#Nikkeijin

[inkwellphotograph]

some Japanese dark academia things

I love seeing people talk about living the dark academia subculture within their culture, so here are a few traditional Japanese things that give me the same sense of pride and devotion as being dark academic.

(It goes without saying, this is for all Japanese people, including nikkeijin, hāfu/daburu/mikusu, and everyone else!)

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⚘ The elegance of calligraphy. The feeling of the ink under your brush, watching the smoothness of it.

⚘ Kimono and yukata. The heaviness and comfort of a kimono, and the lightness of a yukata. As a man, I also feel a deep sense of honour on the rare occasions I wear a hakama.

⚘ Gardens, with streams of clear water and dark stones underfoot. Watching the kaede leaves turn orange with the seasons.

⚘ Ink and pencil smudged across your hands, especially if you're right-handed (and growing up sympathetic for left-handed people because of this)

⚘ The beauty of Japanese names. Each character considered for its meaning, pieced together like a puzzle to create something new.

⚘ Shrines and temples. Historic architecture nestled within gardens and forests. Musing over the ancient prayers, celebrations, and contemplations that occurred along the same steps you're walking on, however long ago.

#japan #japanese #japanese culture #nikkei #nikkeijin #dark academia #grey academia #light academia #asian culture #aapi #classic academia #romantic academia #japanese academia #aesthetic #romanticise your life #japan aesthetic #hafu #daburu #mikusu

[himikochan]

I’ve been feeling some complicated gender feelings but I realized it’s been a hot second since I’ve shared my long hair

they/them

#my face #personal #Nikkei #long hair #nikkeijin

[miyuecakes]

old sketches of hk (top) and guangdong (bottom) because apparently not even my chineseness is secure enough to not be othered from me when i don't follow how outsiders think we should act )-)o

#hws hong kong #aph hong kong #hws guangdong #hetalia #hws #aph #hws chinese provinces #orz its a given that people constantly take my birthright as nikkeijin away from me but my chineseness too? damn #what im saying here is that every time ive acted out of line of what people think a japanese-descent or chinese person should act #i get reduced and labeled in a way that removes those core aspects of my identity -- typically by overemphasizing my chineseness as other #or recently -- as just vaguely east asian #yowch #whether or not op knew i was chinese i was still stripped of my chinese identity in order for op to smear my art as sinophobic #it doesn't matter if they didn't know. they had to make the assumption i wasn't chinese #“because what chinese person would do such a thing?” says the orientalist #orientalism only makes the orientalist's orient true to the audience #not to know the actual orient -- which doesn't exist outside of the occidental imaginary

[shurelia]

I'm listening to the drama CD and I think madarame and towa are in brazil. madarame please come to brazil.

#implied to be in brazil maybe lol #they said they were in south america and also their barista was like #oh are you japanese. theres lots of nikkeijin in this area :) #so it makes sense

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Japanese diaspora in Brazil remembers disaster that forged it

This year marks a century since the Great Kanto Earthquake and 115 years since the first migration of Japanese people to Brazil, but it was the disaster and subsequent mayhem in and around the Tokyo area that became the main catalyst for the growth of the diaspora in the South American nation.

Many people decided to leave Japan because they had lost their property due to the earthquake, and the Japanese government obliged by encouraging mass emigration through travel subsidies for the victims. Brazil now boasts the world's largest community of Nikkeijin, the name given to Japanese people who reside outside their ancestral homeland.

Ryuzaburo Mizuno, 92, was born in Curitiba, southern Brazil. His father, Ryo Mizuno, operated the Kasato Maru in 1908, a passenger ship that carried the first Japanese immigrants to Brazil.

Considered the father of Japanese immigration, Ryo traveled back and forth between Japan and Brazil, sparing no effort for the migration project.

Continue reading.

#brazil #japan #history #migration #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

[nikkeisimmer]

Reshooting "The Chikamori Legacy" Pt. II

Starting out with the prologue, I've managed to finish shooting all the images for that.

...and some of them are pretty good.

