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It seems there are many theories about the origin of counting rabbits as "羽". What I heard when I was a child was that in the days when eating (four-footed) animal flesh was not allowed or forbidden because of Buddhist commandments, it was given as a kind of excuse to eat rabbits as "looking like a bird". Other main theories of counting rabbits as "羽 (wa)" according to the site below (roughly translated by DeepL and me). https://www.benricho.org/kazu/column_usagi-2yurai.html (1) Their long ears look like bird feathers. (2) The skeleton resembles that of a bird. (3) Rabbits stand on two legs, were thought to be birds and eaten as such. (4) "Rabbit うさぎ (Usagi)" is pronounced by breaking it down into "u and sagi", which are both bird names; "鵜" and "鷺". 　(In this case, however, the counting method assumes that there are two birds at once.) (5) The way a rabbit jumps around is like a bird in flight. (6) The meat resembles bird meat. (7) As rabbits are sometimes held by tying their ears, the word "１羽 (wa)" was derived from "１把 (wa)", which is used to count things that are tied up or bundled, and it resembles a bird. (8) There is a method of catching rabbits using a net, which is similar to the method of catching birds. (9) In regions where rabbits are considered sacred animals, the counting method was changed to distinguish them from other animals. Edit: There are other ways to count rabbits, including "匹 hiki" like other animals.

Has this been already posted? https://www.nikkansports.com/sports/news/202110100000330.html Mao Shimada / Kinki Regionals Novice A 120.83, with 4T

Asian Open Trophy They did great Site: Figure Skate YouTube https://www.fgsk8.com/ Yuma Kagiyama SP 97.80 Shun Sato SP 90.77 Kaori Sakamoto SP 76.70 Mai Mihara SP 67.83

Not the whole program, but it seems they will talk about the music of Yuzuru's programs "The Grand Prix Series is about to start. Figure Skater Yuzuru Hanyu's obsession with "sound". What is the greatness of Hanyu's performance structure discovering from the music...? " October 22 (Fri) 9:00 pm at TV Asahi https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/imishin/ This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

NHK World https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20211008_13/ Good night, everyone

Almost all transportation has resumed operation in Tokyo. Small fires seem to have occurred in Chiba and Saitama Prefectures. And some water pipes broke in Tokyo. Not so serious incidents so far. Thank you guys for your concern

Can you watch the live TV broadcast? https://www.news24.jp/

I'm living near the epicenter, marked X on the map. I was just about to take a bath. The bottom of bath tub started jolting. It was so scary I jumped out from the bathroom and put on clothes so quickly. Now I'm at a loss thinking whether I should take a bath again. But can you believe? My husband did not wake up! He is still sleeping without noticing anything I hear some ambulance running outside. The news says there are some people injured, but no worry about tsunami.

Mmm... a furihaba (gap) skater in a suit

Commercials with making videos of Towa Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. https://hochi.news/articles/20211004-OHT1T51016.html?page=2 https://hochi.news/articles/20211004-OHT1T51016.html Ah, already @Yuzu_legend has posted the information

A big bowl of crumbs Takeo Konno, guitarist, talking and introducing the rehearsal of Parisian Walkway at FaOI 2017 (Niigata)

This might have been already posted. Yuzuru is so cute comparing his height with Shohei Ohtani They are the most popular athletes (born in the same year) in Japan at the moment.

For those who are interested. Prospectus video of Tohoku High School. Famous graduates: Shizuka Arakawa, Takeshi Honda, Yu Darvish, Ai Miyazato, and of course Yuzuru Hanyu

I think the poet Tetsushi Suwa mentioned in the article is Arthur Rimbaud, not Rambo. He is one of my favorite poets, although I read his poems in Japanese translated by HORIGUCHI Daigaku, a famous Japanese poet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rimbaud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daigaku_Horiguchi Leonardo DiCaprio played Rimbaud in the film Total Eclipse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Eclipse_(film) Sorry for

Figure Skate TV tomorrow, Sep. 5, 17:00 - 17:55 (Japan time) We can watch some clips of Kinoshita Trophy, Gensan Summer Cup, Kanto Summer Trophy, and some novice/junior skaters https://www.bsfuji.tv/figuretv/pub/index.html

Actually, he is showing his tips for those who want to try paper cutting. But I confess, it just makes me feel dizzy

Try his other videos. His works are all so beautiful. The creator, Shigeru Uchiyama is Professor of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and he is using a dental scalpel (I'm not sure this is the right word) to cut out such beautiful works. https://www.facebook.com/pomp.fruits/videos/399181011474040/ https://hirobook.hatenablog.jp/entry/fruits_pomp

This might have been already posted, but I really want the Masquerade one Yuzuru Hanyu - paper cutting

Wisteria flowers have the power to ward off evil (made known by "Demon Slayer" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Slayer:_Kimetsu_no_Yaiba). It's also a good luck flower because it's pronounced the same as "immortal" and "unparalleled". All of the following are pronounced as "fuji" 藤 - wisteria 不死 ("fushi") or 不死身 fujimi - immortal 不二 - unparalleled (aka 無二 - muni) 富士 - Mt. Fuji (the kanji 不二 is sometimes used for Mt. Fuji) This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

I love Masquerade. I just cry watching

IMO, he just mentioned it as an example that Rikako was familiar with. I don't think he did running as one of his strength trainings last season either. I think he raised these as the examples of difference in the kind of required muscles and training for each sport. Gymnasts are not good at swimming either. Kenzo Shirai, a gymnast, once mentioned that he just sank when he tried to swim, and it was really difficult to acquire required credits in swimming as he was a student of a college of physical education

Almost all Japanese schools have a swimming pool (because of a tragic maritime accident of children in the past　https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiun_Maru_disaster). So, Japanese children can swim at least a little, unless he or she does not attend swimming classes for reasons. But as the teachers are generally not swimming coaches, even if it depends on the teacher, swimming classes are usually a sort of play time (as far as remembering my childhood). I'm saying this because I'm in the similar level as his

Not in 10min. He takes more than that (Some words and phrases are omitted in the translation) (Rough translation through DeepL and me) Hanyu: Before the Nationals last year, I did a lot of strength/muscle training, along with the practice of Axel jumps. As I'm very thin and not so muscular, if I would say, and my body core is weak, so I always thought that I'm the type of skater whose jumps are not stable. But I also thought that, because of that, my jumps were brought about, and I told myself that it was who I was. But as I practiced 4A, I realized that I couldn't jump it in the same way as before. Then, I thought about what I hadn't done so far, and it was strength training. So I did it, and as a result, I couldn't jump. Ikee: Because of too much weight? Hanyu: It might be because of the weight, but I probably lost my balance. I got injured more often. Also, I realized that I couldn't use them (muscles) well after all. I felt that I had only gained muscles that were not necessary for skating. When I run, I usually get muscle pain. So I probably don't have any muscles good for running. As for swimming, I could not take a breath at all. Ikee: You had to stop and stand up every time you take a breath. Hanyu: Yes, yes. It is "How many minutes are you taking to swim 25 meters in the breaststroke?" level. I probably don't have any muscles for that. So even if I trained on land, I couldn't use the gained muscles on the ice. This post has been tagged by yuzuangel as [NEWS].

We are just loving our beauty A beauty looking back

@Henni147 I should have posted this