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105th anniversary of the death of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), a major figure in modern Japanese literature. "Meian" (Light and Darkness), the last novel of Soseki, was unfinished at his death and published in 1917. #ndldigital https://t.co/25N5jOmlvF

#Children playing cheerfully in the snow! Kodomo Asobi (Children's Games) is one of #YamamotoShoun's most famous children's paintings, which vividly depicted children playing various games in the four seasons. https://t.co/qju3mwhlHV

The article "Christmas in Deshima" tells you how Christmas was celebrated secretly in Deshima in old times.
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Japanese translation of Grimm’s fairy tale, "The wolf and the seven young kids," published as "Eight goats" in 1887. You can see two pop-ups in this book. #ndldigital https://t.co/kmRJyKAeAb

At the end of the year, the sound of pounding rice cake was heard every day in the streets of Edo. The embraced child is holding Mochibana (rice cake flowers) which is a Japanese New Year's decoration. #kunisada #toyokuni3 #nishikie #ndldigital https://t.co/0IMITuELhF

Drawings of foreign #horses being imported to Nagasaki. The 8th Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune imported Western horses via Dutch ships several times. #ndldigital https://t.co/FPRvCdRwyf

Bunjinga (literati painting) by Uragami Gyokudo (1745-1820). He was also known as a musician and poet. #ndldigital https://t.co/4NGAQ6QDAf

This picture-story show, published in 1942 during #WW2, is to teach women to bear more healthy children for the sake of victory in the war. Those days there were more than 300,000 miscarriages and stillbirths per year in Japan. #ndldigital https://t.co/8g654ubnFp

In #Onmyodo, there is a period of seven years of good luck called "Uke." These kinds of "Uke-e" were popular during the late Edo period, which were given as a congratulatory gift to a person who entered "Uke" or were displayed at home. https://t.co/ncljJ6lbTM

The current building of the parliament was completed on Nov. 7, 1936. In the 80 years since then, the Imperial Diet became the National Diet, and the House of Peers became the House of Councillors, but the building continues to fulfill the same role.
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