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6.22.23 - Dazai Sketches

Monday was Dazai's birthday, but I only managed to make a collage for him. Now that I think on it, making fanart isn't as scary as I thought :)

Do the scans look okay??

Sonya?? 👀 As in, Crime and Punishment's Sonya?? 👀👀👀👀👀👀

Sonya!!

UH - UHM uhm UHM I- UHM 🫶🏾❤️???????

yo.

asami muehehe >_<!!

Considr liking? (*^▽^)/★*☆♪!!

#StopAsianHate #StopAAPIHate

Sidenote but I'm so excited to play Aether Gazer, I'm just so curious as to how it's going to work in open world??

The Maiden of Forgetfulness & The Angel of Remembrance

Yamakawa Tomiko & Yosano Akiko.

More information about them below the cut!

Her nameless poem is dedicated to Yosano Akiko:

Yamakawa Tomiko was a fellow poet, however she was the total opposite of Yosano in the sense that she was obedient and modest. They were best friends (or perhaps even more? According to some sources!) for a long while, producing poetry magazines together, such as myōjo. Tekken — Yosano Akiko's husband — liked her for those reasons. Due to that, Yosano Tekken had destroyed their relationship by making them rivals for his affection. With poetry being published publicly on the matter, there was no privacy for them. Yamakawa, wanting the best for Akiko, decided to enter the arranged marriage her family prepared for her while Akiko married Tekken. She contracted tuberculosis from her husband, which led to an early death.

"I quietly surrender the red flowers to my friends, and weep and weave the forget-me-nots." (Source)

Which was also translated into English as,

I leave all the scarlet flowers

For the woman I love

And hiding my tears from her

I pick

The flowers of forgetfulness.

(Taken from Women Poets of Japan.)

“I think Akutagawa is a character who has changed just as much, or even more than Atsushi. Generally, we try not to alter the characters of a series, because there is the risk of misinterpretation of the character and of losing fans. But Akutagawa's change is truly a glorious growth, a great achievement, and could even be called a proof of the power of human beings.” — K a f k a A s a g i r i

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYUUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA [3.1] ⟡ insp.

The snow lying on the roof tiles is a touch hard, the dead trees’ twigs are sleepy like a deer; six o’clock on a winter morning, my head too is sleepy.

The birds pass by singing - the garden earth is sleepy like a deer. - The wood has fled, the farmhouse has fled. The sky is sad weakness.    My heart is sad…

- Nakahara Chūya, “Winter Daybreak” from The Poems of Nakahara Chūya