ITT, Japanese things you like...

[Anonymous No.]

...that AREN'T anime, manga, figurines, visual novels, Touhou, etc.

I'll start.

I like Kendo, Tea Ceremony, and Noh theater.

[Anonymous No.]

mahjong, japanese girls, and sushi

[Anonymous No.]

>>144

Good luck throwing me when I've shot you in the face with an arrow from 50 yards away.

[FUCK YEAH TEA CEREMONY No.]

FUCK YEAH TEA CEREMONY GOES IN EVERY FIELD

[Anonymous No.]

>>248
ceremony is shit.
but most japanese tea variants (mugicha, genmaicha, hojicha) are fuckwin.

also, Enka>*

back when I was in college, my Japanese professor said I reminded her of her father. apparently in addition to listening to old people music and drinking old people drinks, I also have old people speech patterns.

[Anonymous No.]

Okonomiyaki.

THREAD OVER.

[Anonymous No.]

Maki-e

I want to get one of these pens.

[Anonymous No.]

the cars

[Anonymous No.]

The mythology. Fuck yeah, Shinto

[Anonymous No.]

I like Shinto. I wish there were cute miko here. So ronery ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

>>328

FUCK YEAH, GENMAICHA!!!

YOU ARE THE BEST TEA EVER!!!

[Anonymous No.]

Shinsengumi, folklore, onmyoji, Noh theater, Buddhist temples, engrish, and plastic food.

[Anonymous No.]

No love for KABUKI up in this joint?

[Anonymous No.]

This thread needs more yakisoba.

[Anonymous No.]

They're very pretty, and I like looking at em.

Kinda want to own one, but I'd probably just kill it somehow so I won't.

[Anonymous No.]

Japan gave us Uncle Sam.

[NotQuiteAnonymous !fnMKPCBBmE No.]

I like their music games. And shooters.

[Anonymous No.]

kyokushin is the best!!!

[Anonymous No.]

I've always wanted to try Kendo

[East Coast Night Worker !aMT1OzwfeA No.]

I am not too keen on kendo, although my dad plays.

[Anonymous No.]

itt nothing

[None !!walw6pK4Alo No.]

I've always found the specifics of traditional eating in the proper way to be interesting.

Also superstitions and stuff, like you can't cross your chopsticks.

[Anonymous No.]

Kendo is fun, if you like ringing sensations in your head.

Also, Judo is infinitely superior.

[Anonymous No.]

design! :D

[kct !SQQ1Tamaow No.]

Off-city environment.

[East Coast Night Worker !aMT1OzwfeA No.]

>>137
it's kinda meh. also, it will fuck up your right leg.

[SciottishWeaboo !!/juPGBIi2/H No.]

shinto has always intrigued me, I keep meaning to read up on it, but other neet activities get in the way

[Anonymous No.]

>>137

I'm going to give it a try. Looks like fun.

Might try Iaido and Tameshigiri later on as well.

[Anonymous No.]

I like Shaolin Kung fu. Wait never mind, I'm not doing it right.

[Anonymous No.]

I, too, enjoy Kendo and some of the Japanese martial arts, but I live in the backwaters of nowhere and thus there's no place nearby that teaches anything of interest.

I also find it amusing that so much of daily life is ritualized, especially in the language. Having greeting rituals for different times of day? Not really my style, but of great academic interest to me, especially now that I'm trying to learn the language (tackling kana atm).

[Anonymous No.]

>>188

THESE THREE THINGS ARE ALL YOU NEED

[Anonymous No.]

>>174

I'm also learning the language.

I'm rock solid on grammar, verb conjugation, and reading/writing kana.

I SERIOUSLY need to work on my vocabulary though. Also, Kanji is HARD.

[Anonymous No.]

>>193
Good luck hitting me when I'm doing Ukemi-waza, bitch.

[Mad Hatter !UrdNoBbFfI No.]

Uh.. this feels so odd, being outside of /a/.

I find most of their traditional and rock music pretty good.

AHEM, WHAT I MEANT TO SAY IS THAT EVERY TIME I HEAR YUMI TOUMA'S VOICE, I GO ALL DOKI DOKI, WAKU WAKU.

[Anonymous No.]

>>222
I'm familiar with the very basics and learning kana right now. Just need to sit down and start using it tbh, but I'm dreading Kanji and memorizing particles. I followed the advice in an old news post and picked to Japanese for Busy People (kana vers) and the Kana workbook from that series, so that should be a good start; tried a couple lessons on MP3 but it seems like I need to see the word written to pronounce it correctly.

That said, I pick up languages pretty quickly. Japanese seems to be fairly easy grammatically, and it's just going to be time consuming to get through learning it. Luckily I have 2ch, anime (for listening practice only) and online newspapers to help with that.

[Anonymous No.]

I sometimes think about learning Kendo so that I can become healthier/manlier/less lazy. Unfortunately, I'm too unhealthy/girly/lazy to look into it at this point.

[Anonymous of Norway No.]

Sushi. I really love sushi.
And whale meat.

I don't want to try whale sushi though...

[CaptainMetzger !!Dfh8dqFNd4p No.]

Their humble culture and industrious nature

also Japanese cuisine and the Zero

[Anonymous No.]

I like food.

[Anonymous No.]

