The Runcible Blog

Imagine my surprise to open a book on my bookshelf and find the note below from three years ago. She's long been forgiven in my mind (but I'm forgotten in hers*). * well, as far as one can have a sense of these things....
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Onisutaya Azamino and Gontaro, a Man of the World Kitagawa Utamaro I 1798 During the eighteenth century, both men and women proved their romantic devotion with a homemade tattoo of their beloved's name, plus the word inochi, "life." The last stroke of the word was extended to suggest lifelong commitment....
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