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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン）

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I post about Japanese literature and the like. And I guess that includes folklore😅 大阪在住の日本文学愛好家、異文化交流（アイルランド文化）イベント企画者。国立ダブリンシティ大学で日本語・翻訳学を専攻して学士。岩手親善大使（元岩手県国際交流員）、松江親善大使（ラフカディオ・ハーンのエッセイコンテスト受賞者）。現在、日愛愛日文芸翻訳家を目指して先祖の言葉アイルランド語を十数年ぶりに学び直そうとしているところの日英翻訳者。

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 7h

It's not impossible that an Anglo-Irishman would use "Welsh" to mean "foreign-feeling" or "Celtish", but such a reading is hardly intuitive, and would need an explicit argument not to come across an error.

BTW, Hearn's best-known modern translator, Ikeda Masayuki, does not render it as ケルト風 or 異国風.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 7h

NHK quoted Hearn's "Hi-Mawari" this morning, but (mistakenly?) said that it recounted Hearn's memory of a forest outside Cong, Co. Mayo. Hearn's text is explicit that the memory in question is of Wales, not Mayo.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 1d

Call me a "libtard" or whatever, but I don't think governments should be *either* recruiting 17-year-olds in their armed forces or executing 17-year-old POWs.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Classics Day, everyone!☺️

京都から古典の魅力これからも巨額私費投じる90歳経済人「文化力」向上目指す思いとは｜THE KYOTO｜京都新聞

11月1日は古典の日。「京都から古典の魅力を」と基金に私費を投じてきた「村田機械」会長の村田純一さん（90）に、古典文化を継承する思いを聞いた。

www.kyoto-np.co.jp

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 2d

More minor point, but I think the idea that he was primarily interested in folktales is a bit of a stereotype. Of the 13 canonical Hearn books on Japanese topics, only three or four of the shorter ones are focused on ghosts and goblins. He also didn't write much about Japanese mythology.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 2d

小泉八雲 wasn't a pen name. "Lafcadio Hearn" became his pen name after he changed his legal name to 小泉八雲. Hearn himself also never wrote under the name 小泉八雲ーsome Japanese translations of his work (although fewer nowadays) credited 小泉八雲 as the ST author, but ラフカディオ・ハーン is more common nowadays.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 3d

come full circle until the publication of Persse's "Gods and Fighting Men", in or around the year of Hearn's death. At the very least, we can be certain that (if he even did grow up with Irish myths and legends) the Irish myths and legends he grew up with were different from the ones I grew up with.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 3d

This is a claim I've seen Irish people with no connection to Japan (and Japanese people with little connection to Ireland) outside a professed interest in Hearn make this claim, but the evidence for it is minimal. Hearn left Ireland decades before the Celtic Revival "went mainstream", and it didn't

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 4d

("Ireland supported the Nazis because of a shared hatred of the Jews" is a hibernophobic conspiracy theory that I've seen some British people *here in Osaka* espouse when they found out I was Irish and opposed the Gaza genocide.)

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 4d

I know this is likely just AI slop, but I can't help but suspect that the implication that Hitler hated the English specifically and would have championed the causes of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh (or I guess "Brythonic"?) freedom is a deliberate attempt to paint these causes in a specific light.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 4d

naturalization in Japan.
(iv) His Greek ethnicity is worthy of note, but implying it was his nationality is problematic when he never even lived in the Kingdom of Greece.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 4d

earlier called Hearn "Greek/British/American", so the implication of this revised version that "Irish" and "English" are different kinds of "British" is similarly problematic.
(iii) Hearn was never "American". He lived and worked there, but he remained a subject of the British crown until his

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 4d

Just heard an American call Hearn "Greek/English/Irish/American/Japanese". Better than what Gaijin Goombah pulled in the quoted post, but:
(i) Describing Irish people of English heritage as "English-slash-Irish" is pretty offensive to me as an Irish person of English heritage.
(ii) The same American

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5d

This being October, I can't help but remember those times I was "muricansplained" to about the home country of Lafcadio Hearn.

I will probably have occasion to deliver a "mini-lecture" on this topic in a month or two, so I won't tip my hand, but Hearn was more (Anglo-)Irish than anything else.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 4d

I highly doubt this idiot remembers the last time Ireland had the freedom to negotiate its own trade deals. (Spoiler warning: It was awful.)

She just hates brown people and people who don't speak English nativelyーan ironic position for a self-professed Irish nationalist.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5d

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5d

If it's one of the 54 chapters translated by Seidensticker, Tyler, and Washburn, it was never lost.

On a perhaps-related note, it's the fifth chapter of the book, so it was even translated by Suyématz and was one of the chapters included in the first volume of Waley.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5d

Yeah, I can kinda see those, but they do also seem pretty generic.

... Now you've almost certainly roped me into looking at the shadowing on every (Japanese) political poster I see😆

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5d

I think I've heard "Japanese anime" most often among Japanese. I definitely recall needing to unlearn that アニメ referred specifically to Japanese animation😅

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5d

"Muricansplained" is a word I've been looking for!😂

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5d

Unless one considers the Izumi Shikibu Nikki to be a work of fiction (a perfectly valid opinion) or dates Eiga Monogatari very early (slightly less reasonable), or attributes Ise Monogatari to Lady Ise (a fringe position), Genji may well have actually been the first "tale" to be written by a woman.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5d

Strictly speaking, the *reading* of fiction was seen as inappropriate for literate men, but most early Japanese fiction was still written by men, for a female audience.
It's also technically less about fiction vs. poetry, history, buddhology, etc. than about vernacular Japanese vs. literary Sinitic.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5d

Why do you call her "Shikibu"?

Also, have you read chapter 17?

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5d

"Shikibu" is not her name, and I'm sure every serious scholar in Japan would be surprised by your assertion about what they all believe.

The people who call Genji "the f1rst noveI" generally haven't read it, let alone the earlier Japanese novels that influenced it, like The Tale of the Hollow Tree.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5d

IKR!?
I wonder if Taika Waititi will be suing Mamdani for copying that aesthetic from "Thor: Ragnarok"😂

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly, apart from the
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formatting (which is generic enough that you can bet every anglophone politician uses it), I don't even see much similarity between the two posters. Maybe Nate picked bad examples and other posters would be more similar, but...

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