uhh-urgh!

If someone’s coming to visit you one night and they’re late or just don’t show up, maybe they’ve run into a nurikabe (塗壁)…
In Japanese folklore, originating from Fukuoka, Kyushu, there’s a “wall spirit” that appears at night, blocking the destination of its victims. It can’t clearly be seen but it’s got arms and legs. One [...]

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if I’m not two long…

Well… another for the books…
Exactly two years ago I began a 20+ hour journey to Japan and somehow or other I still seem to be here.
I have little to add to that other than I found out that the glyph ‘2′ actually evolved from what the Japanese still use to represent the world’s only even [...]

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