I love the wild and free look of the young girl. Grandpa has a sword. The integration of the cultures was inevitable, and the approximate form of the Japanese Kimono has already been adopted. The main Photo and Comments about these fine folks are HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2746187012/ My entire AINU Set (still only a few photos) is HERE : www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/sets/72157607060944155/ Both the Okinawans and the Ainu have plenty of bones to pick with the current occupying over-lords who control things from their bureaucratic bunkers in Tokyo. It's not unlike the Native "Indians" of the Americas who have a pile of bones to pick with the Europeans who over-ran them. Although everybody seems to agree that there's no going back, that's no excuse for the way people have been treated by the usurpers and over-runners during the endless centuries of human expansion. When it comes to recognizing the existence of the Ainu, the modern Japanese have, until very recently, been complete and total idiots over the matter. From a ca.1920 collotype photograph published in Japan. Photographer unknown. RANDOM SOBA : www.flickriver.com/photos/24443965@N08/random/

This is a folding fan with romantic red roses flowers design. The size of this piece makes it perfect to carry in your handbag and use anywhere when it's really hot! What can you do with a hand fan or when to use it? - When it's too hot outside: summer weddings, parties, events, tennis matches, etc - To be a fashion queen! - To send secret messages!!! (For example: Fully open the hand fan = "Wait for me"; Move the hand fan around the cheek = "I love you") - As decorations to hang on a wall or display - To dance flamenco, olé! Measurements: (width x height) Open: 17 x 9 inches (43 cm x 23 cm) Closed: 1.6 x 9 inches (4 cm x 23 cm) The hand fan is made of natural wood, lacquer several times with water-based lacquer (so the wood becomes nice to the touch) and white polyester fabric, which I decorate with a decoupage technique using paper napkins, fixed with lacquer. All the materials I use are water-based (odorless and eco-friendly) and I guarantee durability. Make a set with cigarette/credit card case: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1261205883 Thank you for visiting our shop!

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Japanese nurse blowing through a conch shell There’s a website called Sukima Nurse that offers pictures of a Japanese nurse holding unusual objects in a hospital and similar locales. The pictures fall generally into the stock photo category, although with a very, very narrow focus. It’s difficult to imagine anyone having any reason to use a picture of a Japanese nurse blowing through a conch shell, but that is the very thing that makes the pictures so hilarious. In some of the pictures there is also a male patient looking at her or (sometimes) interacting with her. It’s some millionaire’s kinky turn-on, right? It has to be. Japanese nurse walking through hospital with a baseball bat and glove Japanese nurse wearing too many wristwatches Japanese nurse balancing fish on her wrists Japanese nurse and patient munching on a paddleboard Heat map of Japanese nurse Japanese nurse holding scissors in her mouth Japanese nurse eating ham in a public passageway Japanese nurse and patient attempting to defuse a time bomb Japanese nurse holding a sword in a canal Japanese nurse crouching apprehensively in a circle of...

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