There's nothing like getting down at eye level with the subjects and tight in focus.

...to really see the reactions.

"...If you don’t like it; there’s the door..."

...and to actually make the screen-captures fit the story-line.

...at least I got Haruo to look somewhat Asian (as a young adult)- he should, he is Nikkeijin (Japanese diaspora), then before - where he just looked kind of surprised.

Replacement Haruo is even different from the one on the right too.

#sims 3 #sims 3 gameplay #river mcirish #ts3 #sims 3 storytelling #river and haruo #sims 3 legacy #haruo chikamori #The Chikamori Legacy #The Chikamori Legacy reshoot #The Sims 3 screenshots #ts3 stories #ts3 screenshots #ts3 simblr #ts3 gameplay #ts3 legacy #ts3 simmer

[crazytoes-menagerie]

Original character: Hasumi Rembutsu

Face claims: Yui Aragaki, Namie Amuro

Nationality: Latin American Nikkeijin

Citizenship: Uruguayan, French, formerly US American and Brazilian

Ethnicity: Japanese-Ryukyuan, French

#OC #original character #tattoo #amuro namie #namie amuro #tattoos #安室奈美恵 #aragaki yui #kat von d #photoshop #yui aragaki #タトゥー #新垣結衣 #ガッキー #gakky #gakki #フォトショップ #affinity photo #アフィニティフォト

[avatarvyakara]

And now for something a little different:

(Yes, this is what I’ve been working on for the past while.)

For context:

The story of the Golden River—’Onochok in Kochachi, Kingawa in Nikkeijin Japanese—with its five rivers, its seven great cities, its many-buttressed buildings and sacred isles—is a complex one, as is the story of the Nikkei-jin, the Japanese settlers who became the greatest rivals of the people of the Bay. But they are not alone, in the story of this continent. Nor can what happened to them truly be divorced from events elsewhere in the known world.

The continent of HESPERIA lacks much in the way of domesticable animals, but there was one key exception—camelops celeris, which the Bay would call ’espeli (plural ’espelik) but most of the world would come to call nayoomee. Large and llama-like, the nayoomee would provide meat, wool, and perhaps most importantly a suitable mount. Camelops c. occidentalis, the variant found on the western coast of Hesperia, would come to be used by the ancient Hokan pastoral peoples, giving them an edge against the Yok-Utian agriculturalists…at least at first. It would also give the ancient Inawemaaganic [Algonquian] tribes on what another history would call the Columbia Plateau a key boost in their expansions across the continent to the west.

It is with these people—or with a descendant people, the Nnu [Mi’kmaq]—that the next stage of the story takes place. Because in the year 1000, a ship came from the northeast of the world, bearing warriors from a faraway land, a strange faith, strange new animals—and strange diseases. Smallpox in particular did a lot of damage—tore the Wóšnathípi Empire to pieces, ended the cult of the Bird-Men, nearly destroyed the power of the Turtle Cities of the Great Lakes, and left piles of burning corpses brightening the night in the Bay, among other effects. Key to all this, though, is that the people of the urban civilizations of Hesperia survived. And those who did now had a boost against the sicknesses of the Other World.

The story continues in 1251, when a group of Tau raiders—whom another history would call the Inuit—made their way across the Strait and traded with Japan and China. North China, anyway; the Mongol Conquest was still ongoing at the time. Unfortunately, the Tau brought a disease of their own with them, which English speakers would come to call alcom: a herpesvirus causing diarrhea, spots, and febrile seizures, and then, as little as four months or as much as five years later, inflammation of the body—including fatal encephalitis. It was this sickness, also called the Red Death, which among other things stopped the Yuan from getting all the way south, saved the city of Baghdad (by forcing a recall of the armies), ensured the presence of Christian kingdoms in Palestine and Muslim principates in Iberia for centuries to come, and meant that the population had already dropped by a full fifth across Eurasia when bubonic plague came along not too long later.

