Boston University Japanese Program

BU and other Kyoto Consortium students having a wonderful time in Japan this semester. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=884864002911522&id=100041637923907&sfnsn=mo&mibextid=6aamW6

Last January, Professsor Vincent came back from a trip to Matsuyama, Japan with a suitcase full of more than three decades' worth of back issues of the "Shiki kaishi," the journal of the Matsuyama Shiki society. The journal is an amazing example of the vibrant tradition of local scholarship in Japan and a treasure trove of research on the haiku poet Masaoka Shiki and his circle. Since not even the Diet Library has more than a few issues on its shelves, with the the kind permission of the Shiki Society, we digitized all 146 issues and uploaded them to our digital archive here at BU, where they are now easily accessible, and full-text searchable. Thanks to Hoyt Long of the University of Chicago for recommending a good Japanese OCR program, to Dawn Lawson of the University of Michigan for writing the catalog entry, Eli Castro of the BU library for getting them online, to Nanae Tamura of the Shiki Society for her help throughout the process, including loaning Professor Vincent the suitcase to bring the journals back to Boston, and to WLL grad Rebekah Machemer for doing most of the work! You can access all of the journals at the link below. Please spread the word! https://open.bu.edu/handle/2144/20274

Shiki kaishi Journal (子規会誌)

Great piece on Masaoka Shiki in today's Japan Times.

Never mind the love hotels: Negishi is home to haiku, tea and famous pines | The Japan Times Alighting at one of the JR Yamanote Line's quietest stops, Uguisudani Station, I chat with the stationmaster about its name, which means "Bush-Warbler Vall

BU's own Professor Anna Elliott on her work translating Murakami Haruki into Polish and "the hegemony of English." https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2017/0802/Meet-the-woman-who-brings-Haruki-Murakami-works-to-an-enthusiastic-Poland

Meet the woman who brings Haruki Murakami works to an enthusiastic Poland Anna Zielińska-Elliott is now translating her 12th Murakami novel from Japanese into Polish, as she has done for 30 years. She is a professor of Japanese literature at Boston University.