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Flors Enversa @florsenversa.bsky.social · 2d

1) Primer petó en un manga:
-Osamu Tezuka: 拳銃天使 / Kenjū tenshi / L'àngel pistoler (1949)
-Exemple anterior: ピチ子とチャー公世界漫遊編 / Pichiko to Chākō sekai man'yū hen / Les cròniques de la gira mundial de la Pichiko i el Chākō (Katsuji Matsumoto, 1937)
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L'escena de petó a Pichiko to Chākō sekai man'yū hen

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Eike Exner @eikeexner.com · 3d

Holy cow, you're right. Here's another one, in "School-boy on good time," same collected volume. I read these *after* One Piece, where I noticed the inverted tails all the time, so I'm kinda shocked I didn't notice them here. Yet more evidence that the "Otomo Revolution" in manga was real, I guess

Comics page with speech balloon with inverted tail

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Brian Steininger @bsteininger.bsky.social · 3d

Please believe me I take no pleasure in laying the credit for yet another innovation at Otomo’s feet…

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Brian Steininger @bsteininger.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s another from one of the recent Otomo zenshu collections. This is “CHUCK CHECK CHICKEN” (1976).

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Brian Steininger @bsteininger.bsky.social · 3d

This is in Domu, so 1981 I guess?

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soas-speccoll.bsky.social @soas-speccoll.bsky.social · 11d

An early advert for Chinese classes at SOAS, c. 1920 #EYAEducation ow.ly/QPaV50WNtZZ

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Devin Fitzgerald, bibliothot @devinfitz.bsky.social · 17d

Looking at some mid-Tokugawa movable type, and absolutely chuffed to see something fun. Our printed pre-printed lined paper before printing the text, leading to some funny registration bloopers. Usually the lines and text are all a single form. Not so here

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mheij.bsky.social @mheij.bsky.social · Sep 10

Finally, the Forms & Function exhibition: The Splendors of Global Book Making has opened! Best is coming in person, but for those who cannot, there is an online version (dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...) and a downloadable catalog ( dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...)

Forms & Function

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Katz@PanTraductia @katzptd.bsky.social · Sep 4

紀田順一郎先生御逝去。文庫版『真夜中の檻』からお付き合いをはじめ、『M・R・ジェイムズ怪談全集』『日本怪奇小説傑作集』を担当させていただきました。『幻想と怪奇』の再開には大きなお力添えをくださり、『新編　怪奇幻想の文学』全6巻の監修者でありながら、全6巻完結時には編者へのお祝いのメールをくださいました。『幻想と怪奇17　幽霊のいる暮らし』が、最後に御一緒したお仕事になりました。
紀田先生、ありがとうございました。最大の感謝をこめてお見送りさせていただきます。
www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/433368

評論家の紀田順一郎さん死去　文学、歴史で幅広く執筆、９０歳：東京新聞デジタル

推理小説から歴史研究まで幅広い分野の執筆活動を行った評論家の紀田順一郎（きだ・じゅんいちろう、本名佐藤俊＝さとう・たかし）さんが７月１...

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Jon Holt @jonhulkholt.bsky.social · Aug 26

Satomi Newsom and I published our translation of Kentaro Takekuma-sensei's chapter today from MANGA NO YOMIKATA on TCJ. I think it looks awesome! Great discussion of how drawing tools really matter.
www.tcj.com/the-artists-...

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · Aug 18

We founded the U of Arizona Center for East Asian Studies three years ago with a US Dept of Education grant. Last Friday marked the end of year 3 of 4. Though the grant was for four years, we have not received word about year 4 funding. Without this support, we have no choice but to close down.

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Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com · Aug 18

Reminder: Lone Wolf & Cub will receive a Deluxe Edition (hardcover, 7x10") format release! Pre-order your copy: bit.ly/4l41Qxc

For the first time in English, these will read from right to left. Included are original Japanese sound effects and more.

By Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima

Cover of Lone Wolf & Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 1

Cover of Lone Wolf & Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 2

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波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social · Aug 16

We don't really know for sure, as this is (of course) never explained explicitly back in the day, but we may assume several factors to be at work here, often simultaneously -- at least:

1) phonetic match
2) simplicity (basically as in low stroke count)
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Marijn van Putten @phdnix.bsky.social · Aug 16

That Japanese would have adopted Chinese Kanji to write Japanese syllabically (manyogana) makes good sense to me.