It would be a much more haggard, somewhat more fervent, world which was set to unite in 1485, when Kuroda Kiyoshi, frustrated at the Mongol omnipotence in trade, was granted permission by the Emperor Go-Tenji (Yamahito) to seek an alternative trade route with the faraway land of Europe. After being at sea for thirty-nine days, on the fortieth they came to a great bay, filled with sacred islands and surrounded by cities of stone and mud.

In keeping with a time-honoured tradition across the multiverse, he deemed it France.

***

Hesperia will have had three and a half thousand years of recognizable “civilization” (large-scale agriculture, cities, literacy, metallurgy, epidemic disease, war) by the time the worlds collide. The countless cultures to have risen and fallen in that time could fill a book—and in this world and ours they already have. But for simplicity’s sake, let us divide the world into six portions.

KAWIINI, the “centre-world”, marks the western coast of the continent, along the edge of the Assinotie Mountains (which another history would call the Rockies). This is where the nayoomee was first domesticated; this is where tule reed was first stamped into paper scrolls; this is where the first outbreak of alcom occurred; this is where one of the continent’s three major religions, HOYOHHA, would develop. The region of Lokloni, the “Great Valley”, contains four great powers constantly one-upping each other in trade and warfare. The KOCHACHI, whom another history would call the Miwoks, hold sway here, the Earth-King and Water-King in Hulpu-Mni (our Sacramento) controlling the massive river valley to the north and (more importantly) four of the Seven Cities around the Bay. The other powers worth mentioning are the SHUURVITAM [Tongva and nearby Takic peoples] to the south, whose great city of Iyáanga would later be described as a “Babylon in Paradise”, and the TAU, Hesperia’s first intercontinental empire.

TUUWAQATSI is slightly to the east, in the Assinoti Mountains themselves. Cliff-cities were being built here before almost anywhere else on the continent; the arrival of the nayoomee, and more importantly domesticated bighorn sheep, did wonders for the local economy, as did goosefoot and sunflowers and, later, maize, beans, and squash. Currently most of the land—and a good chunk of the plains to the east—is under the control of the TINTA IMPERIUM, whose dominant inhabitants call themselves the Nemi and are called the Shoshone in our timeline. Of mention are the DINÉ, the Navajo, who have maintained a reasonable presence despite the efforts of the Eight Mayors, and the ÂSHINI [Zuñi] and HOPI, both of whom are considered de facto independent peoples within the Tinta Imperium thanks to the prominence of their cities.

ÑÍTA is what our world would call the Mississippi River Basin, with much territory on the eastern coast and the western plains; perhaps it would be fairer to call it the home of the Mississippian Cultures instead. Here grow sunflowers and goosefoots, amaranth and squash; here a species of dwarf bison was domesticated for meat and wool, becoming immensely valuable; here rose the cult of the Bird-Men, in recent centuries overthrown. Currently the ancient city of Omašté, ruled as ever by the ancient WAPKÁTXUNGWANG (called the Lakota in our own timeline), has recovered most of its former territories after the Scabbing (smallpox epidemic). But further to the south the OKLA (Choctaw) have begun spreading their own faith, HVSHI ANOWA, along with their Horsemen, uniting the Riverlands by something other than mercantile cunning or brute strength. Ugedaliyv, homeland of the ANIYVWIYA’I [Cherokee], has broken away, seemingly for good—so long as the Ongweh’onweh (Iroquois) don’t make a move in their direction. And as always, there are the SEA COUNTRIES: Aphópkee, Hótvlee-Tv’lwv, Chitkohòki, and Kuht’hanut, caught between too many powers and just wanting a relatively quiet life.

