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Matthew Hayes
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Librarian for Japanese Studies and Asian American Studies at Duke University. Researcher in Japanese Buddhist Studies.
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ちくわ大明神 was a RIDE
scriptingjapan.bsky.social Dr. Wes Robertson @scriptingjapan.bsky.social · Apr 29
New #Japanese 流行語 explanations are out! Click the link below to learn about:

海外ニキネキ
違和感仕事しろ
ちくわ大明神
5000兆円欲しい!
あくしろよ
切り替えピース
風呂キャンセル界隈
メンブレ
リアコ
恋のHamburg♪/お料理、得意なんです

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Japanese Slang Review – April 2025
And it’s time for the fourth Japanese slang review of 2025 (see all prior posts here)! In these posts I deep dive into the world of Japanese terms you probably won’t see in a textbook, …
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April 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Apologies for cross-posting, but here’s some advice for people with NEH grants
Rosemary G Feal 27m • ₫8 From Leah Middlebrook: NEH related news: If you are on a rescinded grant, take a look at the terms and conditions of the letter you signed when you accepted the award. Everyone I have been talking to has language in there stating that if the grant is terminated or rescinded, the recipient has 30 days to send in an end-of-fellowship/grant report (I don't have the language in front of me, but go back and take a look). Awardees also have 30 days to appeal. We're 2 weeks in, so the deadline is in about 2 weeks. If you haven't talked this matter over with the sponsored projects office on your campus, it's a good idea to do that asap. A few items to talk over: filing a FOIA request for notes/materials relevant to the termination; the question of whether filing a final report precludes resumption of the grant; question of whether to take the time away from your research to do the work of filing an appeal (some sponsored projects offices are doing that work for affected faculty and researchers). This is what I gleaned from a recent conversation. All corrections/caveats welcome in the comments
April 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Friends and colleagues of Dr. Michael Ium, who passed away unexpectedly last week at the age of 41, please consider donating to help Michael's mother offset the sudden financial burden related to his passing. Please share widely.

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Donate to Urgent Support for Michael Ium's Mom, organized by Suzanne Fernando
We are extremely sad to announce that our friend, Michael Ium, suddenly passed a… Suzanne Fernando needs your support for Urgent Support for Michael Ium's Mom
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April 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Dying over these colors 🤩

Manzairaku Ansei kenmonshi
萬歲樂安政見聞誌 (1856?)

More here: repository.duke.edu/catalog/1578...
Fields and low-rise homes at a distance in grey and blue with orange flames in the distance.
March 29, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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BDK America's YT channel has launched! We'll b posting videos from the "Mutually Sustaining Life" & "The Buddhist Way of Life" TV series.

Plz sub, share, & like to help spread the dharma!

The videos r older so the resolution is crunchy, but the content is still great for class or self-study.
BDK America
Let's seek to understand Buddhism better! BDK America is the U.S. branch of the Society for the Promotion of Buddhism (Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai), an international organization founded in Japan. As a non-se...
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March 14, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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So many candles, so many reasons for lighting. Collecting Religion’s newest essay is live: “Burning Questions” by Jeffrey Sanchez (Stanford University). collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/b...
Burning Questions: On Collecting the Stuff of Latinx/e Religion
by Jeffrey Sanchez I often visit my family in Texas during the sticky, hot, and humid summer months. Though it may be close to suffocatingly hot, the only place hotter (both literally and figurativ…
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March 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Dedicated folks at the #AAS2025 Columbus homebase like @amldavisann.bsky.social are working hard for you to have a delightful time! Check out the Columbus excursions available to @asianstudies.org participants! Don't miss the Cartoon Library, art museum, & more! www.asianstudies.org/conference/c...
February 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Recently published by Natasha Heller: Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/litera...
Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan
In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an eme…
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February 11, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Here's a modern chinese miracle tale of a buddhist parrot: its owner taught the parrot to do Nembutsu. When the parrot died and was cremated, they found saria- or relics - in its ashes, indicating it was reborn in Amithaba's pure land.
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a picture of a parrot beside four dishes containing saria, or pear-like relics from its cremation. Caption in picture "We know about its rebirth [in the pure land] after its cremation as there were sarias left behind"
February 4, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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nccjapaninfo.bsky.social
The @asianlibrarynl.bsky.social is one of several global institutions that participates in our Japan Art Catalog Project to enhance access to rare and hard to find Japanese art catalogs! 🖼️ With now over 5,600 items, we’re grateful for their support of the field! ✨ guides.nccjapan.org/japanartcata...
February 4, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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We are very excited to welcome Kay Shimizu to the Centre for the Study of Global Japan, Munk School to talk about her book, "The Digital Transformation and Japan's Political Economy" (co-authored with Ulrike Shaede). We hope you can join us!

