"Hearn didn't speak Japanese" is a myth believed by those whoーlike Davissonーthemselves don't speak Japanese. Hearn's most widely read book contains a self-effacing remark that actually just meant he didn't read Kanbun or Kobun but that has been widely misunderstood by his non-japonophone readership.

How to say you haven't read the book you're lecturing about without saying you haven't read it😓 Does the English version end two thirds of the way through chapter 5?

After Saiin, we will stop at every station on the way.という阪急京都線のアナウンスは、英語の双数形の存在を知らない人が作ったのか、英語母語話者だから当たり前に知っているのに終点までの間（on the way）にあと二駅（both stations）しかないことを知らないのか、どちらなのかわかりません。

それほど珍しいわけでもないと思うけどね。 「アイルランド」の語源は学校で学ばなかったし、「スコットランド」や「ブリテン」もきっとそうだろうと思っている。知識あるフランス人（イングランド人）は「フランク民族（アングル民族）からだろう」と思いつくことは可能だろうが、国の教育でわざわざ「アングロサクソンなどいうが、実際のところはアングル人やフリース人の男性ばかりで、ほとんどケルト語話者たるブリトン人の母系遺伝子を持つ今のイングランド人の国」などは僕の周りのイングランド人は教えられたような人がほぼおらず…

I love the video essays (dare I say "content"（笑）) of @patrickhwillems.bsky.social , and this broke me. Inside of you are three Hooks!

Mono no aware (もののあはれ): the gentle ache of things — the sadness in cherry blossoms precisely because they fall. — Named by scholar Motoori Norinaga (18th c.) as the heart of The Tale of Genji.

Which one of Guts's poses here is "canonical" to the story of Berserk?😅

My home country's first official language has three names in English. In order of the "age" of their coming into use as English words, from youngest to oldest, those names are "Gaeilge", "Irish", and "Gaelic".

Just putting this out there: Referring to Japanese citizens who are ethnically Korean as "Zainichi Koreans", and especially using "Zainichi" as a noun referring specifically to ethnic Koreans, is not something white anglophones who consider themselves progressives should be doing.

How to say you've never read Hearn without saying you've never read Hearn. (Hearn cites Mitford and Chamberlain regularly.)

I love the soundtrack for this game, and this piece is a real banger, but this one part doesn't make much sense to me. Why does the theme for the calamity from the sky suddenly get "heroic" for about 15 seconds?

今夜は三宅さんのトークイベントに出席します！新作を愛読中☺️ 日本文学史を代表する２５作品に本居宣長も福沢諭吉を含めているのも、フェイスブックにこのリストを投稿した人としていと嬉し😆

ご報告が遅くなりましたが、京都センパトは、3/7に無事に開催できました！

They couldn't at least put "agus" as Gaeilge?😆

Pretty sure I just heard someone confuse "chinju" (鎮守, protector deity) with "jingū" (神宮, a large/important Shinto shrine)🤷🏻‍♂️

I don't know what パ一カ一道着 (paichi-kaichi dōgi) means, and I don't think I want to.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン）@satorukun0530.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Umm... what?

日本時間の皆様、明けましておめでとうございます🌅 帰省中でまだ大晦日で、アイル習慣でクリスマス雰囲気ぐ続くのですが、今年大変お世話になった皆様、来年もどうぞよろしくお願いします☺️

This has to be a pseudonym, right?😂

Except, presumably, the indigenous inhabitants whom the venture sought to displace?

I suspect this is the only thing anyone outside Louisiana will ever remember this dude for😬

And it came to pass that in its 1904 war with Japan, the "Soviet Union" suffered a crippling defeat. The world must indeed have looked on with great astonishment😆

The very definition of "FAFO"😓 (I don't know how, or even if, this woman voted in 2016, but for the last several years she's regularly complained on Twitter about how she the North still gets treated as being a de facto part of the EU.)

Ian's Translation Tips 049: This may be somewhat subjective, but "get on X" feels like an error for "get in on X" in cases like this. "We have to get on this Enpon Boom!" sounds like something a manager at a newspaper would say, but this a book publisher trying to get *in* on the Enpon Boom.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン）@satorukun0530.bsky.social · last yr.

Ian's Translation Tips 048: Translating "Taoiseach" into Japanese as 首相 is perfectly fine, but translating 首相 back into English as "Prime Minister" is wrong at best and can be offensive to many Irish people. Writing "Micheál" as ミホール, though, is wrong; a proper phonetic transcription would be ミーホール.

This is a mistranslation. The word corresponding to "May" is nowhere near the start of the poem, but "your" is substantially worse, as it is confusing the noun きみ ("my lord", "the emperor") with a homophonic pronoun used between lovers.

NHK quoted Hearn's "Hi-Mawari" this morning, but (mistakenly?) said that it recounted Hearn's memory of a forest outside Cong, Co. Mayo. Hearn's text is explicit that the memory in question is of Wales, not Mayo.

Call me a "libtard" or whatever, but I don't think governments should be *either* recruiting 17-year-olds in their armed forces or executing 17-year-old POWs.

Happy Classics Day, everyone!☺️

京都から古典の魅力これからも巨額私費投じる90歳経済人「文化力」向上目指す思いとは｜THE KYOTO｜京都新聞

11月1日は古典の日。「京都から古典の魅力を」と基金に私費を投じてきた「村田機械」会長の村田純一さん（90）に、古典文化を継承する思いを聞いた。

kyoto-np.co.jp

This is a claim I've seen Irish people with no connection to Japan (and Japanese people with little connection to Ireland) outside a professed interest in Hearn make this claim, but the evidence for it is minimal. Hearn left Ireland decades before the Celtic Revival "went mainstream", and it didn't

I know this is likely just AI slop, but I can't help but suspect that the implication that Hitler hated the English specifically and would have championed the causes of Irish, Scottish, and Welsh (or I guess "Brythonic"?) freedom is a deliberate attempt to paint these causes in a specific light.

Just heard an American call Hearn "Greek/English/Irish/American/Japanese". Better than what Gaijin Goombah pulled in the quoted post, but: (i) Describing Irish people of English heritage as "English-slash-Irish" is pretty offensive to me as an Irish person of English heritage. (ii) The same American

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン）@satorukun0530.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This being October, I can't help but remember those times I was "muricansplained" to about the home country of Lafcadio Hearn. I will probably have occasion to deliver a "mini-lecture" on this topic in a month or two, so I won't tip my hand, but Hearn was more (Anglo-)Irish than anything else.