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to putting sangaku in "temples and shrines". If you follow the Wikipedia links given for "temple" and "shrine" you would just be mystified, because the original Japanese distinction (i.e. referring to o-tera = Buddhist religious edifice and jinja = Shinto religious edifice) is completely lost on anyone who doesn't happen to know the convention.
Imaginatorium ( talk) 17:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
I restored a number of links which were deleted. I disagree or simply don't understand the reasoning which informed the edit. Perhaps this can be clarified with a fuller explanation than was possible in the narrow context of an edit summary?-- Tenmei ( talk) 04:36, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
An interesting movie reference with Sangaku at a Shinto shrine: You can see that at the start of the movie
Tenchi The Samurai Astronomer (Tenchi Meisatsu, 2012)
Also this Scientific American article, 1998 may
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~trothman/templegeometry.pdf
Should "Sangaku", appearing as a word in the text of the article, be capitalized? Our article is currently inconsistent on this point. My assumption would be that as an ordinary Japanese word/phrase, borrowed into English, it should be lowercase, but perhaps someone else here knows better than I what conventions apply for Japanese capitalization. — David Eppstein ( talk) 07:56, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
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to putting sangaku in "temples and shrines". If you follow the Wikipedia links given for "temple" and "shrine" you would just be mystified, because the original Japanese distinction (i.e. referring to o-tera = Buddhist religious edifice and jinja = Shinto religious edifice) is completely lost on anyone who doesn't happen to know the convention.
Imaginatorium ( talk) 17:29, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
I restored a number of links which were deleted. I disagree or simply don't understand the reasoning which informed the edit. Perhaps this can be clarified with a fuller explanation than was possible in the narrow context of an edit summary?-- Tenmei ( talk) 04:36, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
An interesting movie reference with Sangaku at a Shinto shrine: You can see that at the start of the movie
Tenchi The Samurai Astronomer (Tenchi Meisatsu, 2012)
Also this Scientific American article, 1998 may
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/~trothman/templegeometry.pdf
Should "Sangaku", appearing as a word in the text of the article, be capitalized? Our article is currently inconsistent on this point. My assumption would be that as an ordinary Japanese word/phrase, borrowed into English, it should be lowercase, but perhaps someone else here knows better than I what conventions apply for Japanese capitalization. — David Eppstein ( talk) 07:56, 2 June 2023 (UTC)