my new post for the @digitalorientalist.bsky.social is out! A simple intro to the 敦煌文化 resources - a very handy database with plenty of information and media about the Dunhuang manuscripts, and more!

For six decades, Bob Dylan has challenged listeners with songs that reward interpretation. He even won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016. But what more might we discover if, instead of a human scholar, we asked generative AI to sift through every word Dylan ever wrote?

Well said.

Nimbus 2000-vs- Nimbus 2025

Since it was first published, Northrop Frye’s Fearful Symmetry has established itself as the defining commentary on the poetic vision of William Blake. The new Princeton Classics edition of this landmark book is now available! Explore a free sample: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Last few days to take advantage of our birthday discount of 20% off our direct-order price That's $64 USD instead of $80 We'll even apply the discount to our flat-fee postage contribution of $10 so that it only adds $8 for P&P Get your obligation free Invoice/Quote quirinpress.com/direct-order...

Can anyone help identify this Tibetan (¿) personal shrine from our #QPArchive ❓ Possibly Padmasambhava [¿] 🙏 @edwardw2.bsky.social

Woljeongsa Temple, Odesan, South Korea Buddhist monastics and practitioners bury their hair after tonsure at this memorial site in the forest. #31daysofgraves #landscape

📌Just signed a contract for a new title for publication end of 2026: ❝Du Fu in His Time❞ 【Working title】 by David Lawrence McMullen Emeritus Professor of Chinese, Fellow of St John’s College, University of Cambridge. A monograph on the career and mental landscape of Du Fu…

🎉This week we celebrate the First 🎂 birthday of: ❝From the Studio of Sour Mood: Poetry and Prose of Guan Yunshi 貫雲石 (1286–1324)❞ By Richard John Lynn quirinpress.com/ISBN/9781922... 🙏 celebrate by re-posting/direct order a copy 20% off Code: SourMood Valid to 31Oct quirinpress.com/direct-order...

A large seal in our #QPArchive reads: 同冷戊辰年中伏初日在洞南衛源軍次 因時時慕益友仁風偶假聖人之言擬意 三三建九圖章用玩石鳩工雕斲印成懸 掛座右讀之爲觧其圖有言孔子曰益者 君子有三樂有三畏有九思所謂礼知意 也余嘗試讀之誠學則以此三者之旨妄 做恩德銘誌此之謂感佩懼也亦斯可以 舒吾生成永感之念云爾 The 3 joys, 3 fears, and 9 thoughts would seem to point to Confucius 16:5¿ and 16:10¿ 🙏Help with a HiFi Tr. (beyond AI gist)🙏

Congratulations to Amanda Wunder, whose book Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velazquez has won the 2025 Leo Gershoy Award from the American Historical Association. 🎉  #arthistory #Baroquefashion

Update: These two Double spouted sake ewer (Ryōguchi chōshi 両口銚子) are up for auction in JP, [we're not bidding alas 😔 need save our pennies for typesetting 📌] here's the link in case anyone is interested: auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b...

In my offline life, I'm trying to stretch more by following yoga videos most mornings, but if I'd been alive in the Ming & Qing, I would need a book like this! 萬壽僊書 via ANU library, openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/items/f57a10... (v3 has the illustrations!) #WoodblockWednesday

@thianun.bsky.social Have we got the book for you ⁉️ 😎

天上天下，唯我獨尊, www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

🎉This week we celebrate the 5th 🎂 birthday release of our ❝Methods of "Nourishing the Vital Principle" in the Ancient Daoist Religion❞ by Henri Maspero quirinpress.com/ISBN/9781922... A tiré à part of Book IX of Maspero’s seminal work ❝Taoism and Chinese Religion❞ also available at QP (2014)

A few months ago I got to go to a Bukubuku tea ぶくぶく茶 event at Namin (Naminoue) Shrine in Naha, Okinawa. The preservation society was in charge and it showcased ingredients and books related to the tea. It was a lovely experience!

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When I met the wide-eyed gaze of this schoolgirl—her tousled hair, her face alive with quiet curiosity—I lowered my camera. In that instant, her unguarded innocence shattered my detachment, reminding me of the fleeting privileges we take for granted and the fragile beauty of our shared humanity.

There is a set of double spouted sake vessel 酒器 in Wajima-nuri 輪島塗 lacquerware for sale on the web, 🙏 does anyone know if there is a specific name for such vessels that seem inspired by the tripod candle stick holders of Japan ❓

#DarioFo died on this day 13 October 2016 The closing lines to his play: "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" echoes ever louder ❝We are in the turds up to our necks, it's true, and that's precisely why we walk with our heads held high❗️❞

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My new book is coming out in August 2026. uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu...