AKIIWAN is actually a ridiculously large region, from the Atlantic to the Arctic, and almost all of it is Cree. NĒHIRAW, that is; they are perhaps the oldest continuous INAWEMAAGANIC culture, keeping to their ancestral patterns of semi-nomadic migration from buried city to buried city, all across the northern grasslands and into the taiga. But although the largest, they’re by no means considered the most influential. No, that would be the circuits of GAMEEN, the land around the five Great Lakes which would come to be known as Gameen in time. The BII’WEG, our Ojibwe or Anishinaabeg, were the first to domesticate lake rice, and the first to smelt arsenic bronze, and the second to adopt ironworking. Their main religion, NANDOWIN, has spread far across the continent; most of the Nēhiraw have synchronized to it, and even the arrival of the Vinlanders couldn’t stop the NNU from seeking the Answers they wanted. The VINLANDERS themselves have all but fully integrated into Nnu society; both their language and that of the Nnu are spoken equally at the great Althing in Kyrvik/Welta’qase’g (and most places have two names, too). Their trading (and raiding) empire stretches as far north as Nucho, Baffin Island in another time, and as far south as the Bawa Sea. And they’ve come at last to an uneasy truce with the Bii’weg, at least until the whole mess with the ONGWEH’ONWEH [Haudenosaunee] is sorted out.

The tropical BAWA SEA has long been dominated by the TAÍNO, whose ship-building has moved from dugout canoes to junk-like ships with cotton sails and mahogany hulls. The cacicazgos of the four main islands have a strict policy of peace on land. …and technically on water, too, but normally they just end up hiring Huasteca, Carib, Tupi, Okla, or Vinlandic pirates to capture each others’ ships. Captured Taíno are ransomed; captured pirates are sold, or brought back to work on plantations. For the Taíno, thanks to the Tupi, are now Hesperia’s main source of KYE, an extract of stevia rebaudiana up to 300 times sweeter than sugar. People in the north will pay a small fortune for the chance at even a taste; it is small wonder that when Malinese explorers come this way, they will name it the Digeji—the Sea of Honey.

ANAHUAC is a world of its own. The NAHUA peoples made their way south some time ago, riding nayoomee and herding peccaries through the desert and introducing steeds and sickness alike to the various civilizations to the south while pinching the secret of bronze from the Purépecha. These days, the Nahua—or more precisely the MEXICA—rule a decent chunk of the country that would in another world (and another time) be called Mexico, under three great kings on their island city of Nopalla. The only real contenders are the ZAPOTECS and MIXTECS, who remain among the few places the Mexica have not been able to bring under tributary sway, and the MAYA, disparate jungle city-states who survived the plagues and general collapse and have begun trading chocolate and jade with the Taíno to the north and the Tupi to the south. The Mexica are known historically for their logistics, nayoomee being excellent tools for message delivery, but in the past few decades the capture of human sacrifices has been getting a little too much for subject people who can’t understand why they don’t just eat their giant dogs instead. Still, it’s not all bad; perhaps it just needs some shaking up…

#alternate history #Kingawa #aboriginals #first nations #canada #california #maps #indigenous people #for want of a nail #you know how many languages I’ve been having to learn for this thing? #the answer is both so many and too few #anyone have a decent Lakota grammar they can suggest #aztecs #ojibwa #vinland saga #miwok #Tongva #lakota #more work to do

[zykamiliah]

OMG Tks to your blog i finally know who started this bullying with SNOW and the others. i can report,block them & their supporters. Those people are obsessed with the characters in a way they take everything personally. There are bloggers who professionally project themselves onto Sasuke cringe. Now apparently there are people who do this with Naruto's character. They are offended for him, for the whole japanese nation, they try to save them from fanart facepalm

And they use all of those non-sensical arguments like "Naruto set in feudal Japan" or that fanartist's style erases Japanese race from anime. They obviously manipulate to fan the situation out.

Narutoverse is not feudal Japan. It's not Samurai Champloo filled with anachronisms. It's a made-up world loosely based on the Shinobi and Bushido ideas with the elements of both modern & old japanese culture. I wonder if those ppl noticed how the Hyuga family is heavily influenced by Chinese culture, that Rock Lee is an homage to Jacky Chan's character in Drunken Master and Killer B is a black rapper. The cultural context matters in Naruto but not in a way they interpret it. They should at least stop twisting things in an attempt to find arguments (I know why they don't want tho. Admit they it's a made-up world it means everybody can be there and their case would crumble).

