sword stroke

(Source: japaneseculturecenter)

denise-puchol:

godzilla, party animal

(Source: mrs-straightsix)

“A poster for fictitious Japanese movie staring David Bowie as a Mecha Pilot battling Kaiju on Mars.”  Via

raku-japanese-designed:

Japanese Word Today - Kunoichi くノ一

Kunoichi (くノ一) is the term for a female ninja or practitioner of ninjutsu (ninpo).
The term is thought to derive from the names of characters that resemble the three strokes in the kanji character for woman (女 onna); said in the order they are written: ku (く) - no (ノ) - ichi (一). Early literary quotes include Enshū Senkuzuke Narabi Nihyaku In (遠舟千句附并百韵) (1680) as well as Maekuzukeshū (前句付集) (1716), which specifically associates the word with the kanji 女 supporting the etymology of being overpowered.

Kunoichi.  Ninjas, of course, don’t exist.

justamus:

A rare vintage photograph of an onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan.

Often mistakenly referred to as “female samurai”, female warriors have a long history in Japan, beginning long before samurai emerged as a warrior class.

This is cool.

nihon-daisuki:

Daily Life 20130108 by YUKA KUBOTA on Flickr.

vacationinparadise:

Kawachi Fuji Gardens, Japan.

(Source: )

A whiskey-colored moon

(Source: harunoqma)

centuriespast:

The ghost of Oiwa emerges from a lantern to frighten Kamiya Niemon 

Tōkyō, 1845 - 1846

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797 - 1861) (designer)

The Ashmolean Museum

sisterwolf:

Warriors

Samurai

zitterberg:

Hiroshige: New Year’s Eve foxfires at the changing tree, Oji, 1857

murakamistuff:

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Interesting cover art

my-ear-trumpet:

legrandcirque:

Famed samurai Yamaoka Tessyu, ca. 1860s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaoka_Tessh%C5%AB

Stylish.