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	<title>Call Me Ran-Chan</title>
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	<description>Anthropology ・ Folkore ・ Travel</description>
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		<title>Sweet Potato Hustle</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long time ago in a city called Yatsushiro, there lived a feudal lord who was always being deceived by one of his subordinates – a man named Hikoichi. One day, he resolved to never be deceived again. This story takes place on a day in late spring, more specifically the latter part of mid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gawataro</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of a lecherous kappa, a severed arm, and a faithful daughter.]]></description>
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		<title>Take a Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day a friend of mine, a Japanese language teacher at a Japanese public school, sat down to eat lunch with me.  We began talking about the haiku, and I asked him how the poetic form came to be.  Here’s what he told me.]]></description>
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		<title>The Kappa of Yatsushiro</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RanChan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story has been handed down through generations in Yatsushiro for the last 1500 years.  The story includes detailed descriptions of the Kappa, including webbed fingers, water bowls on their heads, and turtle shells on their backs.]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a Lumberjack and I&#8217;m OK</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RanChan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My last weekend was spent contrasting old and new in Kosa, a mountain town hugging the Midori River about ten kilometers southeast of the city of Kumamoto, with two young friends and a group of men who were our seniors in age and yet were senescent in nothing.  The objective of our foray was the hardscrabble task of making charcoal.]]></description>
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		<title>Kosode Mochi</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RanChan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uto’s mochi is still famously delicious today, and is nicknamed kosode mochi (小袖餅), or sleeve ricecake.]]></description>
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		<title>Mount Gankai</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RanChan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tametomo was famous for his archery.  It was said that his left arm was around six inches longer than his right, allowing for a longer and more powerful draw on the Japanese longbow.]]></description>
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		<title>Grandpa Sims</title>
		<link>http://callmeranchan.com/?p=415</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RanChan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On October 1, 1945, ten days before his 27th birthday, Princeton native Lawrence B. Sims, Jr. was on his 50th and final mission over the Hump.  Around 0900 hrs, after staying over in Kunming, China, the night before, and around two hours into the return flight to India, the number two engine on his four-engine C-54 caught fire, possibly from a broken fuel line. By the time Sims walked to the rear to strap on his parachute, the number two engine had fallen off. ]]></description>
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		<title>Setsubun?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RanChan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The monks went to each observer sitting on the tatami, and one by one slapped us on the back with their fan books, chanting incessantly and praying for our good health and fortune in the coming year.]]></description>
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		<title>Birdbrains and Brahms</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RanChan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a gun from a sling my friend whipped out his nocs and took aim at the trees...]]></description>
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