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Hello my deers! I have another miscellaneous collection of mori music for you all today! Some of these are more popularly known mori songs, and others are things I have discovered that I think have a very mori feel to them. Regardless, I hope you enjoy listening to all of them, and that you find something new! "Morning" by YeYe "Yurayura" by Yeye "Picnic" by Gutevolk "Signal Waltz" by Linus' Blanket "Baibaba Bimba" (Live Version) by Tenniscoats "After the Rain Last Night" by the indie/mori girl band, Chocopurin (check out their ep here ) "Hello" by Adele (Remixed Cover by Table for Two) "Pins" by Notjustblonde "Journey On" by Ragtime Reinvented "Bury Me Beneath the Willow" (Traditional American Folk Song) performed by Leah Dolgoy "King of the Fairies" by Wendy Songe

One of the worst things I have found about being new to a fashion that is long past its popular days is that many of the "quintessential mori things" have long since faded into obscurity. For instance, brands have closed their stores, bloggers have deleted their content, and many of the fashion icons have left the j-fashion scene altogether. However, there is one thing that has always worried me above the rest with mori kei's growing inactivity, and that is the fact that all mori magazines have since stopped being printed and published. Although it may be almost impossible to find a printed copy of most magazines these days, there are some amazing people who have taken to scanning their own copies of these elusive magazines and making them available for others to read online. I had been planning for ages to create a post with links to all of the resources that I have compiled over the years of magazine scans, and the links had been sitting in a blog post, unedited, f...

Today's Mori Music Find is Youmou and Ohana (羊毛とおはな). This duo is no longer actively creating music, but their beautiful, soft, acoustic sound is still charming and definitely worth a listen. Both their music and their music videos are charming and contain many natural, mori-like themes. In addition, Ohana often wears some very mori-esque coordinates. Have you ever heard of Youmou and Ohana? If so, how did you like their music? If not, I hope you enjoy! Happy listening!

A while back, I had a discussion with a few other mori folk about our mori inspirations. There are so many inspirational outfits, people, and brands out there to choose from, but it was quite fun to narrow down specific things that have inspired me the over the years. I thought it might be fun to share them here on my blog with you all as well!  1) My first inspiration has always been the Wonder Rocket Shop workers. Although the shop has since closed its doors in Harajuku, the lovely workers there still prove a big inspiration to me. They always had such amazing coords, and I still look to their old photos for inspiration all of the time. 2) The main model for the shop Dear Li on Taobao has always been another inspiration of mine. She's one of the original mori icons and is pretty well known, and for good reasons! She's always so adorable, and her coords are so flowy and delicate. (She's known as dearlanglang on instagram,...