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Category Archives: culture
Fun Link Friday: Photographs of Japan from 1908
I love early photographs of Japan, as one can probably tell from many of our previous Fun Link Fridays. Here’s some shots from 1908, from the Library of Congress’ collection by Arnold Genthe (1869-1942). As My Modern Met describes: These rare … Continue reading
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Tagged daily life, fun link friday, Japan, photography, photos
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Book Announcement: Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives
Perfumed Sleeves and Tangled Hair: Body, Woman, and Desire in Medieval Japanese Narratives Rajyashree Pandey University of Hawaii Press, 2016. Pandey suggests that “woman” in medieval Japanese narratives does not constitute a self-evident and distinct category, and that there is little … Continue reading
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Tagged bodies, book announcement, books, Buddhism, desire, medieval, medieval Japan, women, women's history
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Book Announcement: Nara Japan, 758-763: A Study and Translation of Shoku Nihongi,Tenpyō Hōji 2 – 7
Ross Bender’s Nara Japan, 758-763: A Study and Translation of Shoku Nihongi,Tenpyō Hōji 2 – 7 is now available at CreateSpace and Amazon: https://www.createspace.com/5981677 This is the third in a projected five-volume translation of Shoku Nihongi for the years 749-770. Also available are The … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient history, ancient Japan, history, Nara, Shoku Nihongi, translation
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Book Announcement: ABC Dictionary of Ancient Japanese Phonograms
University of Hawai’i Press has just published John R. Bentley’s ABC Dictionary of Ancient Japanese Phonograms, the first comprehensive dictionary of man’yōgana. It is the ninth entry in the ABC Chinese Dictionary Series edited by Victor Mair. The 600-page volume is … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, Japanese, Japanese language, language, linguistics, man'yogana, resources
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Fun Link Friday: Japan’s Invisible Trains
As always, Japan leads the way in its railway technology and inventive designs. It was recently announced that the Seibu Railway company intends to build a train with an ultra-reflective design that will be (almost) invisible to onlookers. Science Alert … Continue reading
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Tagged fun link friday, Japan, railways, science, technology, trains
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Resource: Ryukyu Language Dictionaries
The Ryukyu-go onsei database 琉球語音声データベース, produced by the Okinawa Center of Language Study at the University of the Ryukyus, is easily one of the better online Japanese-Ryukyuan language dictionaries. The site contains not only listings for the Shuri-Naha dialect – … Continue reading
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Tagged books, dictionaries, language, Okinawa, okinawan language, uchinaaguchi
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Book Announcement: Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability
Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability was published by the University of Hawaii Press in January of 2016. The book is based on a decade of research into the documentary and material evidence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, culture, early modern, early modern Japan, history, Japan, Japanese culture, material culture, Tokugawa
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Fun Link Friday: Osaka River kaitenzushi
A group called The Osaka Cavas put on a delicious-looking art show recently in Osaka that featured giant plates of sushi floating on down Osaka’s Dōtonbori Canal like it was any old conveyor-belt sushi restaurant. Is your stomach rumbling yet? … Continue reading
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Tagged food, food culture, fun link friday, history, Japan, kaitenzushi, sushi
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Book Announcement: The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640
The Dream of Christian Nagasaki: World Trade and the Clash of Cultures, 1560-1640. Jefferson (NC): McFarland Publishers, 2016. Nagasaki, on the west coast of Kyushu, is known in the West for having been the target of an atomic bomb attack … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, city, history, Japan, Nagasaki
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Fun Link Friday: Vintage Japanese Magazine Covers
If you enjoy Taisho and early Showa era design as much as I do, there’s a treasure trove of images on 50 Watts, a book design blog. The images are curated from Bookcover Design in Japan 1910s-40s (ISBN 4-89444-426-7), edited by … Continue reading
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Tagged art, fun link friday, graphic design, magazine, Showa, Taisho, vintage
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 