Emily Warren
@letsbanquet.bsky.social
Studies food culture and premodern Japan. Writing a book on the history of Japanese cuisine in the 8th through 13th centuries.
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Fun discovery @theulspeccoll.bsky.social today: wonderful 1820s imagery depicting the 11th-century samurai warrior Minamoto no Yoshiie, changing into his armour. CUL FJ.973.50.
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Fun discovery @theulspeccoll.bsky.social today: wonderful 1820s imagery depicting the 11th-century samurai warrior Minamoto no Yoshiie, changing into his armour. CUL FJ.973.50.
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My latest piece, on open access and scholarly publishing - revealing my inner fangirl to the world in the process (you are not shocked, I know) 📚 #AcademicSky
How Fanfiction Can Help Us Reimagine Scholarly Publishing
Archive of Our Own, a digital fanfiction repository, shows what’s possible when we design our infrastructures around the communities that use them, rather than around extractive logics.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:57 AM
My latest piece, on open access and scholarly publishing - revealing my inner fangirl to the world in the process (you are not shocked, I know) 📚 #AcademicSky
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The JJRS just published an excellent article by Dan Sherer on Oda Nobunaga's relationship with religious institutions. The article challenges the view, long held by historians, that Nobunaga was hostile toward religion. Using a trove of primary sources, Sherer argues that it was much more completed.
NIRC
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October 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The JJRS just published an excellent article by Dan Sherer on Oda Nobunaga's relationship with religious institutions. The article challenges the view, long held by historians, that Nobunaga was hostile toward religion. Using a trove of primary sources, Sherer argues that it was much more completed.
This is a wonderful piece on dyes and colors from the Heian period!
I've been working on this piece since last month! Please enjoy a dive into magnificent natural colours from Heian Japan, just published on #Caravanserai.
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Kasane
The most refined art of wearing the seasons
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October 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
This is a wonderful piece on dyes and colors from the Heian period!
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My new book is coming out in August 2026.
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How Buddhism Spread in Japan, 650-850
Between the late seventh and early ninth centuries, Japan changed from a land largely without Buddhism to a country where Buddhist ideas, images, and practices were everywhere. The introduction of …
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October 7, 2025 at 11:31 PM
My new book is coming out in August 2026.
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu...
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/how-bu...
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Thai cat treatises — called “Tamra Maew” — pair illustrations of auspicious felines with poetic notes: one has “eyes like dewdrops on a lotus,” another’s are “lit like fireflies, applied liquid gold”. Pages of a fine 19th-century example here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/
September 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thai cat treatises — called “Tamra Maew” — pair illustrations of auspicious felines with poetic notes: one has “eyes like dewdrops on a lotus,” another’s are “lit like fireflies, applied liquid gold”. Pages of a fine 19th-century example here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/
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On Aug 23, 1945, weather forecasts, which had been banned during the war, reappeared in Japan's newspapers.
That same day, the Asahi Shimbun published an editorial titled A Reflection on Our Own Guilt
A short 🧵 on journalism and fascism (for our friends at the NYT) in the wake of Japan's defeat
That same day, the Asahi Shimbun published an editorial titled A Reflection on Our Own Guilt
A short 🧵 on journalism and fascism (for our friends at the NYT) in the wake of Japan's defeat
August 26, 2025 at 10:08 PM
On Aug 23, 1945, weather forecasts, which had been banned during the war, reappeared in Japan's newspapers.
That same day, the Asahi Shimbun published an editorial titled A Reflection on Our Own Guilt
A short 🧵 on journalism and fascism (for our friends at the NYT) in the wake of Japan's defeat
That same day, the Asahi Shimbun published an editorial titled A Reflection on Our Own Guilt
A short 🧵 on journalism and fascism (for our friends at the NYT) in the wake of Japan's defeat
USC is hosting a hybrid talk on Taniha and the vibrant world of ancient maritime trade along the Japan Sea Coast on 9/4! If you're in LA, come join us. If not, register for the Zoom below:
www.uscppjs.org/visitors/202...
www.uscppjs.org/visitors/202...
