"Until then, Commander Maddox, I will continue learning, changing, growing and trying to become more than what I am."

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - 4.11 DATA'S DAY

Mitsugimono wa Reiketsuryoshu ni Unmei wo Sasageru Vol.1

my husband: whatcha thinking about?

me: oh, nothing much

me, internally: —and like, all i'm saying is that Keiko is an exobotanist, right? so what if instead of all her arcs being just about how she orbits Miles, she's tasked with building an actual arboretum full of plants that can grow on DS9? and it starts out as just "for the love of g-d we are in deep space and just need SOMETHING legitimately green to keep from going mad" but then as the war heats up, it becomes more of a "ok so if there's a siege and we have to ration the replicators, what can we eat? are there high-respiration plants that can prolong our oxygen supplies if life support goes down?" and Rosalind Chao gets an actual chance to Act and—

If Prince Freya doesn't get an anime once the manga is completed, I'm suing. I mean,it’s selling well,and we’re getting more fantasy shoujo anime adaptations lately. So maybe there’s a chance. But only after the manga is finished,because I want them to animate the whole thing. I will not settle for less.

Freya – L’ombre du prince T08 de Keiko Ishihara

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Prince Freya

8 volumes as of 4/14/2023, ongoing

Licensed by Viz Media.

The powerful kingdom of Sigurd has slowly been conquering all the lands that share its borders, and now it has turned its voracious attention to the small, resource-rich Tyr. Tyr cannot hope to match Sigurd in strength, so in order to survive, it must rely on the intelligence, skill and cunning of its prince and his loyal knights. But should their prince fall, so too shall Tyr… Freya thinks of herself as a simple village girl, but her idyllic life is shattered when she is caught up in the aftermath of a treacherous Sigurdian plot. She bears a striking resemblance to her country’s beloved Prince Edvard, who lays dying from poison. Without its ruler, all of Tyr will quickly be engulfed by Sigurdian violence. Now Freya must take Prince Edvard’s place and lead his valiant knights in defending the realm!

Status in Country of Origin

10 Volumes (Ongoing)

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Character Deaths

Childhood Friend/s

Childhood Love

Cross-dressing

Death of Loved One/s

European Ambience

Female Disguised as Male

Historical Fantasy

Impersonating Someone

Knight/s

Medieval Setting

Today's episode of "The Yakai" is what you might call a "retro" episode. Specifically, the best moments from "The Yakai." The theme is "a surprise that brought tears to my eyes."

#kasumiarimura crying tears of joy at the appearance of the man she has loved and admired since childhood.

#meinagano cried hard when she dreamt of collaborating with her favourite artiste 😭.

#keikokitagawa cried and laughed at the appearance of her life's benefactor, monomaniac 😂.

#torimatsuzaka collaborated on his most favourite story in his sleep ⭐.

#satomiishihara will be performing a special one-night comedy special with #EXIT‼

#ryokoyonekura and #masaminagasawa are looking forward to meeting the comedian they've been waiting for🤩☝

#Msakuraisho takes revenge on #aibamasaki for 11 years😏.

Biggest surprise in the history of the night party. ‼🕳

And #F-BLOOD sang the song "Like White Clouds" for the first time at #hiroyukiariyoshi's birthday party, and #sakuraisho was impressed to tears‼. Don't miss the unseen scene after the song ‼🫣

New Shojo Beat Releases for February 2024

These volumes will be in bookstores this month~~

In the Name of the Mermaid Princess vol. 1 by Yoshino Fumikawa & Miya Tashiro

**New Series**

Sakura, Saku vol. 2 by Io Sakisaka

Natsume's Book of Friends vol. 29 by Yuki Midorikawa

Rainbow Days vol. 8 by Minami Mizuno

Prince Freya vol. 10 by Keiko Ishihara

My Special One vol. 5 by Momoko Koda

Karyukai Book collection, 2022 edition

It’s been a while since the last book feature on this blog. The collection has grown, maybe you are also interested in Gei-/Maiko related books and find this helpful.

