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 for the Japanese […]
Category Archives: Vaguely Japan-related
Stuff that is kinda sorts (but not usually directly) related to Japan
Japanese Yurei Gallery
August 24, 2006 – 11:07 pm
Okami PS2 Game
August 14, 2006 – 10:54 pm
This is a game called O-kami for the playstation 2. The name of the game is a play on words because in Japanese Kami can refer to a wolf or a god, and the main character of this game is a wolf-god.
Anyway, the game is absolutely beautiful. It’s done in an Ink and wash (sumi-e)-like […]
Line to Comiket in Japan
August 14, 2006 – 7:24 pm
Not doing so hot on the updating thing lately because my life consists of sleep, wake up, eat, work, sleep, wake up, eat, work, ad infinitum, ad nauseum etc. latin latin latin…
Anyway I still don’t have enough time to fix the CSS completely, but I will post a couple of short items […]
Funny Japanese TV Commercial
August 5, 2006 – 10:42 pm
Still busy, but I need to either take a break or go absolutely insane from nearly a week straight of translating =P Rant about video game translation coming soon =P
Funny Japanese commercial for Ransael, which is a Japanized French/German term for these horrible bright red/black leather backpacks that elementary school kids here use. […]
Construction in Japan
August 3, 2006 – 2:15 am
So as a followup to my last post, another reason why I am so tired/stressed out lately is that the house next door has been torn down and they are currently building 2 houses in the lot where it used to be. Now, construction close to your house is annoying pretty much anywhere […]
