The slow moving but very interesting thread about Japan.

[flibbington2.0]

Let's kick you in the teeth it off with this lovely number. Playing it for Muriel in Sevenoaks who is laying low after straining her back gardening. It's a favourite of mine and I hope it's a favourite of yours.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

The indigenous people of Japan don't look Japanese.

The Fascinatingly Mysterious Origins of the Ainu.

[flibbington2.0]

I had no idea!
And what does that mean about the other Japanese people that we automatically think of? Where did they come from?
Or maybe that's not a question we're allowed to ask.

[The Call of the Wendigo]

They arrived from what's now Korea.

[Fangirl Three]

A bit like the English actually coming from Germany.

Which would make the Welsh the British Ainu.

[flibbington2.0]

The Japanese finally got so tired of saying 'oh wow, look over there at the beautiful sunlight shining through the trees leaves' that they made up a word for it.

Komorebi

[The Call of the Wendigo]

What a lovely story.

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