【The Japan Times】’Japanese Prints and the World of Go’: Exploring the pop-cultural psyche of the Edo Period

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'Japanese Prints and the World of Go': Exploring the pop-cultural psyche of the Edo Period

Meme-like themes in ukiyo-e prints reveal the rich heritage of go in “Japanese Prints and the World of Go.”

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アート系記事は知らない単語が多いわー。

purveyor

意味　[C] (かたく)[通例～s]（物資· 情報などの） 調達人, 提供者.

That friend was author Richard Bozulich, now president of Kiseido, a publisher and purveyor of all things go.

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enlist

意味　〈人の援助· 支持など〉を求める; ＜…してくれるよう/…で＞〈人〉に協力を求める ＜to do/in＞

Bozulich enlisted the help of Kitagawa, who took up Pinckard’s baton to run a 10-year marathon of research and writing that ended with publication in 2010.

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irrelevant

意味　 無関係な, 重要でない （⇔relevant）

“During the Edo period a go club, like a tea ceremony room or a kyōka poetry meeting, was a place where rank, station and sex were irrelevant,” write Kitagawa and Pinckard.

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Decipher

意味　〈難読文字など〉を判読する, 読みとる; 〈暗号など〉を解読する （⇔cipher） .

Deciphering the ancient Japanese script on many of the images was a particular challenge, she says.

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浮世絵の隅などに書かれてる崩し字ですよね…確かに大変だ。そしてこの単語も難しいわ。