This thing exists either because of people's cultural experience, or it's an attempt to look woke. If it's the second case - no comments. If the first one, for them it is a matter of representation, it's 100% valid. Their experience is important and they definitely should block Snow. Or talk to her directly. But somehow specific cultural experience is not big enough for them, so they extrapolate & project, they create drama and not justice.

Whitewashing is 100% bad. But it exists inside specific sociocultural context. Whitewashing against Asians is not a thing in Japan or japanese media which anime is a part of. Even with the Naruto fanart/fandom it's mostly not a thing. It's not the case of a western show's single asian character being erased by fanartists. Japanese people consitute more than 90% of Japan. This is why it's main ethnicity in Naruto and in most animes. Those people confuse cause and effect.

What they do looks like narsiccistic obsession. They project their views and experience onto the characters, onto the whole fandom, onto the whole Japanese nation... They even write asks like "u made Asian people mad". Meaning, they are most probably white who talk for the Asians (white saviors huh?) Does any of them even fight for nikkeijin diaspora?

Calling people "freaks", hating on other nations in their blogs are not ok. I agree that Snow said some insensitive things...but she obviously was provoked. And nothing she says can satisfy these bullies. They want her to seize to exist because only that would please their egos. They don't even have the balls to talk with artists directly, they are not interested in healthy discussion. I don't think they want it or to change the situation for the better,or to educate people. They want to bully because it makes them feel good and righteous. So they provoke the artists and then wish them to disappear etc..

Those people should see a therapist.

And go out, and see there's real life problems more urgent than people drawing with a different style from the source material.

#naruto #sns #fandom #fandom discourse #anonymous

[grim-glasses]

All the stuff I didn't want to try to jam into my bio for the sake of aesthetics:

Asia | 28 | mixed race/white nikkeijin🇯🇵 | leftist | USA | they/she | aro-spec ace lesbian | I go absolutely batshit feral for Grelliam | cosplayer | fanficcer | occasional shitposter | megane stan | HARDCORE Kuroshitsuji manga purist

I do not have a DNI, I just vet and block. That being said you will not find any a.dult/m.inor, n.oncon, or i.ncest content here and I would greatly prefer not to see that shit. TERFs will be blocked on sight

This blog will NOT be spoiler free. I do not tag spoilers.

That's all!

Oh, and here's a larger version of my icon, in case you were wondering what it says:

#grimpost

[new-kanon]

No please, WASPlain Shinto to a Nikkeijin. Go ahead. Tell me about my own culture, Gaijin.

#ISTK-S #I swear to Kami-Sama

[himikochan]

Hey yo nikkeijin/nihonjin friends my Japanese is not so good could anyone help me find this version of 俵積み歌 (tawaratsumi uta)? It’s sung by a man and there’s an electric guitar and shamisan

#民謡 #演歌 #nikkeijin #日系人 #俵積み歌

[eclecticharmonytimemachine]

ジプシーの馬車に珈琲の花吹雪

目黒はるえ (1908-?)

Late 1920th.  After the Peace Preservation Law (治安維持法)

A gypsy wagon`s moving through a storm of coffee petals.

The beautiful and sorrowful haiku by Meguro Harue reveals an upside down world of a japanese refugee in Brasil. 

Late september (the coffee plants blooming) is a spring month in the Southern Hemisphere. The Hanami period takes place in autumn. Creaking wagon moves into the unknown.

Plenty of Japanese after 1925 were forced to flee their country.  2 million Japanese live in Brasil today. It’s half of all Nikkeijin: the Japanese emigrants and their descendants residing outside Japan.

#俳諧 #words

[softsoundingsea]

Little Moments

I would like to write this in Japanese when I have the vocabulary to do so but I want to share this story because it really made me smile!

I recently came back from a trip visiting family in Japan but I also took the time to see some friends of mine. 

My friend and I were looking for a place to eat for dinner after they arrived in Kyoto and we ended up settling on this semi-cheap hole in the wall gyoza restaurant. We invited our newly made Indonesian friend to come with us, too. 

