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Who’s the obaasan with the cauliflower ear? Incredible

Honestly that’s exactly how a heel should be with a fan

FINALLY WE SEE HER TAKE DAMAGE

The frogs!!! That’s Matsumoto! Matsumoto has a sister-city program with my hometown! Also if you know anybody who played violin as a tiny child, that’s where the Suzuki school is from! The soba is excellent.

My man. ✊

Yup, that’s why he’s named Nelson lol

Still a professional. Good to see

good old “the staff ate it”, real Japanese variety TV here

As a coach of jr high bands, this is very accurate

At least it wasn’t Marimokkori! (Side note: you never see marimokkori anymore. 2000s humor, I guess.)

Oh hi Demon Core-kun!

Really nice timing on this joke

Nope, the moxa is the fluff from the leaves of mugwort. Mugwort (yomogi) is also used as an herb (yomogi sweets, yomogi udon) so the smoke is fragrant. It’s kind of minty? Or like the scent of tomato leaves, a little? It’s often used in combo with acupuncture. So. Probably not supported by...

thanks tl for finishing this one, gochisousamadeshita

Inochi mijikashii… If you’ve ever seen Ikiru, it’s that song

Cape Soya! On a clear day you can see Sakhalin Island from there

Dosojin in Western Japan sometimes are a man and woman pair. You usually see either jizo or dosojin but not both just depends on the area

Wait? She wrote Those Damn Dogs? There was a poster for the movie of that in the school library in yurucamp. I remember it because I used a screencap of it to make fun of an acquaintance that raises Shikoku dogs (bastards, great creatures)

Ponyo intensifies

So that Basho haiku is from the Oku-no-hosomichi where he toured across the Tohoku. That one specifically is about a visit to Hiraiizumi, (recently listed as World Heritage), the site of a ruined capital that briefly rivalled Kyoto in wealth and power. Only a couple of temples remain. The poem...