#rebus — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #rebus, aggregated by home.social.
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*Heart Sūtra* from Tachibana Nankei's *Tōzai yūki* (1795), from Tōzai yūki.
Source: Library of Congress
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/49fe700b-9d48-48f5-8233-a4ab505316b6
#reading #pictograms #manuscripts #religion #illiteracy #buddhism #rebus #bookillustration #art #publicdomain
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Ian Rankin - A Question of Blood
Like Agatha Christie's best whodunnits you have no clue until the very end. Then all of a sudden it makes sense. Kinda sorta.
Very well written, but too many clichés to score really well.
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Buddhist rebus-style text from Japan (Early 20th century), from Hymn of Praise to Kannon for the Illiterate (Kannon mekura wasan).
Source: British Library
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/95938ada-b100-47da-80a5-b71cf7ececc8
#reading #pictograms #manuscripts #religion #illiteracy #buddhism #rebus #art #publicdomain
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A tiny man shooting a word nearby, within a printed text of the European past. Welcome to another #rebus broadside of the later so-called #ThirtyYearsWar. A shootin' short 🧵 for #skystorians
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