I'm having some fun looking up illustrations, because if I'm reading the Konjaku monogatarishū in class, I HAVE to do Dōjōji.

@bryandaniellowe Oh, I have to share my favourite: Saigō Takamori Nehan zō! https://t.co/ZPO87kjxrv

Interesting discovery of the week: I found some rather unusual doodles in a book. Someone apparently got bored during their lecture of the heroic life of Saigō Takamori.

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@SarahR_Schmid Found a scan of the 1892 original -- here's e.g. the passage seen in the lower left of your photo and it indeed has ○◎● en masse: https://t.co/jiPnPcsyoY ^^ https://t.co/GGNPfqR4YJ

Hm, it doesn't merely look like movable type, it actually even says so itself in the title: （新撰活版）明治いろは字典. Also cf. this earlier edition (1895) at the NDL, printed from woodblocks and also lacking the indication 活版 in its title: https://t.co/e5D8Mhflab 2/ https://t.co/iyHCJUMPTA

@SarahR_Schmid @nosword @managraphy Interesting case indeed.

@SarahR_Schmid @nosword @managraphy Interesting case indeed.

So, shall we call it "Nippomsiki Roumazi"* ...? Straight from the cabinet of curiosities: Nanbu Yoshikazu's 南部義籌 romanization scheme in his 1872 Yokomozibom Tebikigusa よこもじほんてびきぐさ @ https://t.co/LmnaTXYOQG * (Cf. pp. 11-12 for the Roumanization "Rouma".) 1/ https://t.co/wSDvQyOg79