Category 1: Japanese only or Japanese with only little English …Hiroshi Mizobuchi - Showa no Gion: b&w photos depicting life in Gion Kobu in the 1970’s and 80’s. Captions are entirely in Japanese, but easy to translate, since they are mostly dates and names. At the end of the book, there are few pictures from the 1930’s and 40’s. …Sumi Asahara - Tokyo Rokkagai: Interviews with Tokyo Geisha, history and map of the main six Tokyo Kagai, old and new photos. Books on the subject of Tokyo Geisha are fairly rare, so this is a good source of information. …Hiroshi Mizobuchi - Hannari Kyo Maiko no Shiki: photos of the seasonal events and celebrations in the Kyoto Hanamachi, with Map and full Ochaya list. …Keiko Tanaka - Nihongami taizen: despite featuring Maiko Fukuno on it’s cover, only a little part of it deals with Maiko Nihongami. It has a bit of Tayu/Sumo/new Nihongami as well, the largest part however is focusing on the various historical hairstyles displayed at the Kushi Matsuri. …Kobunshi Katsura - Showa Meigiren: featuring portraits of 228 senior Geisha in the late Showa period. Some of them worked in Hanamachi that no longer exist, 31 of them are still active in 2022. …Tetsuo Ishihara - Maiko no kamigata: showing Maiko hairstyles, how to tie them, Kanzashi calendar, Pocchiri showcase, and a Maiko getting dressed …Tetsuo Ishihara - Kyo Shimabara Tayu: similar to Maiko no Kamigata, but focusing on Tayu hairstyles. Contains a little overview about the then-current Tayû and some of their activities around the year.  …Hiroshi Mizobuchi - Gion, the world of stylish parties: Photos by HM (mostly Gei/Maiko, but also some Hanamachi architecture and food), Maiko illustrations, old (Taisho/early Showa) photos of Gion Kobu Gei-/Maiko and interviews with selected Gei/Maiko and Karyukai workers. …Noboru Hamaoka - Gion to Maiko: mostly b/w photos, some colour photos featuring people who live in the Karyûkai: including Gei-/Maiko, dance teachers and hairdressers, Gion’s cityscape, Kanzashi and Okiya interior. More text than photos. …Hiroshi Mizobuchi - Kyo Miyagawacho: Photo book, bit of history, events through the year. “History of Miyagawacho” by the then head of the Ochaya Union fully translated to English, otherwise the main content is in Japanese. Miyagawacho map and Ochaya list on the last pages. …Hiroshi Mizobuchi - Kyo Pontocho: similar to Kyo Miyagawacho, but smaller format and less text …Hiroshi Mizobuchi - Gion Mai Goyomi: HM photos on abysmal tiny pages. Can’t recommend. Heard there are two editions of this, that differ, so maybe the other one is bigger?

Category 2: English or Japanese with full English translation in the same book. …Liza Dalby - Geisha: LD lived in Kyoto and worked with Pontocho Geiko in the 1970′s. In this book, you can read about her experiences …Kikuya - I, a Geisha: written by an Akasaka Geisha, has infos about her profession, some infos about the history of selected Tokyo Hanamachi.  …various - Geisha: beyond the painted smile: lots of text but only little content. Few nice photos. Only worth buying if it’s really cheap. …John Paul Foster - Geisha and Maiko of Kyoto: portraits of and interviews with several Gei/Maiko, studded with anecdotes of JPF’s experiences as photographer in Kyoto. …Percival Perkins - Geisha of Pontocho: Experiences with Pontocho Geiko and Maiko in the 1950’s and short biographies of selected GeiMaiko. …Kyoko Aihara - Geisha: good and basic book from the late 1990′s focusing on Hanamachi life in Kyoto. You can spot some familiar faces of Geiko who were Maiko then, or Geiko who just retired recently. …Mineko Iwasaki - Geisha of Gion: autobiography of one of the most famous Kyoto Geiko, including anecdotes from her elders (for example, concering life in the Hanamachi during WWII) …John Paul Foster - now a Geisha: while “Geisha and Maiko of Kyoto” offers a rather broad spectre of topics, this is focused on the change from Maiko to Geiko: Sakko and Erikae. JPF portrays three Maiko, then Geiko during this time of transition. …Kazuhiko Matsumura - Subtle Beauty: originally a photo essay published in a newspaper. It’s about Maiko and Geiko from the five Kyoto Hanamachi in all stages of their carreers. …Hiroshi Mizobuchi - the Kagai in Kyoto: probably the only HM book mostly translated to English. Apart from being an updated version of books like “Kyoto Gion, Kyoto Pontocho, Kyoto Miyagawacho”, an entire chapter is dedicated to Satsukis way from Shikomi to Geiko.  …Taka Kobayashi - Utsuyaka: full-page photos of Kosen (Gion Kobu) with only little text. The book itself is a pretty large format, so you can have a good look at her outfits. …Kelly Foreman - the Gei of Geisha: densely packed with information on around 250 pages, concerning arts, economy and the social aspects of being a Geisha.  …Sayo Masuda - Autobiography of a Geisha: SM endured a lot of abuse from childhood on, was sold to an Okiya in Kamisuwa Onsen at the age of 12 and worked as a Geisha until she was “bought” by a patron around 1939. 

Category 3: originally published in Japanese, available in lots of different languages, but not English. …Kiharu Nakamura - Memoiren einer Geisha: KH worked as Geisha in Shinbashi for around 2 years in the early 1930′s. Only around 20% of the whole book deal with her time before retirement, so the title is a bit misleading. Nevertheless, it’s a nice source of information on pre-war Shinbashi.

My favorite manga I read in 2022. I posted it all to twitter, so I might as well post it here too.

Princess Jellyfish by Akiko Higashimura Basara by Yumi Tamura. Chihayafuru by Yuki Suetsugu. QQ Sweeper / Queen's Quality by Kyousuke Motomi. Nana by Ai Yazawa. Fushigi Yuugi by Yuu Watase. Chainsaw Man by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Mars by Fuyumi Soryo. Honey Lemon Soda by Mayu Murata. Something's Wrong with Us by Natsumi Ando. Kamisama Kiss by Julietta Suzuki. Spy x Family by Tatsuya Endo. Requiem of the Rose King by Aya Kanno. Blank Canvas: My So-Called Artists Journey by Akiko Higashimura. Prince Freya by Keiko Ishihara. Demon Slayer by Koyoharu Gotouge. From Far Away by Kyoko Hikawa. Ladies on Top by NEJIGANAMETA. Jujutsu Kaisen by Gege Akutami. Yona of the Dawn by Mizuho Kusanagi.

12 Days of Manga 2022

Day 7: Favourite Trope

I have so many favourite tropes (especially when it comes to Shojo) that range from “The Grumpy One is Soft for the Sunshine One” to “Pretty Sure This Makes Me a Furry”. But instead here I’m going to give a tribute to all the Women With Weapons! May we one day get to see you all animated properly. (Seriously, Prince Freya might not be my favourite, but it would make for a great action anime when’s that gonna happen?)

So in alphabetical order, and only from those volumes/chapters I have read this year:

Edda from Prince Freya with a wood axe (M: Keiko Ishihara T: John Werry L: Sabrina Heep E: Pancha Diaz)

[ID: A woman in a long cloak holds a wood axe in two hands with an almost sensual expression. The handle on the axe is in line with her lips and the blade just above her head. She is in a castle, surrounded by skeletons in rotting clothes, many of them with swords sticking out of them. Black Speech bubbles read “All ye who wander the empty night... your names are... brother of sleep...”]

