Archive for March, 2010
Posted on March 21, 2010. Filed under: Consuming, events, history, Japan, travel | Tags: Barbara Windsor, Blackadder, Honen Matsuri, Kanamara Matsuri, Kawasaki City, Tagata Jinja, Wakamiya Hachimangu Shrine |
You too could find yourself on YouTube, sitting on a giant wooden penis, sucking a phallic lollipop, with your other arm round a beaming Japanese grandmother holding a giant daikon radish carved into a shape that would make Barbara Windsor giggle and Blackadder blush.
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Posted on March 12, 2010. Filed under: anime, Consuming, films, Japan | Tags: Alice Walker, Anne Geddes, Astro Boy, Denis Friedman Productions, Gisaburo Sugii, Hakujaden, Harmagedon, Hayao Miyazaki, Katsuhiro Otomo, Katsuya Terada Rakugaking, M. C. Escher, Mabel Lucie Atwell, Madhouse, Mai Mai Miracle, Metropolis, My Neighbour Totoro, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Neo-Tokyo Manie Manie Labyrinth Tales, Night on the Galactic Railroad, Osamu Tezuka, Ponyo, Rintaro, Salvador Dali, Sunao Katabuchi, The Peanuts, Toei Animation, Tomoko Konparu |
Rintaro has made a masterpiece for children that adults can enjoy. Not since My Neighbour Totoro has a film aroused Helen McCarthy’s sense of wonder in the same way.
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Posted on March 3, 2010. Filed under: anime, Japan, manga | Tags: Akira Kurosawa, anime, Dreams: Yume, Girl's Day, Heian Edo era, Hello Kitty, Hina Matsuri, manga, Mickey Minnie Mouse, Momo-no-sekku, Shimogamo Shrine |
Happy Girl’s Day! The third day of the third month is known in Japan as Hina Matsuri, Doll Festival, when the primitive ritual functions of dolls and the importance of the Heian era in Japanese culture are combined with a celebration of feminine qualities and a wish that little girls will develop them. Families with daughters [...]
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