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 Mistigram: a regretful reprint from our back stacks, rest in power to jazz titan #SonnyRollins, whose 1957 album #SaxophoneColossus was here celebrated in #ShiftJIS by @kalchano in the music-themed MIST0118 artpack collection eight years ago.

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 Mistigram: a very merry unbirthday to you! While we're still in a nonsensical #AprilFools mentality, here's an exceedingly foolish scene of #AliceInWonderland's #MadHatterTeaParty, drawn in #ShiftJIS by @kalchano . It was included in the MIST0117 artpack collection released nine years ago!

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 Mistigram: Not only is Kalcha from Japan, but doubling down, in last month's unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection he shared with us over two dozen Japanese #ukiyoe-style portraits, composed entirely from characters in the Japanese #ShiftJIS character set.

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 Mistigram: this #textart adaptation of #FineWindClearMorning (also simply called #RedFuji), one of #Hokusai's suite of #ThirtysixViewsOfMountFuji #ukiyoe prints made in the 1830s, was made by @kalchano in #ShiftJIS and included in the new fine art-themed MIST0424 artpack collection.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 6, 2016 at 2:19pm UTC

Today on Mistigram, Kalcha delivers more of his unique Shift_JIS illustration (the ASCII art of Japan, using a vastly extended character set) from the MIST1116 artpack with this suite of nine Gods from the Hindu pantheon.

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 6, 2016 at 2:19pm UTC

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 3, 2016 at 3:18pm UTC

Four, four, four Shift-JIS drawings for the price of one! Our resident Shift-JIS expert, Kalcha, ordered these four Hallowe'eny characters to line up and get festive for MIST1016, and boy did they jump to it! Shift-JIS works like the ASCII art we all know and love, but the characters are not fixed-width – and they include Japanese ideographs, here seen only composing the body of the spider. (Fear not, those corner swastikas merely denote good fortune in an Asian context.)

Instagram photo by Cthulu • Nov 3, 2016 at 3:18pm UTC