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Occasional translation of a poem from the Tang 王梵志 Wang Fanzhi (a.k.a. Wang the Brahmacarin, or Wang the Zealot) 觀影元非有

I usually don't join bandwagons but I'm jumping on this one. 🔧🎸 www.recordstoreday.co.uk/black-friday...

Does anyone have any sources for the theme/legend of #Bodhidharma Subduing/riding the #Tiger, Dámó fúhǔ 達摩伏虎 (as distinct from the various Lohan riding/subduing a tiger Luóhàn fúhǔ 羅漢伏虎)

Dotting your i's, and crossing your t's: In Chinese ⁉️ so here is a funny one, Rad. 162 辵 chuò, walking, is abbreviated to 辶 , but often loses one of the steps. Fonts vary, some give it 2 steps some 1, thus the mdbg dic. you get the display font showing 2 steps, but the stroke order only shows 1 ‼️

Mid-morning Monday and our CEO😎 is looking for easily found distractions outside our headquarters office window [i.e. the front garden]... Coffee time...

The perfection of imperfection Japanese charred cedar drop lid Yakesugi otoshibuta 焼杉 落としぶた

Interesting piece in FR & ES by Michel Bonnin "Trump en 2025 et Mao en 1966 ont des comptes à régler, une vengeance à accomplir." [Trump in 2025 and Mao in 1966 have scores to settle, revenge to carry out. ]

#QPBibNote an interesting source on the Japanese knotted-letter or musubi-bumi 結び文 【 🖼 ⤵️kogo/incense box shaped as1】 two pages on David Mitchell's Origami Heaven: illustrated History of… www.origamiheaven.com/historyofjap... And the page on Pentagonal Knot www.origamiheaven.com/historyofthe...

From our #QPArchive, for the delectation of our N🌏 friends, a Japanese #tanzaku 短冊 in autumnal hues On tanzaku ⤵️ www.aisf.or.jp/~jaanus/deta...

@kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social what do you make of 戈/才 ? Typo ¿ Carver's misspelling ¿

Leafing through my miniature #Hokusai manga, I came across his MangaTorii (which incidentally sounds very close to the IT for eaters ❝Mangiatori❞ 😎) But what is the name he gives to the 3-sided #Torii ⛩ ? can't find the last kanji 三戈鳥 ⭕️ perchance @kaitlynugoretz.bsky.social can elucidate on Manga⛩¿

#QPBibNote The Chinese Unicorn: Notes from a Chinese Dictionary Thomas L Rowe Saigon 1957 one of those delightful "vanity" publications: idiosyncratic as it is mesmerising 29 pages of far-flung thoughts

time for a spring clean 💨 blow some of those clouds away and make that blue-sky ... 💙

IBAM▪︎FORTE▪︎VIA▪︎SACRA

Sails hoisted on the Narrenschiff... we proceed... be kind to us... we are but a skiff on the open sea

@crumbsey.bsky.social long time no posts, u O.K. ?

#QPArchive Chinese Dragons Watermarked large calligraphy writing sheet (aprox 645 x 1315mm) Mid 20th C. From the 10 Bamboo Studio workshop 🙏help finish stamped inscription (3 glyphs not figured out) : 中國Chinese [?] [?] 十竹齋[?] Ten Bamboo Studio [workshop?] 刻 carve 畫(画) picture 笺[箋] writing paper

Today's S🌏 pentad 桃始華 Peach trees begin to blossom [N🌎= 鴻鴈來 Wild geese arrive] See our Chart of the 24 Breaths and 72 Pentads of the Year ko-fi.com/s/16216f98b7 I had hoped to take a pix under the full moon of our nectarine blossoms, but alas clouds called for my torch... Let u'r mind dream...

It's coming… it's coming… typesetting is 65% done… just give us another 45 odd cups of $3 Ko-fi to keep alert please ! Publication date 【if we don't fall asleep from lack of ☕️😎】: 7 or 8 Nov 2025 【When 螻蟈鳴 Green frogs croak in the S🌏】 ko-fi.com/quirinpress/...

Monday...tumbling Monday...

I love this word and its definition... the region of the air in which the clouds float BlueWelkin ...

Japan #BookHistory folks: has anyone come across this calligrapher's name before: Otajima Hōran 雄多島芳蘭女書? Crediting a scribe for a preface is unusual, & the scribe being a woman makes it doubly so. Elegant work--but haven't found any other references to her. Text dates to Ka'ei 嘉永 2-3 (1849-50)...

A seal has been pestering my mind these past 30odd years it's to read 自由 Freedom of the 醉鷗 Drunken Gull in the seal order ↩️the variant 䳼 is to be used for 鷗 so that the bird might drink with ease. It's to be a bridge seal/impression of 2.Thus: 由自 䳼醉 It's inspired by the 2nd artist's seal below