Brian Ashcraft's discussions

Nah. She might have pollen allergies or doesn’t want to show her face on camera. Read more

You should email this! Read more

Just a friendly heads up: those foxes are not Inari, the god of rice, fertility, etc.. They are the god’s messengers. Read more

It’s easier to play the game and get high scores. Also, it’s cleaner. Read more

Ah, crap. Really? Lemme swap it and tell me if you can see it. Read more

It’s so nice, I posted twice. Read more

Yeah, her mom’s side and her dad’s side both have one. I’m totally down for having an Ashukurafuto one made, and considering how people regularly had them made hundreds of years ago, I personally think that’s a-okay. Read more

You know, my family crest says, “Come on!” Read more

Those are different. You get several stamps made two: for the bank, home loan, daily use, etc. I have several. These crests are something else entirely. Read more

The story that the Japanese tell is that Osaka, a city of merchants, went up stairs on the opposite than people in Edo (Tokyo), a city of samurai. The reason for this, the story goes, was that merchants carried their coin purses on the opposite side of their body that samurai carried their swords. Read more

Yeah, my oldest son is really into Gesu no Kiwami Otome. Read more

Nah, it means, “If I released a CD.” Read more

Yeah! He’s an interesting character—and was at Creation Records, to boot! Read more

Thnx! I’ll fix. Read more

Oh cool. Read more

This song is from 1997. Read more

And before that, they were a taxi company and a whatever Yamauchi-could-do-to-make-money company. Read more

There’s a new version! Read more

Right, but hanafuda cards certainly didn’t start out as toys. Read more