Katja Triplett 2026 "Catholic Catechisms in Early Modern Japan: Translating the Embodied Practice of Baptism" @ doi.org/10.1007/978-... (in OA 🙏)

2023年に亡くなったde Boerさんの遺稿をもとにした著書の五十嵐さんによる書評。とても誠意があるし，日本と海外の研究の断絶についても言及。／ Book Review: Using Japanese Tonal Data to Recover Japanese Language History (de Boer, Elisabeth M.) www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/lij/...

Many thanks again for your insightful comments! This was a real pleasure, especially discussing so many primary sources. Delighted to be part of such a strong issue.

Two days to World Endangered Writing Day. We have something for everyone, with scripts from around the world, theoretical aspects of writing research, discussions of community identity and minority script typography, a Script Keepers panel, a contest and so much more!

"The twenty-four modes of writing" (Diagonal βουστροφηδόν for the win! 🤓) < Hugo 1617 De prima scribendi origine @ www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb1...

Zisk 2025 "A comparison of morphogram-driven linguistic innovations throughout the Sinographic Cosmopolis and beyond" @ doi.org/10.3765/plsa... (OA 🙏)

Let's focus on the detail of the text walking mesenger: first up, he is a "Postbott" (German for postal messenger). In short he is a "Bott" (or "Pott"), ein Bote. And the thing positioned before him is a German "S". So this reads as "S pott" meaning "Spott": mockery.

Oh, the irony ... 🫣 Il[=r]oniaノ事 'On irony'

Today marks the #WinterSolstice ❄️ This illustrated page, ‘Erde und Sonne’, from a German atlas by Justus Perthes (c.1910), shows how Earth’s tilt and orbit create the solstices, equinoxes and seasons. 📜 | Bodleian Map Room Blog More at: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2024/03/19/spring/

国立国語研究所「日本語史研究用テキストデータ集」にて、日葡辞書，言海の見出し語データ（txt，xlsx）が公開（2025-10-30） www2.ninjal.ac.jp/textdb_datas...

Nice, looks like I'll soon have to update the hand-list again. ^^ 🎉 キリシタン版『日葡辞書』原稿発見：北京とトゥールーズ 日時：2026年2月3日（火）17：30～19：00（JST） www.gjs.osaka-u.ac.jp/event/worksh...

Meet one of the oldest early printed books in our collections - a Japanese-Spanish dictionary compiled by Catholic missionaries and published in 1630 in Manila 📖

Important publication!📚 With its module #manuscript_notes also #Qalamos draws the attention of the scholars to the notes of various types and genres in the margins of #manuscripts. So far over five thousand marginal notes recorded. Read more here:👇 shorturl.at/vvoE3

He keeps doing it. Every time somebody gets beheaded in this text, the word "head" is replaced with a little hand-drawn emoticon. And considering how many people get beheaded in this story, that's a lot of lil face drawings.

Mayu Fujikawa 2025 Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe @ www.psupress.org/books/titles...

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...