Archive for May, 2006

Tool of Seppuku – Review of Ross’ “Mishima’s Sword”

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Why did Mishima Yukio commit seppuku? And happened to the sword he used for the deed? Questions Christopher Ross sets out to answer in Mishima’s Sword, Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend.

The book is a pleasant read. It nicely hobbles along on its short paragraphs, like an extended but at the same time well [...]

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Smiling about Japanese smileys

Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2006 No Comments »

Faces are open books, but in case of an other culture, you may have to learn a foreign language.
I mean, what do you look at when you look a person in the face? Do you watch the mouth or the eyes? This is culturally determined: Westerners usually look at the mouth, because we use the [...]

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