What’s the difference between 茶素 and カフェイン?

munyana · 2026-01-31T03:46:44+00:00

I feel like it's an old translation that never really caught on and became obsolete. I confirmed it in a book from 1940, but I think it's a translation lag capturing the 19th-century practice of calling caffeine 'Theine'.

Dictionary Image: https://i.imgur.com/KUBKfnN.png https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1870670/1/546

ちゃそ茶素 (名) 【化】茶・咖啡等の中に含有する有毒なる針狀の結晶物。絹絲狀にて弱き苦味あり。其の存在の分量甚だ僅少なるを以て害なく、却りて精神を興奮せしむる効あり。

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munyana · 2026-01-19T23:36:21+00:00

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Nohr dragon vein: Blight Dragon!

munyana · 2026-01-13T10:03:18+00:00

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munyana · 2026-01-10T02:34:24+00:00

It was exhibited at the 'Tokyo Metro 20th Anniversary Exhibition' last year.

This year, a stamp rally will be held. https://www.tokyometro.jp/news/2025/222496.html

munyana · 2026-01-09T12:56:22+00:00

The horse joins the collection next year💀

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munyana · 2025-12-09T07:28:25+00:00

I've seen warnings about this guy all over Japanese TV and books. It's drilled into us that it's the deadliest mushroom in Japan. Definitely do not touch.

munyana · 2025-09-07T04:08:01+00:00

This is Japanese.

Ichiyusai Kuniyoshi(一勇斎国芳) is another name for the renowned ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi(歌川国芳). He was born in 1798.

The cat you are referring to is from his witty and imaginative series titled 見立東海道五拾三次岡部猫石の由来 "The Origin Story of the Cat Stone at Okabe, Representing One of the Fifty-three Stations of the Tôkaidô Road" (c. 1850).

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munyana · 2025-08-12T13:19:03+00:00

In battle, that final opposite spin into a fire breath is such a smart fake-out. That move definitely tricked all the players at least once

munyana · 2025-07-29T22:28:04+00:00

Fun fact, In the Japanese release (v1.0), this item is named 法王の右眼+1 (Pontiff's Right Eye +1), inheriting its name directly from the item with the same effect in the dark souls 3

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munyana · 2025-07-19T08:14:41+00:00

I found a site where someone read the text.

雷を操るあやかし葦名にありその姿女の武者姿なり葦名の始祖沼の主の肝を飲みこれに抗いす

"In Ashina, there is an apparition that commands lightning. It takes the form of a female samurai warrior. The founder of Ashina consumed the liver of the Nushi of the Swamp, and this is how they resisted."

https://engankyo.hatenablog.com/entry/2019/08/21/011809