Poster Art: Kazugama Nagai

by Kazugama Nagai

Animalarium: The Momentous Mutations of Kazumasa Nagai
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Vintage Postcards: Year of the Monkey

Japanese postcard by Takahashi Haruka, 1932

ephemera assemblyman: Year of the Monkey Postcards
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Movie: Sengoku yaro

Sengoku yaro – Warring Clans

鏡: 岡本喜八「戦国野郎」
via vintageninja.net
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Ephemera: School Girls' Banzai

ephemera assemblyman: Japanese Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War
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The meaning of banzai.
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Illustration: Totoro

The Camphor Tree
via things magazine tumblr
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GIF Animations: Onibaba

Animation made by myself from Onibaba (1964) aka "Devil Woman", "The Demon", "The Hole", "The Ogress", "The Witch".
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my other gif animations
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Animation: Kikkoman

Let's continue the repost fest. I posted the Kikkoman animation in June 2005 and still think it's pretty funny. Enjoy.



Japanese version (begin here!)
English version (smaller, translated)
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these are some of my favorite things
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Ephemera: Omochae

Ephemera Assemblyman: Omochae: Japanese toy pictures
What is it? Can you help with the definition?
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Flickr: Totoro

Uploaded to Flickr by Alex_Mueller

Anatomy: Meridians

The Shiatsu Meridians
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Art: Totoro Forest Project

"Peeping Totoro" by Bill Presing


"Totoro Forest Project is an international charity effort to preserve Sayama Forest, also known as Totoro Forest. This endangered sanctuary on the outskirts of Tokyo is where director Hayao Miyazaki got the inspiration for his much loved character “Totoro". Over 200 top international artists from animation, illustration, and comics are donating artwork especially created for this cause."

- Drawn!

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Poster Art: Tadanori Yokoo

Roger Corman's The Trip, 1967

Tadanori Yokoo

More by Tadanori Yokoo

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Design: More Vintage Japanese Matchbox Labels

Japanese matchbox labels - a set on Flickr
by maraid

Via Bibi's FFFFOUND!

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A few related posts:

Design: Vintage Japanese Matchbox Lables

Design: Matchbox labels

Music: "Smoke on the water" Japanese style

Smoke on the water _ version zen
Uppladdat av buzzleclair-leblog

What the lyrics of Smoke on the water is about, in case you wondered (Wikipedia link).

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Photo: We live in strange times!

We live in strange times! More photos found here.

via Made in England by Gentlemen

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Design: Japanese manhole covers

Photo uploaded to Flickr by OrigamiKid

Japanese manhole covers
via Drawn!

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Commercial: "Soniiiiiii"

Sony Radio Commercial
Uploaded by Fronning

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Commercial: Japanese yé-yé clothes in 1967

Music: Takeshi Terauchi and the Bunnys

Twilightzone! presents Takeshi "Terry" Terauchi and the Bunnys' record "Seichô Takeuchi-Bushi" from 1967. Think Ventures-style Japanese folksongs. How about that?

Congratulations to Twilightzone! and its creator RYP who has shared odd and hard to find music for a whole year now. Keep it up!

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Poster Art: Japanese Labor and Social Movement

Images of Japanese Labor and Social Movement in the Post-1945 Japan.

"Ohara Institute for Social Research owns about 1400 posters of labor and social movements in the post-1945 period."

Via Designerblog.it

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