Lupin the kitten

This is our new cat Rupan, sitting in our messy washitsu. Well for English readers I'd better write Lupin but, in Japanese we only have an 'R'! We are famous for not being able to pronounce London properly. Most of us say Rondon. So, you'll hear “Herro Rupan!” instead of “Hello Lupin!”, but that’s Japanese for you. Hope you’ll be very kind and give collection to their English… oh, sorry, I made a mistake myself, I should have said correction! From the name, you would imagine it's a boy cat but actually it's not. My elder daughter Chihiro rescued her while I was in England. The kitten could barely see due to heavy mucus and was too weak to eat anything. Chihiro took her to the vet and luckily she survived. She seems to be around 8 months old but I'm not sure. She has beautiful green eyes and a very interesting triangular mark on her dark face. Her behaviour is completely different to other cats that we had kept before. Very timid, never tries to run outdoors. It's so interesting to see the way she plays with a hair band too. Do you see it just in front of her in the photo? Why did Chihiro name her Lupin? She thought the kitten looked like both a thief and detective! Don't you think she has a bit of a suspicious look? In Japan, there was a cartoon called "Lupin the third" on TV a while ago... I don't know if it's still on air. It's based on the gentleman thief and detective story written by Maurice Leblanc. Younger people may only know today’s animation, which is often the case when a hero from an original story develops into a manga character. I feel like pulling my hair out whenever I see Winnie the Pooh in Disney animation because that’s NOT the Pooh that I know from the original book. Maybe it’s wrong to expect animated character to be the same as the original. Maybe it’s only me. Perhaps I’m already too old to appreciate Disney characters. Everyone in Chiba seems to love Disneyland and its characters. When people are so excited about it, I cannot say I'd rather avoid such things so I just sit and listen to how long they had to wait to take a ride on Splash Mountain and how much they enjoyed taking pictures with Micky Mouse….oh dear. posted by Edera