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A good old Japanese farting competition
_I was reading through A History of Japan: From stone age to superpower by Kenneth G. Henshall and I came across an interesting term I had never heard of before. This term was he-gassen (屁合戦), or...
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Book Review: Breaking barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan by...
I just finished reading the book Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis and I can say right off the bat that it is an excellent book.Vaporis...
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Requested: Handwritten form of 喜
In my very first post I wrote about special Japanese birthdays. In the comments a brief discussion about the reason for choosing specific kanji for the birthdays started. One of the characters, 喜,...
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Introduction to setsuyōshū
In this post I will give a brief introduction to the setsuyōshū (節用集) genre. In the future I plan to write some posts on some of the content of these books, so this introduction felt necessary to get...
View ArticleNew links page
I had originally planned to write a post collecting various links to sites about Japan, but came to the conclusion that it would be better to have a separate page dedicated to links that I could update...
View ArticleA visual trip to Edo 『熈代勝覧』
Most of us who study Japanese history wish that we could somehow go back and experience daily life in our respective periods of interests. Until my time machine is built and ready this is of course...
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Kanji of the year 2011 「絆」
At the end of each year, the Japanese Kanji Proficiency Society (財団法人日本漢字能力検定協会) choose the character that they feel best represent the past year through a national ballot. The winner is announced at...
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Setsuyōshū content: Cosmology in the Edo period
_A while ago I wrote an introduction to the setsuyōshū 節用集 genre and promised to write more detailed posts about the various content of such books. This is the first post in what I hope to become a...
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Introduction to kuzushiji 崩し字
It's been a while since my last post. I took some time off from blogging during the holidays, and lost all momentum I had when I got back. Hopefully I will get back to posting regularly.For the first...
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Traditional Japanese mathematics: wasan 和算
The abacus, or soroban 算盤 It is often said that mathematics is the only true universal language, and many different cultures have discovered many of mathematics theorems independently. Japan also has a...
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Special Japanese birthdays
Today I was reading an interesting book about the old Japanese calendar (旧暦 or 太陰太陽暦) and I came across some interesting information about special birthdays in Japan and I thought I would share it in a...
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A good old Japanese farting competition
_I was reading through A History of Japan: From stone age to superpower by Kenneth G. Henshall and I came across an interesting term I had never heard of before. This term was he-gassen (屁合戦), or...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Book Review: Breaking barriers: Travel and the State in Early Modern Japan by...
I just finished reading the book Breaking Barriers: Travel and the State in early Modern Japan by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis and I can say right off the bat that it is an excellent book.Vaporis...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Requested: Handwritten form of 喜
In my very first post I wrote about special Japanese birthdays. In the comments a brief discussion about the reason for choosing specific kanji for the birthdays started. One of the characters, 喜,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Introduction to setsuyōshū
In this post I will give a brief introduction to the setsuyōshū (節用集) genre. In the future I plan to write some posts on some of the content of these books, so this introduction felt necessary to get...
View ArticleNew links page
I had originally planned to write a post collecting various links to sites about Japan, but came to the conclusion that it would be better to have a separate page dedicated to links that I could update...
View ArticleA visual trip to Edo 『熈代勝覧』
Most of us who study Japanese history wish that we could somehow go back and experience daily life in our respective periods of interests. Until my time machine is built and ready this is of course...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kanji of the year 2011 「絆」
At the end of each year, the Japanese Kanji Proficiency Society (財団法人日本漢字能力検定協会) choose the character that they feel best represent the past year through a national ballot. The winner is announced at...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Setsuyōshū content: Cosmology in the Edo period
_A while ago I wrote an introduction to the setsuyōshū 節用集 genre and promised to write more detailed posts about the various content of such books. This is the first post in what I hope to become a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Introduction to kuzushiji 崩し字
It's been a while since my last post. I took some time off from blogging during the holidays, and lost all momentum I had when I got back. Hopefully I will get back to posting regularly. For the first...
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