Freya from Prince Freya with a sword (M: Keiko Ishihara T: John Werry L: Sabrina Heep E: Pancha Diaz)

[ID: An adrogynous looking person (Freya) in a medievil-inspired soldier’s uniform and half-plate, smacks a sword into the side of a man in a full set of plate armour. The impact looks immense. Freya’s eyes are bright white, her teeth clenchd in determination.]

Kiki and her sword from Snow White With The Red Hair (M: Sorata Akiduki T: Caleb Cook L: Brandon Bovia E: Karla Clark)

[ID: Kiki points her sword directly at the head of a young soldier collapsed on his knees in the pouring rain. Her expression is that of showing no mercy as the boy yells at her. “This grand scheme may come to naught... ... but if he is permitted to live, my brother...”]

Lucy Yang from Blue Exorcist with her black daggers (M: Kazue Kato T: John Werry L: John Hunt)

[ID: A short, elderly chinese woman with her hair in a bun wears a traditonal robe. She stands ontop of a circular platform made of rock. She has a pipe in her mouth, and three daggers stick out of the long sleeves of her robes. Sound effects on either side of her read “Kting” and “Klang”. Someone off panel shouts: “The smaller demons disappeared!”]

Margret of Anjou from Requiem of the Rose King with a dagger, proving that I support women’s wrongs as well as women’s rights. (M: Aya Kanno T: Jocelyne Allen L: Sabrina Heep E: Joel Enos)

[ID: A faceless woman in Mid-1400s British Clothing stabs the leg of a blooded and batterd man tied to a pole causing him to cry out in pain. “Show me the same of your disgrace... ... or else my anger shall never be quenched!!”]

Mitsuri from Demon Slayer: Stories of Water and Flame with her Katana (M: Ryoji Hirano & Koyoharu Gotogue T: John Werry L: John Hunt E: Jennifer Sherman) 

[ID: Mitsuri protects a terrified woman and child from an unknown enemy. She brandashes her katana in one hand and holds a bomb made of stuck together dynamite. Her braided hair flies about dramatically, she has a fearsome expression.]

Rangetsu and her trusty polearm from The King’s Beast (M: Rei Toma T: JN Productions L: Monaliza De Asis E: Pancha Diaz)

[ID: An androgynous looking person with fox ears and a tail wearing an ancient chinese-inspired soldier’s uniform sits ontop of a pile of rocks. She is surrounded by dead bodies that at first glance appear to just be part of the rock formation. She has a mournful expression as she rests her bloodied polearm against her body. ‘No matter how much blood got on my hands. Even when... it coated me so heavily that the weight of it never went away.]

Silvia Sherwood from Spy X Family using a belt as an improvised weapon. (M: Tatsuya Endo T: Casey Loe L: Rina Mapa)

[ID: A middle aged woman with a ponytail and wearing a black skirt suit uses a belt to elegantly smash in the face of a security officer, sending him flying backwards. Sound effect in japanese is translated as ‘fwak’.]

Yae from Demon Slayer: Stories of Water and Flame and her hunter’s rifle (M: Ryoji Hirano & Koyoharu Gotogue T: John Werry L: John Hunt E: Jennifer Sherman)

[ID: A girl in traditional japanese winter mountain clothing, wearing a bandana/scarf over her black hair. She has a sad yet determined expression, as if holding back tears with everything she has. In her hands she holds a 1910s style hunting rifle with two spare bullets in her fingers. In boxed text: Aim for your target’s vital spot... And then squeeze.. the trigger.]

Yoshino from Yakuza Fiance with a knife (M: Asuka Konishi T: M. Fulcrum A: Sopha Tyrant L: Arbash Mughal E: Abb Lehrke)

[ID: Colour Page of a high school girl straddling the lap of a high school boy. She is pulling him aggressively by the collar, the wooden shieve of a knife in her mouth, and said knife at the boy's throat having already begun to slit it. She looks at the viewer with a ferocious glare. The boy is looking way too into all this. Text reads "Chapter 1: No place for a sore loser (Part 1)’]

Zacro from Tokyo Mew Mew and her whip (M: Reiko Yoshida & Mia Ikumi T: Elina Curran L: AndWorld Design)

[ID: An Older Teen Girl with long black hair, large wolf ears and a tail wears shorts and a heart shaped crop rop. She has a fur lined collar. She aggresively holds on to the end of a lasso/whip that is wrapped around a large moth like beast creature that is looking threateningly at her. A younger girl in a tunic and shorts raises her hands in the air in celebration. She has a monkey tail.]