The restaurant was being run by a mother and her son that night. The son was incredibly kind and talked with us a little, answering our questions about the food before we ordered it. While we waited for our food, my friends and I started talking to each other in English. Which, I guess from an outsiders view in Japan may have looked somewhat strange? A multi-ethnic but mono-racial Japanese-Okinawan person (me) speaking with someone who was mixed race Japanese (my friend) and our other friend (Indonesian) must have been somewhat startling. My friend was the main person giving our orders or asking questions with the son. The son even made comment that he had thought I was Japanese (ie a Japanese national) and my friend and I talked a little about being Nikkei. 

It must have piqued the interest of the mother because she came out of the kitchen to talk with us after our food came out. And I’m so glad she did. Turns out she was from China (in the area a little above North Korea) and her husband was Japanese-Chinese and they met when the husband was in China; her son was also Japanese-Chinese but grew up in Japan and he related to our conversations of not knowing one of our heritage languages among other things!

It was really quite lovely because they felt comfortable sharing that information with us and talking about it and we got such a great conversation out of it. I also really enjoyed this interaction because my friend and I had been conversing about Nikkei identities only a day or two before. It was such a great unexpected encounter and I got to speak a little bit of Japanese.

#Japan #Personal Text #Personal #Multicultural #Multiethnic #Japanese #Japanese Identity #Chinese #Okinawan #Heritage Language Learner Adventures #Nikkei #Nikkeijin #英語 #Japanese Studyblr

[wearejapanese]

I didn’t know I was Japanese Canadian until almost four years ago. I was twenty. Growing up, I never blended the two words into a single neat term that hinted at my family’s history. As a kid, I probably described myself as “half Chinese, half Japanese” when I was asked “Where are you from?” As a fourth-generation Japanese and Chinese Canadian, my family’s connection to their homelands slipped away the moment my grandparents were born.

I grew up in white suburbia, an experience I doubt differed much from how my parents were raised. I never felt like I could relate to my few Asian friends, who had strict upbringings and ate foods that made me uncomfortable. To me, my family was the perfect blend of white and non-white Canadian, but as someone who visibly stood out among her group of white friends, there were many times I wished I fit into their narrative instead.

Earlier this year, I began asking yonsei and gosei (4th and 5th generation Japanese Canadians and Americans) what they would pack if they were uprooted from their homes at a moment’s notice. The question stemmed from the forced uprooting many of our ancestors endured in 1942 when governments in both countries labeled us as “enemy aliens” and “evacuated” us from the coast. Approximately 23,000 Japanese people in Canada, including citizens and settlers, were removed from their homes and communities. More than 100,000 Japanese people in the U.S. endured the same fate. After the Second World War, Japanese Canadians weren’t allowed to return to the West Coast. They were told to move east of the Rocky Mountains or to leave for Japan. It was “voluntary,” of course. In contrast, Japanese Americans were allowed to return to the West Coast.

In my photography exhibition, The Suitcase Project, I spoke to more than 80 individuals over a period of two and a half months about how much they identify as yonsei and/or gosei. While our stories are complex, I realize many layers of my own narrative are common among the folks I met through this project. I recognize that history is not black and white, but the displacement of our community makes it clear why many of the yonsei and gosei who grew up in the Canadian landscape feel like they were raised without the Japanese Canadian community.

The following photographs of participants living in B.C. are excerpts from The Suitcase Project - https://ricepapermagazine.ca/2018/06/the-suitcase-project-by-kayla-isomura/

Check out Kayla Isomura’s whole project on her website: http://kaylaisomura.com/the-suitcase-project/

#Japanese Canadian #Nikkei #Japanese Internment #Japanese Incarceration #Yonsei #Gosei #World War II #Rocky Mountains #Canada #Canadian #Experience #Identity #Nikkeijin

[sponfawn]

Finally got to go to Obon this year! Id never been before cuz my house is so far away, and it's always on Saturday night. But this year I went with a friend and stayed with her 😊

I also saw @himikochan ! We were never really close but it's always so nice to see them ❤️

#nikkei #nikkeijin #obon #お盆