A new volume on #Tangut@babelstone.bsky.social and Chung-pui Tai.

Also finally out, after I don't know how many years: 🥳🥳 Handbook of Historical Japanese Linguistics doi.org/10.1515/9781...

Handbook of Historical Japanese Linguistics

This volume will be the first full-length exploration in any language of the details of the history of the Japanese language written by experts in the different subfields of linguistics. Overall, whil...

The volume based on the conference "Practicing Japan" in March 2022 is out now and available for download! See pp. 339-49 for my paper on "A hitherto unknown Jesuit confessionary in Japanese language and script (ca. 1595) kept at Utrecht University Library" @ wydawnictworys.com/media/produc...

The inaugural issue of _Language in Japan_ is out now, online and in open access! 🥳🙏 www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/lij/1...doi.org/10.20666/lij...

A Diachronic Perspective on Segmentation Cues in Written Japanese

While the role of script mixture as an effective means of providing segmentation cues to readers of Japanese is commonly addressed with reference to t …

Tibet day party

Kawajiri Akio tomorrow (Monday) at Princeton on inscribed pots and popular religion in ancient Japan—I don’t think it’s possible for a talk to be more up my alley these days. eap.princeton.edu/events/inscr...

Inscribed Potsherds and Popular Religion in Ancient Japan 墨書土器から見た古代の民間信仰

日本の古代（主として7世紀から10世紀）の信仰を知る方法に出土文字資料があります。今回はそのうち、墨書土器（土器に墨で文字や顔を描いたもの）を紹介しながら、文献史料（「日本霊異記」など）と対比しつつ、どのような信仰に基づいて墨書土器が作られたのか、とくに記された土地名称にはどのような意味が込められたのかなどの点について、写真や実測図を用いながらお話しようとかと考えています。古代の文献史料は、制度や...

Received today "Writing Early China" by Edward Shaughnessy, for which I provided font support for rare and unencoded characters

I'm excited for this volume, Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures, which is coming out in July. I have a chapter on female patronage in seventh- through ninth-century Japan. www.degruyter.com/document/isb...

Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures

Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten, neglected, or even erased women’s contributions from memory. Women’s agency has also been a glaring blind spot in the scholarly pursuit of gender per...

Finally, a DOI for my paper on "The Textual History of the Jesuit Compendia in Latin and Japanese as seen from the Newly Identified Manuscript at Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel" @ doi.org/10.34336/his... (The embargo period for the pdf should end soon, or let me know if you'd like a copy! 🙏)

Stellenausschreibung im Bereich DH / digitale Edition an der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel im Rahmen des DFG-Projektes "DE ANIMA – Digitale Edition & Analyse eines neu entdeckten jesuitischen Manuskripts [🔽]" (3 Jahre, 50%, 13 TV-L): www.hab.de/wp-content/u...