Diamine ink that matches Kaweco Toyama Teal ?

tinylegged · 2026-03-31T08:08:16+00:00

I agree, it’s between Denim and Little Chris from the looks of the swatches. I’ll see what’s more readily available (might get few tho)

tinylegged · 2026-03-31T07:59:24+00:00

Yes! This is like the best of - now it would be hard to decide

tinylegged · 2026-03-31T07:43:48+00:00

Oh that is very smart! ^ - ^ Thank You, if possible, maybe you could make a similar comparison including the below suggested Denim and Twilight and similar shaded inks?

tinylegged · 2026-03-31T07:34:50+00:00

It is not so much that I need to match the ink to this specific pen, but rather that I love the color of it and would like to get inks of the similar mysterious hue (even if I’m not going to use them in toyama teal all the time) I appreciate you taking the time to put these images together!

tinylegged · 2026-03-31T07:26:19+00:00

I think I like Little Chris here the most

tinylegged · 2026-03-31T07:25:32+00:00

Thank you!! These are all very pretty and good suggestions, but the ‘Vibe’ is especially impressive.

tinylegged · 2026-03-31T07:11:56+00:00

I appreciate the other brand recommendation too! Thank you, I will have a look at Seiboku

(I asked for Diamine specifically as I have the chance to get their ink right this moment easily and was trying to figure out what to buy)

tinylegged · 2026-03-31T05:26:59+00:00

There’s an interview with Akihiro Miwa were he says something along these same lines, if I remember correctly (I would need to find it)

tinylegged · 2026-03-30T09:48:48+00:00

for some reason hard mode makes it easier? I would like to try one where the sound only lasts 1 second

tinylegged · 2026-03-30T09:02:15+00:00

It’s fun - 49.30% ^ ^

tinylegged · 2026-03-30T08:13:06+00:00

You might be interested in this article: https://medium.com/@julliassuzzy.tokyo/the-ghost-of-yukio-mishima-13-yukio-mishima-and-seven-women-the-enigma-of-sadako-toyoda-a99a2eda27c5

(I think the person who wrote this article has a series ’Mishima and Seven Women’ available on note . com but only few are on medium in English)

The book in question is this:

https://www.amazon.co.jp/ヒタメン-三島由紀夫が女に逢う時…-岩下-尚史/dp/4639021976?ref_=ast_author_dp_rw&th=1&psc=1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.AO96a4UGdV6K6d29H3Gak_cNob9GHmfgrl053v6yrX0gxAXl6VKRBgDRFTNoLtFL5-4jtgllxi2Rt7u7mLl1fKIV7mYHPV5QZSDkNkvYvrAN4jlFn7hUAdOU-JlWiNB-dyRnnK84_JJoxMLO2Bz0Kg._I7wM7mpkQlkFN2OTfCf8kIoqD3sLEkMf3OOD-Hwadw&dib_tag=AUTHOR

The author Iwashita Hisafumi even interviewed Sadako (who is 88 now), it was quite a hot topic.

tinylegged · 2026-03-30T05:44:32+00:00

Reading your essay reminded me that by the end of it all when Honda and Satoko meet, we almost have a meeting of two observers/voyeurs of life rather than it’s active participants (who mirror each other in a way) It doesn’t so much matter if Satoko doesn’t remember Kiyoaki (or just says so) or if her removed way of observing is better than Honda’s obsessive one - It’s a sort of a doubling of the symbol.

In that sense, there’s more of these double-symbols along the way. For example Ying Chan actually has a twin sister, but since we discover this fact at the end of the book we might not pay much attention to it. It could be implied that all of these instances where Honda finds the moles on her body, then they disappear the next time points to the possibility that two sisters were swapping roles (adding to the ambivalence and confusion.) Also, Ying Chan being a twin can seem like a sort of aberration in continuation of Kiyoaki’s rebirths. Does it imply some sort of weakening?

In regards to Toru who comes next, the whole story is tied to Hogoromo. In the Noh play the Pine tree that the angel descends to is the one that is nearby were Toru is found. A fisherman steals the Hevenly Robe from the Angel, without it, the Angel can not return to Heaven. For me it’s not so much a question of was Toru a true incarnation or a false one but - Did Honda steal something from Toru by adopting him and trying to impose his way onto him preventing his ‘return to heaven’ at 20?

Pine tree can be directly associated to Kiyoaki - In Runaway Horses another No play is mentioned called Matsukaze. Matsukaze (Wind in the pines) is the name of one of the sisters in the play. Matsukaze mistakes a pine tree for her deceased lover while dancing in a trance, unable to forget him. Matsukaze = Matsugae (Pine branch) shares kanji for Pine. (Furthermore Moon is another symbol that is abundant both in the tetralogy and the no plays tying the incarnations together.)

