@Bec_Edo @hishiokakenji Oh this is so on my list!
Have you read Ozu’s Tohoku travelogue? It’s been transcribed with essays by Hishioka and others.
https://t.co/UkOiDuWl0W
@dfedman The place to start would be this series by the BoJ. https://t.co/Zdsbf4AK5Q
Then『両から円へ』, which I haven’t read yet but comes up frequently in the literature. Been more focused on the early modern paper side.
https://t.co/oI0vXvz7u4
Final promotional tweet (for a bit, at least): a collection of essays on document preservation and cultural heritage work under the COVID-19 pandemic. Also includes valuable first-person records of the pandemic as experienced in Miyagi and Hokkaido.
https://t.co/eJt96NBlqz https://t.co/UoYCaxKYph
Another new publication worth checking out: a collection of essays and newly available documents on the Kaisei-maru, the western-style warship built by Sendai Domain at the end of the Tokugawa period.
https://t.co/8lVnSbxSnQ https://t.co/yIhPchrngQ
New publication alert: the diary of the Marukichi merchant house, covering the turbulent years from 1783-1844. A really invaluable (and freely available) source for the economic and social history of Tokugawa Japan.
https://t.co/54jiv61b4I https://t.co/iA60pj5Bl9
@cwiertka @paularcurtis The place to look for more details would be in: 神田由築「飴売商人 」(吉田伸之編『商いの場と社会』)It's on HathiTrust online. Yoshida also has some of his own work on sweets sellers, which I haven't read (citation link: https://t.co/3rWMjwxJD2). Hope this helps!
This is the first manual for keeping goldfish written in Japanese, published in the Edo era. It explains the features of goldfish, their history, how to take care of them, and how to treat their diseases. #ndldigital
https://t.co/xQny3dC8xe https://t.co/UTyNLdRfoh
Nieuwenhuis’s dictionary was used as a source in works by scholars of Dutch learning Watanabe Kazan (in 1839); Mitsukuri Shôgo (in 1844) and Mitsukuri Genpo (in 1851) as Miyachi Eyako’s research here shows: https://t.co/grPiG9fzyh https://t.co/JgjxzOzC0U
The article "Christmas in Deshima" tells you how Christmas was celebrated secretly in Deshima in old times
https://t.co/4vcPypcEJR https://t.co/wessFwJfRu