.

It’s brutally cold this morning and the wind is howling, but the sunrise is still beautiful!

Any Radical Leftist Scum here? Let’s be friends.

As we close in on Christmas Eve, please send me vegetarian recipes ! I gotta make some snacks for dinner. www.rebecca-copeland.com/snacking-our...

Thank you, Governor Hunt, for all you did to make NC the great state that it is. www.wfmynews2.com/article/news...

Snowy morning on Three Top Mountain.

I live in a snow globe!