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メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 1d

世界が終わりそうな夕焼け
Sunset like the world's about to end

メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 3d

In Japan, even the toilets are polite.

"TOTO’s toilets are imbued with the Japanese spirit of hospitality. This is reflected in the automatic closing and opening of the lids (a movement that resembles the Japanese tradition of bowing)"

www.toto.com/en/wtjapan/l...

TOILET CULTURE IN JAPAN | TOTO GLOBAL SITE

Learn about the “toilet culture” of Japan and TOTO WASHLETS through our informative video. Come and experience the wonders of the latest toilets and toilet technology in Japan.

www.toto.com

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メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 4d

Now to be auctioned off to pay for casino-related litigation. Wish I had a couple million HKD to spare.

メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 4d

Raven in Snow by Katsushika Hokusai, painted at the age of 87, two years before his death. I remember being transfixed by this striking image when I saw it at the Okada Museum of Art in Hakone.

He's clearly saying "nevermore."

EA Poe and Hokusai both died in 1849.

www.sothebys.com/buy/e6e420d0...

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Raven in snow, Edo period, 19th century | 葛飾北斎　雪中鴉図　江戸時代　19世紀 | Masterpieces of Asian Art from the Okada Museum of Art | Chinese Works of Art | Sotheby's

hanging scroll: ink and colour on paper, signed Gakyo rojin Manji rei hachijuhassai (Manji, the Old Man Crazy to Paint, at the age of eighty-eight), sealed Hyaku (One Hundred), si...

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メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 4d

Some tidbits from the show:
Chiba's mom makes good omusubi.
The person playing violin with Fishmans is a woman.
Start with Long Season.

The music is cut from the radio show but they play this all-time classic:
youtu.be/5smoygt-b2c

Weather Report

YouTube video by Fishmans - Topic

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メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 4d

Kind of surprising how close they were given how their musical styles diverged. Shinji Sato of Fishmans was also in the same club but was a couple years older than Chiba. I would love to have been in the same room when those two future legends first met.

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メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 4d

Crackly radio dub of Thee Michelle Gun Elephant's Yusuke Chiba interviewing Fishmans' Kinichi Motegi just after Uchu Nippon Setagaya was released. Good friends reminiscing about old times when they were members of the same music club at Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama.
youtu.be/JFltIlHoT9c

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 8d

Eruption of Sakurajima volcano, the most powerful in twentieth-century Japan, with Kagoshima, Japan in foreground, 1914

photo over a city and docks, a huge volcanic eruption in the back ground dominates the scene.

Sakurajima is an active composite volcano stratovolcano and a former island in Kagoshima Prefecture in Kyūshū, Japan. The lava flows of the 1914 eruption caused the former island to be connected with the Osumi Peninsula. The volcanic activity still continues, dropping large amounts of volcanic ash on the surroundings. Earlier eruptions built the white sands highlands in the region. Sakurajima is a composite mountain. Its summit is split into three peaks, Kita-dake (northern peak), Naka-dake (central peak) and Minami-dake (southern peak) which is active now. Today's Kita-dake is Sakurajima's highest, rising to 1, 117 m (3, 665 ft) above sea level. The mountain is located in a part of Kagoshima Bay known as Kinkō-wan. The former island is part of the city of Kagoshima.[3] The surface of this volcanic peninsula is about 77 km2 (30 sq mi).

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メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 8d

こんにちウィーン

Paula Villa Braslavsky @paulita.bsky.social · 8d

nadaween

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 9d

shoutout to my boy at haeinsa temple who told me to stick my arm through the grate if I wanted the best picture of the tripitaka koreana

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メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 9d

"I am not a suspicious person," said the suspicious person.

山本貴光 @yakumoizuru.bsky.social · 9d

このコマを見るたび、

「わたしは　あやしい者じゃない」

に類するセリフと状況ばかり集めたらどんなことになるかしら、と空想するのだった。

メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 9d

このカステラうまそう
きっと高級なやつだ

Roger Kuhn @roger-kuhn.bsky.social · 9d

Japanese-style Room 畳のおやつ, Miniature Calendar series

Tatsuya Tanaka 田中達也, May 26th 2023

miniature-calendar.com

#art #food #foodart

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d

how it feels explaining early 2000s hipster history to young people

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese getting off a plane while wearing slim black pants, black boots, and a black Joy Division t-shirt.

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 10d

Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets. —Dr. Benway, in Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

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メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 14d

✕ Colloquium
〇 Colloquiuim
英語力がまだまだ足りんようだな

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メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 14d

That one stray Sega dot in 2022. My man from Isekai Ojisan would be proud.

Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 14d

Somethings in life are getting harder. It appears video games are getting harder again on average after being simple about a decade ago. Source: www.economist.com/culture/2025...

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メロっち @kameoshimao.bsky.social · 16d

New music from Sugar? As a person who still regularly drinks from the Copper Blue well to get my Sugar fix, this is incredible news.

youtu.be/-S72djtUIFk