#japan

Out of the ugliness of the ironworks lepers will eat, children will be born, their parents will grow old. ↗

— Helen McCarthy

#film #hayao-miyazaki #japan #japan

Kon’s films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality. ↗

— Andrew Osmond

#film #japan #japan

My Japanese isn’t much better today, but at least now I appreciate my duality more than when I was a punk kid. ↗

— Gil Asakawa

#japan #japanese-american #language #japan

[...] j'ignore à peu près tout de la gastronomie japonaise. Je sais seulement qu'ils consomment une quantité inimaginable de poissons. En fait, je répète ce qu'on dit habituellement à propos du Japon, je ne fais aucun effort de recherche. Je suis un parfait écho. ↗

— Dany Laferrière

#food

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #japan

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #time

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #gardening #green #japan #sustainability

Insta-love isn’t something that happens in real life. It happens in the books I read, but not in the world I live. Though here stands this beautiful, sexy, funny, sweet and amazing guy who has done everything short of professing love at first sight to me and I’m still standing here like a pair of lungs suffocating, needing him in order to breathe. ↗

— Kathryn Vance-Perez

#japan #kissing #love #romance #truth

And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTHING. Make sure you keep away from me then.' I'd like to, but how can I tell?' I asked. O.K., I'll wear a hat for a couple of days after my period starts. A red one. That should work,' she said with a laugh. 'If you see me on the street and I'm wearing a red hat, don't talk to me, just run away. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#japanese #humor

Consequently, [Terayama Shuuji] often played the buffoon to his more serious colleagues, as he did in a July, 1970, dialogue with Mishima Yukio . . . At one point, [Terayama] laughingly suggested to the very earnest Mishima that Tenjou Sajiki might sponsor a one-man show in which Mishima would demonstrate his famous ability to flex his carefully sculpted upper-body muscles. Mishima refused to be angered by this obvious lack of respect. ↗

— Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei

#japanese-lit #anger