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SHOP ME: Hello, have you got any Quorn? S: Yes, what variety? ME: on the Quob? S: Please leave

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 13h

Ichogaeshi - Inverted Maidenhair Leaf Hairstyle 1910s. ‘The [geisha’s] ancient styles of the coiffure are fast disappearing, their place being usurped by the Ichōgaeshi and even the sokuhatsu (European style).’ S). Text and image via Blue Ruin 1 on Flickr

Captured in a stark monochrome studio portrait from behind, the sculpted silhouette of the Ichōgaeshi (inverted maidenhair-leaf) coiffure reveals the remarkable geometry of early 20th-century Japanese hairdressing. Twin symmetrical loops of lustrous black hair arch gracefully at the crown, gathered tightly in the center and anchored by a slender, pale hairpin (kanzashi). Below, the hair sweeps down into a smooth, disciplined nape section (tabo), highlighting the bare back of the neck as it meets a dark silk collar decorated with crisp, white resist-dyed dots (shibori). The image evokes an intimate sensory atmosphere: the delicate aroma of camellia oil and fragrant wax (bintsuke-abura) smoothing every strand, the cool sheen of polished hair under soft light, the tactile contrast of crinkled silk crepe, and the quiet, motionless poise required during the traditional dressing ritual.
opularized during the late Edo period and reaching widespread favor in the Meiji and Taisho eras (1910s), the Ichōgaeshi (literally "turned-over ginkgo leaf") derived its name from the loops' resemblance to the fan-shaped leaf of the maidenhair tree. As Japan modernized, this versatile style became a preferred choice among geisha, young townswomen, and fashionable urbanites because it could be styled entirely from a woman’s natural hair without heavy hairpieces (kamiji). Occupying a key transition point in Japanese dress history, the Ichōgaeshi bridged the gap between elaborate classical nihongami coiffures and the emerging, Western-inspired sokuhatsu hairstyles. Crafting such precise, architectural forms demanded specialized artisans (kamiyui) equipped with fine-toothed boxwood combs (tsuge-gushi) and heated irons, demonstrating the meticulous monozukuri (artisanal mastery and material skill) embedded within traditional grooming arts.

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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the shadow wants to be known

Pink and purple water lilies in various stages of development posed in a slipshod family portrait. Shadows and reflections among the lily pads that beg you to see them too.

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Des @desdelboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Morning all. Photographer Colin Jones, The Steelworks, West Hartlepool 1963.

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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Owl Attacking a Bat, by Horaku, early to mid-19th century

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Sailing Steve @sailingsteve.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good advice!! Make noise. It's long. Read it!

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Such a happy, tubby little winged fish man.... A very cheery carving on a 15thC misericord at St Michael's, Cambridge. #Woodensday

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Paula ⚪️ @paulaflucas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My son works at the local museum in Wigan & was going through some of the comment/feedback cards after a colleague had done a school workshop with 6y olds. One of the questions was what do you like about living in Wigan? Usual replies…rugby team, parks, friends etc. But one read “There is no war” 😔

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Colin Parte @colinparte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My five favourite British films: Brief Encounter Billy Liar Passport to Pimlico Trainspotting The English Patient

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Andy, the Maintainer @spreadsheetmonkey.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The activities in Fairford appear to be an overconfident, poorly planned, operation to steal large quantities of fuel oil. But enough about the US Military

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Ben Elton's Politics Bit

Alt: Early 1989s Ben Elton,with long hair, making a joke about a little bit of politics

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Colin Parte @colinparte.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Help! In your opinion, are these three photos of the same person? The first is dated 1912 but the others aren’t dated.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Colin Parte @colinparte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This takes me right back to the early Seventies 👴🏻

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Colin Parte @colinparte.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

An Orange man is an Irish man who wishes he was an English man so he dresses up as a Scottish man so he can march in honour of a Dutch man. Hope that clears things up a bit.

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A controversial match has just become more controversial.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They warned us Mamdani would impose Sharia law. Instead, he unleashed the real threat: line dancing in Bryant Park.

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Rascal 🐾 📷 🌿 🎨 @badrascal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Folk with legal knowledge in Northern Ireland. With us having no health power of attorney yet, how do we ensure that a named person is the only person who gets to make health decisions for us if we are incapacitated? (shares would be appreciated)

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

just take a look at this pig ok

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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Surely this must be the weirdest looking UK moth caterpillar?

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Colin Parte @colinparte.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sex is great, but have you ever watched an entire UN Assembly walk out on a Pound Shop Hitler?

