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		<title>[Animation] &#8216;Labyrinth&#8217; (1963) by Jan Leniča</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/30/animation-labyrinth-1963-by-jan-lenica/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/30/animation-labyrinth-1963-by-jan-lenica/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jan Leniča]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I first watched this animated short film, my knee-jerk reaction was: This would be just the perfect style of art direction if The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov were ever to adapted into animation. (Has anyone read that book?)

Labyrinth (1963) was an award-winner at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in 1963. The [...]]]></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>
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				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weltanschauung]]></category>

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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 I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Newsflash] Current issue of &#8220;Manga Erotics F&#8221; featuring a special on Nakamura Asumiko</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/21/breaking-news-current-issue-of-manga-erotics-f-featuring-a-special-on-nakamura-asumiko/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/21/breaking-news-current-issue-of-manga-erotics-f-featuring-a-special-on-nakamura-asumiko/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Illustration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manga]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nakamura Asumiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nokemono to Hanayome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ノケモノと花嫁]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[中村明日美子]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
This is just a heads up to those of you who are (like me) waiting for Nokemono to Hanayome (which sold out on the first day) to be reprinted.
Apparently, the magazine Manga Erotics F is running a special on Nakamura Asumiko. There are articles on her works and an interview with her.
(And can I just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The decadent beauty of the theatre troupe Kokushokukitan Katarinaha (and a word on Suzuki Seijun)</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/17/the-decadent-beauty-of-the-theatre-troupe-kokushokukitan-katarinaha-and-a-word-on-suzuki-seijun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kokushokukitan Katarinaha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suzuki Seijun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[鈴木清順]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[黒色綺譚カタリナ派]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just learned about a Japanese theatre troupe with the sort of angsty decadent beauty that I always go ga-ga about. They are called Kokushokukitan Katarinaha [黒色綺譚カタリナ派], and you can find out more from their official website here: http://www.kokusyoku.com/
There is a catchphrase on their homepage which I think summarizes the kind of beauty which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recently&#8230; (about blogging in Japanese, Nokemono to Hanayome, and Ai no Kusabi)</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/11/recently-about-blogging-nokemono-to-hanayome-and-ai-no-kusabi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/11/recently-about-blogging-nokemono-to-hanayome-and-ai-no-kusabi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Housekeeping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ai no Kusabi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ikuhara Kunihiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nokemono to Hanayome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ノケモノと花嫁]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[幾原邦彦]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[間の楔]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[1) In the spirit of trying something new in the new decade, I have decided to also blog in Japanese. The address is here.
There are many motives behind this. One of them is that I think it makes more sense to talk in Japanese about books (such as most novels of Kyōgoku Natsuhiko) which will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[恠] Bakeneko・Youkai studies・Hagiology</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/03/bakeneko-youkai-studies-hagiography/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/01/03/bakeneko-youkai-studies-hagiography/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bakeneko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyōgoku Natsuhiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mononoke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nakamura Kenji]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shindō Kaneto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yabu no Naka no Kuronek]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bakeneko (the cat spirit) in film and anime
This is purely a guess. If any one film inspired Nakamura Kenji&#8217;s anime Bakeneko (2006), it must be the B&#38;W film directed by Shindō Kaneto [新藤兼人] dated 1968 and entitled Yabu no Naka no Kuroneko [藪の中の黒猫].
Shindō Kaneto is best known for the film Onibaba (1964), of which Yabu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The hunger, wolfishness and Kyōgoku Natsuhiko&#8217;s novel &#8220;Loups=Garous&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/28/the-hunger-wolfishness-and-kyogoku-natsuhikos-loupsgarous/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/28/the-hunger-wolfishness-and-kyogoku-natsuhikos-loupsgarous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kyōgoku Natsuhiko]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I got my copy of that novel a week ago and just finished reading all 753 pages of it. True to reviews in the Japanese blogosphere, the novel is &#8220;Kyōgoku Natsuhiko Lite,&#8221; which explains why I finished it much faster than I anticipated. Now I just want to write a spoiler-free post of some [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/25/the-chinese-middle-class-home-the-warring-states-period-and-no-representation-without-home-ownership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weltanschauung]]></category>

