If you are interested in punctuation and spacing in text, from any world writing traditions, please join us for @timbrookes.bsky.social's discussion event: Sunday 5th October, 12.00 ET / 17.00 BST Registration link in next comment.

📜Call for Papers: Digital Medievalist sponsored sessions International Medieval Congress 2026 (Leeds, UK). We seek proposals on the following themes: - 'Large Language Models and Medieval Texts' - 'Digital Methods and Materiality of Manuscripts' ▶️Full call: tinyurl.com/f82tcrzk 📆21 Sept 2025

Using digital tools to bring order to the creative chaos in Rilke's notebooks: Our Visual Manuscript Analysis Lab collaborated with @dlamarbach.bsky.social to investigate 56 notebooks of one of the greatest German-language poets: uhh.de/csmc-rilke

Finally out now 🥳🎉 -- and in OA! 🙏 Katja Triplett / Yoshimi Orii / Pia Jolliffe (eds.) (2025): Japan in the Early Modern World: Religion, Translation, and Transnational Relations @ doi.org/10.1007/978-... Includes two contributions by yours truly on Jesuit prints from Japan. 1/

Watanabe 2025 Neo-Latin and Japan @ brill.com/display/titl...

珠玉ヲモ家猪ノ前ニ置(ク)ベカラズ 🐽 "neither cast ye your pearls before swine"

アクタApᵒルン No better way to write "Acta Apostolorum" in Japanese. 🤓

Jupiter and Saturn < Kopperu [= Kepler] tenmon zukai 刻白爾天文図解 (1808) @ kokusho.nijl.ac.jp/biblio/10036...

Karuta × ōbun kundoku 🤓 [英語かるた] @ www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/ht...

Infrared reflectography can give researchers important insights into manuscripts that remain hidden to the naked eye. Our colleague Thies Staack reports here on the recovery of the title of a 19th-century Chinese medical recipe book: blog.crossasia.org/the-advantag...

Just out -- on the many (amazing) fragments related to the Jesuit mission press in Japan, recovered from the covers of the Toulouse copy of Manuale ad sacramenta ecclesiae ministranda (Nagasaki 1605): 岸本恵実 / 中野遙 / 白井純 / 豊島正之 (2025): キリシタン新出資料・トゥールーズ断簡：日葡辞書稿本とキリシタン版国字本を中心に @ doi.org/10.18910/100...

Check out CJ's new issue, incl research on labor market dualization; Murakami’s Popular Hits of the Showa Era; media discourses of nuclear power; Japanese identity & railway technology; Nikkei narratives of multiculturalism; populism in Japanese politics www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcoj20/3...

Vol. 2 of Language in Japan is out now (in OA 🎉), including a paper by @sophieling.bsky.social and myself on: "Reading Between the Words in Romanized Japanese: A Quantitative Analysis of Spacing and Related Phenomena in the Jesuit Contemptus mundi (1596)" doi.org/10.20666/lij... 1/

Checking the proofs of my "Hand-List of Prints from the Jesuit Mission Press in Japan and Related Materials" (out soon in link.springer.com/book/9783662...) atm and look what's online now: The Rio de Janeiro copy of Vocabulario da lingoa de Iapam (1603) @ acervobndigital.bn.gov.br/sophia/index... 1/

This book looks great! About half of it is related to the Ming and Qing, but there's also stuff on Ethiopia, Japan, Korea. doi.org/10.1515/9783... Sinology 🀄️📚

Newly published (at least the ebook version -- just ignore the date indicated on their website, which says otherwise): Tomohiko Kondo & Koji Tachibana (eds.) (2025): Aristotle in Japan. Reception, Interpretation and Application @ doi.org/10.4324/9781...