Masahiro Yanagi builds wonderfully realistic vehicles and buildings, in addition to whimsical creations inspired by space and science fiction. Recent updates to his Brickshelf gallery include a patrol craft for the Japan Coast Guard called Yukigumo: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg It | Furl It Technorati tags: LEGO Military Japan Coast Guard Patrol Craft Yukigumo Continue reading →
I don’t want to bump the post from last year because it’s pages and pages long, but I’ve updated my list of Japanese LEGO blogs. Changes include fixing broken links, updating the titles of renamed blogs, removing links to deleted blogs, and adding new blogs. Among the many additions, highlights include the addition of The Continue reading →
I saw vehicles like these all the time growing up in Japan. Makes me kind of homesick. A 7-11 delivery truck: And a mail truck:
Wow. That is all I have to say.
I found this in my mom’s Flickr and had to post it. Awwww, aren’t I cute? (I do have LEGO photos from that era — I’ll have to dig them out and scan them.) （七五三の時の写真かな？）
For those of you just joining us (welcome, BoingBoingers!), my other blog, Pan-Pacific Bricks, features cool LEGO creations from the many LEGO builders in Japan, along with a few of my own Japanese-themed creations. (I was born and raised in Japan.) NOTE (2/25/06): Although I’m in the process of migrating my images to Flickr, there Continue reading →
Bruce just posted a Valentine’s Day vignette by mumu, so why am I posting about it here on Pan-Pacific Bricks? Isn’t Valentine’s Day common to both the U.S. and Japan? Look closely at the minifigs in this vignette: In Japan, girls are the ones expected to give chocolate to boys — not the other way Continue reading →
Today we’ll wrap up translations of Izzo’s series of Japanese proverb vignettes. I’ve said before that he’s presenting them in hiragana order, which means he created a LEGO vignette for each kana character in the Japanese syllabic alphabet. Some of you may be expecting 50 vignettes, but there are only 44. Let’s have one last Continue reading →
Izzo has finished his sequence of Japanese proverb vignettes. Now Bruce and I just need to catch up! So let’s get cracking! Japanese/Japanese: Fine feathers make fine birds. Japanese: The mummy thief becomes a mummy.English: Go for wool and come home shorn. Japanese: The pestle handle I took hold of in the past.English: Skills you Continue reading →
As regular readers of Pan-Pacific Bricks and VignetteBricks already know, Izzo has been posting LEGO vignettes based on Japanese proverbs. So far, Izzo has posted 30 vignettes on his Web site and in two Brickshelf galleries. I’ve translated the first twenty, and am genuinely looking forward to the next thirty. How do I know there Continue reading →
I debated whether to post my latest minifigure over on my minifig-themed blog, but it does require a bit of explanation, so I’ll post it here instead. Kappa are mythical water imps from Japan. Kappa inhabit lakes, ponds, streams, and other bodies of water. If you do a little research, you’ll find that kappa are Continue reading →
I just saw that Bruce posted about a new set of vignettes by Izzo (whose New Year’s creations I posted about earlier this month). Quoth Bruce: “Hopefully Dunechaser will be able to shed some enlightenment via his Pan-Pacific Bricks blog.” Well sir, I shall give it my best shot. Here’s what I’ll do. The vignettes Continue reading →