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	<title>Iwa ni Hana &#187; Aesthetics</title>
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	<description>Where beauty moves and wit delights</description>
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		<title>Huang Shan&#8217;s cosplay album &#8216;Remember the Time&#8217; and the aesthetic spirit of the Wei and Jin Dynasties</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/08/29/huang-shans-cosplay-album-remember-the-time-and-the-aesthetic-spirit-of-the-wei-and-jin-dynasties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 07:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a huge fan of the Chinese cosplayer Huang Shan [黄山]. I finally got my copy of his most recent cosplay album Remember the Time [溯时]. Among others, he cosplayed the Sengoku-era general Imagawa Yoshimoto [今川義元]. Below is my rough translation of his observations of this historic personality: &#8220;We often see the common stereotype [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takehisa Yumeiji, Casper David Friedrich, Manet and the human body&#8217;s back</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/02/05/takehisa-yumeiji-casper-david-friedrich-manet-and-the-human-bodys-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/02/05/takehisa-yumeiji-casper-david-friedrich-manet-and-the-human-bodys-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I was watching a TV series on Japanese aesthetics produced by NHK called Bi no Tsubo [美の壺]. There was one episode about Takehisa Yumeji&#8217;s [竹久夢二] drawings of beautiful women. Apparently, there is one principle that Takehisa understood well about the female body, namely: If you want to know what a woman in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The view from my old dormitory・Goth girls・church bells・the modern Chinese middle-class home</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/23/the-view-from-my-old-dormitory%e3%83%bbgoth-girls%e3%83%bbthe-modern-chinese-middle-class-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time in my life when I used to live very close to a river. That was during a year when I got a scholarship to study as an exchange student at a certain university in the East Anglia part of England. But let me explain a bit about the general geography before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chinese middle-class home, the Warring States Period and &#8220;no representation without home ownership&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/25/the-chinese-middle-class-home-the-warring-states-period-and-no-representation-without-home-ownership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The modern Chinese middle-class home is just like the housing arrangement during the Warring States Period. I once read somewhere that if one were to travel back in time to the kingdom of Han [韓], one would most likely to find that ordinary people did not live in houses on the land they farmed on. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Breaking News] Huang Shan to release his second cosplay album</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/08/breaking-news-huang-shan-to-release-his-second-cosplay-album/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/08/breaking-news-huang-shan-to-release-his-second-cosplay-album/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huang Shan [黄山], the king of cosplay from the PRC, is to release his second album of cosplay entitled &#8220;溯时&#8221; soon. From what I gathered on the internet, Huang Shan is an arts graduate born in 1985. His first cosplay album entitled &#8220;浮岚&#8221; was released in 2007. It caused quite a stir and propelled him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[妖しい] The creepy and beautiful</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/08/17/the-creepy-and-beautiful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entire second quarter at work was crazily busy, but recently I finally got more time to rest and recharge. Some part of my brain was yearning for period drama plus some sort of supernatural detective story (summer is traditionally the season for supernatural thrillers in Japan), so I went down to a bookstore and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[唯美] Palais de Fortune, the absolutely beautiful and the conceptualization of time in China</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/06/14/palais-de-fortune-the-absolutely-beautiful-and-the-conceptualization-of-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first came across the Japanese advertisement posted on the right, the following three points were my knee-jerk reactions: - &#8220;This looks rather like the house that the professor of German in the Kurosawa Akira&#8217;s film Madadayo (1993) lived in.&#8221; - &#8220;Perhaps it is a modern reincarnation of Kamo no Choumei&#8216;s ten-foot square hut?&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[墮落美] [頹廢美] Fallen is beautiful</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/03/24/fallen-is-beautiful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/03/24/fallen-is-beautiful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You just know that the Chinese civilization has not been around for five thousand years for nothing by looking at all the words they have for describing different nuances of beauty &#8211; of beauty in the abstract, in nature, in men and women. Whatever you can think of, the Chinese is likely to have coined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[破壊の美] [滄桑美] Broken is beautiful</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/03/05/broken-is-beautiful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/03/05/broken-is-beautiful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japanese sensibility perceives beauty in falling cherry petals, whereas Chinese sensibility perceives beauty in fallen flower petals.* To put it another way, the Japanese mind seems inclined to find beauty in the active act of destruction, whereas the Chinese mind seems inclined to find beauty in the passive act of coming upon what is already [...]]]></description>
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