Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz

Almighty ⚡️ The Godliest God Game You are a powerful and moody ancient god! Create, manipulate, and smite puny mortals to earn their belief and glory

I just backed Almighty ⚡️ The Godliest God Game on @kickstarter.com. Looks like fun!

The Stars We Do Not See | National Gallery of Art Mark your calendar for this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of modern and contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and design.

People of DC: You have **one more day** to see the fabulous display of Australian Aboriginal art, 'The Stars We Do Not See,' at the National Gallery, on the mall.

www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...

Free. And not to be missed. (Was jam-packed today. Join them tomorrow.)

Thank you! It’s preliminary research for a future book, but I can’t work on it full time which is sad because it’s very fun to hunt for them 😭

Yeah checking it just now, the list has changed a LOT since I signed up years ago 😅

Global Torii Map (1,471+!) - Google My Maps A map of torii gates located outside of Japan (except for including US military presence), created by Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz (University of Idaho).

www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/v...

By the way, there is a new link. It is missing most of the colonial Torii, especially in Taiwan, because I’ve been saving that for later, ideally when I get some more funding or time to work on it seriously.

I have been adding to the map slowly over the last two or three years. Usually I’ll focus on one location or type. I’m always finding new ones, and people all over the world send me ones to add. If you know of any I’m missing, I would be grateful to hear about them and happy to add them to the map!

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Oh thank you for letting me know! I couldn’t see who it was who was blocked. It was from a mass list, not personal.

RE: your questions about the map, yes it is a WIP & includes some torii that used to exist but don’t anymore. I’ll check the one mentioned above that may be in the wrong location.

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I’m so angry. I’m so sorry. 😔

Aura Poppins is the video I should have linked but I’m sitting on a tarmac so it what it is 😬

Qveen Herby Karmin GIF Alt: Qveen Herby Karmin GIF

Go to bed!

But the almighty Spotify algorithm has decided that I need to pay attention to this and now I have Thoughts TM 😅 (again seriously Qveen Herby got me through a rough move this year)

I really do enjoy Qveen Herby in all seriousness, she’s got a witchy vibe similar to, but less queer than (could be queerer), Cain Culto.😆 I knew one song by Able Heart from Spotify but couldn’t have told you who the artist was, had to google him

Ise-Shima (Ishiro Honda, 1949) w/ English subs YouTube video by Tsundoku Diving

New translation!

This week I’ve translated the short documentary Ise-Shima, the 1949 directorial debut from the man behind Godzilla, Ishiro Honda!

Enjoy the start of one of the most famous names in movies, the first instance of underwater filming in Japan, and lots of post-war anxieties!

Able heart & Qveen Herby - Perfect Timing (Official Audio) YouTube video by Able Heart

Oh no my favorite New Thought/Posi/manifesting music artists are doing collabs. Please tell me someone else is already writing about this 🫢 youtu.be/IILfAv5zxYE

Awesome, I’ll DM you soon!

We read selections from your book on media mix strategies tomorrow as well. Thanks for all your hard work, it’s such great material to teach with, and the students find it very readable which is an extra bonus.

The anime source btw is "Hinako Note" (2017)
www.crunchyroll.com/series/G6E58...

So satisfying to find niche screencaps for lecture. 🤌

Today we read Marc Steinberg's @msteinbrg.bsky.social excellent translation of Ōtsuka Eiji's "World and Variation: The Reproduction and Consumption of Narrative" in Mechademia Second Arc 5, no. 1 (2010).

📖🔗 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I love to hear that even one person besides my parents are excited by this kind of work, thank you! 😆

The volume is blessed with not one, but TWO Shinto chapters! (A miracle?) The other on historical representations of Ame no Uzume is contributed by the excellent Bernhard Scheid. 😁

An ink painting of the Shinto kami Ame no Uzume no Mikoto dancing in loose, revealing clothes and green garlands on top of an overturned wooden basin. Roosters crow to join her in beckoning the solar kami Amaterasu Ōmikami out of hiding in her cave.

Yes, this is an Ame no Uzume fan account.

Sacred Laughter This anthology explores the intersection of humor and laughter with various faith, religious, and mythic traditions.Each chapter covers a unique case where humo…

Glad to see 𝙎𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙇𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧: 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙇𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨, 𝘾𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙈𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙘 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 (Bloomsbury 2026) is officially published! My chapter, "Laughing to Move the Gods: The Transformative Power of Humor in Shinto," looks at laughter in #Shinto mythology & 'laughter festivals.' DM for PDF. 😉⛩️

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They're just putting #torii gates on roofs now ig 😅

Shiki of Mocksville Japanese Restaurant, Mocksville, NC

Lol there’s sooo many of them 😅

Ohhh thanks for letting me know, I’ll add you to the map! 🗺️📍

That’s right! It continues to surprise me that the US military builds torii, particularly the Rakkasans. 🤔

Global Torii Map (1,468+!) - Google My Maps A map of torii gates located outside of Japan (except for including US military presence), created by Dr. Kaitlyn Ugoretz (University of Idaho).

www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/e...