alibaba wrote:
> "Kevin Gowen" <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote in message
> news:<bbngri$b4199
>>> No, Kansaijin eat Futomaki with fingers on Setsubun day.
>>
>> Don't pay attention to Taniguchi, Kaz. He is obviously a hater of
>> the Kinai people.
>
>
> i was reading some Tanizaki Junichiro this week,

He happens to be my favorite Japanese novelist. Which work were you reading?

> and came across very
> large differences between people from Osaka/Kyoto (Kansai?) region and
> Tokyo.  is it really that pronounced even today?

What sort of differences are you talking about? There is certainly a rivalry
of sorts and cultural differences.

> just curious.  i've
> only been to Tokyo, and i couldn't have helped but relate people from
> Tokyo with all urban Japanese.  it would be very interesting indeed if
> urban Japan in the southern region has a different flavor than Tokyo.

It certainly does.

> maybe a call for me to visit Osaka in the coming winter.

-- 
Kevin Gowen