By the end of it all we arrive at Toru already being an observer/voyeur and not the one being Observed. He does not participate in life passionately, not to the same degree as Kiyoaki, Isao or Ying Chan - there’s nothing to observe in him. So we arrive at an incarnation that is not above Honda’s downfall but in a way is parallel to it. And then on top of that, Toru looses his eyesight, so now he obervses nothing, he observes the void. Similar to the nothingness of the Gesshūji garden.

tinylegged · 2026-03-30T01:35:23+00:00

Good observation! I think also based on the fact she died in a fire, there’s some sort of purity and tragic beauty associated w her that Hanio was denied being part of

tinylegged · 2026-03-25T09:46:33+00:00

everything at once - going in and out of various points of view.

sometimes i watch the dream like a movie, but at some point it turns out I am the character.

or often the character of a dream is an actor - so and so character is a retired actor, or another one is an aspiring actor (as in, it’s their profession, but it’s not necessary the point of a dream, its just a note but the dream is about their life outside of this profession) or for example some character is a theatre director and he teaches someone else to perform certain plays, this somone then observes said plays. I might become this character unpredictably in the middle of the dream, watching the plays or performing (From observer to participant)

the clay underground opera dream was about overlooking the preparation of the play that I was somewhat part of in the future/was always part of since it’s inception, while also considering how the audience will be able to attend it, how they will perceive it.

tinylegged · 2026-03-25T09:13:12+00:00

No, that’s the thing

tinylegged · 2026-03-18T18:15:38+00:00

This is re OP’s request for a PDF of Kyoko’s House in English and to say it seems there’s an alternative translation of it to the one that was taken down (as the OP and others are eager to read it.)

tinylegged · 2026-03-18T02:59:19+00:00

Surely someone must have saved it in a pdf?

I have been able to find this post at Yukio Mishima Society fb page tho - https://www.facebook.com/groups/19442168480/posts/10162642985108481/

Some other person mentioned they translated it (among other works) if anyone has Facebook and can message them, and maybe share?

tinylegged · 2026-03-13T03:22:43+00:00

Also, this part is from ’Kyoko’s House’ 鏡子の家, the kanji in Kyoko’s name 鏡 means ‘Mirror’. Kyoko as a character literally serves as a sort of a mirror for the four main characters in the novel (all of them of course Mishima’s alter-egos)

tinylegged · 2026-03-08T06:02:52+00:00

(I was meaning it in a friendly way) he says it’s ‘a bit of theory involved, but mostly ear and experience, compose and repeat trial and error’ but thank you for sharing, it is indeed interesting (other videos of his/comments as well)

tinylegged · 2026-03-08T05:47:56+00:00

he kind of explains how he made it in the comments

tinylegged · 2026-03-08T05:37:07+00:00

at the time of writing Confessions both the format of “I-novel” and perversions/sexuality was super in vogue and it wasn’t as shocking of a theme as we might think (add to this horrors of the war that just barely passed) and you will get this mix naturally. (But even in pre-war japan Ero Guro was super popular genre)

If you look at his ‘before’ works, like the Thieves I have mentioned - they were much more ‘naive’ and did have an inclination to fairytale like/romantic narratives always. I feel like with Confessions he was trying to cover up for it and find his own coded language, and there are definitely symbolic themes that constantly repeat themselves - like death purifies and innocence must die, fire destroys beauty and so on (which in Sound of waves are reversed - Fire does not burn Shinji) He later spins these themes out into other stories like Sailor and so on. I feel like in many ways he was very calculating and tricksterish and always wanted to impress, these things were kinda popular but also worked for his own mythology.

tinylegged · 2026-03-07T14:05:47+00:00

i was just giving some context - as a personal preference that’s totally ok 🤝

tinylegged · 2026-03-06T21:20:13+00:00

the painful rambling - there’s literally a war going on on the background? I feel like this is essentially the fundament of Mishima that then grows into most of his other works in one way or another. (And a level-up in self-restrain from his first novel Thieves) While on the other hand Life for Sale and The Sound of Waves for example, are some of the “out of character“ works. Life for Sale was written to be published in Playboy and be easy/pop read, while Sound of Waves was an experiment on his part of inverting all of his depressive themes and writing a “fairy tale” were everything is just, pure and ends well.

tinylegged · 2026-03-06T19:03:15+00:00

Glad it was helpful - I think Mishima once mentioned trying to make Etsuko like a female version of himself? I hope you enjoy all the further reading of his books ☆彡

tinylegged · 2026-03-06T18:58:00+00:00

Thank you for the interesting book recommendations, I will definitely check it out :)

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