Before getting into the main topic, I'll just link to some observations I made in the comments to the previous post -- about a Korean r...

Following the previous post, we'll look at another sort of "creation" myth from Japan -- the origin myth of ritual impurity, a...

In the last comments section, I detailed many ways in which Japan looks like a horse-riding culture from the eastern Eurasian steppe. I will...

The virtual shark-girl streamer who took the world by storm officially graduates today. I have a whole backlog of tribute songs I'll be ...

Now that Hololive's owl-girl Mumei has left the nest, here's one last tribute song to memorialize her, in case she's still lurki...

It's back to architecture for a little while, and the next series of posts will all be on the same overarching theme -- coziness. It wil...

Gonna post the comment thread from the previous post into a standalone post, to get a new ball rolling, and start some more aesthetics posti...

While preparing a post on friends vs. frenemies during the rising-harmony vs. rising-strife phases of Turchin's 50-year cycle in civic c...