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The Digital Transformation and Japan's Political Economy
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February 1, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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January 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Libraries out here doing that good work, still
karlsteel.bsky.social Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · Jan 23
guys guys guys I just discovered i have access to oxford scholarly editions online through the nypl, which means that I don't need to talk myself into spending, say, $245 for a physical copy of the Otia Imperalia or the Gesta Romanorum but can just get what I need WITH MY TAX DOLLARS. #medievalsky
January 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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We're hiring! APSI seeks a postdoctoral scholar with training in a humanities or social science discipline whose research concerns environmental and climate studies in Asia.
Apply @ academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29581
The one-year position begins FA25.
A bridge crosses over a body of water surrounded by trees and high-rise apartment buildings; text (APSI seeks postdoctoral associate researching environmental and climate studies in Asia); application URL and deadline
January 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Just finally left X, feeling like a million bucks
January 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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👇 Essay on why I'm drawn to collecting 100-year-old paper with Buddhist imagery on it.
Many thanks to @secondhandsacred.bsky.social and @matthew-hayes.bsky.social! They've collected many wonderful essays by Religious Studies scholars exploring personal collecting habits, research, & teaching.
🗃️ 📜
January 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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My contribution to Collecting Religion focuses on book materiality, the role of the collector as preservationist, and how building a personal collection of Buddhist books sometimes feels like taming a wild animal. 📿 📖
December 9, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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You know someone’s getting dragged when the ruby comes out 😂
Excerpt of Meiji-era Buddhist journal article about the study of esoteric Buddhism with the ruby text for “petty scholar.”
May 14, 2024 at 1:40 AM
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🚨 Mail arrived! I bought this 1898 issue of Dentо̄ 傳燈 because of this essay by Hase Hо̄shū 長谷寶秀 (1869-1948), written at age 29. Looking forward to reading!
Front cover of Dento, a Buddhist journal, with green title label to left and journal title top center. Picture of start of printed essay by Hase Hoshu.
May 7, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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The world is one fire but seeing my youngest, a huge bug enthusiast, delight in the 13-year-brood cicada emergence is a personal salve. He’s spent the last week setting up “staring contests” and collecting probably more than 300 husks from our yard.
Young child playing with live cicadas on a porch. Heaping bowl of cicada husks.
April 30, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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Prepping for a translation of Birushana bussettsu kōngo chōkyō kōmyō shingon giki 毘盧遮那佛説金剛頂経光明真言儀軌, attributed to Fuju 福聚 (1686-1765) but contested. It'll accompany six other translations (by others) focused on the Kōmyō Shingon, hopefully out next year!
March 29, 2024 at 6:47 PM
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Interesting #snes #famicon game from long ago, "Fudomyooden", translated at "Demon Sword", although there's nothing demonic about Fudomyo-ou. Better translated as "The Legend of Acala". The the original TV CM includes some cool mudra, can be watched on the bad platform: twitter.com/isyumail/sta...
March 28, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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Been looking forward to this one!
March 21, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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🚨Just unpacked the Zaike gongyō hōsoku kōwa 在家勤行法則講話 (1928). The broad overview on lay oriented practices comprises chapter 5 and the rest is narrowly focused on go-eika 御詠歌, wasan 和讃, and raimon 禮文. The staples give me anxiety.
March 18, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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New gym tote 😊🌊
Small zipper tote with Hokusai’s famous great wave on it
February 17, 2024 at 7:22 PM