Itsuwari no Freja Vol.11

gifts & curses: 4

gifts & curses: 4/30 wc: 1375 rated: M

He found Masayoshi sitting outside the bedroom, his back to the closed door and nursing a nasty bite on his forearm. “Jeez,” Gotou said, sitting down beside Masayoshi as Masayoshi wrapped his shirt around the wound. “Which one did it?”

“I can’t tell them apart yet,” Masayoshi said lightly, clearly in a bit of pain. “It’s a good thing I’m already a werewolf, I guess, that would be an unwelcome wake-up call, otherwise.”

“Born wolves can’t turn people,” Gotou reminded him, and Masayoshi looked over at Gotou, surprised. “I read it,” he clarified. “In Kaze’s notebook. They’re not cursed, so they don’t have the ability to turn others.”

“Ah.” Masayoshi thunked his head back against the door—if Gotou listened hard he could hear the scrabble of claws across floorboards, and a soft growl from within. “Why won’t they trust me, Hidenori? I just want to help them.”

It had been two very long weeks already, and they’d still never seen the kids in human form. They stayed in the room, out of sight, two half-grown wolves huddled under a bed, growling like they were injured. There was evidence that that they had been human—Gotou clearly heard a toilet flush the other day—but any time either of them approached the pups, they got attacked.

Masayoshi laid his head on Gotou’s shoulder, and Gotou put his arm around Masayoshi. “They’re traumatized, ‘yoshi. Kennichi said that the place they were rescued from was a real shithole.” Plus, they were probably scared that someone would come after them and they’d be taken back, but Gotou wasn’t about to add that to the pile of things Masayoshi was currently stressed over.

“It’s lucky that their captors are already dead,” Masayoshi said in a matter-of-fact tone. “Because if they weren’t I would rip them to pieces myself.”

Gotou’s heart jumped in his throat. He wondered, occasionally, if Masayoshi noticed the way he oh-so-casually talked about killing people sometimes—something he never would have dreamed of doing Before, before Gotou bit him and infected him with this moon-tied curse. “You wouldn’t kill them,” he said softly, fingers rubbing firmly into Masayoshi’s back, and was quietly troubled when Masayoshi didn’t respond.

#

“Why’d you have to pick the first fucking train of the day to leave on?” Gotou said, travel mug of coffee in his hand as he stood on the platform with Masayoshi. “We could have, dunno, enjoyed our morning more.”

“Talk to Ishihara-san, she was the one who planned to put me on the train just after moon-set.” For it being only a little before five a.m. they were both bright-eyed and bushy-tailed; although Masayoshi’s hair was still damp from their shared clean-up shower, fluffing out slightly in the morning humidity. “You’ll text me every day?”

“Like you even have to ask,” Gotou snorted.

They were the only two people on the platform at this time of the morning—there were quite a few commuters who passed through this station, but they tended to crowd the later trains. It let Gotou feel safer holding Masayoshi’s hand and leaning into him as they waited; the entire village knew that their head police officer was married to a man, of course, but Gotou wasn’t the biggest fan of public displays.

Keiko and Masanori hadn’t come home the previous night—or yet this morning, even—but that wasn’t entirely uncommon. They’d one it before, stashing their school uniforms and turning up to school on time wearing the same clothes as yesterday. They had likely forgotten that Masayoshi was leaving in the morning and that they were going to be stuck with Gotou, the disciplinarian, for an entire week. (And a half.)

