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Andrew Campana
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Assistant professor of Japanese literature and media at Cornell. Poetry, video games, and disability. Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media out now in open access from UC Press!

コーネル大学の日本文学とメディアの助教授。詩とか、ゲーム、障害学。詩人と翻訳者。
Here's a portion of the poem as it originally appeared in the August 1929 issue of Film World (映画世界); in order to read the full poem, your eyes must lovingly cross Clive Brook's enormous, handsome face.
August 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This poem and many others on silent/early sound cinema and fandom from 1920s and 1930s Japan are the focus of the first chapter of my book from last year, Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media, which is available here in open access!

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August 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Clive. Why
Do you stir my heart?
When dawn breaks
His melancholy heart
Is recalled in loneliness.
There heliotropes
In my bed I think of that gentleman"
August 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
An evening dress is silk even in the dark
Unsmiling eyes stared
But
Look a moonlit night
His purple cigar smoke
Smoking sorrowfully
Ah isn't that the scent of heliotropes?
MY IDOL is
Heliotrope Harry.
August 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
と「厄おとし」とて四ッ辻へ人の知らぬ様、扇子や湯巻や褌などを捨てたり、叉小娘が老婆の装をしたり、老婆が小娘の装をして歩くなどの奇習が行はれて居たが、近年は追々と廃絶た様だ

And the caption of the image in the middle:


外は鬼内は福
(製器陶)
May 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Here's a quick transcription!

滑稽風俗 (ー)

寒暖の節分、俗に厳越しといふ晩に「福は内鬼は外」と叫んで豆を蒔散らすが、九鬼家では姓が鬼であるから「福は内鬼は内」と云ふたさうだ
此節分の晩に大阪では「枕はづし賣り」と云ふ事

枕はづし賣りとは枕をはづして髪を亂だす癖のある若い娘共が他の家の戸口で小聲に「枕はづしはいりませんか」と云ふ、其時家内の者が「何ですか」といへば「枕ばづし賣りました」と云ふて逃げる歸る(滑稽な押賣だ)さすれば以來枕をはづさぬと云ふ迷信からである
May 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The original can be read here!
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December 17, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Here are the chapter titles!
December 10, 2024 at 10:40 PM