Turns out, Cruise’s skincare secret might be a crock of s—t: For roughly a decade, reports have credited the actor’s ageless glow to powdered bird poop, or what the Japanese call uguisu no fun.

It’s called “uguisu no fun” and its literal translation is “feces of the warbler.” That’s right — it’s nightingale poop. For over 1,000 years Japanese geishas have been using this ...

This haiku by Buson appears to be extremely simple. An uguisu, or bush warbler, is singing in an old garden all through the day. One imagines the garden as attached to a traditional house ...

Known as uguisu no fun in Japanese, nightingale droppings help the skin retain moisture and fight sun damage. The nightingale might be most famous for its bewitching song, but the bird’s ...