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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン）

@satorukun0530.bsky.social

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I post about Japanese literature and the like. And I guess that includes folklore😅 大阪在住の日本文学愛好家、異文化交流（アイルランド文化）イベント企画者。国立ダブリンシティ大学で日本語・翻訳学を専攻して学士。岩手親善大使（元岩手県国際交流員）、松江親善大使（ラフカディオ・ハーンのエッセイコンテスト受賞者）。現在、日愛愛日文芸翻訳家を目指して先祖の言葉アイルランド語を十数年ぶりに学び直そうとしているところの日英翻訳者。

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5h

A diplomat friend of mine told me that he was curious about Hearn's take on diplomacy so he read that story and was quite amused😂

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5h

He also repeatedly refers to Motoori Norinagaーarguably the central figure in the reception history of Genjiーas "a *Japanese* critic quoted by Donald Keene" or "this Japanese critic".

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 5h

That puts me uncomfortably in mind of Grant L. Voth's Teaching Company series on "world literature", whence I learned that the poetry in Genji was quoted from the Kokin Wakashū😅

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 1d

It also regrettably Empress (中宮, chūgū) Fujitsubo as "Genji's father's mistress" and said that all the poems in the text were attributed to Genji himselfーin reality, more than 1/4 appear after his death, and less than half of the remaining 589ish are attributed to Genji.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 1d

@smithsonianmag.bsky.social
I searched for English-language sources that didn't contain substantial mistakes, but unfortunately your article implied that fragments of Murasaki's original manuscript survived and that Teika's critical redaction of the text was instead a "version of the story".

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 1d

No harm done; I too should apologize for coming off as gruff as I probably did😅

The "Muraasa Shikubei" thing is just some AI art nonsense: It might only be notorious among me and people I shared it with😂

There are apparently "brand new translations" of Genji and other works, but they're "AI" too😓

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 1d

Here's another contemporary news source that doesn't contain obvious errors:
www.nikkei.com/article/DGXM...
Here's a more recent one:
www.asahi.com/sp/articles/...

Here are some academic sources in Japanese:
koara.lib.keio.ac.jp/xoonips/modu...
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/niho...

koara.lib.keio.ac.jp

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 1d

Reference for what? My own previously stated opinion?

The fact that the 2019 discovery was of an old (13th-century, written by Teika himself) manuscript of the Wakamurasaki chapter rather than a "lost chapter of the novel" can be verified in the Guardian article itself.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry if I give off that vibe, but I honestly didn't expect a gentle ribbing about a typo (and an allusion to an unrelated and somewhat infamous snafu involving "AI" "art") to be responded to with a lecture about Fujiwara no ○○ko and her "court name".

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 2d

While I appreciate the shout-out, my view on this "lost chapter of world's first novel" nonsense was stated elsewhere.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 2d

Also, describing Classical Chinese as "not quite matching" Japaneseーa completely unrelated languageーis ... well, what it is😅

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 2d

This is a gross oversimplification. It's generally believed that men wrote The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter, The Tales of Ise, The Tale of the Hollow Tree... Heck, a man even wrote the Tosa Diary.

Yes, women wrote many important works of vernacular fiction in Japanーmostly after Genji.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 3d

Ironic that I misspelled "butt in"😂

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 3d

Most of the time I encounter misspellings of Japanese proper nouns, they don't represent typos, but rather a lack of familiarity with the topic.

We certainly do know at least the clan name of the daughter of Fujiwara no Tametoki. We also know her given name likely ended with "-ko". 藤原○子 ain't bad.

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Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social · 4d

Was this fact-checked by ChatGPT? Because Michael Emmerich, someone I know personally, wrote a book about the reception of The Tale of Genji, but he is not someone who's translated it.

Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · 13d

new translator aspiration just dropped

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Michael Emmerich, a professor of Japanese literature at U.C.L.A. and a translator of the eleventh-century novel “The Tale of Genji,” co-authored the LifeWear messaging for Uniqlo. He admitted that it was deliberately enigmatic, saying that he wanted customers to “stop a moment and engage with language.”

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think Project Gutenberg should amplify false information like this.

Surely someone over there knows the difference between a "lost chapter" (something that in Genji's case can never be found) and a "newly (read: 2019) discovered old manuscript of one of the existing chapters"?

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 3d

Sorry to but in, but I believe her name was actually "Muraasabubi Shibuki".

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 4d

Emmerich has written scholarly books and articles about The Tale of Genji. His "The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature" is a personal favourite.

But he has never published a full translation of it. Perhaps The New Yorker confused him with Dennis Washburn?😅

Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · 13d

new translator aspiration just dropped

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 7d

That date is one of the proposed dates of Murasaki's death, not the date Genji was written.

Also, Murasaki didn't write in English.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 8d

Umm... what?

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

An unfortunate consequence of Takaichi Sanae's LDP leadership campaign is that this one American EFL teacher in Tokyo has now seemingly become obsessed with pushing a narrative on social media that it's actually aggressive deer spontaneously initiating violent conflicts with tourists😅

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

It's October! I can use the Internet on my phone again😆

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 16d

Umm... what?
Genji definitely does have a plot.

I think you may have misunderstood when people like me said Genji was unlike older long works of fiction in that it isn't ONLY plot.

Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 16d

This was a fun little film. I'm now curious about the director's other films.