Molly Des Jardin is a language and computer nerd who came to study Japanese, and later book and media history of modern Japan. She quickly got sucked into both for the long term and enjoyed the ‘B-kyu’ adventures she got to have while working or studying in Fukuoka, Yokohama, and the least cool wards of Tokyo.

• “Inventing Saikaku: Collectors, Provenance, and the Social Creation of an Author“
• Japanese: The Spoken Language
  • University of Pittsburgh Japanese
  • No notes allowed
  • Middlebury Language Schools – Japanese
  • “Learning how to be wrong”
• 「  お聞きしたいんですが」 (I’d like to ask you a question…)
• 「パンになさいますか？」 (Would you like bread?)
• 「左様でございます」 (That is correct.)
• Learning written Japanese/how to read
  • Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
  • Constant exposure and need to write at Middlebury
  • Remembering the Kanji, James Heisig
  • Adult learners of Japanese as a second language
• JET Program
  • Fukuoka
  • ESID (Every Situation is Different)
  • Application process
• Reading
  • Woman on the Other Shore, Kakuta Mitsuyo
  • 夢十夜, Natsume Sōseki
• Meiji-era Writing
  • Most-read Meiji writing during the Meiji era: Ozaki Kōyō
  • Language in flux
  • Morohashi’s 大漢和辞典
  • “If you can get 15-20% of any novel, you’re doing great.”
  • 変態仮名 (Hentaigana)
  • Higuchi Ichiyō
  • Mori Ōgai
  • 言文一致 (Genbun itchi)
    • Molly recommends the book “Language and the Modern State: The Reform of Written Japanese” by Nanette Gottlieb for more on the topic.
  • Futabatei Shimei, 浮雲 (Ukigumo)
  • Yamada Bimyō
• 全集 (Zenshū “Complete Works”)
  • Orthography choices during reprinting
  • 一葉全集 (link to the Ichiyō Zenshū at the National Diet Library)
  • Osakabe Yoshio’s 村上春樹全作品リスト Part 1 and Part 2
  • National Diet Library
  • Ihara Saikaku
  • Museum of Modern Japanese Literature
  • University of Tokyo Library System
• 廃墟 (Haikyo “ruins”)
  • Not mentioned in the podcast, but Molly recommend this link for detailed background on the haikyo boom.
  • ムック (Mook)
  • B級
  • 団地 (danchi)
  • Gunkanjima
  • Junkudo bookstore in Ikebukuro
  • ワンダーJAPAN
    • Check out lists/galleries of back issues here and here.
  • 土木フォトグラフィ (Doboku Photography) (Not mentioned in the pod, but recommended Instagram account from Daniel for infrastructure.)

Courtesy of Molly, this is a photo of Ozaki Kōyō’s four-volume 紅葉集 (Kōyōshū), pub. Shun’yōdō (春陽堂) 1909 and how one who access the original text (in its original binding!).