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Monsters Come to Town: The Origins of Chinese Nwe Year Firecracker.
It's almost New Year's Eve, the New Year. There are several ways to call it, but in Chinese, New Year's Eve is called ChuXi(除夕) . To be...
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May 33 min read
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The "破天荒(Hatenkou)" man who lived for 1,000 years: The origin of the word 破天荒(Hatenkou).
There is a word called 破天荒(Hatenkou) in Japanese. The literal meaning of the word is destroying the heavens and leaving them in ruins,...
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Apr 293 min read
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A 4000-year-old major discovery: How blood types were discovered.
There is a term called Columbus' Egg . It's simple once our understand it, but this phrase expresses the difficult of focusing on...
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Apr 293 min read
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Full of Energy with Same Numbers: The Origin of Seasonal Festivals.
March 3rd is Girls' Festival, or Hina Matsuri. It is a same numbers days , coinciding with May 5th being Boys' Festival. The custom of...
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Apr 283 min read
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A seasonal tradition born from cloning technology: How the custom of cherry blossom viewing was created.
It's spring, the season for cherry blossom viewing, and the east wind is blowing. When we think of flower viewing, Japanese think of...
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Apr 253 min read
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Astronaut Falling Infinitely: Gravity Exists in Space
A spacewalk where they float like a ballon. Outer space is far away from the earth and is not affected by the earth's gravity. That's...
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Apr 193 min read
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Anonymous. I can't give my real name. : The role of alias name.
Many heroes who appeared in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Someone name is sometimes called Zhuge Liang or Zhuge Kongming . Zhuge...
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Apr 143 min read
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Draw a Lesson is a precious gem: A bad work is a bad role model
Draw a lesson means learning from the actions of others that have no effect on you. When writing a novel in Japanese, there are many...
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Apr 113 min read
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A HORDE OF MONSTERS ROAMS THE STREETS OF EDO:HOW MONSTERS IS MADE
It's unique Japanese monsters such as Ittan-momen or Nurikabe . When Japanese the word Ittan-momen, they imagine a something in a white...
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Apr 54 min read
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THE GODFATHER IS A STRANGER: THE ORIGIN OF THE PAINTING'S NAME
The Cond é Museum , located in the Château de Chantilly north of Paris has in its collection the Limbourg brother 's Les Tres Riches...
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Feb 274 min read
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THE UNCONSCIOUS MARIONET: THE NEWSPAPER IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD
Nowadays, due to the strongly built the Internet society, information spreads in an instant and becomes deeply engraved in people's...
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Jan 273 min read
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Exporting aesthetic sensibilities : Japanese traditional art becoming globalized
At the end of the 19th century, many traditional Japanese arts and crafts made their way to Europe due to the Meiji government's policy...
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Jan 213 min read
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Chinese Birthday--Until kanji are created--
Kanji began to be used in earnest from the Shang Dynasty , also known as the Yin Dynasty . Its original form is oracle bone characters ...
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Nov 28, 20244 min read
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Will fireflies emerge from the rotting grass? --The role of the 24 Solar Terms and the 72 Seasons--
The rotting grass turns into a firefly . It is one of the 24 Solar Terms and 72 Seasons. This word refers to the rainy season around...
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Nov 16, 20243 min read
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Look Up! ──Until Monsters are created──
There is a monster called " Rokurokubi ", whose neck extends. The origin of this is said to be the monster " Miage-Nyudo ", that is...
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Sep 17, 20243 min read
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Those who hate hide their claws──Snakes Ecosystem──
Snakes a re often hated due to their creepy appearance and fear of being poisonous, but their unique limbless bodies and their...
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Nov 4, 20233 min read
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