This ukiyo-e depicts the Bikuni bridge near present-day Yurakucho station. A baked sweet potato shop is on the right. https://t.co/tDq0FWEHHf #ndldigital https://t.co/YvfZCRqYJl
This Chinese language dictionary/phrasebook for Japanese soldiers, published same month as outbreak of first Sino-Japanese war 1894, is pretty much as awful as you might expect.『兵要支那語』 I’ll post comments and translations at @froginawellnet soon https://t.co/GsZhgSxj6h https://t.co/DDcKAsIq4K
I always kind of wanted to translate this, but I don’t think it’s going to happen (DM me if you’re a publisher who disagrees, I guess), so why not share the knowledge: Red Flag, a 1930 collection of proletarian children’s songs by Makikoto Kusuro. https://t.co/O8bP8nNndH https://t.co/q19z1gbbnA