Pleased to announce that my latest article, Juvenile Science and the Japanese Nation: Shōnen’en and the Cultivation of Scientific Subjects’ has been published by Japan Review and is available open access at https://t.co/E4XdXPt5Mh

Do you make #snowmen when it snows? Even in the Edo period, people sometimes made snowmen when it snowed, but it looks somewhat different...! #ndldigital https://t.co/lzGeG9tDLP https://t.co/UfaFzGdgYP

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

Hot air balloons, steamships and electricity must have been a big surprise for Japanese youngsters at the beginning of the Meiji era. This book, published in 1869, is an abstract translation of the Boy's Playbook of Science (London, 1860). #ndldigital https://t.co/PiTUcpsaBk https://t.co/JNbeXpn2fe