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[telophase]

Gorgeous photo of Mount Fuji. Ignore the comments - the "delicacy of the Orient" one is infuriating.

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[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's an amazingly painterly (and gorgeous) image. It looks almost silk-screened.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this one that I had saved in my favorites also made me think of silkscreening or woodblock prints:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/altus/951325209/

[cicer.livejournal.com]

'Delicacy of the Orient'? ...What does that even MEAN?!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

At a rough guess... "Hi! I have Yellow Fever!"

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Orientalism: he has it.

wow,

[raucousraven.livejournal.com]

That is completely lovely! I can almost smell the snow. (Thanks for the comment warning, too.)

[fuchsoid.livejournal.com]

This is lovely - it reminds me of the sort of woodblock prints that were being done in the 1900s.

[onthehill]

Wow that really is beautiful!
"The delicacy of the Orient." BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

'The delicacy of the Orient' is so apropos because my 'Illustrated Treasure House of Youkai' book arrived last night. It's full of Edo period pictures of kappa mooning the world and buggering the occasional young boy. (And then there's the one of the kappa being punished by a dragon king so it won't trouble his ocean again. Ahh the unexpected sources of Saiyuki Gaiden.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The Japan 2007 Worldcon program book had an article in it designed to keep crazy Americans in costume from wandering around the neighborhood and scaring the locals, wherein it explained that the Japanese people do not like to draw attention to themselves.

Rachel and I spent the rest of the trip quoting that to each other every time we saw a Japanese person drawing attention to him- or herself.

[m00nface.livejournal.com]

When I was in Japan I saw a TV programme where they took some celebrities to the top of some hill to catch a good view of Mount Fuji, but at the time they got there the weather wasn't great, so the camera tilted up in a DA DA! move to show... white. Nothing but sky. It was actually pretty surreal, everyone peering across the landscape and wondering aloud if they were in the right place, and if not, where Fuji had gone!

After about ten minutes some of the cloud shifted and you could see a bit of an outline, then it went invisible again. Unfortunately, the celebrities had all brought food, so they had the most unspectacular barbecue ever. :D