Brotherton: Taniha in the 5th and 6th Centuries — USC Project for Premodern Japan Studies
WPH 202 / Zoom Paul Brotherton completed his master’s degree at Kobe University. His presentation will consider early state formation and regional history with a focus on the Taniha region and the...
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August 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
USC is hosting a hybrid talk on Taniha and the vibrant world of ancient maritime trade along the Japan Sea Coast on 9/4! If you're in LA, come join us. If not, register for the Zoom below:
www.uscppjs.org/visitors/202...
www.uscppjs.org/visitors/202...
"Did you just pick these flowers off our fence? Can't you, you know, show a little more effort?"
August 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"Did you just pick these flowers off our fence? Can't you, you know, show a little more effort?"
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New issue of the Journal of Japanese Studies is out! Highlights include articles on kanpu masatsu, war photography, empire paranoia, Italian-Japanese children's lit, Seidensticker’s style, and a bonus piece on Black Rain and ritual. Don’t miss it!
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August 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
New issue of the Journal of Japanese Studies is out! Highlights include articles on kanpu masatsu, war photography, empire paranoia, Italian-Japanese children's lit, Seidensticker’s style, and a bonus piece on Black Rain and ritual. Don’t miss it!
Look, Murasaki, at this very handsome man in the mirror. Tis I!
August 8, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Look, Murasaki, at this very handsome man in the mirror. Tis I!
When I lecture on early Japanese cuisine, I start from the Chūjiruiki (Notes from the Palace Kitchen). The unknown author lists the main categories of Heian cuisine and examples of foods therein. We can also see illustrations of twelfth-century tableware. #manuscriptmonday
July 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
When I lecture on early Japanese cuisine, I start from the Chūjiruiki (Notes from the Palace Kitchen). The unknown author lists the main categories of Heian cuisine and examples of foods therein. We can also see illustrations of twelfth-century tableware. #manuscriptmonday
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Just got back from Hokkaidō, which inspired me to look up Ainu manuscripts for #ManuscriptMonday. Here's Stepan Krasheninnikov's 1738 "A Glossary: Latine-Ainu-Chukchi-Koryak-Itelmen," an early record of the Ainu language.
For more on early manuscripts, see: eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitst...
For more on early manuscripts, see: eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitst...
July 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Just got back from Hokkaidō, which inspired me to look up Ainu manuscripts for #ManuscriptMonday. Here's Stepan Krasheninnikov's 1738 "A Glossary: Latine-Ainu-Chukchi-Koryak-Itelmen," an early record of the Ainu language.
For more on early manuscripts, see: eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitst...
For more on early manuscripts, see: eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitst...
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This post inspired me. I wish we had more medieval art threads here! So I’ll be a part of the solution with one on this amazing silver incense globe from the Shōsōin. shosoin.kunaicho.go.jp/en-US/treasu...
July 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This post inspired me. I wish we had more medieval art threads here! So I’ll be a part of the solution with one on this amazing silver incense globe from the Shōsōin. shosoin.kunaicho.go.jp/en-US/treasu...
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1. One of my favorite objects to discuss in class: candlesticks commissioned by Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim before 1022. Conceptually, they're brilliant so I thought I'd walk through some of what I find so ingenious about them. 🧵
August 30, 2023 at 2:52 PM
1. One of my favorite objects to discuss in class: candlesticks commissioned by Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim before 1022. Conceptually, they're brilliant so I thought I'd walk through some of what I find so ingenious about them. 🧵
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Japan Past & Present (JPP) is pleased to invite paper proposals for a symposium on the theme “Humanistic Approaches to the Study of Premodern Japanese Law,” to be hosted bilingually in Japanese and English at UCLA on Sept 26-27, 2025. ⚖️ japanpastandpresent.org/en/news/call...
June 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Japan Past & Present (JPP) is pleased to invite paper proposals for a symposium on the theme “Humanistic Approaches to the Study of Premodern Japanese Law,” to be hosted bilingually in Japanese and English at UCLA on Sept 26-27, 2025. ⚖️ japanpastandpresent.org/en/news/call...