Updates
What I’ve been doing in the field and at the workbench, newest first — each entry links to its page on the site.
- Field ResearchThe leaflet archive is up: leaflets, guides and handouts brought back from the field, organised into 58 scans you can browse by venue or theme.
- Field ResearchAn exploratory discourse analysis of 500 comments left under 24 Ainu-related stories on Yahoo! News Japan.
- Field ResearchFinished a background essay, “Who Are the Ainu?”, with a table of Ainu terms and footnotes.
- MakingProject Hatsuboshi: the long-form video generation workflow ran end to end for the first time — nowhere near usable yet, so I wrote down what went wrong.
- Field ResearchBack to Hokkaidō in winter for return visits to Mukawa and Shiranuka.
- Field ResearchTwo field sites on historical memory: the Suiheisha History Museum in Gosho, Nara, then the Wadatsumi no Koe Memorial Hall in Tokyo the next day — a long conversation with its director, Watanabe Fusako.
- Field ResearchHokkaidō fieldwork, July 26 – August 4: twelve sites in ten days, from Makubetsu, Shiranuka and Lake Akan to Upopoy and Mukawa.
