Where do we encounter Alice in Wonderland in Japanese popular media culture? 🍄🐛 Revisit our #NCCSpotlight on the Cassady Lewis Carroll Collection at USC Libraries by Drs. Rebecca Corbett & Jesse Drian to find out what their collections have to offer! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

ペニー 商会 (Penny Shokai) introduced the first capsule toy machines to Japan in 1965. They were imported from the US. Now know just as Penny, the firm is still in the business, as a unit of Takara Tomy. www.penny.co.jp

The Asahi has a new simplified Japanese news site, to help language learners, children and the elderly. Around 3 articles a day are written with easy vocabulary and grammar. There are also options to toggle furigana, and spacing between words. yasashii.asahi.com

I was pleasantly surprised by how many of my students were stumped by the "Is it a medieval Japanese remedy or a modern (influencer) remedy?" exercise today. The answers may surprise and disgust you! 😀💀 (Reposting the answers because I didn't thread them properly, oops!)

Before the descendants of Saito Hajime released that photograph in the 2010s, the internet had to settle for a zoomed in picture of a Meiji-era police troop who might have been him. It was the best that could be done. #japanesehistory

While you wait for my Shinsengumi series on #FridayNightHistory to resume, here's a thread of interesting facts about that unit.

It's #PortfolioDay ! I'm edo, a fulltime freelance anime artist and a father of an amazing and diverse vtuber family! I love drawing OCs and fanarts in aesthetics that speak to my soul 🎀💙

So if Yoshimune is playing kemari, is it bun or bu? #japanesehistory

Hey, a reason to visit Takanawa Gateway!

“Very few people here in America have the balls to do what anime does,” a veteran Hollywood animation director told me. blog.pureinventionbook.com/p/why-hollyw...

Ieyasu waited 422 years for this.

noted Bakumatsu figure Swagamoto Ryoma

KaguraThurschi!

FINALLY

[X] the Ancient Japanese Art of [Y]: The Mobilization of #Japanese Metalinguistic Fantasies in Self-Help Literature Recording of a lecture I gave at JSAA2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TElW...

Did you know that the National Museum of Asian Art participates in the Japan Art Catalog project to make rare & hard-to-find art catalogs available to researchers? As of 2022 they hold 10.5k+ volumes! 🖼️😮📚 Learn more about the JAC and accessing these materials at: guides.nccjapan.org/japanartcata...

Divorced vibes are real, unfortunately.

Today at @wpafw.bsky.social day 3 I reprised my long running coffee panel and demonstrated the Tokugawa Shogunate coffee recipe from the 1850s, which we explored in #FridayNightHistory Season 2. And people LIKED it! riverside-wings.com/2023/08/25/f...

Katazome Sample Books (Japanese Stencil-Dyeing Sample Books) – Part 3 of 4 www.instagram.com/p/DPWKhc3jxW... In the Edo period, sample books were created by pasting pieces of stenciled washi (Japanese paper) to serve as references for katazome (stencil-dyeing) designs.

Of all the stories to come out of the Osaka Campaign of 1614-15, my favorite might be the one related in Tokugawa Munefusa's "Tokugawa 400nen no Naishobanashi," where Satsuma domain some decades later wrote the Shogunate asking: "sooo, if we had Toyotomi Hideyori in our care, would you uh, be mad?"

It's spooky month! Is 「必死切鬼」 sufficiently spooky?

I know the special 23 wards of Tokyo (the part where most tourists go) are quite different from the rest, but I never knew how that came to be.

Yabusame takes years of practice to perfect, but it is a highly coveted art that emphasizes the samurai spirit and the unspoken language between rider and horse, known as kyuba no michi (弓馬の道) (きゅばのみち), or “the way of the bow and horse.”

Did you come to Japan to admire the natural beauty, only to find yourself surrounded by ugly power lines? Why ARE Japanese skies so wiry, anyway? We take a look at how cable and power lines came to blanket the urban Japanese landscape.

As mentioned elsewhere on Bluesky, folks who want access to JSTOR (a repository of *many* scholarly journals, including those important for Japanese studies) are able to open up a personal account and view 100 articles/month for free! support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/art...

Soon approaching her 50th anniversary as a manga artist, Rumiko Takahashi has introduced generations to manga and anime through her stories.

デザインにおける菱形（ひしがた）・菱文（ひしもん） iroai.jp/hishimon/ 菱形の模様（菱文）は、古代より世界中で用いられてきた原初的なデザインです。 花や蝶、鳥などの動植物を菱形に図案化したものなどもみられます。 #iroai #paperstencils #paperstencil #isekatagami #kimono #craftsmanship #japaneseculture #textile #katazome #indigo #art #菱文 #伊勢型紙 #染め型紙 #型紙 #染織 #染色 #色合い #デザイン #模様 #文様 #友禅 #テキスタイル #藍染

I didn't know about this collection. Very cool! The volumes digitized so far are available from UPenn Libraries' repository. colenda.library.upenn.edu?_=1759015365...

Hi! I'm Hishi Setsuki, VTuber and Edo period enthusiast! I'll be discussing topics in Japan's Edo era. Yapping (especially about Japan-related stuff) and gaming also on tap. Streaming on: twitch.tv/hishisetsuki Designer/modeler: edosama.bsky.social

reminder i have somer slots back open!! i'm continuously building a queue for the coming months. I'll be finally moving out on my own so i'll need to work extra hard! RT to help spread the word 🥰