But what is puzzling to me is why they did not use characters that are homophonous with said syllables.

Like why is 良 use for <ra> while its reading is raũ why 天 for <te> and not ten?

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · Jul 24

Ashton Lazarus - Performing Transgression

Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan

À paraître en mars aux Harvard UP

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · Jul 24

Ariel Stilerman - Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

À paraître en mars aux Harvard UP

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Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · Jul 18

Genjipoems.org is such an amazing resource

www.bu.edu/articles/202...

The World’s First Novel Has Romance, Tragedy, Adventure. Now, After 1,000 Years, The Tale of Genji’s Poems Have Joined the Digital Age

BU scholar J. Keith Vincent and his students spent nine years building Genjipoems.org, a home to nearly 800 ancient poems

www.bu.edu

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Incunabula @incunabula.bsky.social · Jul 14

I've just heard the terrible news that my friend - and friend of many here - Andrew West, @babelstone.co.uk, the incomparably brilliant Sinologist and Tangutologist passed away suddenly but peacefully on 10th July. 1/2

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波鴻漫錄 || Sven Osterkamp @schrift-sprache.bsky.social · Jun 10

New OA journal:

Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies @ jospl.org

Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies

jospl.org

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Brian Steininger @bsteininger.bsky.social · Jun 2

Giving a talk on Thursday at Hanazono University in Kyoto—come one, come all (who want to learn about ostentatious poetry by Zen monks)!

iriz.hanazono.ac.jp/event/250605...

五山文学における文学的「革命」

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Ted @tedzu.bsky.social · May 28

Interestingly the only appearance of 雫 in Chinese text is in the dictionary “Longkan Shoujian” 龍龕手鑑 (c. 997), compiled by the Khitan monk 行均 (Xingjun), which documented the pronunciations of 雫 (na, nuan) without providing any definition

So is this Kanji character 雫 Chinese or Japanese in origin? 🤔

Longkan Shoujian by Xingjun
龍龕手鑑·卷二 by （遼）釋行均
“雫：俗奴寡、奴寬二反”（nǎ、nuǎn）
https://archive.org/details/06052883.cn/page/n176/mode/1up

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · Apr 15

New Book: Fumiko Jōo, "Peony Lantern Tales: Ghostly Encounters in the Early Modern Sinosphere" (University of Hawai'i Press).

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Peony Lantern Tales: Ghostly Encounters in the Early Modern Sinosphere

“The Story of the Peony Lantern” by the Chinese author Qu You (1347–1433) traveled across lingual, cultural, and geopolitical borders in early modern East Asia. The original tale, set in fourteenth…

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Jason Protass @protass.bsky.social · Mar 25

A very rare Song dynasty #manuscript up for auction this week. A parting poem to a Zen student written by Chan Master Xutang Zhiyu 虛堂智愚 (1185-1269), signed and dated 1254. This is exactly the kind of poem and manuscript I studied at length in my book “The Poetry Demon.”

Plain Chinese calligraphy, preserved on a song dynasty manuscript signed 1254.

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Michael K. Bourdaghs @mbourdaghs.bsky.social · Feb 18

Looking forward to participating in this workshop at Princeton this Friday: " The State of the Field in Japanese Literary Studies."
eas.princeton.edu/events/state...

The State of the Field in Japanese Literary Studies

Registration is required. Breakfast and lunch is provided.New research tracing changes in the arts across various media.15 Participants from 12 InstitutionsNameInstitutionNameInstitutionScott Aalgaard...

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Joseph Seeley @josephaseeley.bsky.social · Feb 14

Congrats to UVA colleague @neetinair.bsky.social and Stanford kōhai Narusa Yamato on their well-deserved AAS prizes! Big congratulations as well to @sixwang.bsky.social for writing the seminal text on Ming-Chosŏn relations!

www.asianstudies.org/aas-2025-pri...

AAS 2025 Prizes - Association for Asian Studies

The AAS is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s prize competitions and offer congratulations to all honorees. Please join us at the AAS 2025 Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony to recog...

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Brian Steininger @bsteininger.bsky.social · Feb 16

a close up of a person 's face with their eyes closed and a blurred background .

ALT: a close up of a person 's face with their eyes closed and a blurred background .

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