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Sukeroku and the mystery 1884 Shintomi-za performance

by ChrisRPosted onJune 23, 2022June 24, 2022

Sukeroku is another classic kabuki play – something that is always on the repertoire in Tokyo. For the lead performer it is an Otokodate role…

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Hyoryu Kidan Seiyo Kabuki

by ChrisRPosted onJune 21, 2022June 23, 2022

In my previous article, on the play Okige no kumo harau Asagochi, I covered one of the most successful of the modern Meiji plays staged…

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Okige no kumo harau Asagochi

by ChrisRPosted onJune 19, 2022June 22, 2022

“Okige no kumo harau Asagochi” (“The Morning East Wind Clearing the Clouds of the Southwest“, 西南雲晴朝東風) is one of my favourite plays in yakusha-e prints,…

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April’s delivery from Japan

by ChrisRPosted onApril 17, 2022June 20, 2022

The first image is a really unusual ōkubi-e (big-headed print) and I was very lucky to be able to purchase it because this sub-genre is…

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March’s delivery from Japan

by ChrisRPosted onMarch 31, 2022June 20, 2022

This unassuming print features another nice conflict between the traditional kimonos worn on either side and the western hat and metal-spoked umbrella held by the…

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November delivery from Japan

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 29, 2021June 20, 2022

This was a pre-Christmas delivery of interesting yakusha-e prints from the Japanese auctions.  This print is a classic scene from a famous play called “Kiwametsuki…

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October’s delivery from Japan

by ChrisRPosted onOctober 6, 2021June 20, 2022

This 1887 print features Ichikawa Danjūrō IX as the central figure, a lion dancer – accompanied in the dance by his butterfly attendants. It is…

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August’s delivery from Japan

by ChrisRPosted onAugust 21, 2021June 20, 2022

This striking 1883 series is called “The Popularity of the Upstairs Dressing Room”) 楽屋 二階 影 評判, featuring famous actors of the time being dressed.…

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 29, 2020January 10, 2021

Animal Crossing: New Horizons probably needs no explanation if you’ve been paying attention in the console games world. Since its release in March 2020 it…

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Unravel two

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 29, 2020November 30, 2020

I saw this little game a while ago but wasn’t convinced enough by the reviews to buy when it was £24.99 but yesterday it came…

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SuperHot: Time moves only when you move

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 6, 2020November 28, 2020

There are many different types of computer game and I’ve played most over the years but the games that intrigue me most are the ones…

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Nintendo Switch – my first console

by ChrisRPosted onOctober 4, 2020November 18, 2020

I know I probably left it a few decades late to join the games console generation but with Coronavirus ravaging the land and the prospect…

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Vegan meat substitutes

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 28, 2020October 12, 2020

In the last year the impact on personal health and the environment of continued large-scale meat eating has been in the news headlines quite a…

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Observing orchids

by ChrisRPosted onApril 25, 2015August 4, 2020

Recently I have been helping with a project called Orchid Observers, at the Natural History Museum. The aim is to get members of the public…

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Sloe gin – my recipe

by ChrisRPosted onMarch 1, 2015August 4, 2020

My first batches of sloe gin are ready to drink and are tasting pretty good so I think I can rough out my recipe now.…

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Review of commercial sloe gins

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 3, 2015August 4, 2020

This winter I have been making liqueurs with hedgerow fruits – things like sloe & damson gins and vodkas but also variations with hawthorne berries,…

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Sarcophaga carnaria group male genitalia

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 30, 2014August 4, 2020

I made this photo a little while ago, from my own specimens of the British Sarcophaga carnaria group (carnaria, variegata & subvicina). I posted it…

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Tarassus shannoni confirmed from Colombia

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 29, 2014August 4, 2020

A little while ago I posted about a strange fly that had been shown to me at the Natural History Museum. It looked clearly like…

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The first female of Alvamaja chlorometallica Rognes, 2010 found in Romania

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 29, 2014August 4, 2020

This autumn my friend Alexandru Pintilioaie in Romania sent me a batch of flies, including one metallic rhinophorid. We both agreed that it looked very…

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Tachinids from La Palma

by ChrisRPosted onMay 8, 2013August 4, 2020

I received a really interesting parcel today from a friend who holidayed in La Palma earlier this year. He had spotted some Tachina that looked…

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