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GOSURORI BIBLE JAPANESE TRANSLATIONS (WITH CAT PHOTO).
Basil and I are learning Japanese together, mainly for the purpose of deciphering the Gothic & Lolita Bible! We thought we’d share our gosurori vocab with you. You can try replicating the strokes – it’s a lot of fun.
The Japanese writing system has three components: hiragana, katakana, and kanji (derived from Chinese characters). In the examples below, the chunky, multi-stroke characters are kanji and represent concepts. The simplier, flowing scripts are katakana; each one makes up a phonetic syllable.
Asians are constantly mocked for being unable to distinguish “l” and “r” sounds (“I’m so ronery… oh so ronery…”). Alas, this is the case with “loli”, which comes out as “rori” in Japanese.
?? = Ro Ri
Add a qualifier before the “rori” and you’ve got the various style categories of Lolita fashion.
Above, you can see the Japanese translation of “Gothic & Lolita Bible” in an appropriately curlique script.
Hungry for more? Check out this fantastic printable guide to the Bible’s sewing patterns and instructions. The PDF includes katakana and kanji help, translations of common words (front, back, left, right, material types, etc), and size references.
Did we forget to include some key words? Was anything lost in translation? Let us know in the comments!
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GOTHIC LOLITA PET CAT COSTUME: BASIL IN A BONNET.
I was browsing through Japanese street fashion snaps when I came across this: 
Ruh roh! I turned to Basil, resident Scottish Fold kitty cat, with an evil grin. A bit of black felt, some white ribbon and lace, and ta-da:
Doesn’t he look like a little Victorian madam?
Basil wasn’t happy about cross-dressing in a Gothic Lolita headdress, but he put up with it like a champ.
Love his big sideways feet.
I previously posted about Basil and his feline brethren in Gothic Lolita fashion here. Here’s a new video of him pouncing on his mouse toy and plastic bags. Can you figure out the song in the background?
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