Talk:Sketches of the Life of the Great Priest

Notes on English title

Before anyone complains, I made sure to discuss this title on the refdesk before creating it. The justification for it is found here. Viriditas (talk) 20:58, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

Robinson's order

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I was able to find a digital copy of a first edition from 1920 online, and Robinson's order appears to be wrong, which intuitively seems obvious, as the book is supposed to document the chronological life of Nichiren. This bothered me from day one, since the first time I saw Robinson's translation, so I can't figure out why he did this. What's the point of translating a book completely out of order of the events depicted? Working on this... Viriditas (talk) 22:19, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

I've now fixed the order per the 1920 edition and the historical chronology. However, there seems to be some debate in the art auction literature as to the use and depiction of certain images meeting requirements for the first edition, and it may be that this is a second edition, not a first. Either way, the order now appears to be correct. Viriditas (talk) 22:36, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

It looks like William Pearl copied Robinson's order and posted it on the Kuniyoshi Project website without bothering to check the 1920 edition of the book. It's weird that some rando on Wikipedia has to fix the order of this book while nobody bothered to notice it was completely out of sequence. Viriditas (talk) 22:58, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

In the event that somebody asks how I know it is now in order, there are two reasons: 1) the order follows the 1920 print version of the entire work, and 2) the order follows the historical timeline of the documented (and obviously legendary in some respects) chronology per multiple sources. I will be adding these to the article in the next several days. Why Robinson published his analysis out of order is confusing to me. Either he didn't care or didn't bother to look at the history and publication order of the subject. As for citing the 1920 version directly, I've been working on it. I'm having difficulty translating it to complete a well-formed citation, but I'm making some progress. I hope to have it cited inline soon. Viriditas (talk) 10:49, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Fixed. Tanaka 1926.[1] Viriditas (talk) 02:19, 4 December 2023 (UTC)

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In the Snow at Tsukahara, Sado Island

• ... that Monet decorated his house at Giverny with Kuniyoshi's In the Snow at Tsukahara, Sado Island (pictured), one of about 231 Japanese prints in his personal collection? Source: Moffett, Charles S. (1999). Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige. Phillips Collection. pp. 25-30. ISBN 0856674958. OCLC 39223532.
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  • Comment: Lambiam added to the credits because I wouldn't have been able to create this article without their help.

Created by Viriditas (talk) and Lambiam (talk). Nominated by Viriditas (talk) at 20:41, 7 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Sketches of the Life of the Great Priest; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• New enough, long enough (despite the bulk of the content, in the large table, not counting towards its length), and thoroughly sourced. Earwig found no problematic copying. QPQ done. Interesting hook, sourced and within rules; taking offline hook source on good faith. Good to go. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:36, 4 January 2024 (UTC)