風の谷のナウシカ (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind), 1984

天空の城ラピュタ (Castle in the Sky), 1986

となりのトトロ (My Neighbor Totoro), 1988

千と千尋の神隠し (Spirited Away), 2001

ハウルの動く城 (Howl's Moving Castle), 2004

崖の上のポニョ (Ponyo), 2008

風立ちぬ (The Wind Rises), 2013

君たちはどう生きるか (The Boy and the Heron), 2023

Spirited Away (2001)

Real Men don’t want lifted trucks and guns,

Real Men want

To have their tiny insignificant existence acknowledged by an ancient sea goddess of otherworldly power and indescribable beauty.

Rewatched Kiki recently and got thinking about how odd the setting is- so many little details that are all vaguely European and vaguely "old" but don't really fit together. The music and the old TVs and the zeppelin.

I've yet to find a source directly from Miyazaki on this, but the theory online seems to be that Kiki takes place in an alternate history where World War 1 (and 2) never happened. Where the industrialization and mechanization of Europe, and the world, was slowed, and war did not come to fire bomb the cities by the sea.

And while I'm not sure how much that really holds up from a geopolitical standpoint, remembering that Miyazaki was just old enough to remember seeing the bombed remains of Japanese cities and grew up during the rapid Industrialization of Japan post ww2, it does give a really interesting peak into his thoughts.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it

if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers

as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass...

What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known

and loved because it is known?

Quote: George Eliot, "The Mill on the Floss"

Gifs:

My Neighbor Totoro / Ponyo / My Neighbor Totoro /Castle in the Sky / Kiki's Delivery Service / When Marnie was There / Spirited Away / Kiki's Delivery Service / My Neighbor Totoro / Arietty

Sean bienvenidos, japonsistasarqueológicos, a una nueva entrega arqueológica, en esta ocasión nos vamos a la ciudad de Kameoka una vez dicho esto, pónganse cómodos que empezamos. - La ciudad de Kameoka, se localiza en la prefectura de Kioto, en la región de Kansai, nos vamos a trasladar a los hornos de Shino que se denominan así oficialmente :Sitios de producción de cerámica de Shino, Kioto alguna vez se llamó provincia de Tanba. A Continuación os pondré imágenes de dichas cerámicas, desde 1976 hasta 1986, con el fin de construir una carretera de peaje llamada Kyoto Jukanmichi, Shinogama fue excavada y supervisada continuamente. - Datan del periodo Nara entre los siglos VIII y IX, dicha área cubre un área amplia, desde la prefectura de Aomori en el norte hasta la prefectura de Miyazaki en el sur, el horno Otani No. 3, que investigó la Universidad de Osaka, también era un horno que producía cerámica vidriada en verde durante ese período. - Espero que os haya gustado y nos vemos en próximas publicaciones que pasen una buena semana. - 日本の考古学者たちよ、ようこそ！今回は亀岡市です。 それでは、ごゆっくりお過ごしください。 - 関西の京都府にある亀岡市、これから移動して、志野窯、正式には志野焼生産地といいます、京都はかつて丹波国と呼ばれていました。この窯元の写真を紹介します。1976年から1986年まで、京都縦貫道という有料道路を作るために、篠窯は発掘され、継続的に監視されました。 - 8世紀から9世紀の奈良時代のもので、北は青森県から南は宮崎県までの広い範囲にあり、大阪大学が研究している大谷3号窯も、その時代に緑釉陶器を生産していた窯である。 - 私はあなたがそれを好きで、将来の記事であなたを参照してください願っています素敵な週を持っています。

Welcome, Japanese archaeologists, to a new archaeological instalment, this time we are going to the city of Kameoka. Having said that, make yourselves comfortable and let's get started.

The city of Kameoka, located in Kyoto prefecture, in the Kansai region, we are going to move to the Shino kilns which are officially called Shino pottery production sites, Kyoto was once called Tanba province. Here are some pictures of these potteries. From 1976 to 1986, in order to build a toll road called Kyoto Jukanmichi, Shinogama was excavated and continuously monitored.

Dating from the Nara period between the 8th and 9th centuries, this area covers a wide area from Aomori prefecture in the north to Miyazaki prefecture in the south, the Otani No. 3 kiln, which was researched by Osaka University, was also a kiln that produced green-glazed pottery during this period.

I hope you liked it and see you in future posts have a nice week.

Excuse me while I'm incoherent for a while about the gorgeous, spooky, weird, moving, dense, sweet, surreal masterpiece that is:

The Boy and the Heron (2023) 🪶

You can’t be here. Go, now! It’s almost sundown. Go before it gets dark!

🥀⛩️I am a faceless ghost🎐🎋

Spirited Away (千と千尋の神隠し), 2001

Saw Howl's Moving Castle and Howl can get it.

Howl can get. It.

House? Clean for him. Bath? Prepared. Curse? Broken because of how good I'll treat him day one.

Princess Mononoke (1997) Director: Hayao Miyazaki

IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE! IT'S FINALLY HERE!