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If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.
"I am not strong enough to merely live in the no potato few world alone"
Created on 2006-01-08 23:04:30 (#9212468), last updated 2009-11-30
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Basic Info| Name: | murasaki |
|---|---|
| Location: | United Kingdom |
BioThings you should know about me:
1. I recently graduated from university and am now living in London, trying to make my way in the book publishing industry. I do not want to be an editor, which makes me quite a novelty in publishing.
2. I studied Japanese at said university, and this LJ was started as the Diary of my Year in Japan. That explains the username.
3. I left a significant portion of my heart in Tokyo, which is a little embarrassing given that I claim to hate the place. These days I try to keep my Japanese up and hope that the bizarre twists and turns of life will take me back there one day.
4. I call myself Murasaki (even though it is not the name that was sewn into my PE kit at school) because I am fond of purple.
5. My username comes from a haiku by Shohaku:
katarau mo
hakana no tomo ya
tabi no sora
'Even talking
A fleeting friendship -
Travellers' skies.'
6. I am an unusual Japanologist, in that I don't know the first thing about anime, manga, J-pop, or big-eyed girls with animal ears, and the Japan in which I am most interested is at least 200 years old. If anybody wants to have a discussion about urban society in the 17th-18th century, the works of Hiraga Gennai, or Bean Man in his various incarnations, I'd be happy to oblige - just don't talk to me about Harajuku or cosplay or whatever it is the cool kids are into these days.
7. I have just been updating this list, and realised that all of these Things (apart from the first one) involve Japan in one way or another. This saddens me. I am not yet ready to say goodbye to it.
1. I recently graduated from university and am now living in London, trying to make my way in the book publishing industry. I do not want to be an editor, which makes me quite a novelty in publishing.
2. I studied Japanese at said university, and this LJ was started as the Diary of my Year in Japan. That explains the username.
3. I left a significant portion of my heart in Tokyo, which is a little embarrassing given that I claim to hate the place. These days I try to keep my Japanese up and hope that the bizarre twists and turns of life will take me back there one day.
4. I call myself Murasaki (even though it is not the name that was sewn into my PE kit at school) because I am fond of purple.
5. My username comes from a haiku by Shohaku:
katarau mo
hakana no tomo ya
tabi no sora
'Even talking
A fleeting friendship -
Travellers' skies.'
6. I am an unusual Japanologist, in that I don't know the first thing about anime, manga, J-pop, or big-eyed girls with animal ears, and the Japan in which I am most interested is at least 200 years old. If anybody wants to have a discussion about urban society in the 17th-18th century, the works of Hiraga Gennai, or Bean Man in his various incarnations, I'd be happy to oblige - just don't talk to me about Harajuku or cosplay or whatever it is the cool kids are into these days.
7. I have just been updating this list, and realised that all of these Things (apart from the first one) involve Japan in one way or another. This saddens me. I am not yet ready to say goodbye to it.
ConnectInterests (35):
angela carter, books, bright colours, cambridge, dancing, dancing with drums, dreams, dressing up, drums, eisa, fairy tales, fireworks, gesaku fiction, giant flags, heian jidai, insomnia, japan, japanese, kyushu, matsuridaiko, okinawa, onigiri, original fantasy (no broadswords), paganism, pg wodehouse, poetry, procrastination, ryukyu culture, ryukyukoku matsuridaiko, sanshin, science fiction, seaweed, stripy socks, unusual teas, writing
External Services:
 | tabi_no_sora@livejournal.com |
Schools:
Tanglin Trust School - Singapore, Singapore, Singapore (1995 - 1997)Rugby School - Rugby, England - Warwickshire, United Kingdom (1999 - 2004)
University of Cambridge - Trinity Hall - Cambridge, England - Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom (2004 - 2008)
日本大学 - 千代田区, 東京都, Japan (2006 - 2007)
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