>>263
ps, I also enjoy sushi and a lot of Japanese cuisine, since it's not greasy like southern Chinese food. Mako shark is particularly tasty, but I've only seen one place that serves it and it's threeish hours away in Indianapolis.

[Naritori !4FGmHCUQ9w No.]

kendo,mahjong,tea,katanas idunnolol

[Anonymous No.]

>>137
Do it. I just got started at the club at my college, its great exercise and a lot of fun (well, the training parts aren't really fun, but sparring and shit is.) Plus, its the only sport where you get points for MANLY YELLING.

[Anonymous of Norway No.]

>>270
>too unhealthy/girly/lazy to look into it at this point.

Actually it wouldn't hurt just going over and checking it out. If you think you can't do kendo because first you need to go jogging and stuff to get in better shape then it won't happen. Try doing it in reverse.

Also kendo is more of the explosive sport.

tl;dr: DO IT FAGGOT

[Anonymous No.]

>>263
Don't feel too proud of knowing the kana... it takes a weekend to learn and a week to read somewhat comfortably.

What takes a LOOONGCAT long time is learning all these words and the proper kanji.

[SciottishWeaboo !!/juPGBIi2/H No.]

>>137
same, I looked into it once, but the nearest dojo is 25miles away - too far for me, perhaps if i go back to uni in liverpool again I might.

[East Coast Night Worker !aMT1OzwfeA No.]

>>323
DOOOOOOOOOOOOO
MEEEEEEEEEEEEE
wait, it didn't come out right.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm not sure I understand your question...

[Anonymous No.]

>>354
Susano-o is a motherfucking badass.

I learned that from Samurai Bunny Adventures.

[Anonymous No.]

suicide :(

[Anonymous No.]

>>311
I'm aware of the time investment involved. A professor advised me a couple days ago that it took him a year to learn enough Kanji to read a Chinese newspaper, and that was at a pace of 5 Kanji/day. That said, it's just going to be a matter of sitting down and doing it, just like anything else. If nothing else, I'm very confident in my learning abilities, so like I said it's just going to be time consuming for me.

[Anonymous No.]

It seems like a good time to share a story with you /jp/.

I fence, a sad hobby for a 23 year old but im pretty good at it and I stay fit. Anyway the place I normally do it at also does kendo. One day for laughs I challenge a someone at about my level, I wore kendo protection gear and he wore fencing gear.

The result was thus, kendo swords are fucking slow, I landed a hit and had withdrawn before he could do shit. Only in the third fight did I even have to parry. He did win a few times however once he got used to the difference in style.

[Anonymous No.]

The Pillows, Polysics, etc.

[Anonymous No.]

STATIONARY ITEMS
;-;

[Anonymous No.]

I despise the goddamn japs.

[Anonymous No.]

Getomono bars. Expensive, though.

[Anonymous No.]

Qoo.

[Anonymous No.]

Fucking NIPS FROM FUCKING NIPLAND

[Anonymous No.]

>>114
Racism.

[Anonymous No.]

SOAPLANDS.

[Anonymous No.]

>>535

Japan = MASTER RACISM

[Anonymous No.]

>>418
For the kanji: google RTK. You'll be thankful.

[Anonymous No.]

this was posted in /fit/ yesterday, it was a good thread but jesus gais

[Anonymous No.]

the awesomeness of their QR barcode technology that like, ONE Sprint smartphone has now.
I want to buy shit with my phone!

[Anonymous No.]

Kenjutsu, Iaido, aikido. Ninjutsu + warring states period and their part in it.

[East Coast Night Worker !aMT1OzwfeA No.]

>>562
just like their neighbors. FUCK YES

[Anonymous No.]

>>921

Aww, look at the little tree. It thinks it's a real tree, but it's not.

[Anonymous No.]

The の.

I'm serious, I've been obsessed with the hiragana character の since early childhood.

[Anonymous No.]

>>952

It looks like a 6 that got drunk and fell on its face.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1116
More like an "e" that spun around and died face first. Or a sperm.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm also obsessed with の, although I STILL don't know the proper use of it.

I always forget what ネ is.

My favorite kanji is 点 because it looks like a duck.

[Anonymous No.]

>>834
Kabuki is the Jap version of minstral shows. all over the top shuck and jiving. shit sucks.

Bunraku FTW.

>>1292
well, other than producing the phonetic sound "no" the particle functions the same as an apostrophe-s in english for possessives.

shitty loaner laptop with no support. anyway, watashi no enpitsu. my pencil.

this has been lesson 4 in year one of your Kimono Japanese text book.

[Anonymous No.]

Kendo, Shotokan Karate, Aikido, and Tea (no ceremony) are pretty nice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1583

Fuck off. Minstrel shows are fucking awesome.

[Anonymous No.]

Their breaking crews.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1292
ネ is a katakana character, romanized as ne.

>My favorite kanji is 点 because it looks like a duck.
Oh god, can't unsee it. O.o You just ruined a kanji character for me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>1583
What wrong wit de minstrel shows, boss?

[Anonymous No.]

old /jp/....

[Anonymous No.]

Remember when...

[Anonymous No.]

sigh.,,

[Anonymous No.]

*inhales deeply*

Sighhhh.......

[Anonymous No.]

sumo