[inspic=58,leftclear,fullscreen,thumb] Image gallery of photos from the Yurei-ga gallery at Zenshoan temple in Tokyo. “Yurei” is Japanese for “ghost”, “apparition” or “spirit”. The Yurei-ga Gallery is a private collection of Edo-period (1603 to 1867) scrolls with images of a variety of Japanese ghosts which range from sad, haunted spirits, to ghastly, monstrous demons. Seemed appropriate […]
Category Archives: Japan
One Night R&R – Japanese Comedy
August 24, 2006 – 8:10 pm
This is a clip from a Japanese comedy program called one night R&R. I only actually find this show to be occasionally funny. Whenever they try to do anything other than slapstick comedy I don’t find it very interesting, but watching comedians in pain, comedy gold. This is a particularly bizarre clip. Some of the […]
Baby Bruce Lee
August 24, 2006 – 7:08 pm
This is a clip from the Japanese TV show Karakuri Terebi (TV), everyone thinks the baby’s movements and facial expression look like he’s doing a Bruce Lee impression. [MEDIA=5] UPDATE Rehosted this video here because Tokyo Broadcasting had youtube take it down when it was hosted there. Fairly draconian for a 16 second video which […]
So, you want to learn Japanese…
August 16, 2006 – 2:18 am
Well it’s not going to magically happen by reading manga and playing Japanese video games… Just a quick note because I’ve had people react unbelievably negatively to similar comments/posts I have made elsewhere in the past. I know that there are a lot of people out there, in a lot of different situations, and there […]
