A 1,250-year-old print of Buddhist prayers the earliest known printed text will join Yale’s Gutenberg Bible on regular display at the Beinecke Library.
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April 29, 2021
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Historically, same-sex relationships were widely accepted in Japan, but attitudes changed by the end of the nineteenth century when Japan emerged as a full-fledged world power, and many books and manuscripts depicting relationships between men were destroyed. The Yale manuscript is an unusual example of jitsuroku-bon, a genre translated as “factual storybook.”
Read more and view this video by Haruko Nakamura, librarian for Japanese Studies, and Dylan Siegel ’21 M.A., a graduate student in East Asian Studies.
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