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eikoh hosoe photographing mishima

i don’t know how i’ve not seen this before! there’s so much to take in

itoshi no chiro (chiro my love) - nobuyoshi araki

itoshi no chiro (chiro my love) - nobuyoshi araki

art-mirrors-art:

[ H ] Hisaji Hara - A study of ‘The Hapy Days’ by Balthus (2009)

mmm recent japanese photography referencing postwar japanese photography

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a good friend pointed me to an article about cholo subcultures in japan

this music video is of “MoNa aka Sad Girl”

g0nsuke:

レコード・ソノシート > 男優 - 宍戸錠　エースのジョーのすべて - 1960〜70年代古書・レコードの販売・買取 太陽野郎

heheh

i love interpretations

and performances of interpretations

but most of all i love these colors

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chris: please keep posting the taiyo matsumoto stuff! he gets it

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snowce:

Nobuyoshi Araki, 1986

another - nobuyoshi araki - “my wife yoko”

nobuyoshi araki - “my wife yoko”

these giant catfish (namazu) are usually kept in check by this big rock, watched by the god kashima. when he went out of town, he left ebisu, god of fishing and commerce, in charge of the rock. damn fool fell asleep on the job. “Kashima rushes home on horseback while the city burns, and Raijin the thunder god defecates drums.”

error888:

(via Namazu-e: Earthquake catfish prints ~ Pink Tentacle)

that link is super cool; prints telling the story of the 1855 great ansei earthquake

in this one, the giant catfish that caused the earthquake is chillin with the merchants who profited from the earthquake. above, ghosts of the earthquake victims haunt them

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oh my god

i love finding an echo