jacki long: Day 4899: Agatha Christie & Ikimashou (eriasho) & TBT.

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Day 4899: Agatha Christie & Ikimashou (eriasho) & TBT.

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Agatha Christie

Deeply hurt by the death of her mother, thirty-five-year-old Agatha Christie was still trying to overcome her grief when her husband of twelve years suddenly announced that he was in love with another woman and wanted a divorce. The twin shocks threw Agatha into a deep state of depression. Feeling that the best of life was behind her, she saw little reason to go on living. Only concern for her seven-year-old daughter saved her from suicide.

Born into an affluent English family in 1890, Agatha Miller was a precocious child who taught herself to read at age four and quickly developed what would be a lifelong devotion to books. At age 22 she met Archie Christie, a dashing young pilot. The couple fell in love and were married on Christmas Eve in 1914. They spent most of the next four years separated by World War I, settling afterwards in London. Their only child, Rosalind, was born in 1919. By the time her marriage to Archie fell apart, Agatha had published five well-received detective novels, but she could hardly have expected the success that awaited her.

In time Agatha began to recover from the pain of her failed marriage. She resumed writing and, to boost her spirits, took a trip on the Orient Express. Then, in 1930 a friend invited her to come along on a trip to an archeological dig in Iraq. There she met Max Mallowan, a prominent archeologist thirteen years her junior. They fell in love and were married later that year, a happy marriage that would last until Agatha’s death 46 years later.

At the end of 1926, Agatha Christie may have thought that her life was no longer worth living, but she was entirely wrong about that. In the years that followed she not only found the love of her life, but she also enjoyed her greatest success, becoming the best-loved author on earth, with over 70 best-selling novels as well as the longest-running play in history. Her husband Max was knighted in 1968 and three years later Agatha was made a Dame of the British Empire.

Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller Christie Mallowan died at age 85 on January 12, 1976. With over two billion copies sold, she is the best-selling novelist in history.

𝗜𝗸𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂: 𝗠𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗸𝗼’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗸 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘂𝗽 (𝗲𝗿𝗶-𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶 / 襟足)

The back of the neck is deliberately left unpainted in a V- or W-shaped opening within the white oshiroi makeup. In traditional Japanese aesthetics, this area is considered subtly beautiful and elegant. By exposing natural skin there, the look emphasizes youth, refinement, and grace—not overt attraction. For maiko (apprentice geisha), the opening is usually wider and more pronounced, highlighting freshness and training status. As they mature into full geisha, the shape becomes narrower and more restrained, reflecting increased sophistication. The contrast between white makeup and natural skin also symbolizes transition and impermanence, echoing core ideas in Japanese beauty culture.