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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. Instead, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Translation] &#8220;Wakashu-sei&#8221; by Shiba Ryōtarō</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/14/translation-wakashu-sei-by-shiba-ryotaro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/14/translation-wakashu-sei-by-shiba-ryotaro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Translation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Graves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shiba Ryōtarō]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[司馬遼太郎]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It seems no exaggeration to say that Shiba Ryōtarō [司馬遼太郎,] was the foremost intellectual in post-war Japan. I think you would enjoy his prose writings if you enjoy reading informed opinion (let me stress the informed part).
We have many nouns for describing those who can gaze and see the future &#8211; fortune-teller, soothsayer, prophet, visionary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Manga] Yamakawa Naohito: &#8220;Choukoudou Shujin&#8221; and &#8220;Koohii mou ippai&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/13/manga-yamakawa-naohito-choukoudou-shujin-and-koohii-mou-ippai/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/13/manga-yamakawa-naohito-choukoudou-shujin-and-koohii-mou-ippai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akutagawa Ryūnosuke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choukoudou Shujin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Koohii mou ippai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murakami Haruki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yamakawa Naohito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[コーヒーもう一杯]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[山川直人]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[村上春樹]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[澄江堂主人]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[芥川龍之介]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Choukoudou Shujin [澄江堂主人]
News reached me that the manga artist Yamakawa Naohito [山川直人] is launching a new series entitled Choukoudou Shujin [澄江堂主人] on the monthly manga magazine Comic Beam.
When I looked at the illustration on the left, my gut reaction was: &#8220;This is just what Chūzenji Akihiko would look like if Yamakawa-sensei were to draw a [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsflash]]></category>
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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 to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Anime] Aoi Bungaku Ep 9-10: Hashire Melos / 走れメロス</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/06/anime-aoi-bungaku-ep-9-10-hashire-melos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/06/anime-aoi-bungaku-ep-9-10-hashire-melos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aoi Bungaku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dazai Osamu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hashire Melos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mouryou no Hako]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nakamura Ryōsuke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[中村亮介]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[太宰治]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[走れメロス]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[青い文学]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[魍魎の匣]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Has any of you seen it yet? It has been ages seen I saw something this mind-blowingly good. Wow, just wow. It is stylishly directed, full of angst and emotional tension &#8211; not to mention the beauty and sadness&#8230;
1) I was initially curious as to how they were going to stretch a story so short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 year-end reader survey</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/05/2009-year-end-reader-survey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/05/2009-year-end-reader-survey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Housekeeping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I will make it simple. The questions below should be self-explanatory:
1) What do you want to see more/less of in terms of content here at Iwa ni Hana?
The reason I ask: I once read somewhere that if a blogger sways too far from a niche topic, then readers would dwindle away. Such is the reality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If &#8220;Revolutionary Girl Utena&#8221; were a novel of the Hyakkiyagyō series&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/04/if-revolutionary-girl-utena-were-a-novel-of-the-hyakkiyagyo-series/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/04/if-revolutionary-girl-utena-were-a-novel-of-the-hyakkiyagyo-series/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 02:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kyōgoku Natsuhiko]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just want to do a quick post on a fanciful thought I suddenly had.
If Revolutionary Girl Utena were a novel of the Hyakkiyagyō series, I think the whole concept of &#8220;the prince&#8221; would probably be considered a youkai that is like a tsukimono (ie. a “spiritual thing that attaches itself to an individual”), which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Manga] Plot summary of &#8220;Nokemono to Hanayome&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/02/manga-plot-summary-of-nokemono-to-hanayome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2009/12/02/manga-plot-summary-of-nokemono-to-hanayome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Manga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ikuhara Kunihiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nakamura Asumiko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nokemono to Hanayome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ノケモノと花嫁]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[中村明日美子]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[幾原邦彦]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was in luck today. I managed to pick up the current issue of KERA, which is running a special on the manga Nokemono to Hanayome [ノケモノと花嫁]. I have been making noise about it on this blog because the story is written by Ikuhara “Utena” Kunihiko [幾原邦彦] and illustrated by Nakamura Asumiko [中村明日美子]. True to [...]]]></description>
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