• Things to Know: Clothing

food

• Japanese food
  • Arare
  • Mochi
    • Sakuramochi {inc. recipe}
    • uirō-mochi
  • Osechi
  • Zōni New Year's Day soup
    • cf. Korean tteokguk
  • Kamaboko
  • Okoge
  • Recipe for Nanakusa-gayu / 7 herb soup eaten at New Year
  • Genmaicha
• Korean Food
  • Kimchi
  • Bibimbap
  • Gochujang
• Alcohol
  • mead []
  • freeze distillation
  • Boulevardier cocktail

arts

• Flâneury
• Romanticism
• Japanese Arts
  • Saikei
  • Kintsugi
  • Jo-ha-kyū
  • Nanga
  • Japanese colour names
• lubok

Linguistics

• list of undeciphered writing systems
• anthroponymy
  • generational names
• morae
• agglutinative language
• false friends
• Rendaku
• List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo
• meaning of the word mottainai
• Shibboleths
• synecdoche
• autological words

Writing Systems

• proto-writing
  • Vinča symbols
• palaeography
• History of writing
• Scribal Abbreviations
• Obelism
• Mesoamerican Writing Systems: the Cascajal Block

literature & writing

• Commonplace Book
  • Silva Rerum
  • Confession album (cf. Proust Questionnaire)
• Bestiary
• Shenmo

Japanese literature / poetry

• The Man'yōshū anthology
• Haiku
  • Bashō
  • Buson
  • Issa
  • Shiki
• Kigo
• Saijiki
• haiga
• tanka
• renku
• haibun
• Recluse Literature
• Zuihitsu
  • The Pillow Book
  • Hōjōki
  • Tsurezuregusa
• Nikki Bungaku
  • Tosa Nikki // Kagerō Nikki // Murasaki Shikibu Nikki
  • waka (related)

Psychology & Mental Illness

• Egosyntonic vs Egodystonic
• Culture-bound Syndromes
• Taijin Kyofusho
• Hwabyeong

Introversion & +

• Intraversion ; Asociality
• Solitude
• Recluse ; Loner ; Hermit
• Shyness
• Social Anxiety Disorder
• Hikikomori
• Kodokushi (lonely death)
• Avoidant Personality Disorder

Religion / Spirituality

• Taoism
• Epicureanism
  • The Tetrapharmakos
• Syncretism
• Ietsism

Japanese Religion, Spirituality & Folklore

• Shinto
  • Koshintō
  • 3 Wise Monkeys
• Kami
  • Kami-kakushi
• Onmyōdō
• Shugendō
  • Yamabushi
• Iwakura
• Shikigami & Yōkai
  • bakeneko
• Kodama
• Yamabito

Norse Culture, Religion, Folklore

• Elder Futhark
• Cosmology
• List of deities and family tree
• Yggdrasil
• Hörgr
• Hamingja
• Flyting
• moss/wood people ; wild men
• tomte / nisse

time, calendars & almanacks

• Metonic cycle
• runic calendar
• Germanic calendar
• 1864 book of days online

famous animals

• Maru
• Mrs. Chippy
• Tama
• Hachikō

Popular Culture

• catbus, Neko no basu

Mysteries & Hoaxes

• Voynich manuscript
• Oera Linda Book
• Rohonc Codex
• min min light
• 'winged' cats

Cryptids of the World

• Yeti
• Bigfoot
• Ningen
• Kraken
• Akkorokamui
• Mothman
• Aswang
• Loch Ness Monster
• Chupacabra
• Jersey Devil
• Mongolian Death Worm
• Mokele-Mbembe
• diets of monsters

Reference

• unusual units of measurement

random

• video: ice skating jumps explained
• Sally port
• The tree that owns itself

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