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@sforrest I got it on my sixth try. No hits at all with first two starter words, covering common vowels and consonants.

12 wrong letters, most I've had. A doozie, to be sure. Wordle 281 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Gender stereotyping in Japanese cat treats. Cats certainly have individual tastes, but is the division between “girls” and “boys”?

@RichardMedh Any marmite?

Shiori Ito’s landmark book Black Box will be published in English this month. Over six years since her sexual assault, she says can’t open her inbox because she still gets abusive mail, so an assistant opens it for her. My review in The Guardian. theguardian.com/books/2021/jul…

@Jagodesu I highly recommend the Audible version narrated by Patricia Routledge. Accompanied me for 14 hours of socially distanced walks.

I've someone has never read or seen an adaptation of Wuthering Heights, whats better, read the book, listen to the audiobook or watch an adaptation? And in that case witch one?

Recommend this WP article about language and ethnicity on Ogawasara (Bonin Islands). washingtonpost.com/world/2020/08/…

@sayonaraamerika @sforrest Downloaded both, started reading already. Many thanks from Aizu Bandai.

For excellent thread on Covid-19 response by Japanese authorities see

@Swarthyface Thought unfairly I’d hate Glen Gould’s voice. Nasal Canadian and unsuited to Sōseki? Wrong. 先入観. Alan Turney trans (1965). Have you checked out McKinney’s (2008)?

this is great & should be shared widely：Glenn Gould reads from opening of Soseki's "Kusamakura" (1906;Turney trns)：bit.ly/1ObEFcw 。

@Swarthyface Great link. Confess to having seldom clicked on audio/visual links you give but now I wear earphones day snd night, I can! (1/2)

@ninja_padrino Witty

Can I upgrade from ‘resident’ to ‘expat’?

@RebeccaCaine As you know, it was suggested that I take up tapestry. Intrigued by the idea but...

SUDDEN URGE TO TAKE UP KNITTING.

@DamianFlanagan @japantimes Well argued article by @DamianFlanagan - Level-headed assessment of +|- of trying to write about a culture without a firm grasp of its language. Discussing cases of Hearn, Sōseki, Donald Richie, Pico Iyer. (Unlike Flanagan, I something read Iyer, why not?)

Do you really need to be able to speak and read the language to write perceptively about a foreign culture? In this essay for @japantimes, I offer a few thoughts. japantimes.co.jp/community/2019…

@DamianFlanagan @japantimes Yes, the fatal flaw of “world literature” specialists is pretending to be able to pass judgement on literary works they cannot read in the original.

I'll be speaking on the #translation of #poetry at Waseda University in #Tokyo on 15 November 2019 - all welcome!

@RebeccaCaine On our way there!

Last supper here #viewFromMyFace

@Durf @RichardMedh Eminently forgettable examples of portmanteau puns, variety show 駄洒落 with a deservedly short half life. (Grumbles old timer, in Japan since Showa 55.)

@RichardMedh let me get you up to speed on no. 22 there youtube.com/watch?v=nH-iIY…

@Swarthyface Novels by Inoue Yasushi set in ancient China. Quite a few translated, as well.

Let's play a game.Let's make a list of Jpn lit works that have a non-Japanese main protagonist. I'll start.ゲームをしよう。脇役ではなく主人公が異邦人である日本語で書かれた文学作品リストを作ってみよう。僕が最初にいう。明日課題の夢野久作死後の恋aozora.gr.jp/cards/000096/f…。次をどうぞ。

@Swarthyface @Durf Almost too late for this professor of literature (two years to retirement) but I’m all ears.

@Durf word；I have some ideas；one is a critique of how Japanese teachers/professors teach literature and a bold prescription for how to teach literary works henceforth；I expect it [via., my approach, the article] to be a revolutionary event

Photographers came to today's first-period Jpn Lit seminar；here are the pics；today's reading：Yumeno Kyūsaku and Kawabata Yasunari。今日の１限ゼミにカメラマンが来て大学パンフレット用の写真を撮ったのでここでのせます。悪しからず。今日の課題は夢野久作「死後の恋」と川端「禽獣」。