Carved ivory netsuke depicting a mouse traveler, attributed to the 19th century, Japan. Signed by Gyokuseki.

Time once again for my occasional series "Women with great hair fleeing gothic houses!" And today we're fleeing 1971...

Probably better than The Phantom Menace... The Phantom Room by Elizabeth Erin Mande. Popular Library, 1971.

Austrian dancer — and later film actress — Vilma Degischer on the cover of Die Bühne, 1928.

British stage actress Julia James in a portrait by Bassano, London 1914.

The Temple Heirinji, Nobidome, by Kawase Hasui, 1952

The grand irony of our time: Wealthy elites ran a populist campaign promising to rid the government of being run by wealthy elites only to win and install their own wealthy elites to run the government in a way that will only benefit wealthy elites.

Morning at Cape Inubō, by Kawase Hasui, 1931

Russian cluster bombs devastate Ukraine town of Dobropillia, 11 killed, 40 injured, via nzherald nzherald.co.nz/world/russian-… Never forget that this is what Ukraine is meant to accept quietly.

RETWEET if you stand with President Zelensky!

Louise by Eugene Robert Richee, 1927.

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting: George Orwell

Shōrinji Temple, by Okada Beisanjin, 1817

Hmmmm. instagram.com/reel/DRXTElcAO…

Tiger, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 19th century

Time for reading.

Audrey Hepburn in her own voice describing her very first haute couture film gown - Givenchy's marvelous creation for "Sabrina" (1954)

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Crow on Branch, by Kawanabe Kyosai, ca. 1870s-1880s

(Would be super grateful, dear readers, for an RT or two - esp as this is something I've worked on for yeeeeeaars...)