what language is this again?
Sep. 20th, 2010 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnozomi Writing for an audience of zero plus me for now, to polish up my English. Watch this space for book reviews, random Japan and Korea notes, occasional quasi-religious musings, music and architecture ravings, baseball thoughts, and whatever else crosses my mind.
Good things to start off with, then. The Tigers won today, with Akiyama pitching and Lin Isuke's two-run homerun (yeah, I know it's pronounced Wei-tzu, but I've always liked the Isuke reading, and he probably wouldn't mind. When is somebody going to come up with a history of Taiwanese players in Japanese baseball?).
I've been reading Modern Osaka, written in 1932 by Kitao Ryonosuke: a love letter to the city, the same way I love it now, messy and industrial and every-which-way and beautiful because of all that rather than in spite of it, and full of the quirky details that make up the real life of the city. Would love to translate it, but can't imagine how; the text itself is part of the experience of reading it. Hard to figure.
Leave it at that for now. Until next time.
Good things to start off with, then. The Tigers won today, with Akiyama pitching and Lin Isuke's two-run homerun (yeah, I know it's pronounced Wei-tzu, but I've always liked the Isuke reading, and he probably wouldn't mind. When is somebody going to come up with a history of Taiwanese players in Japanese baseball?).
I've been reading Modern Osaka, written in 1932 by Kitao Ryonosuke: a love letter to the city, the same way I love it now, messy and industrial and every-which-way and beautiful because of all that rather than in spite of it, and full of the quirky details that make up the real life of the city. Would love to translate it, but can't imagine how; the text itself is part of the experience of reading it. Hard to figure.
Leave it at that for now. Until next time.
