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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
Oh, the irony ... 🫣

Il[=r]oniaノ事 'On irony'
January 1, 2026 at 1:57 AM
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bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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/
Close-up of a circular diagram showing the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. A label marks the Winter Solstice, explaining that it occurs when the North Pole tilts furthest from the Sun, creating the shortest day and longest night. Diagram showing the Earth’s 23.5° axial tilt in relation to its orbit around the Sun. Overlaid text explains that this tilt causes the changing seasons, noting that without it there would be no summer or winter. Section of the orbit diagram focusing on the position of Earth on 21 March, marking the Spring Equinox. Overlaid text explains that day and night are equal at this point and that medieval scholars associated it with the first days of Creation. Section of the orbit diagram highlighting March 25, known as Lady Day. Overlaid text explains that it was once considered the first day of the year until 1751 and marks the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary, nine months before Christmas.
December 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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bungakureport.bsky.social
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...
日本語史研究用テキストデータ集 | 国立国語研究所
国立国語研究所共同研究プロジェクト等で作成したテキストデータ（TXT, XMLなど）を公開しています。
www2.ninjal.ac.jp
December 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
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...
December 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social
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 📖
November 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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qalamos.bsky.social
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
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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finnlongman.com
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.
A manuscript in which two instances of the word "head" have been replaced by small faces
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Mayu Fujikawa 2025 Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe @ www.psupress.org/books/titles...
Envisioning Diplomacy: Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe By Mayu Fujikawa
In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Japan sent its first diplomatic delegations to visit the popes and dignitaries of Europe. European artists portrayed these historic ambassadors—t...
www.psupress.org
October 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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viewsproject.bsky.social
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.
September 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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digitalmedievalist.bsky.social
📜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
A dark blue and black flyer with a digital-themed background featuring a digitized medieval manuscript. The title in large, white font reads: "Digital Medievalist Sponsored Sessions." Below this, the text indicates the event is the International Medieval Congress, 06-09 July 2026, Leeds, (UK). Two session themes are listed in white font: On the left: "Large Language Models and Medieval Texts" with the co-sponsor listed as "Southampton Digital Humanities, University of Southampton." On the right: "Digital Methods and Materiality of Manuscripts" with the co-sponsor listed as "Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds." A central section has a large, underlined blue hyperlink that says "Access the full call for papers" and a QR code next to it. At the bottom, a white text box provides submission instructions: "Please send abstracts of 150 words by end of day 21 September 2025 to Delphine Demelas at D.Demelas@soton.ac.uk or N. Kıvılcım Yavuz at N.K.Yavuz@leeds.ac.uk. Please include your contact details and your preferred mode of participation (in-person or virtual) together with your abstract." The bottom of the flyer includes the website "https://digitalmedievalist.org" and the organization's logo.
September 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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csmc-hamburg.bsky.social
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
Page from a notebook of Rainer Maria Rilke, DLA, A:Rilke-Archiv Gernsbach. Another page from a notebook with writing in different colours and directions, and a drawing.
September 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
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/
Japan in the Early Modern World
This open access contributed volume examines the transnational relations between Japan and (Counter) Reformation Europe through the lens of translation.
doi.org
September 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
Watanabe 2025 Neo-Latin and Japan @ brill.com/display/titl...
Neo-Latin and Japan
"Neo-Latin and Japan" published on 15 May 2025 by Brill.
brill.com
September 2, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
珠玉ヲモ家猪ノ前ニ置(ク)ベカラズ 🐽
"neither cast ye your pearls before swine"
August 10, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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アクタApᵒルン

No better way to write "Acta Apostolorum" in Japanese. 🤓
August 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Jupiter and Saturn

< Kopperu [= Kepler] tenmon zukai 刻白爾天文図解 (1808) @ kokusho.nijl.ac.jp/biblio/10036...
August 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Karuta × ōbun kundoku 🤓

[英語かるた] @ www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/ht...
July 8, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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csmc-hamburg.bsky.social
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...
The Advantages of Infrared Reflectography: Recovering the Title of a 19th Century Medical Recipe Book from China - CrossAsia
Gastbeitrag von Dr. Thies Staack (Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg) (Die deutschsprachige Version finden Sie im Stabi-Blog) During the past few years, I have been con...
blog.crossasia.org
April 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
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...
April 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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cj-jrnl.bsky.social
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...
April 1, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
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/
March 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
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/
March 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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tommazanec.bsky.social
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 🀄️📚
New Perspectives in Global Latin
The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern...
doi.org
February 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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schrift-sprache.bsky.social
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...
Aristotle in Japan | Reception, Interpretation and Application | Tomoh
This is the first volume to explore the modern reception and contemporary relevance of Aristotle and his philosophy in Japan, making it a valuable contribution
doi.org
February 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM