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Playing With Myself
... no, not that way. Not this time, at least. ^^;;;;
I mentioned looking at old Japanese books, which in turn had me looking at an old Hakunin Isshu card set; I was going to show Carl the game, which is still played to this day, and I found this page, featuring the "Hen-Tsukuri Karuta", and its modern variant Kanji Hakushi. The basic concept is ( Read more... ) -
More Of The "You Can't Afford It" Chronicles
I know, my looking through Japanese books again, and I came across this set, which is missing only one book -- by far the most complete set that I've seen of these books, PLUS the box, all original, decent condition . Note, of course, there is no price. I show the set to Carl and he says, "... you know Roger, if you have to ask? You can't afford ( Read more... ) -
Further Adventures Of The Old Japanese Book Collector
Again, I've been looking at old Japanese books -- this one, in particular, piques my interest as I'm a HUGE fan of old maps, especially ones like THIS. At this point in time Japan had been cut off from the rest of the world for years, and it would still be quite a bit of time before it opened itself up to the remainder of the world -- meaning that ( Read more... ) -
Japanese Books On The Fourth Of July
To keep with the theme of Japanese things on an American holiday:
This book on eBay, the 西洋新書, Seiyou Shinsou, is a book that apparently chronicles American history, customs, etc., written in 1872. What gets really fascinating is how blatantly racist the books are :: laugh :: Scroll down and admire how very frightening the foreigners' looks and ( Read more... ) -
[Multilingual Monday] Human Error
Two brief tales of linguistic hurdles because one simply doesn't know better (and being a great segue from the "admitting that one has flaws" post I did earlier):
- So, as you have heard about 7,572 times already, I've become a collector of older Japanese books. If you haven't heard this -- well, you haven't been reading, as I'm sure I sound like a ( Read more... )