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🚨 BREAKING:🚨 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni: “I am a woman and also a mother. I cannot stand with someone who kills innocent children.” The brave woman continued to walk around wearing a Palestinian flag around her neck in front of Netanyahu.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Is it just me or does this moth look like Eeyore? I promise this is not Ai, nature is just weird and wonderful #invertebrates 🌿 #BugSky

A head on photo of a beige moth sitting on a boardwalk. It’s head is somehow shaped like a donkey’s and its slumped posture calls eeyore to mind.

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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just seen Danny Tommo referred to as "Captain Thugwash" and seriously, that's excellent work.

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Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss

ALT: Amy Poehler's Perfect Chef's Kiss

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Good Question.......?

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hoshi-wajo standing wooden statue. 11th century, Japan. The wooden flesh of his forehead and nose splits open like a parting curtain, unveiling the calm, serene face of a Bodhisattva emerging from within the mortal shell. In his right hand, raised in a gentle gesture of instruction

Carved from a single block of timber, a monk standing in solemn monastic robes reveals a miraculous inner metamorphosis through a deep vertical cleft down the center of his head and face. The wooden flesh of his forehead and nose splits open like a parting curtain, unveiling the calm, serene face of a Bodhisattva emerging from within the mortal shell. In his right hand, raised in a gentle gesture of instruction, and his left hand, holding a slender ritual water vase (suibin), the figure exudes a quiet, poised presence. The aged surface of the sculpture is etched with deep vertical wood grain, tool marks, and age-worn fissures that catch dramatic, directional light, capturing the physical tension between the outer human countenance and the divine radiance hidden within.
Dating to 11th-century Heian-period Japan, this extraordinary wooden sculpture depicts Hōshō Wajō (the Chinese monk Baozhi, 418–514 CE), a renowned Buddhist master of the Southern Liang Dynasty celebrated for his eccentric wisdom and miraculous deeds. According to Japanese Buddhist folklore recorded in collections such as the Konjaku Monogatarishū, when Emperor Wu of Liang sent court painters to capture the monk's portrait, Baozhi used his fingers to rend open the skin of his face, revealing the Eleven-Headed Guanyin (Jūichimen Kannon) beneath to demonstrate that true Buddhahood cannot be captured by superficial physical likeness. Sculpted in the ichiboku-zukuri (single-block wood carving) technique, this work represents a pinnacle of Japanese religious monozukuri (artisanal mastery), translating a literary legend of spiritual transfiguration into a startling, physical masterpiece of sacred art.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Putting fake signs on empty stores. Lol

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Colin Parte @colinparte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sharing a room with this chap tonight.

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Colin Parte @colinparte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I respect our British culture. Do you?

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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dokusho no aki (Japan) - Autumn, the season of reading. 🍂🍂🍂

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Colin Parte @colinparte.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A few more photos from yesterday.

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Melek Ortabasi @mortabasi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every mom in her own house

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

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Colin Parte @colinparte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ran into some vintage fire engines today.

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Poling Upriver against the Wind (detail) 舟行人物図Formerly attributed to: Shutoku 18th–19th century MEDIUM/TECHNIQUEHanging scroll; ink on paper DIMENSIONS28.1 x 44.7 cm (11 1/16 x 17 5/8 in.) (height x width) CREDIT LINEWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection

$Hunched low against the fury of a headwind, a solitary boatman straining against his pole (sao) drives a slender skiff through turbulence and mist. The figure is rendered in dark, explosive ink marks that capture the bristling texture of a coarse straw raincoat (mino), his face buried deep within his clothing as he leans his full body weight into the task. Above him, razor-sharp, sweeping strokes of black ink slash diagonally across the upper field, depicting reeds or branches whipped flat by a sudden gale. The boat itself is constructed with a few swift, wet calligraphic strokes, floating atop a pale, unadorned wash that evokes the chill, boundless expanse of a stormy river. Formerly attributed to the painter Shutoku and dating from the 18th to 19th century, this hanging scroll (suibokuga) belongs to the lineage of Zen-inspired landscape and figure painting (sanzui jinbutsu-ga). The motif of the solitary boatman struggling against natural elements draws upon a deep classical heritage in East Asian art, where the humble fisherman or ferryman serves as an allegory for the human soul navigating the tempestuous currents of existence. Collected by Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow—one of the pioneering American patrons who helped preserve Japanese cultural heritage during the rapid modernization of the Meiji period—the work demonstrates the extraordinary economy of brushwork (gatai) characteristic of Japanese ink monozukuri (artisanal mastery). With astonishing brevity, the artist compresses motion, atmosphere, and raw physical exertion into a tiny, concentrated fraction of the paper surface.$

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Colin Parte @colinparte.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I like this clever light display in Costa at Lincoln Railway Station. Hard to photograph well though.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

your da shouts at hotels and your mum lives in Piddington

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her. RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.

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Colin Parte @colinparte.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Glorious day in Dublin Port.

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