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	<title>Iwa ni Hana</title>
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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>Iwa ni Hana dedicates sub-blog to Mawaru Penguindrum</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/08/26/iwa-ni-hana-dedicates-sub-blog-to-mawaru-penguindrum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/08/26/iwa-ni-hana-dedicates-sub-blog-to-mawaru-penguindrum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have decided to start a sub-blog dedicated to Mawaru Penguindrum. It is more convenient to dump all episode commentaries and news/gossip/rumours in one place. I think I owe this to Ikuni for having produced such a fabulous show as Utena. I really do. The sub-blog is here. The RSS feed for entries is here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Anime/Manga] Level E by Togashi Yoshihiro</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/08/23/animemanga-level-e-by-togashi-yoshihiro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/08/23/animemanga-level-e-by-togashi-yoshihiro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 03:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[レベルE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[冨樫義博]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Comments with spoilers in no particular order as usual: 1) There are many shadow statements in Level E.  i) Mankind being seen by aliens of advanced civilization as backward and therefore warrants statutory protection under interstellar law -&#62; Aboriginal peoples being seen by developed countries as backward and therefore warrants statutory protection under national law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mawaru Penguindrum / 輪るピングドラム: Ep 01 &#8211; 06</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/08/21/mawaru-penguindrum-%e8%bc%aa%e3%82%8b%e3%83%94%e3%83%b3%e3%82%b0%e3%83%89%e3%83%a9%e3%83%a0-ep-01-06/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mawaru Penguindrum]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As usual, random comment with spoilers in no particular order: 1) Initially, I thought the stars in Himari&#8217;s bedroom were just some kind of decoration for cuteness&#8217;s sake. But what was I thinking? Every fan of Utena ought to know by now that in the world of Ikuni&#8217;s animation, nothing (and I mean nothing) ever appears on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am back, and&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/06/18/i-am-back-and/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/06/18/i-am-back-and/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housekeeping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have an announcement to make: I think I will be relocating to the Tokyo branch of my bank for work fairly soon. Didn&#8217;t you say you already resigned and wanted to live in Kyoto for 3 months to do nothing except reading history books, learning Kyoto cuisine and zazen. Yes, I said that. After a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelogue: Kyoto • Osaka 2011 (II)</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/02/27/travelogue-kyoto-%e2%80%a2-osaka-2011-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/02/27/travelogue-kyoto-%e2%80%a2-osaka-2011-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Continuing from the previous post.) Day 4: Osaka Of course I have read my share of books on the traits and characteristics of Osaka people. I was even warned by a Tokyo colleague to expect fastly-spoken Osaka dialect. However, for some reason I met with less authentic Osaka-ness than I anticipated. I heard standard Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelogue: Kyoto • Osaka 2011 (I)</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/02/20/travelogue-kyoto-%e2%80%a2-osaka-2011-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/02/20/travelogue-kyoto-%e2%80%a2-osaka-2011-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is not infrequent that I think of the sky of Hong Kong as a witch&#8217;s cauldron; strange chemicals from the industrial zone across the border dye the heavens into strange shades of orange and purple, and rare is the day you can see with the human eye beyond 100 metres. The day I embarked [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>

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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 Age of Aquarius and the little boy who wants to be a poet</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/02/05/the-age-of-aquarius-and-the-little-boy-who-wants-to-be-a-poet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/02/05/the-age-of-aquarius-and-the-little-boy-who-wants-to-be-a-poet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Robertson Davies (a man of quaint ideas, among other things) once said in a public speech that the Age of Aquarius, of which we are now entering, would probably not be an age of democracy. This is because Aquarius is under the influence of the planet Uranus, and Uranus, as you know, was the father [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[料理] Of Japanese cuisine and the law of the universe</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/01/16/%e6%96%99%e7%90%86-of-japanese-cuisine-and-the-law-of-the-universe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2011/01/16/%e6%96%99%e7%90%86-of-japanese-cuisine-and-the-law-of-the-universe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 15:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weltanschauung]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Japanese gourmet  Kitaooji Rosanjin [北大路魯山人] (1883-1959) (actually he is a man of many hats but for the purpose of this post let us think of him as gourmet) once wrote about a conversation he had with a guest that is almost like a zen koan of its own: Guest: Sensei, please tell me about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Breaking News] Vol. 1 of Saitou Chiho&#8217;s manga adaptation of &#8220;Les Liaisons dangereuses&#8221; to be released on 2010/9/10</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/09/12/breaking-news-vol-1-of-saitou-chihos-manga-adaptation-of-les-liaisons-dangereuses-to-be-released-on-2010910/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/09/12/breaking-news-vol-1-of-saitou-chihos-manga-adaptation-of-les-liaisons-dangereuses-to-be-released-on-2010910/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Les Liaisons dangereuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saitou Chiho]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should have seen this coming. Who else in the shoujo manga industry is more qualified to work on an adaptation of Les Liaisons dangereuses than Saitou-sensei? (By the way, has anyone else read the original novel by de Laclos too?) I have always thought of Saitou Chiho as the Vivaldi of the shoujo manga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Anime/Book] Tatami Galaxy / Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei / 四畳半神話大系</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/09/11/animebook-tatami-galaxy-yojouhan-shinwa-taikei-%e5%9b%9b%e7%95%b3%e5%8d%8a%e7%a5%9e%e8%a9%b1%e5%a4%a7%e7%b3%bb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/09/11/animebook-tatami-galaxy-yojouhan-shinwa-taikei-%e5%9b%9b%e7%95%b3%e5%8d%8a%e7%a5%9e%e8%a9%b1%e5%a4%a7%e7%b3%bb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tatami Galaxy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first heard the name of Yuasa&#8217;s newest series &#8211; Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei [四畳半神話大系] &#8211; I had a faint suspicion that it may be remotely related to Ganso Tai-yojouhan Tai-monogatari [元祖 大四畳半大物語], a vintage manga from the 1970s which is (likewise) about a young man who lives in a four-and-a-half matted room and who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I remember Kon Satoshi</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/08/29/i-remember-kon-satoshi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/08/29/i-remember-kon-satoshi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The artist of the &#8220;dangerous and beautiful&#8221; and the demonic force A while ago when news reached me that the manga artist Nakamura Asumiko has stopped working due to reasons of health, I was going to write a post on what I call the &#8220;demonic force&#8221; among artists. You just know that &#8220;demonic force&#8221; when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>[Anime/Manga] &#8220;Arakawa Under the Bridge&#8221;: the Apollonian man and Venusberg</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/08/08/arakawa-under-the-bridge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/08/08/arakawa-under-the-bridge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 07:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shinbo Akiyuki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[中村光]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[新房昭之]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be the funniest series I came across since Usavich &#8211; only the comedy is obviously a camouflage for a deeper message about life at large and a prelude to a bittersweet ending. I think I made a new year wish some years ago that Director Shinbo Akiyuki (新房昭之) would make a come-back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I am back, but&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/07/25/i-am-back-but/</link>
		<comments>http://www.iwanihana.info/2010/07/25/i-am-back-but/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wabisabi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housekeeping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Being cyberstalked was only the beginning of my troubles this year. Even the cyberstalker seemed to have lost interest in me, I was snowed under a torrent of challenging work &#8211; a partial result of which was that I was awarded a princely amount of bonus money last week. The bonus came in the form [...]]]></description>
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