User:Plifal

lyra was born in kent, the united kingdom, in 2001. she was a student at soas university of london. her work primarily focused on japanese history and culture, writing theses on popular representations of the second world war and transgender sentiment in manga and anime. in 2023 she started living in south osaka, japan as a jet. she enjoys writing about film and learning history.

beloved books include the u.s.a. trilogy, middlemarch, and sanshirō. beloved albums include meat puppets ii, blowout comb, and preacher's daughter.

she created her wikipedia account in 2021 but only began editing comprehensively when she noticed that the films of kurosawa akira had articles that required heavy maintenance. her main contributions to wikipedia have focused on expanding information related to japan. she has an interest in articles related to cinema, anime and manga, history, and political thought. behind the scenes she does the odd article review and did you know prep build.

she started editing the encyclopedia by adding a plot summary for rainy dog (1997). her first created article was tenjin matsuri; her first good article was jarinko chie (1981); her first featured article was high and low (1963). her most fulfilling work on the encyclopedia has been working on the meiji restoration and films of kurosawa akira.

please feel free to request access to anything in her physical library via her user talk page.

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  a shell forge at a national projectile factory, hackney marshes, london, 1918 (1918, airy)
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  sunlight in the blue room (1891, ancher)
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  pendant l'élévation (1879, boch)
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  summertime (c.1894, cassatt)
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  oath of the horatii (1784, david)
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  a sea of steps (1903, evans)
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  the happy accidents of the swing (1767-1768, fragonard)
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  woman admiring plum blossoms at night (1750, harunobu)
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  new year's eve foxfires at the changing tree, ōji (1857, hiroshige)
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  morning sun (1952, hopper)
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  raising a flag over the reichstag (1945, khaldei)
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  christ in the wilderness (1872, kramskoi)
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  amorpha, fugue en deux couleurs (1912, kupka)
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  dead eagle owl (1881, manet)
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  open window, collioure (1905, matisse)
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  the blind girl (1856, millais)
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  the angelus (1857-1859, millet)
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  the house among the roses (1825, monet)
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  solen (1911, munch)
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  the ypres salient at night (1918, nash)
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  anti-aircraft defences (1940, nevinson)
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  carnation, lily, lily, rose (1885, sargent)
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  sawamura sojurō iii as ogishi kurando (1794, sharaku)
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  shiragumo waterfall of nikkō (c.1920s, takahashi)
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  rain, steam and speed – the great western railway (1844, turner)
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  sugatami shichinin keshō (1792-1793, utamaro)
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  arrangement in pink, red and purple (1883-1884, whistler)