函館monAmour（ チェックマーク ）

Blog about Japanese language and history. I am currently studying for JLPT N3 (poorly).

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by ctiger

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Amakusa Shirō (天草 四郎, c. 1621? – 28 February 1638), often romanized as Shirou, was a Japanese Christian of the Edo Period and leader of the Shimabara Rebellion , an uprising of Japanese Roman Catholics against the Shogunate . He is also known as Masuda Shirō (益田 四郎). His Christian name was Geronimo, however, he later changed it to Francisco.

The uprising led by Shirō was defeated, and he was executed at the age of 17. His head was displayed on a pike near Nagasaki as a warning to Christians. 

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Oda Mayumi Madonna Bear (45/60)

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Visit Original Link

an okinawan folk song sung in uchinaaguchi (okinawan language) and featured in gō takamine’s film paradise view (1985) starring jun togawa and haruomi hosono

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Japanese Language Reading Resources

I needed to put all my reading resources in one place lol

Tadoku - free books from beginner to advanced aimed at language learners. The books from level 0 - 4 contain furigana.

YomuJP - More free japanese graded reading material. N6 is the easiest and N1 is the hardest. Contains audio, furigana and pictures.

Jgrpg Sakura - Japanese graded reading material. You need to create an account first though

Watanoc - Web magazine aimed at language learners in easy japanese. N5-N3. Contains audio, pictures and you can hover over unknown words to reveal the meaning.

Soseki Product - This website is dedicated to the works of Natsume Sōseki and it's also aimed at language learners so there's furigana, audio and translation. These novels are from the 1900s so it might be a bit difficult but I think it's really fun

MeikaSensei - Blog posts aimed at beginners. There's beginner versions and intermediate versions of the same post. Contains furigana

Bunsuke - Contains excerpts from books with translations and vocabulary lists. Also has links to the books used. Made by a fellow language learner :)

Ehon - Picture books aimed for 0-6 year olds. Doesn't seem to contain kanji. Some books contain audio

Lingual ninja - This website is for learning hiragana/katakana/grammar/vocab/kanji but it also has a folktales section that contains audio, vocab lists and optional furigana. There's also youtube videos of each story available

yomou syosetu - Over a million free novels! I believe a lot of it is user-submitted works

Syosetsu - Similar to the above.

Bookwalker (jp) - You can read the first few volumes of manga for free here. There's also light novels and doujinshi

Aozora Bunko - digital library that contains a lot of out of copyright books

Note - User submitted posts about various topics

Easy NHK News - News in easy japanese. Contains furigana.

NHK News - The news. In Japanese

Apps

Pibo - Picture books aimed at children

Todaii - Aimed at language learners. News with furigana and pop up dictionary.

Satori Reader - Paid

Yomu Yomu - First 3 chapters are free on edit: some stories!

If you have any more recommendations, tell me!

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１９５５年　映画「舞妓三銃士」

京都祇園に住む三人の仲良し舞妓が力を合わせ、悪い旦那衆を懲らしめる痛快喜劇映画。 

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1955 movie “Maiko Three Musketeers” An exciting comedy movie in which three good maikos living in Kyoto Gion work together to discipline the bad husbands.

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dreamer

I started drawing this for Hijikata day last week, but I wasn't able to finish until now because of a holiday trip. With Reimyuroku on the horizon, I'm thinking about it more again. Looking forward to seeing what they adapt this time.

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Hana-bi (Fireworks, 1997) directed by Takeshi Kitano

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takeshi kitano when there is a movie about the exploration of homoerotic desire in violent patriarchal military structures: im already on ur set or directing it myself

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Koji Yakusho

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For cat lovers:

" ᓚᘏᗢ " … cat facing right

" ᗢᘏᓗ " … cat facing left

We'd be grateful if you added these to your dictionary.

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GONIN GAME

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人間失格: 太宰治と3人の女たち No Longer Human (2019) dir. Ninagawa Mika

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何が彼女をそうさせたか / What Made Her Do It? (1930, Shigeyoshi Suzuki)

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人間失格 太宰治と3人の女たち / No Longer Human (2019, Mika Ninagawa)

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Wolf Robots

Japanese farmers use such wolf robots to patrol the territory to scare away wild animals