Goody Two Shoes

A salutary tale featuring a cast of characters with names like Tommy Meanwell and Farmer Graspall. Link…

Name Your Poisson

Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, de Diverses Couleu - 1719 - Louis Renard. Link…

Caribbean Dust Jackets

The Carberry collection of literature. Which ones made it to the silver screen? Link…

Shitakiri suzume

This is the Dutch language version of the Shitakiri suzume, one of the so-called chirimen bon (crepe-paper books) that were created for foreigners during the Meiji period. Our copy is a tairashi-bon (prints on plain paper). This was translated by Pieter Gerard van Schermbeek and the Dutch title is De musch met de geknipte tong. This book is the last Dutch language book published in Japan in the 19th century owned by the National Diet Library.

One of the items from the 'Japan-Netherlands Exchange in the Edo Period' online exhibition. Link…

Restoring Kathmandu

Architectural restoration project. Link…

Monkey

Images from WorldImages at the California State University. Link…

Japanese Brazilians

Immigrants to Brazil celebrating 100 years [2008] (Japanese). Link…

Curiosities

The Log-Book of a Fisherman and Zoologist by Frank Buckland (1891) makes for an interesting read. Link…