Wonderful to see "How to Interpret Historical Terms of Medieval Japanese History in Foreign Languages" by Xiaolong Huang is out! I had the pleasure of working with her for a @HistWorkshop session at U Tokyo on translating/interpreting #medieval docs.
The yūrei-zu genre was popularized in the Edo period, possibly inaugurated by the work of Maruyama Ōkyo in the 18th cen. His Ghost of Oyuki painting here is perhaps one of the most widely recognized ghost portraits. See the Yoshitoshi in high res here: https://t.co/oUGPYg050f https://t.co/pwPQ1k1yPF
Since when and for what reasons have carved seals been used in place of signatures in Japanese documentation? Find out by reading this article: https://t.co/Er4SuAUmjU https://t.co/Bm62vCeK58
Opening one of these results, Inoue Tetsujiro's 1901 book "Bushido", it is possible to read the whole book using the online reader, and the relevant metadata is given at left. Usually, there is also a TOC, although not in this case. https://t.co/NQ6DxHeM1x
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A great overview of recent, mainly English-language scholarship on Japanese heritage by Peter Zarrow. Open access at: https://t.co/Ouc4qkBs1V https://t.co/7gkDExr7vX
Heitengi (a kind of astrolabe) is a quick-reference chart for the paths of the sun, moon, and stars. The author Iwahashi Yoshitaka was a telescope manufacturer in the Edo period. #astronomy https://t.co/S7wrzpsFnR https://t.co/sHUPw3oOlE
Rescuing the cultural heritage damaged by the tsunami.
The NDL conducted conservation work on the Yoshida-ke monjo, a series of historical documents of Iwate prefecture damaged by the tsunami caused by the #GreatEastJapanEarthquake.
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Pioneering work for #JapaneseStudies.This book is one of the earliest works as a full-scale translation and reproduction of Japanese literature in Europe. Translated by Austrian oriental scholar August Pfizmaier; published in 1847, Vienna. #ndldigital https://t.co/8X82sIhXMn https://t.co/1XA2UVmWqE
Enjoy your #virtualtravel experiences at NDL Digital Collections!
#KawaseHasui, a prominent modern landscape print artist, visited areas all over Japan and created a great number of landscape sketches as well as prints based on those sketches. #ndldigital https://t.co/hSliSqWWiY https://t.co/TGZsh69yKy
@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!
A disease called okori, which is considered to be malaria, often appears in Japanese classical literature like Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji) .
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Interesting (Dutch-based?) Japanese transcriptions of the names of Galenus, Hippocrates, Socrates and Aristotle in a late 17c manuscript. (Note also the shape of the diacritic corresponding to the modern handakuten, seen next to 保.)
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This nishiki-e by Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicts a moment from an auspicious kabuki performance, Sanbaso https://t.co/xtXSbnI8DV #ndldigital https://t.co/KvTdLrweRE
@SharonDomier @Bec_Edo Definitely pictures help! A good place to start for freely available (& downloadable) 資料 is NDL, and for a starter class that's already got the basic idea down, I'd recommend an ehon by Sukenobu -- e.g. https://t.co/aZWD7HdXZY