Right foot, left foot... Amateur dancers in early 19c. used textbooks for practicing dance: https://t.co/xrVC2oaWVw #ndldigital https://t.co/fLOMNyWUua
The first #baseball instruction book in Japan, published in 1897. Who could have imagined that a century later, many Japanese baseball players would make a spectacular showing in the world? https://t.co/4CAk6hmAiu https://t.co/XH6bkLyTlW
What are these charming frogs? Minakata Kumagusu, a natural historian, sketched them in a letter to Shirai Mitsutaro. Read more about it here: https://t.co/A6E2XAELyq https://t.co/cjBrPExCXW
The iroha on one side of the entrance, the Thousand Character Classic 千字文 on the other.
< 内国勧業博覧会美術館之図 @ https://t.co/1dF7kpKEiY (Seen in Kristopher Kersey's talk in the Getty colloquium on tekagami a few minutes ago.
Do a conplete scrining of this beautiful title page and spot the mistakes!
("Dr. Prof." also strikes me as a little odd in terms of word order? But maybe that was/is usual somewhere somehow.)
< 1930 南蛮屏風大成 @ https://t.co/fsyXGfvxfF https://t.co/eBn3Zvfv9e
The 5th National Industrial Exhibition held in Osaka in 1903 included one of the first public displays of automobiles. #ndldigital
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This letter from Takeda Shingen ends with a somewhat odd phrase: "Since I have eye trouble…" Let's see why he had to make this kind of excuse: https://t.co/R4I6SvAVRY https://t.co/jTpefKreDy
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