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Tokyo Show Windows

tok_yuki — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 05:14:19 +0000

Tokyo Show Window: a website with massive collection of photographs of show windows around Tokyo, by Japan Design Net. Covers most of the famous boutiques in the city.

Doujinshi

tok_yuki — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:40:21 +0000

Doujinshi is a fan fic by amateurs written in comic styles. Anything goes on doujinshi, erotic or pornographic mostly, making the chracters play out the writers’ fantasies. In Impending Doujinshi website, you can get a glimpse of the Harry Potter doujinshi series in English. Like Harry in love with Malfoy. Something seriously wrong awaits you..

Sumo Wrestlers’ Blog

tok_yuki — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 17:06:46 +0000

Blog from the wrestlers in Tamanoi Beya. I’m not particularly well-informed on sumo, so if someone can post follow-up information as to exactly who they are, please do!
Even if I don’t know anything about sumo, the blog is fun to read and look at, with pictures of every day events and friendly sense of humor.

Maiko Blog

tok_yuki — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:35:08 +0000

Maiko Blog. Maiko is a Geiko or Geisha in training. Nowadays there’s even a blog written by a real maiko in Kyoto. It’s in Japanese, written in the geisha dialect, but she has pictures sometimes.

At Grandparents’ Place

tok_yuki — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 06:29:38 +0000

What we have to do when we arrive at grandparents’ house is to go to the little shrine in one of the rooms, and pray to the spirits of the ancestors. Nothing religious, just wishing for good health in the family.

The cool things about this particular alter are that: there’s a candle with our family crest in it, and there’s an incense which when it’s all burnt, it shows holy scriptures. Grandparents like the new technology too.. :)

Hatsuuri Sale

tok_yuki — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 06:24:59 +0000

Nice to meet you, first post from a new blogger here. My name is Yuki, I am a sophomore in a university in Tokyo. I’m a girl therefore I may like to write often about sweets and fashion.. but my areas are of true interests (and major in school!) are art, culture, and politics. I also recently got a digital SLR and want to flaut it so if you’d like to see photographs of any particular things or places, please feel free to let me know and I’ll do my best to get snapshots (or giant high-quality ones ;) of them.

The New Years, January 1st, is no doubt the biggest holiday in Japan. The best part about this holiday is that kids get otoshidama, money from the elderly relatives, and companies had just given out bonus. The department stores target the nourished and happy people, and the hatsuuri sale begins on January 2nd. Hatsuuri means the first sale of the year – and it’s the biggest one throughout the year. In the country where people try to suck as much money out of you as possible, it’s the greatest when things are marked down to 50%. Although it does seems like most things are just 30% off or less though. And what you have to watch out are ones that are really cheap but actually are mass-produced for the sale. They are usually products you’ve never seen at the store before, but suddenly appeared when the sale begins. They are horrible in qualities.

Sale continues for a couple of days. Right now the city is filled with economical people shopping!

In Shibuya, girls carry lots of giant bags called fukubukuro, which can be translated to happy bags, ranging about $50-$100 each for clothes, and the bags contain lots of random clothes from the store. They are usually good deal too, and girls line up from early in the morning to get these.. (These are not taken with the digital SLR, and weren’t taken this year. Last year actually, which I posted in my site.. contents may overlap here and there, but do visit my site too!)