Alex Watson
@footnotesman.bsky.social
Prof. at Meiji University, Tokyo. Research: Romanticism; paratexts; Asian adaptations/translations; intermediality; public humanities. Organizer of Tokyo Humanities Café. Like hiking, travelling, museums, music, and movies. https://www.alexwatson.info
The protuberance is not a stomach:
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
The protuberance is not a stomach:
1819 monument to console the spirits of insects that had been used as models for “Chuchijo”, a sketchbook by Sessai Mashiyama, lord of Ise.
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
1819 monument to console the spirits of insects that had been used as models for “Chuchijo”, a sketchbook by Sessai Mashiyama, lord of Ise.
Thanks to our wonderful speakers - Ian Haywood, Mayu Koike, Taylor Mignon, and Mariko Nagai - for their wonderful presentations at Tokyo Humanities Cafe 23. We will be back in a few months!
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Thanks to our wonderful speakers - Ian Haywood, Mayu Koike, Taylor Mignon, and Mariko Nagai - for their wonderful presentations at Tokyo Humanities Cafe 23. We will be back in a few months!
Please come to the Meiji-Edinburgh Frankenstein Symposium Saturday 18 October 2025. For details, please see poster and www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein....
明治―エディンバラ・フランケンシュタイン・シンポジウム
2025年10月18日（土）に開催いたします。
詳細につきましては、ポスターおよび以下のサイトをご覧ください：
www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein...
明治―エディンバラ・フランケンシュタイン・シンポジウム
2025年10月18日（土）に開催いたします。
詳細につきましては、ポスターおよび以下のサイトをご覧ください：
www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein...
September 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Please come to the Meiji-Edinburgh Frankenstein Symposium Saturday 18 October 2025. For details, please see poster and www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein....
明治―エディンバラ・フランケンシュタイン・シンポジウム
2025年10月18日（土）に開催いたします。
詳細につきましては、ポスターおよび以下のサイトをご覧ください：
www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein...
明治―エディンバラ・フランケンシュタイン・シンポジウム
2025年10月18日（土）に開催いたします。
詳細につきましては、ポスターおよび以下のサイトをご覧ください：
www.alexwatson.info/frankenstein...
15-min talks on Hokusai & British art, forgotten lives, online love & visual poetry!
Join us for Tokyo Humanities Café 23 – Fri 24 Oct 2025, 19:30-21:15 @ Ryozan Park Lounge (Sugamo): www.tokyohumanities.org.
Join us for Tokyo Humanities Café 23 – Fri 24 Oct 2025, 19:30-21:15 @ Ryozan Park Lounge (Sugamo): www.tokyohumanities.org.
September 29, 2025 at 1:52 AM
15-min talks on Hokusai & British art, forgotten lives, online love & visual poetry!
Join us for Tokyo Humanities Café 23 – Fri 24 Oct 2025, 19:30-21:15 @ Ryozan Park Lounge (Sugamo): www.tokyohumanities.org.
Join us for Tokyo Humanities Café 23 – Fri 24 Oct 2025, 19:30-21:15 @ Ryozan Park Lounge (Sugamo): www.tokyohumanities.org.
Nice hike in Tsukuba:
September 21, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Nice hike in Tsukuba:
Togoshi Hachiman shrine matsuri:
September 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Togoshi Hachiman shrine matsuri:
Family friendly photos from the Kabukicho Shunga and national art centre exhibitions:
September 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Family friendly photos from the Kabukicho Shunga and national art centre exhibitions:
Fascinating exhibitions today:
August 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Fascinating exhibitions today:
Finally got round to hiking up Fuji-san:
August 7, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Finally got round to hiking up Fuji-san:
I hiked in the rain 11 km each way to see this tree “Jomon Sugi” in Yakushima Japan. It is estimated to be between 2170 and 7200 years old.
July 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I hiked in the rain 11 km each way to see this tree “Jomon Sugi” in Yakushima Japan. It is estimated to be between 2170 and 7200 years old.
Thanks to our wonderful speakers Yuiko Asaba, Ashok Malhotra, Wing Tek Lum and Yuri Tanaka! The next Tokyo Humanities Café will be on Friday October 24 from 19:30 at Ryozan Park Lounge Sugamo (subject to change). Please see:
July 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Thanks to our wonderful speakers Yuiko Asaba, Ashok Malhotra, Wing Tek Lum and Yuri Tanaka! The next Tokyo Humanities Café will be on Friday October 24 from 19:30 at Ryozan Park Lounge Sugamo (subject to change). Please see:
Tokyo Humanities Café 22 is coming up on Friday, 11th July, from 7:30pm (finishing around 9:15) at Ryozan Park Lounge, Sugamo. For more information, please visit our website (www.tokyohumanities.org). Please join us!
July 7, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Tokyo Humanities Café 22 is coming up on Friday, 11th July, from 7:30pm (finishing around 9:15) at Ryozan Park Lounge, Sugamo. For more information, please visit our website (www.tokyohumanities.org). Please join us!
Tokyo this weekend:
June 8, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Tokyo this weekend:
Nice hike in Okutama:
June 1, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Nice hike in Okutama:
Tokyo this weekend:
May 26, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Tokyo this weekend:
Tokyo Humanities Café 22 will feature a Tango violin duo performance, a reading from one of Japan’s leading young poets plus talks on Imperial Science and Honolulu’s Chinatown. Please see our website for details: www.tokyohumanities.org
May 14, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Tokyo Humanities Café 22 will feature a Tango violin duo performance, a reading from one of Japan’s leading young poets plus talks on Imperial Science and Honolulu’s Chinatown. Please see our website for details: www.tokyohumanities.org
Watched Love Exposure again the other day, and it remains one of the Greatest Films of All Time.
May 5, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Watched Love Exposure again the other day, and it remains one of the Greatest Films of All Time.
Must the backdrop of the laura kuenssberg show be so hideous?
May 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Must the backdrop of the laura kuenssberg show be so hideous?
More Fuji-this time from Zushi:
May 4, 2025 at 9:40 AM
More Fuji-this time from Zushi:
I took this photo on a hike on Mount Misutoge, Yamanashi, Tokyo yesterday. It is unusual because it presents Sanskrit written on a Daruma stone. The letter says “ba”, meaning “grounding”, marking a path of aescetic practice.
May 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I took this photo on a hike on Mount Misutoge, Yamanashi, Tokyo yesterday. It is unusual because it presents Sanskrit written on a Daruma stone. The letter says “ba”, meaning “grounding”, marking a path of aescetic practice.
Nice hike in Yamanashi. Great visibility!
May 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Nice hike in Yamanashi. Great visibility!
The next Tokyo Humanities Café will be on Friday July 11 from 19:30 at Ryozan Park Lounge Sugamo and feature talks on Honolulu Chinatown, Imperial Science and Shangri La, Tango, and a poetry reading (subject to change). To keep updated please see: www.tokyohumanities.org/about.html
April 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
The next Tokyo Humanities Café will be on Friday July 11 from 19:30 at Ryozan Park Lounge Sugamo and feature talks on Honolulu Chinatown, Imperial Science and Shangri La, Tango, and a poetry reading (subject to change). To keep updated please see: www.tokyohumanities.org/about.html
Thanks to our wonderful speakers Derek Attridge, Xinqi He, Mary A. Knighton and Eric Margolis for their fabulous talks on A. A. Milne, linguistic labels, insects in Japanese film, and Japanese translation!
April 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Thanks to our wonderful speakers Derek Attridge, Xinqi He, Mary A. Knighton and Eric Margolis for their fabulous talks on A. A. Milne, linguistic labels, insects in Japanese film, and Japanese translation!