Tag: japanese
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May 28, 2007 11:30 AM EDT --
By Marty Salo
News Correspondent
Apparantly, one of the minsters in Japan has killed himself.
Suicide doesn't make much sense.
I suppose that those who have much and will likely . . . more
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April 23, 2007 11:50 PM EDT --
Homemade Soba Noodles
“My wife’s mother is making soba noodles for us for dinner.” Buddhist Monk Yoshihiro Unezawa told me and made a circular motion with his hands - the . . . more
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September 26, 2007 08:59 PM EDT --
No, I'm not in love with the latest Japanese band. Furoshiki refers to an ancient Japanese custom of folding fabric or wrapping items in fabric. This is something I learned about on my trip to Kyoto, . . . more
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May 29, 2007 09:25 AM EDT --
Deep fried grasshoppers.
She always taught us to be polite and eat what was served by your host or hostess, whether . . . more
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July 04, 2007 10:51 AM EDT --
(Warning: Seventeen photos.)
When we purchased our current home (from a romance novelist and her lawyer husband, who were obviously too busy in their glamo-lives to tend to something as mundane as yard . . . more
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July 11, 2007 10:27 PM EDT --
Haiku poets of the past were expected to write one at the end of their days. Though it was considered "cheating", some wrote one in advance so they wouldn't get caught with something . . . more
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April 25, 2008 01:59 PM EDT --
NOTE: I've just created a chapbook with a series of five of these ghost stories, which is going to be available shortly on ghosttocoast.us.
The general Japanese word for "ghost" . . . more
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July 01, 2008 02:33 PM EDT --
The Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park was originally built as a Japanese village for the California Midwinter Fair of 1894 . Following the fair, a wealthy Japanese landscape designer, Makoto Hagiwara, . . . more
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November 11, 2007 05:30 PM EST --
Chapter One: Hakata
Mr. Ogari Mori stepped down off the train onto the platform of Hakata Station and surveyed the scene before him. The platform was crowded and noisy. A group of . . . more
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March 16, 2008 03:33 PM EDT --
all winter waiting,
sleeping on japanese limbs,
shoots of red maple
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August 12, 2008 11:49 AM EDT --
Taken from Learn Japanese Today :
So I’ve been talking a lot lately about this anime I’m watching, Eyeshield 21. As I’ve mentioned earlier, the big draw it has for me is that it’s about American . . . more
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October 04, 2006 01:18 AM EDT --
Ethel was born in Oklahoma in July of 1931 to a working class family. Her parents were good people who worked hard and provided as best they could for their young child. They were products of their . . . more
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December 17, 2006 10:07 AM EST --
I suppose that should have been the title had I bothered to write a temporary farewell back in mid-July when I ceased being much of a presence on Gather and other areas of the Net, like my blog at LiveJournal. . . . more
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September 25, 2007 02:26 AM EDT --
I returned from a visit to Kyoto, Japan earlier this month. Kyoto is one of the oldest, best preserved cities in Japan. It was the capital of Japan for more than 1000 years and was not bombed in WW II. . . . more
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January 11, 2007 08:23 PM EST --
What really irks consumers is that this is not an isolated case. Several years back, Yukijirushi pulled a similar stunt, by selling milk products produced in filthy equipment that actually sickened . . . more
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July 21, 2008 12:01 PM EDT --
Taken from Learn Japanese Today :
Now that I've given you a great website reading tool via Rikai.com , why not take it for a spin?
Reading online Japanese newspapers as a great way to read . . . more
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March 08, 2006 09:04 PM EST --
Wings beat forgiveness,
White cranes grow one thousand strong -
Paper creased, folded.
- James Fox, * published in Potpourri . . . more
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May 26, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
The snowy page awaits
The first words unleash my thoughts,
A haiku is born
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June 17, 2007 03:44 PM EDT --
Recently I wrote about "Shoroan" - Pine Ocean House, the Japanese style tea house located within the grounds of the Lili'uokalani Gardens.
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August 26, 2007 12:03 PM EDT --
F.O.B. is an acronym for Fresh Off the Boat, that first generation children like to use (I like to think of it as a term of endearment) . . . more
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