00:1600:16, 6 September 2025diffhist+6The Tale of Genji (1951 film)I mistakenly assumed this claim came from the description on Commons, so I asked Nesnad, who uploaded it there in 2012 and added it to this article. They didn't seem to know the answer. My DVD of the film is out on loan to a friend at the moment, but I strongly suspect this is a separate promotional image, not a still from the film.
11:3411:34, 19 May 2025diffhist+11The Tale of Genji→Literary context: Revert unexplained edit of 15 December 2024. Presumably based on the mistaken assumption that “vernacular” means “not Greek or Latin”, but in a Japanese context it almost always means “not Chinese”.
15 May 2025
12:1712:17, 15 May 2025diffhist−20Man'yōshūRevert seeming stealth vandalism by LTA sock. OJ and CJ are not mutually exclusive, and no one defines "Waka" that way.
06:0406:04, 20 July 2024diffhist−54The Tale of Genji→Literary context: It's not true that none of the characters are named in the text itself, and if this were true of all Heian courtly fiction, the same problem would make it difficult to read other works like The Tale of the Bamboo-Cutter or The Memoir of the Narihira Fifth Captain.
03:5203:52, 4 April 2024diffhist+1ŌyumiDummy edit. Got cut off for some reason. Wikipedia's MOS doesn't prohibit macrons, and "oyumi" looks like お弓, where お is an honorific prefix.current
03:4503:45, 4 April 2024diffhist−154JitteThis was added following a talk page consensus in 2013, then "adjusted" based on unreliable sources a few months later when no one was watching. Someone later seems to have moved the misspelling further up to make it "equal" to the correct spelling, while leaving the unreliable sources attached to unrelated information.
30 March 2024
02:5602:56, 30 March 2024diffhist−8Rachel KondoMost biographical articles give their subjects' nationalities, not their ethnicities, in their opening sentences.
22:2122:21, 20 February 2024diffhist+20Kani KōsenSorry! While it is somewhat gratifying (if a bit concerning) to see professional scholars (...don't ask...) apparently getting their information from Wikipedia articles I wrote, I don't like being reminded of mistakes like this one.
17 February 2024
10:0710:07, 17 February 2024diffhist+183Umami BurgerIt currently has locations in only two of Japan's 47 prefectures, which are right both next each other; it's much closer to being a "nationwide" chain in the US than Japan, so saying it serves four US states and "Japan" is misleading. I know the content I'm adding needs a source, but I don't have the inclination to find a source for the existing claim about US locations, so tagging it so it doesn't look like my source verifies it.
8 January 2024
01:0801:08, 8 January 2024diffhist−8Japanese literatureIt's debatable whether Perry and Co. were the sole cause of the end of the sakoku policy (actually it's not debatableーthey weren't the only cause), but the relationship between the Perry expedition and the adoption of western literary forms is even more tenuous.
12:1612:16, 26 November 2023diffhist−1Missing Sun motifNot more accurate. Some people don't like translating 神 as "god" when it refers to lesser divinities, but Amaterasu is not a "lesser" divinity.current
