"My humble efforts to assist in the elucidation of the social condition of a distant and comparatively unknown race."

December 5, 2007 11:34 AM

Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs (1867).
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (11 comments total)

Nifty, thanks.
posted by solipsophistocracy at 12:04 PM on December 5, 2007

Oh wow, those pictures are great. I demand higher resolution scans!
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 12:15 PM on December 5, 2007

Would have been much cooler if the pictures were actually aligned the way that you're supposed to view them instead of 90 degrees off.
posted by Flunkie at 12:37 PM on December 5, 2007

Thanks. The images are beautiful and the text, well, something else.

I was involved in digitizing a much different take on Japanese behavior. Illustrated by Sam Cobean.
posted by fake at 1:14 PM on December 5, 2007

Sketches of Boing Boing
posted by benATthelocust at 2:17 PM on December 5, 2007

Yeah, I've ripped off library books that should have been better left to the public because I thought those people didn't appreciate,too.

I'll probably scan my first edition Robin Hood someday.
posted by Balisong at 4:03 PM on December 5, 2007

Lovely. Thanks for this, goodnews.
posted by flapjax at midnite at 4:39 PM on December 5, 2007

benATthelocust, that's about the most lamest and pointless contribution that could have been made. I've had that digital repository bookmarked since August, but that also, means nothing.
It's not that you should be embarrassed for admitting you read BB exactly, but perhaps you ought to be for thinking that admitting it in this forum with the implied "been there, done that" dismissiveness, gains you any webcred.
Thanks for the reminder gnfti!
posted by peacay at 8:00 PM on December 5, 2007

most lamest?! oy
posted by peacay at 8:01 PM on December 5, 2007

Whew.. I thought my post was lame...
posted by Balisong at 8:53 PM on December 5, 2007

What peacay said.

I've got MetaFilter and BoingBoing right next to each other on my toolbar and check one as often as the other, but I totally missed it on BoingBoing. Thanks for pointing this out gnfti.

I've also got plans to use Vector Magic to turn the pictures into some sweet desktop images.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 9:04 PM on December 5, 2007