#sakurai

Smash Bros Fighter Ballot - Viable Contender List.

A list of characters that Nintendo might consider, and a few they might not.

“The struggle of trying to find cheap Amiibo online…”

some (very gay) doodles

IMG_3457 on Flickr.

佐保河之 水乎塞上而 殖之田乎 [尼作] 苅流早飯者 獨奈流倍思 [家持續]
佐保川の水を堰き上げて植ゑし田を [尼作] 刈れる初飯はひとりなるべし [家持續]
sapokapa no/midu wo seki agete/uwesi ta wo/kareru patuipi/pitori naru besi
That paddy that you planted, making your own dam to divert the waters of the Saho River—the early crop you reap from it should be yours and yours alone.
(MYS 8-1635)

This poem may not seem particularly interesting at first glance, but it is often cited as the first canonical example of a ‘renga,’ as the kami no ku (first three lines) is attributed to a ‘nun,’ and the shimo no ku (final two lines) to Otomo no Yakamochi. A prevailing theory is that the nun is at a loss with what to do with the daughter she has raised - and she sends Yakamochi the first three lines as a mean of prodding for his opinion—or perhaps asking for him to marry her—but he deflects, taking her poem literally, as about a paddy field, and not as a metaphor for the girl she has painstakingly raised. But the metaphor in a sense continues, as he is essentially, in saying the rice crop should belong to the planter alone, saying the girl’s fate is up to her mother and her mother alone. Anyway this poem, which came up as I was reading rengaron, reminded me of this photo also taken in Sakurai near the Yamabe no michi.

Some color practice.
God bless Sakurai for making qt caramel Fem Falcons possible

Sora in Smash Bros. The Nintendo/Disney collaboration comes full circle. 

RIP Iwata 

Everyone’s freaking out because Sora got in Smash, but I’m freaking out that Sakurai made this 16 year old canonically lighter than a shih tzu.

Lil silly doodle for tonight!

Tomoka Sakurai
Seen on Slanted Pussy’s Asian Hotties

Sakurai Hinako

Sakurai Hinako

Sakurai Hinako

If there’s a better way to spend a Friday night, I sure as hell don’t know what it is.