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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"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.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

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?

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

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。

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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…

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

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

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Manabu｜Japan @manabu-educa.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

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.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

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

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

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".

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

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.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

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?

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

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😆

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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！

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

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

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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☺️

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

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

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

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😆

Shigeru Mizuki
TONO MONOGATARI
Translated by Zacairiá Mac Dhaithí
Drawn & Quarterly

The shogun (military dictatorship) was overthrown, a new government and military was quickly founded, and, against all odds, Japan not only resisted becoming a colony of the United States, but in a mere sixty years showed themselves to be a great power by defeating the Soviet Union in the 1904 Russo-Japanese War. The world was astounded.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

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.)

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

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.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I highly doubt this idiot remembers the last time Ireland had the freedom to negotiate its own trade deals. (Spoiler warning: It was awful.) She just hates brown people and people who don't speak English nativelyーan ironic position for a self-professed Irish nationalist.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I think a lot of well-meaning progressives in the US have a lamentable tendency to engage in this kind of ethnocentrism ("topocentrism"?)ーI was not involved in the Connolly campaign and haven't even lived in Ireland since 2012, but I'm fairly certain most Irish leftists have never heard of Zohran.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I appreciate reminders from other Irish that Ireland was pretty awful during my lifetime: ーAbortion and gay marriage not legalized until the 2010s ーDivorce not legalized until 1996 ーSame-sex sexual activity decriminalized in 1993 At least we also had James "Servant of Two Masters" Joyce on the £10.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Sawayama is not "of Japanese and British descent". Both her parents are Japanese, and she herself was born in Japan but grew up in the UK because of her father's work. This article knows she is British, but is worded to imply she is only British because of supposedly mixed "heritage".

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The wording "from the White House to right wing grifters" strikes me as awkward in this context. It's similar to a Facebook post I recently saw about a certain social phenomenon plaguing Japan, "from Osaka to Hyogo"😂

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Been watching a lot of "Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur" over the last month or so, and (coincidentally?) I was reminded of this SNL short yesterday. youtu.be/XVoBQqketHM?... Now I kinda want SFIA to do a scientific breakdown of it as an April Fools' special（笑）

youtu.be

SNL Digital Short: Space Olympics

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I saw this play today at Isshinji Theatre. I thought it was a good modern Japanese play that explored an aspect of recent (1961) local (Amagasaki) history with which I was unfamiliar, but I think it strayed too far from what in earlier years were fairly straight adaptations of Ancient Greek plays.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Gotta love how the Japanese very clearly calls Nova an 英会話教室 while the English uses the mistaken Zainichi Ōbeijin pidgin word "Eikaiwa" to refer to the school itself.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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".

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

@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 · 07/10/2025

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 · 07/10/2025

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

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 06/10/2025

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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Brian Bergstrom @brianbergstrom.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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.

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Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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 · 06/10/2025

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?😅

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