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Interesting enough article, however it's a bit odd captioning a Japanese woman using (presumably) a Japanese typewriter with the text "Early Chinese typewriters

Interesting enough article, however it's a bit odd captioning a Japanese woman using (presumably) a Japanese typewriter with the text "Early Chinese typewriters had thousands of keys to search through."

wholien 9y ago
That's my first thought as well, but the picture could have been a kanji (or just straight Japanese) typewriter, which is similar enough to a Chinese typewriter that it makes sense to use the image. But with that in mind, the caption does not make sense. The author or whoever inserted images probably did not know the woman was Japanese.
- GrumpyNl 9y ago
  Google is your friend ;) https://www.google.nl/search?q=chinese+typewriter&safe=off&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjc497x9qbWAhWLfFAKHYelBowQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=928#imgrc=mmJHxtbnJossyM https://www.google.nl/search?q=chinese+typewriter&safe=off&d...:
  - fhood 9y ago
    ....maybe....we hope....privacy issues notwithstanding.
- zokier 9y ago
  The author probably knew that she was Japanese considering that he wrote the book about the subject matter, although the picture might have been captioned by some editor. I'd suspect that it is the same image that appears on his book in chapter called "Controlling the Kanjisphere", so I guess it covers japanese typewriters: https://books.google.com/books?id=UTIxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=5.2+Photograph+of+Japanese+typist+Kay+Tsuchiya,+1937+(author%E2%80%99s+personal+collection)&source=bl&ots=gyhLoLerhD&sig=k-aelmjMbFrGDIN3_3IVJvW6Fw4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix8sipsafWAhWlIJoKHXIsCuwQ6AEINTAF#v=onepage&q=5.2%20Photograph%20of%20Japanese%20typist%20Kay%20Tsuchiya%2C%201937%20(author%E2%80%99s%20personal%20collection)&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=UTIxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=...
627467 9y ago
Do we know for sure that's not a Chinese typewriter being used by a Chinese/Japanese/Korean woman dressed in a kimono during, say, Manchu Kuo China (for example)?
vacri 9y ago
Because a Japanese woman could never type on a Chinese typewriter?

wholien 9y ago

That's my first thought as well, but the picture could have been a kanji (or just straight Japanese) typewriter, which is similar enough to a Chinese typewriter that it makes sense to use the image. But with that in mind, the caption does not make sense. The author or whoever inserted images probably did not know the woman was Japanese.

GrumpyNl 9y ago
Google is your friend ;) https://www.google.nl/search?q=chinese+typewriter&safe=off&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjc497x9qbWAhWLfFAKHYelBowQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=928#imgrc=mmJHxtbnJossyM https://www.google.nl/search?q=chinese+typewriter&safe=off&d...:
- fhood 9y ago
  ....maybe....we hope....privacy issues notwithstanding.
zokier 9y ago
The author probably knew that she was Japanese considering that he wrote the book about the subject matter, although the picture might have been captioned by some editor. I'd suspect that it is the same image that appears on his book in chapter called "Controlling the Kanjisphere", so I guess it covers japanese typewriters: https://books.google.com/books?id=UTIxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=5.2+Photograph+of+Japanese+typist+Kay+Tsuchiya,+1937+(author%E2%80%99s+personal+collection)&source=bl&ots=gyhLoLerhD&sig=k-aelmjMbFrGDIN3_3IVJvW6Fw4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix8sipsafWAhWlIJoKHXIsCuwQ6AEINTAF#v=onepage&q=5.2%20Photograph%20of%20Japanese%20typist%20Kay%20Tsuchiya%2C%201937%20(author%E2%80%99s%20personal%20collection)&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=UTIxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA207&lpg=...

627467 9y ago

Do we know for sure that's not a Chinese typewriter being used by a Chinese/Japanese/Korean woman dressed in a kimono during, say, Manchu Kuo China (for example)?

vacri 9y ago

Because a Japanese woman could never type on a Chinese typewriter?