“Are you staying in one place for the press tour?” Gotou asked. “I might come to visit you during the weekend. The kids’ll be fine, I’ll leave food in the fridge—”

“And then have me show up for an interview late, with sex hair and hickeys that the makeup artists are going to discuss for a week?” Masayoshi laughed. “Don’t leave them alone, they’ll get up to shit in your absence. Probably burn down the police box, and then where will we all be?”

“They get up to shit with both of us here, what makes my absence the vital piece in this equation?”

Masayoshi said, quietly, “they’re good kids, Hidenori. They just miss their parents.”

“And Koji will find them…or find out what happened to them. These things just take time, especially in a community as small and scattered as ours.” Gotou nodded to a pair of younger men in suits and ties carrying briefcases—salarymen who commuted long hours every day. They acknowledge his presence equally with a nod and moved a respectable amount of distance down the platform, far enough away that they still had their privacy.

The train was coming, they could hear it. Masayoshi leaned firmly into his shoulder for a moment, and Gotou caught his weight, turned him, and kissed him, hand on the back of his neck. “I’ll be taping all your interviews,” he said, and Masayoshi snorted and smiled at him, before he kissed him a second time, a quick peck as the train doors opened.

Then he boarded, and Gotou stood there and watched the train depart, coffee in his hands and feeling cold and empty, despite the heat of the summer morning.

A week and a half.

Gotou went home.

#

“Headquarters called twice,” Ueno said as Gotou walked through the door of the police box. He glanced up at the wall clock—wasn’t even seven yet, he wasn’t late.

“What’s going on that they’d call this early?” he asked, setting his coffee on his desk and frowning at the small stack of paperwork he’d left himself, because he knew the mood he’d be in would require distraction. “Something major burn down?”

“Apparently, they’ve finally reviewed and approved your outstanding requests for additional staff,” Ueno said, clearly excited at the chance of having a better shift rotation. “Sakaguchi-san said they would be sending two additional officers soon, with more on the way later.”

Gotou exhaled as he sat down. It was one thing to be the head officer of a small village’s police box, and with only two other officers they worked more as partners than a subordinate-superior relationship. The dynamic of everything around the police box was getting ready to change, and he wasn’t certain he was ready for it. “Did headquarters give an exact timeframe? Or just, ‘soon?’”

“Well,” Ueno said, sitting back in his chair. “Pretty sure they meant today. Guess that means I’m on shift until this afternoon, so we can get everyone settled in for a new rotation.”

“You’ve been here for fourteen hours already,” Gotou said, and pointed to the door. “Shoo. Go get some sleep. If we’re getting more sets of hands around here, you’ll have plenty of time to meet them and throw your weight around.”

Ueno sighed dramatically and stood. “Understood, senpai.” He hesitated. “If one’s a hot chick…”

“They don’t usually assign unmarried women to police boxes outside the city,” Gotou said. “And I’m going to pretend you didn’t just say that and chalk it up to your current level of sleep deprivation.”

Ueno gave a small, awkward laugh, saluted and vanished toward the changing room in the back. Gotou watched the door close behind him and sighed, before glancing at the clock again. It would be nice to have the box well-staffed—and more officers meant he could take a little more time off to help Masayoshi attempt to keep a leash on their two about-to-be-teenage-terrors.

Things were finally starting to settle into place. Gotou picked up his desk phone and got to work.

#

Gotou had his cell phone face down on the desk, so he missed the alert when it flashed onto his screen and swiped past it when he did finally glance at his phone. If he’d been paying more attention (and was not distracted by Otsuka-san’s complaints about her new neighbor), he would have seen that it was a notification from the card he was tracking.

The purchase alert came from the next town over—at the train station, where two tickets were purchased.

