(Part 2) Best products from r/touhou

Presumed innocent until proven guilty.

I use a small paintbrush with this glue for most things. For the really tiny parts or where you can't hold them together (like putting the feet inside, if you do it at the end), I just use superglue; there's one that comes with a brush that's easier to use than the dropper.

I also completely cut off these extra little tabs. They seem like more work without any major benefit.

In the past, ZUN has mentioned Lafcadio Hearn (a.k.a. Yakumo Koizumi) when asked about the relationship between Yakumo Yukari and Maribel Hearn. Hearn was a real person who lived in Japan during the Meiji era and wrote a number of authoritative books on Japanese folklore and culture. A few of his books that you may wish to look into are:

• Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
  
• In Ghostly Japan
  
• Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan

I have the Kourindou version Youmu and the Tennouken version Youmu. I only displayed them on my old desk, so they're in very good condition. The only Yuyuko figure I have is the Nendoroid version but I don't play on selling her.

Yes it is. Look at that smug face, knowing she’s the most expensive Fumo.

Shows as in-stock rather than pre-order

>How to become extinct

>A lock to put on the donation box

>Mega Man Legends 3 ^^^^cries

Things Windows-98 characters would say to modern touhous.

if you've got a GC controller you can use an adapter IIRC both sticks are octagonal gates.

Right here!

this or something similar, plus some yellow ribbon is all you need.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YMJRSQO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_s-DdAbD40226A

Me search for Suwako-chan no Danmaku PyonPyon Daisansaku lead to several japanese retailers, inclunding Tora no Ana (Possible NSFW). And I recall ye mentioned Uniting Barrage Action originally, aye? Tis game be on PS4, so if ye have one plus a japanese PSN account all ye need to do is pay up with yer pieces of eight, down a bottle of rum, an' wait till it finishes downloading. If ye don't have a PS4, then Amazon JP might be of help, mate.

Per Wikipedia, you're unsurprisingly right. A new system based on private property (vs. farming on land owned by the Emperor as diffused through the feudal lords), and cash vs. crops was instituted. Moved the burden from poor harvests to the farmer, and was of course messy as anything like this would be ... especially after being enacted on a people who'd lived under the strictures of the Tokugawa shougunate with it's collect punishments and other stuff that....

Well, I sort of and sort of don't recommend NTC's Dictionary of Japan's Cultural Code Words, I quickly stopped reading it because it revealed many really ugly origins of certain aspects of today's Japanese culture that would rather get in the way of my enjoying modern popular Japanese culture. A lot of this was of course due to the preceding Sengoku Jidai, the "Age of Civil War" that traumatized the country for a century of a half, and provided the impetus for the relative stasis of the Tokugawa shougunate, and then of course the bakumetsu, its messy end, then what had to be wrenching changes of all sorts, e.g. this land reform changed a Chinese derived system which went back to 645.

Anyway:

> The government initially ordered individual farmers to measure the plots of their land themselves, calculate their taxes, and submit the results to local tax officials. However, difficulties arose with the honesty of the measuring system when the 1874 budget showed that collected taxes fell far below projected values.

> The government responded by establishing a land tax reform department in 1875, and began aggressive efforts to install the system. Under the direction of the new department, each prefecture was assigned a set amount of taxes it was required to collect. The department forcefully changed land values to meet the set amount if values reported by farmers did not meet projected values. This caused widespread resentment among farmers, and several large-scale riots....

On the other hand:

> In the previous system, rice and crops collected from each fiefdom were sold and distributed by wholesale dealers via daimyō storehouses in Edo or Osaka. The reform allowed farmers to sell their crops for cash directly to local merchants, and had a large effect on Japanese commerce.

Supposedly the reform was basically complete by 1880, although I'm sure many adjustments were still happening, and certainly there were reasons people flocked to factories....