Quirin Press
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Small independent scholarly press dedicated to Asian Studies, Poetics, Cultural Studies, Aesthetics, & sometimes more… Posts by OB 😎C.onsulting E.asternmost O.racles Home: quirinpress.com Ko-fi shop (±free downloads): https://ko-fi.com/quirinpress
Wisest monkey is the one in the middle*. One can stop one's ears... One can cover one's eyes... both are simple passive aversions. But to hold one's tongue, to refrain from uttering evil: that is both very difficult and very wise. [*Most older depictions show Speak-No-Evil 🙉🙊🙈 in the middle!]
Reminder... if in Melbourne... this Wednesday ... a free public lecture on the intersection of #philosophy ans #law
Quirin Press@quirinpress.bsky.social · 2w ago📌 5 August in Melbourne, the 2026 Deakin University Max Charlesworth Lecture: Judge Hilary Charlesworth, Member of The International Court of Justice will deliver this year's lecture: The International Court of Justice and Philosophies of International Law. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2026-deaki...
For anyone who is interested in learning to read very basic 篆書, I encountered the following gem in my recent travels on the web 篆書唐詩選五言絶句. A mid-18th C Japanese edition in the Waseda Collection. www.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kotenseki/ht...
After nearly 20 years of using Wenlin 3, I've updated to the latest v. 4+ From 60,000+ hanzi it now boasts 80K+ But the clincher for me is the 《說文解字·注》部首 (1-540) Shuowen Seal characters with its 11K+ seals Between wenlin.com on the desktop and @pleco.com with various pro dic. I'm set for hrs of 🫣👁🦭
@pleco.com suddenly this morning a glitch appeared, seal and bone script were displaying fine yesterday. This morning...?¿?¿
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glitch on the endnote horizon: In the morning the geese cry in the clouds, 朝鷹鳴雲中 Oh how mournful are their notes! 音響一何哀 for 鷹 text online all give雁 or 鴈 correct to 雁 ¿ Or is 鷹 in 2/3 C. a goose before it transmigrated to an eagle ?
Re. our fundraiser: We'd hoped to reach our goal by now, alas times are strained. But, if his poetry is anything to go by, not as strained as for Xie Lingyun in the 4th & 5th C. But then poets and publishers are notorious for lamenting about hard times😎 ko-fi.com/quirinpress/... 🥕50% off on 📕*
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Publisher in this piece says “If an author has used AI to help support their research for a nonfiction book, that’s fine. But… that means that we now need together to apply another layer of human research to make sure that the facts are actually true.” So it’s not fine really, is it?
The new premium product: books written by people
Some publishers think AI could not only help authors but replace them
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Re: #Japanese #seals have just come across this article, something to explore on The Digital Orientalist … before plunging back, feet—first, in the rabbit hole 😎 digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/25/d...
Digital Resources for Reading Japanese Seals
Although resources for learning to read or assist with deciphering cursive Japanese script found in historical books and documents are fairly accessible—including courses, books, websites, and vari…
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One of my favourite pages of clan crests is the one with the papermakers (or is it letterwriters ¿) enjoy @chrisbrockett.bsky.social and many thanks for your help with reading some obscure JP...
A few contenders for 1 and 2 on our seal as 木市 from an old family crest manual
An update with a tracing of the seal, so far it's the middle column that is proving the most difficult, but really, only the first 3 are somewhat troublesome, the reading so far, with much help from Bsky and beyond, is" 主水司赤 {瓦¿}〇{院¿}方 詰所之印 The 漢篆千字文 3巻 from the NDL was rather helpful for glyph 8 方
Quirin Press@quirinpress.bsky.social · 2w agoCan anyone🙏 help with this JP seal: Edo #shikiita 敷板 or brazier plinth. Buff-brown unglazed stoneware. Approx. 22.5 🔲 x 4cm high. Given the ostentatious 印 [12 kanji] I suspect a warlord/daimyo playing the peasant-farmer-potter making wabi-sabi* Last column of kanji methinks reads: 詰所之印
Clad in the elegant form of a Penguin Classic, Wen Zhenheng's late Ming treatise on how to be 雅 now greets the modern world; translation by Tony Blishen, proud to contribute an intro #earlymodern #skystorians
Endnote at the beginning of the day: 22. Li Shan quotes from the biography of Yang Bing 楊秉 (92–165), HHS, LXXXIV, p. 817d, lines 14–15, KM ed.: ‘Once [Yang] said nonchalantly: “There are three things that do not trouble me—wine, women and wealth.”’ 常從容言。我有三不惑、酒色財也.