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Valério Lima é um Sensei brasileiro, filósofo, especialista em Acupuntura, pela Associação Brasileira de Acupuntura - ABA e Doutor Honoris Causa em Medicina Oriental. É um dos poucos ocidentais a estudar com os grandes mestres da Medicina Tradicional Japonesa como: Renpu Fujimoto, Katsumi Ishihara, Koei Kuwahara, Etsuko Inoue, Masanori Taniyoka, Masaki Tsuda, Keiko Ogawa, Oura Jinkan, Atsuki Maeda, Stephen Birch e Antônio Augusto Cunha. Em suas inúmeras viagens para o Japão, teve a oportunidade de se iniciar nas práticas ascéticas do shugendô, nas montanhas sagradas de Dewa Sanzan, recebendo o nome japonês de Chi Shu, aquele que ensina com sabedoria, tornando-se o primeiro yamabushi brasileiro. Fundador e CEO do Instituto Kangendo, maior instituição de terapias japonesas da América do Sul, possui alunos espalhados pelo Brasil, Chile, Colômbia, Peru, França, Portugal, Austrália e Japão. Idealizador da viagem “Espírito do Japão”, que leva o mesmo nome desta obra, que tem como objetivo o intercâmbio cultural e educacional entre Brasil e Japão. O sensei Lima é membro da JTAM´S (The Japan Traditional Acupuncture and Moxibustion Society) e da Shonihari Gakkai (The Japanese Society of Pediatric Acupuncture) e também criador dos métodos de Shiatsu Kangendô e Ventosaterapia Kengendô. Valério acaba de lançar o seu livro de estreia O Espirito do Japão – Uma Jornada pela Acupuntura Japonesa editado pela Ícone Editora. A agenda de lançamento é extensa. No mês de outubro e novembro, Valério participou de feiras e congressos no Japão onde fez o primeiro lançamento oficial. De volta ao Brasil, participou de um workshop no Rio de Janeiro, onde lançou o livro e tem agenda para os próximos dias 16 de dezembro, em Goiânia, no Instituto Kangendo, dia 17 de dezembro, em Brasília e em janeiro de 2024 terá sua agenda confirmada para São Paulo. Nesse livro, Valério retrata de forma apaixonada sua trajetória de neófito na medicina oriental à sensei nas artes japonesas de cura, apresentando todo o percurso trilhado ao longo dos anos de imersão na medicina oriental, especialmente as terapias, nas artes marciais e práticas espirituais legitimamente japonesas. O livro apresenta de forma precisa uma viagem pela seara da acupuntura e da medicina tradicional japonesa, seus conceitos, princípios, filosofia, técnicas e principais estilos praticados no Japão, descrevendo a moderna acupuntura e moxabustão japonesa a partir de aspectos históricos, culturais e espirituais, sob uma perspectiva integral. Apresenta também as singularidades que diferem o estilo japonês de acupuntura dos demais praticados no mundo, demonstrando tanto as bases que fazem da acupuntura japonesa a mais refinada, indolor e não invasiva praticada na atualidade, assim como sua lapidação e evolução ao longo dos 1.000 anos de história. A acupuntura é uma terapia segura e eficaz para uma variedade de condições e no Japão, a acupuntura é uma prática médica reconhecida e regulamentada pelo governo. Segundo uma pesquisa realizada pelo Ministério da Saúde, Trabalho e Bem-Estar do Japão em 2022, 71,6% dos japoneses conhecem a acupuntura e mais de 30% da população já usaram a acupuntura alguma vez na vida. Os principais motivos pelos quais os japoneses procuram a acupuntura são para tratar dor (42,3%), estresse (26,8%) e problemas de sono (21,7%). Valério reforça a importância da disseminação da prática da acupuntura, sua importância no tratamento medicinal e apresenta as técnicas adquiridas ao longo de anos de experiência e práticas da medicina tradicional em seu livro, palestras, cursos e em congressos que participa. Ficha Técnica: Ícone Editora Diretora Editorial: Tatiana Fanelli Assessor de Comunicação: Luiz Asts Contato: +55 11 95594-5813

Prince Freya | Itsuwari no Freja – Chapter 4