Then & Now : Rebels watching government ships from the cliffs
Then : March 14th, 1877 by Yoshitoshi - printed contemporaneously. “Last Samurai” Saigo Takamori watches the imperial army arrive, a few months later he would be defeated & dead
Now: Statue of him in Ueno park
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As with the Euros 2 years ago, and now with the World Cup in the Americas, I will be turning nocturnal for a month.🧛♂️
Supporting 🇯🇵,🏴, and 🏴.🥳
And why does the 1st 🇯🇵game have to be so early😬?
Agreed
Then & Now: Taiwanese Natives Resist the Japanese Troops at Dakekan(Taoyuan)
Then - 1895 by artist Kiyochika, contemporaneously printed with the 🇯🇵colonial events
Now - Taoyuan is being developed as residential overflow from Taipei. Did go looking for an apartment there once
Love fruit❤️
From strawberries and cherries in the Peninsula Hotel Tokyo🇯🇵, to pumpkins in Covent Garden, and figs in Harrods food hall London🇬🇧, to fresh lychees in Taipei🇹🇼
Good morning World, from Taipei⚽️
I have another contender for weirdest kaiten Sushi…
…Sushi cheeseburger with a Minions eye 😬…
Beat that internet…💪
Now been to funerals in 🇬🇧🇯🇵and🇹🇼and they are all totally different, and I can say, all awful in different ways.
IMO if there is anything ripe for a complete rethink - it’s the funeral.
Then & Now : Wakizashi maintenance
Signature : Izumi Kami Kaneshige
Then 1630/40 - It is said the great duelist Miyamoto Musashi treasured Kaneshige’s swords & whilst in Edo recommend him to the Tōdō family
Now -On my deck, I maintain every 6 months, very sharp
