Brian Steininger

Comics page with speech balloon with inverted tail

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

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

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

This is in Domu, so 1981 I guess?

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

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

Forms & Function

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-...)

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...

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

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-...

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.

Cover of Lone Wolf & Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 1

Cover of Lone Wolf & Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 2

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

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)
3) semantic considerations 1/

Ashton Lazarus - Performing Transgression

Crowds and Bodies in Heian Japan

À paraître en mars aux Harvard UP

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

À paraître en mars aux Harvard UP

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

Genjipoems.org is such an amazing resource

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

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

Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies

New OA journal:

Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies @ jospl.org

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...

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? 🤔

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…

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

uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/peony-...

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

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.”

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...

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...

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...

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...

How to Expose False Etymologies of Chinese Characters? An Introduction to the Study of (Early) Chinese Writing Preface Today, Chinese characters are the only logographic writing system still in use globally. Because of this, sooner or later everyone encounters people trying desperately to find ‘pictur…

This is an amazing guide to Chinese etymography and the study of early Chinese writing, by Maxim Persikov (@gyankotsu on the app that must not be named)!

blog333610347.wordpress.com/2022/11/13/h...

『ツリーホーン、どんどん小さくなる』（東京創元社）を訳者の三辺律子さんから頂きました。フローレンス・パリー・ハイドのお話にエドワード・ゴーリーの挿絵が30点もついたすてきな本。ツリーホーンという子がなぜか小さくなりはじめて不安になるも、まわりはさほど気にせず話も噛み合わない。かわいくておかしくて最高でした。
子供の頃に確かにあった、寂しいような充足しているようなあの感覚が蘇ってくる。

Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan

Peter Kornicki 2025 Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan @ doi.org/10.1017/9781... (available for free until 12 Feb! 🙏)

Claude Leblanc présente la couverture de sont livre sur Shôtarô Ishinomori : il était une fois le roi du manga qui va paraître chez l'éditeur IMHO .
il sera en exclu à la BD d'Angoulême ou y'aura pour l'occasion une conférence le 31 janvier .

le livre sortira le 7 février aux prix de 24euros .

【速報】高橋真琴先生死去
少女マンガのスタイルを確立させた偉大な漫画家でした。
完全復刻版『パリ〜東京、さくら並木』の後者は少女主人公による卓球まんがの逸品です。
残念ながら現在は品切れらしく中古で高額ですが、ぜひもう1刷して欲しいと思います。

The sequel has arrived! More Swindles from The Late Ming by Zhang Yingyu (2024) from @columbiaup.bsky.social as supplied by Aunty Lesley's House of Festive Fun 🎄🤶 @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social where the only swindle is the tea! 🫢 #histbookchat #sinology #history #law #crime