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A rare vintage photograph of a geisha or kabuki actress playing an onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan.
Often mistakenly referred to as “female samurai”, female warriors have a long history in Japan, beginning long before samurai emerged as a warrior class.
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A rare vintage photograph of a geisha or kabuki actress playing an onna-bugeisha, one of the female warriors of the upper social classes in feudal Japan.
Often mistakenly referred to as “female samurai”, female warriors have a long history in Japan, beginning long before samurai emerged as a warrior class.
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It has come to this. It’s Friday night, and I’m running out of cider and anonymously commenting on kink meme fills. ADULT LIFE, THIS IS IT.
Source: et11obsessions“I say! What’s all this bally business with ghosts? I came here to pay a social call and instead I find myself sleeping in that box over there and beset by all manner of spectre!”
“Indeed, sir.”
“And since when do ghosts wait outside a window to grab some poor cove’s hand when he goes to…
Source: futurejournalismprojectNot Your Ordinary Bookstore
Argentina’s El Ataneo Grand Splendid opened as a theater in 1919, later became a cinema and is now a bookstore.
Images: El Ataneo Grand Splendid, via Atlas Obscura.
Gaaaassssp. Who’s coming on a world-wide library and bookstore tour with me?
Fairy rings occupy a prominent place in European folklore as the location of gateways into elfin kingdoms, or places where elves gather and dance. According to the folklore, a fairy ring appears when a fairy, pixie, or elf appears. It will disappear without trace in less than five days, but if an observer waits for the elf to return to the ring, he or she may be able to capture it.
I’m going to sleep inside of one.
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