My paper on "East Asian languages in Lord’s Prayer collections, ca. 1600–1900" is out now in Histoire Épistémologie Langage 46-1: doi.org/10.4000/11y0s With many thanks to MartinH, Robyn Dora Radway & peilles, each for introducing me to a fascinating source! 🙏 1/

【 7月30日（火）】ゼバスティアン・バルメス氏講演会 ナラトロジーと日本中世文学 ――物語論の諸問題と『神道集』の｢物語的縁起｣を中心に―― Narratology and Medieval Japanese Literature Issues in Narrative Theory and the ‘Narrative Engi ’of Shintōshū waseda.jp/flas/rilas/new…

Out now (at least online): Routledge Handbook of East Asian Translation 🥳 Including a paper by Sophie Takahashi 髙橋ゾフィー and myself: "European Languages through Sino-Japanese Looking Glasses? Ōbun kundoku in Japanese Translation History (Late 18th to Early 20th C.)": doi.org/10.4324/978100…

48 high-quality submissions to the 2024 /gʁafematik/ conference have been accepted. Here is the full list, which is also displayed on the conference's website. Check it out!

The weird side of kundoku. ① 也 is an okiji. Ignore it and don't read it. ② Now add 𬻿 (= short form of 也) in your reading. Thanks, I guess.

受付開始しました✨ 同志社大学古典教材開発研究センター 第９回コテキリの会 「〈もじ〉のむかし・いま・みらい」 ​​ ■日時　2024年9月15日（日）13:30～17:00 ■開催方法　オンライン ■参加費　無料 ■募集人数　150名 ■申込締切　2024年9月11日(水) ■申込サイト kotekiri20.wixsite.com/cdemcjl/event-9

老相公 but with 目 in 相 lying on its side as ⿺木罒! Haven't seen this one before, funky.🙃 Source: kokusho.nijl.ac.jp/biblio/2000206…

【＃近刊 紹介📢】 神田龍身『鎌倉幕府の文学論は成立可能か!?　真名本『曽我物語』テクスト論』（bensei.jp/index.php?main…） 「＃歴史」か「＃物語」か？ 幕府の公的年代記であるがゆえに『＃曽我物語』よりも、史料的価値が高く見積もられている『＃吾妻鏡』。果たしてその優位性は正しいのか。

Excited to announce the publication of my new article "Visions of the Eastland: Reading the Azuma uta of Man'yoshu" in Japanese Language and Literature last week: jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/articl…

🔓 Adam Bednarczyk: Dialogised heteroglossia and the Japanese-Chinese mixed style of “Kaidōki”, 2024 doi.org/10.25167/Styli…

I am thrilled to have my paper published in the journal Historiographia Linguistica. Many thanks to the editors and reviewers for the quick turnaround!

Note especially the edition of Mark in Murray's "numeral type" (= N.T.Chin.d.29), a quite amazing way of writing Mandarin. For an outline of this Braille-based numeral system, see: Gordon Cumming 1898 The Inventor of the Numeral-Type for China @ books.google.de/books?id=DTNWe…

Summer School for Ancient Trans-Himalayan Languages (SSATH) announced at Trinity College Dublin, with a core offering on Tibetan, Tangut, and Classical Newar, Old Chinese exc. documents, and workshops on Classical Yi, Old Meitei, and Old Burmese. tcd.ie/Asian/courses/…

Handbook of Japanese Dialectsが遂に刊行されました！ degruyter.com/document/doi/1… De Gruyter Brill ➡️ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

【近刊のご案内】２月下旬刊行予定 藤井俊博著　『和漢混淆文の生成と展開』 定価12,100円（10％税込） A5・上製・472頁 izumipb.co.jp/book/b659024.h… ご注文をお待ちしております。

Neat poster design from the 60s by Yokoo Tadanori. Reminiscent of Ukiyo-e including funky use of sinograms. 時夜無・銀髪婆人 for "John Silver" (the name of the play).

Just uploaded a new paper on the diversity of writing styles in pre-modern Japan, mostly in regard but not limited to the Heike monogatari. I'm particularly intrigued by the so-called manabon 真名本 - manuscripts written predominantly in kanji. academia.edu/130241537/Dive…

The new issue of BJOAF includes not one but two papers on kanbun kundoku! My part deals with the challenges and adaptations of kundoku in the realm of colloquial Chinese texts. If you are interested, drop me a DM. Also check out Sven Osterkamp's paper! iudicium.de/katalog/86205-…