Nishi Amane and the Japanese vocabulary of philosophy (motion/films/nishi-amane), 95.6 s, 1920 x 1080.
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Images

- Nishi Amane 西周, 百一新論 Hyakuichi shinron, vol. 2 (published by
  Yamamoto Kakuma 山本覺馬, permitted August 1873, blocks finished March
  1874), leaf 35 recto and leaf 35 verso. Source: National Diet Library
  Digital Collections (国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション), call no. 特70-75,
  https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/753011 (canvases 35 and 36). Public domain.
  Changes: cropped and printed through the film's dither screen.
- The frontispiece 西周肖像 (a photograph of Nishi Amane late in life; its
  photographer is not named) of Mori Ōgai 森鴎外, 西周傳 Nishi Amane den
  (1898; the book prints its title 西周傳, the library catalogues it as
  西周伝 and reads it ニシ アマネ デン).
  Source: National Diet Library Digital Collections,
  https://dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/781845 (canvas 4). Public domain. Changes: cropped.
- Zhou Dunyi 周敦頤, 通書 Tongshu, 志學第十, a Japanese printing of 1666
  (later impression): 国立公文書館所蔵 (Source: National Archives of Japan),
  通書１, https://www.digital.archives.go.jp/item/4212197 , from the copy on
  Wikimedia Commons, File:NAJDA-298-0131 通書1.pdf, PDF page 16.
  Changes: cropped (the archive's mark is outside the crop) and printed
  through the film's dither screen.
- Fu Yunlong 傅雲龍, 游歷日本圖經 (printed in Japan, 1889), the table of
  miscellaneous schools 雜學校科表 and its preface:
  『游歴日本圖經』（関西大学デジタルアーカイブ.
  https://www.iiif.ku-orcas.kansai-u.ac.jp/hakuen_bunko/002479052 .より転載）
  Kansai University Library (KU-ORCAS), 泊園文庫 LH2-2.03-2-9, image 0035,
  Public Domain Mark. Changes: cropped and printed through the film's dither
  screen.
- 幾何原本 Jihe yuanben, vol. 1, sp=8 and sp=23, early 17th-century printing.
  Library of Congress / National Library of China, World Digital Library,
  https://www.loc.gov/item/2021666487/ . No known restrictions. Changes:
  cropped and printed through the film's dither screen.
- The globe is drawn from Natural Earth's 1:50m land (public domain), through
  world-atlas 2.0.2 (Mike Bostock, ISC licence).

Texts set in type

- Nishi Amane's postscript of 1861 (the words 「…至吾希哲學一科、則未見其人矣」)
  and his note of 1873 in 生性發蘊: 『西周全集』 (Ōkubo Toshiaki 大久保利謙,
  ed., 宗高書房, 1960–81), 1:13 and 1:31, as quoted by Lin Meimao (2013),
  Bian Chongdao (2008), Harimoto Takashi (2019) and Kosaka Shirō (2008).
- Wang Guowei 王國維, 「論新學語之輸入」 (1905): the sentence
  而日本之學者，既先我而定之矣，則沿而用之，何不可之有？, as transcribed on
  Chinese Wikisource (the text is public domain; the transcription is
  CC BY-SA 4.0), https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/論新學語之輸入 .
- Zhou Dunyi's line in English, Nishi's words and the four words of his
  1870–71 lectures: from the research brief (BRIEF.md), with the Nihon
  kokugo daijiten for the earliest recorded uses and Masahiro Ogawa (2011,
  HERSETEC 5.1) for the Euclid terms.

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Voices: ElevenLabs (Frederick Surrey, narrator; Hijiri, Japanese reader).
Music: ElevenLabs Music API. Effects: made from seeded noise.