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Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

👹 👘 🍵 The Yōkai-Themed Play ‘The Runaway Effect’ "...I was deeply impressed by this thoughtful curation, the kind of cultural bridge that perhaps only UK-based Asian performers could build so masterfully..." #theatre #review @yuriminamide.bsky.social 🎭 medium.com/found-worlds...

Soho Theatre poster for 'The Runaway Effect' featuring three of the cast holding theatrical Japanese masks of 'demons' and yokai

illustration of Yōkai known as ‘Maikubi' - three heads in a torrent of water

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Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🍱 🍜 🧁 Shōgi’s “Battle Meals” - How #Japanese Chess Grandmasters Eat to Win & fans are thrilled to witness their mind-games on a plate @yuriminamide.bsky.social guides us through champion-level snacking that's as much a spectator sport as the game-play 🐥 medium.com/found-worlds... #anime #Shōgi

three photographs: katsu don, Shōgi board and tiles, and grilled eel

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Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

⚔️ 🏯 🏢 Had it not been for Hoshina Masayuki, #Tokyo would be different @yuriminamide.bsky.social tracks the #history of how a Samurai scrapped the Shōgun’s pride to #design a resilient megacity 🏙️ medium.com/found-worlds... #Japan

Edo Castle has been without a Tenshu for 370 years. This small viewing tower, the Fujimi-yagura, has served as a substitute for the main keep - a photograph of a three-storey traditional building with a backdrop of modern high-rise buildings

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Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

✒️ 👀 ✍️ Exploring Chūya Nakahara’s Poem 'Circus' through its background & language by Natalie Wilkinson "...how I found it, approached working on its translation, & the world that opened to me as a result..." 🎪 medium.com/found-worlds... #Japanese #poetry #music #Japan #art

hand coloured photograph of Girls playing Uta-garuta, 1900, Japanese; Kimonos; Clothing & dress, Hairstyles; Utagaruta (Game); Card games; Teenagers

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Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

🗺️ 📍 🗾 We #Japanese Are Very Asian in the USA ...but Not #Asian in The UK Who am I & who are You? Living abroad forces me to solve a puzzle I didn’t even know existed @yuriminamide.bsky.social explores the significant differences in our perceptions of ‘Asian people’ 🌏 medium.com/found-worlds...

Six feminine faces with differing skin tones and hair colour - do we look similar or different? (Photo by Joeyy Lee on Unsplash)

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Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"One sleepless night led to an experience I’ll never forget... winding my way into the mountains of Wakayama Prefecture, heading toward one of Japan’s most sacred Buddhist destinations" 'A Misty Morning in Kōyasan Felt Like Stepping Into Another World' by Angel Green ⛩️ medium.com/found-worlds...

photograph by Angel Green taken while crossing the red-railed Hasu-no-ike (Lotus Pond) bridge, a misty crossing to a hidden sanctuary

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Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

🌇 ⚡ 🚋 "It’s been 125 years since an English-origin Mayor supervised the transition of Rīga’s tramways making the electric tram networks in the Latvian capital one of the oldest in Europe... & the largest in the Baltic States" by Vickey Maverick 🚦 medium.com/found-worlds... #travel #history #Riga

A classic white and blue tram at an intersection in the Latvian capital of Riga [Photograph ©Vickey Maverick]

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Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

🩹 ⚕️ 🩺 "I was told, to my face, that going pro was impossible. 10 million copies later, here’s what actually decided it." My name is Kazuki Yamamoto. I drew 'God Hand Teru', a medical #manga serialised for over 10 years in 'Weekly Shonen Magazine' ✒️ medium.com/found-worlds... #イラスト #illustration

Illustrations by Kazuki Yamamoto: three panels from the manga 'God Hand Teru' depicting characters discussing a problem one has with his neck - please feel free to repost this as it is but please do not reproduce or use elsewhere without written permission from the illustrator - more information in article via link in post

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Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Hello World!👋 This is the Bluesky debut of 'Found Worlds' a Medium Publication for diverse writers & readers. Let's share our journey of discovery as we explore global culture, arts, languages, travel tales, histories & media - a search for knowledge, beauty & connection. medium.com/found-worlds

Shintei - Chikyu Bankoku Hozu (Squared Map of all the Countries on the Globe) is a Japanese world map by Suido Nakajima made in 1853 (Kaei 6)

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