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Shiba Daijingu

2008-06-03T11:11:00.001-07:00

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About 3.5 blocks from where Takeuchi-sensei went to college there is a shrine called Shiba Daijingu. This is here she worked for a number of years while in college and got hit on. This experience led her to write a miko called Rei Hino later on.

While in Japan I visited this shrine and found her college. If you find her college, you go to the AM and P there and they will tell you where the shrine is. Which is pretty much straight from the AM&P in the direction it faces, then on the right side, go one block, turn right go two blocks and you are there. You'll end up at the side of the shrine. If you climb the long steps up, you'll find a small shrine dedicated to the Sun Goddess Ameratsu. _The_ Goddess of Japanese Shintoism. If you look around the corner and in various places, some of the objects may look familiar... And that's because they are. The opening gate to the shrine and many of the features, such as the huge white torii are in the Hikawa Shrine in the manga. In fact, the placement of many of the objects in the manga is similar and in places that it is not in the Hikawa shrines. Showing that this shrine was an influence.

I also took it upon myself to look for her phone number while in Tokyo Tower and in Minato-ku, but the hpoine books are thin since everyone in Japan has a cellphone... so I couldn't find her number... and believe me I looked under Princess Naoko, Takeuchi Naoko, and PNP... I loked for her through all of the names I knew. Nothing.

Photo credit goes to my Dad. ^^;; My camera went out the day before I could take this picture. I requested he take a photo with a 30% overlap so I could remake it in photoshop... indeed, if you take it and print it out it will be a 360 degree view of Shiba Daijingu. He also took pictures of her university at my request. Thanks! Therefore it's not my intelletual property. Please do not take this photo without written permission.

In Japan

2008-05-21T16:11:00.000-07:00

It's nice in Kyoto, and I'm making a point to go to Shiba Daijingu Shrine (in Minato-ku Tokyo). It's the one where Takeuchi-sensei worked. So I'm taking pictures of it. Expect those either in a few days or at the end of this month.

Happy Birthday Takeuchi-sensei!

2008-03-15T12:42:00.001-07:00

Every year no matter how poorly I'm doing I always update the website on Takeuchi-sensei's birthday with at least *something.*

1. I worked on a birthday present. I started this project in 2001, but finished it after seriously working for 2 years. It's my Bishoujo Sailormoon Manga Tarot Card Deck.

You can find it here:
http://sailormoon.takeuchi-naoko.com/fun/tarot/

I worked hard to make sure the meanings of the cards matched with the characters, etc. I followed certain rules and tried my best to preserve as much of Takeuchi-sensei's art as possible. I also emulated her style of coloring as closely as I could manage. It was really difficult, especially the descreentoning. Because I did this, it consumed most of the time away from remaking the website.

2. I redid the front page design. I deleted the sections I can't take care of right now. I rather be responsible. I'll add games and other stuff later. Like quizzes.

3. I posted some interviews with Takeuchi-sensei. They are very, very old, but I can't find them on the internet anymore. If anyone knows the whereabouts of said translators, please contact me, currently I couldn't find them, though I'm leaving credit up to them. My Favorite with Kia Asamiya is in the stack. It has things like
what pen and paper they like to use, influences, etc. You can find that here: Takeuchi Naoko Essays and Interviews

4. I enabled comments for passersby, but you have to type in the code to do so. I've turned on moderation as well. Feel free to leave comments on the blog.

In the next week I'll try to do general clean up. I can't promise much because I'm dealing with a lot of personal problems right now. Also a heads up. I'll be gone in May. From May 2 to May 30th. I'll be getting pictures of the shrine that Takeuchi-sensei worked at. (Shiba Shrine). I'm going to leave the website with a temporary admin until I get back. They won't be able to do much, but they will be able to inform me of outages, hacking, etc.

I want to open more sections too. I'll try to do that before May. (Especially since my Japanese has gotten decent enough to summarize manga).

Welcome... to the New Blog Updates.

2007-12-22T14:46:00.000-08:00

The other one was hard for me to upkeep. This one will be easier. =P. In addition I was having trouble with the includes, the blog software hadn't been updated in years. This one will be much easier to upkeep. And low and behold, Sailor Moon section will get one too, making it easier on Mako... I'll add in the previous updates into this post next... with the dates.

I've been spending the last few months trying to crack the problem, and basically gave up. PHP5 conversion was rough.