In some sources, the latter, after being exiled from Japan for having threatened his sister Amatarasu, is said to have emigrated to Korea. Susanoo was also assimilated with Gozu Tennou, the most powerful epidemic god. Like Shinra Myoojin, Susanoo is a fundamentally ambivalent deity, who could...
expressing his ambivalent loyalty. Li was also at the social centre of a group of like-minded collaborators and accommodators in Nanjing, bound by their common practice of classical-style poetry and arts. Their community thus becomes a special case of study for the sociology of survival under ...
As an idealshōjo, Ira is an ambivalent figure. On the one hand, her desire to cling to childhood is portrayed as laughable, even insane. Likewise, her pursuit of a gay husband is exposed as an avoidance strategy, and Ōshima suggests that it might mask a latent lesbian desire. Ira’s...
Although I’m interested in women’s fiction, I haven’t really read many books in that genre (although I’m a bit ambivalent to the term ‘women’s fiction’ as a genre as it seems to denote something separate from normal fiction which I take issue with), it was only through the bo...
Incidentally, I’m a little ambivalent about calling Hara a “remarkable cosmopolite”. He was brought up in an alien system, was indoctrinated in it, and embraced it entirely, right down to a call to “rip our oppressed homeland from the hands of the savage enemy and restore it to true...
The time spent waiting at Kii was an opportunity for Nishikaichi and Harada to converse on the beach by themselves. The pilot apparently had sensed Harada’s ambivalent loyalties, and he began to play on them. If the shaky defense of Oahu was a typical American response, he told the uncert...
Architect and interior designer Jeffrey James admits an ambivalent attitude towards nature. Here he turns that ambivalence to positive effect through a series of poetic digital collages that provide a mediation between ‘our incomprehension of the vast magnificence and complexity of the natural world and...
“pre-mist” function that basically wets down the inside of your toilet seat so that your poo doesn’t stick to the porcelain. These things don’t matter that much to me, but one friend went so far as to say that the pre-mist function was cool enough that he’d buy one for that...
In some sources, the latter, after being exiled from Japan for having threatened his sister Amatarasu, is said to have emigrated to Korea. Susanoo was also assimilated with Gozu Tennou, the most powerful epidemic god. Like Shinra Myoojin, Susanoo is a fundamentally ambivalent deity, who could...