Given your studies… @ciaota.bsky.social any thoughts ? bsky.app/profile/quir...
Quirin Press@quirinpress.bsky.social · 2w agoCan anyone🙏 help with this JP seal: Edo #shikiita 敷板 or brazier plinth. Buff-brown unglazed stoneware. Approx. 22.5 🔲 x 4cm high. Given the ostentatious 印 [12 kanji] I suspect a warlord/daimyo playing the peasant-farmer-potter making wabi-sabi* Last column of kanji methinks reads: 詰所之印
Can anyone🙏 help with this JP seal: Edo #shikiita 敷板 or brazier plinth. Buff-brown unglazed stoneware. Approx. 22.5 🔲 x 4cm high. Given the ostentatious 印 [12 kanji] I suspect a warlord/daimyo playing the peasant-farmer-potter making wabi-sabi* Last column of kanji methinks reads: 詰所之印
@edelemark.bsky.social have been enjoying reading your essays in The Conversation, in case you are not aware of the forthcoming Max Charlesworth Lecture, thought you might find it of interest: bsky.app/profile/quir...
Quirin Press@quirinpress.bsky.social · 2w ago📌 5 August in Melbourne, the 2026 Deakin University Max Charlesworth Lecture: Judge Hilary Charlesworth, Member of The International Court of Justice will deliver this year's lecture: The International Court of Justice and Philosophies of International Law. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2026-deaki...
📌 5 August in Melbourne, the 2026 Deakin University Max Charlesworth Lecture: Judge Hilary Charlesworth, Member of The International Court of Justice will deliver this year's lecture: The International Court of Justice and Philosophies of International Law. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2026-deaki...
T'is as if Moon-crescent sought to cradle Venus at this instant above out kitchen sink
just took a good 20 min. with AI to establish a reasonably accurate list of the 30 vol. of: 日本陶磁全集 Nihon Tōji Zenshū The Complete Collection of Japanese Ceramics Fortunately I had a pix of the spines of the 30 vol. set to check the list first 4 goes confused series AI kept saying sorry... silly
"Eyes of the Sky" by #SyamanRapongan @columbiaup.bsky.social 2026 Is a faboulous read (even with bent neck !-) * *The upside of a delibitating torticolis ... no end-notes editing work on the steam-powered desktop for the last week, but a chance to read!
Filip Noubel@nasredinhoja.bsky.social · 2mo ago#Taiwan's identities revisited: this is what #Tao writer #SyamanRapongan does best in his book now translated in English #matanoangit #天空的眼睛 #EyesoftheSky - a text that sits at the crossroad of myth, ethnography, fiction and rituals. www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2026/05... @vivianwu.bsky.social
Semi-seriously Re @faeydoro.bsky.social debate about AI Seems to me +/- = to some rich student having their personal librarian to source all relevant material... So far, so good, +/- no problem. But then the brat goes: OK. Hire 10,000 readers to read all that stuff and report with a 1500 word essay
Night-dreaming how it would be nice to leaf through the 30 vol. set of: The Complete Collection of Japanese Ceramics 日本陶磁全集 Nihon Toji Zenshu Sort of in lieu of filling the house with more JP ceramics, especially the 6 or 7 old kilns... Is anyone looking to free up bookshelf space ?
Suffering from a delibitating torticolis (I blame endless endnotes) makes me look for easy distraction... out comes the ancestral family book full of mostly stiff personas (tonton Jean-Louis being the exception... naturellement !-) every family needs an intrepid explorer
Q: When will the QP website be updated? P*: I'll let you know once the leaking kitchen tap is fixed ! *P= Editor in Chief disguised as Plumber
🙋♂️not sure how to update this note to line 21, any suggestions to best approach / solution would be most welcomed 🙏 ¿ Replace with Middle Chinese: e.g. 纂 tswanX ❓ But what of 竿kan [gân ?] ¿Or give original + MC ? NB: still some typographical glitches to be ironed out for the missing glyphs🤦♂️
