Kuchi-e woodblock prints and the late Meiji literature (2018)

Colta, Ioan Paul

The current paper talks about the fruitful collaboration between the artist Kaburaki Kiyokata (1878-1972) and the highly praised Meiji author Kyōka Izumi (1873-1939). The famous nihonga painter has initially made his living as an illustrator, producing kuchi-e woodblock prints, frontispieces illustrating popular novels from the late Meiji period. His prints were admired by Kyōka Izumi who desired that his books would also include kuchi-e prints done by Kaburaki

Digitalization of learning resources at the Center of Asian Studies (2018)

Didvalis, Linas

East Asian studies and interest in East Asian region have been gradually growing in Lithuania as well as the necessity of the resources for this topic in Lithuanian language. What is more, with the growing spread and usage of the Internet more and more resources can be found online. Therefore, in order to increase the accessibility of resources for learning about the East Asian region it is important to pursue their digitalization. Moreover, as the number of research in different fields of Asian studies in Lithuania has been growing, there is a need for a database which would include all the information about the publications and research related to Asian studies.

New Activity of International ILL/DDS (2018)

Egami, Toshinori

In January 2018, Nichibunken Library registered the some 300,000 titles of the Japanese and non-Japanese works in its collection with the OCLC WorldCat, through a tie-up with Kinokuniya Shoten. Of that data about 170,000 entries have been newly added to the WorldCat. From April 2018, moreover, Nichibunken also started to provide interlibrary loan and document delivery services through the OCLC WorldShare ILL. Participation by libraries in Japan has been limited to only a few institutions including the National Diet Library and Waseda University, and Nichibunken is the first one among national universities and research institutions in Japan. Through this service, we succeeded to improve operations of international ILL/DDS, and researchers around the world can find and gain use of the materials in the Nichibunken more smoothly.

About the difficulties of sending books from Japan to the GDR (2018)

Flache, Ursula

One feature of CrossAsia (crossasia.org) are the thematic portals that present topics related to the Specialised Information Service Asia (Fachinformationsdienst Asien) that is provided by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-PK with its partners. The aim of the thematic portals is to uncover e.g. smaller special collections or very specific holdings within our local collections in order to make them better known to a global research community.

Digitized Collection of Pre-modern Japanese Works (2018)

Fujimura, Ryoko
Matsubara, Megumi
Yamamoto, Kazuaki

The NIJL-NW Project, hosted by National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL), launched the “Database of Pre-modern Japanese Works” in 2017.
In cooperation with various domestic and overseas universities and specialized institutions, this database publishes images of pre-modern Japanese works widely. It allows general public to access easily the pre-modern Japanese works from anywhere on the ground, without which they have to visit libraries and holders of such works around the world.

What are "Japanese Studies Resources" for Finnish Students? (2018)

Fuse, Rie

The use of technology is often recommended to effectively promote students' learning and teachers are strongly encouraged to use it for teaching at Finnish universities. This paper focuses on the use of digital resources for learning Japanese as a foreign language as well as Japanese culture and society in the context of Finnish universities and reports the results of a pilot study on the topic. The focus of this research is students who learn Japanese at the University of Helsinki and University of Turku. A survey by questionnaire and interview was conducted in autumn 2017 at the University of Turku and in spring 2018 at the University of Helsinki.

System of integrated studies of cultural and research resources (2018)

Gotō, Makoto
Shibutani, Ayako
Ishitsuka, Masateru

The National Museum of Japanese History (NMJH; popularly known in Japanese as Rekihaku) is developing a comprehensive digital network of Japanese historical resources as part of the core research ‘Constructing Integrated Studies of Cultural and Research Resources’. This project enables access to data in universities and museums across Japan through interdisciplinary studies in the humanities and sciences using information infrastructure. This digital network includes links to relevant information; search results can display advanced information.

Video games as a resource in Japanese studies (2018)

Mühleder, Peter
Hoffmann, Tracy

Video games provide many challenges for libraries, be it technical problems, the lack of authority vocabularies or archival practice. Furthermore, as E. Aarseth and C. Gorden argue, a ‘video game’ can both refer to a cultural object as well to a cultural process. Research on Japanese video games have to take both aspects into account and therefore, the aim of Leipzig University is to provide a comprehensive research environment for Japanese video games.

System of integrated studies of cultural and research resources (2018)

Gotō, Makoto
Shibutani, Ayako
Ishitsuka, Masateru

The National Museum of Japanese History (NMJH; popularly known in Japanese as Rekihaku) is developing a comprehensive digital network of Japanese historical resources as part of the core research ‘Constructing Integrated Studies of Cultural and Research Resources’. This project enables access to data in universities and museums across Japan through interdisciplinary studies in the humanities and sciences using information infrastructure. This digital network includes links to relevant information; search results can display advanced information.

Database List for Japanese Studies (2018)

Kamiya, Nobutake

日本学関連データベースリストをみんなでつくろうプロジェクトを2018年からはじめました。
日本学関連データベースと一口にいうと簡単に聞こえますが、オンラインデータベースやオンラインで閲覧できる資料が次々と誕生している昨今、これをすべて網羅し、学生や研究者に提供するのは難しいことです。そしてこれを、各大学、研究所にある日本学関連の図書館員が把握し何らかの形で提供するのはおそらく不可能でしょう。そこで、こうした情報をみんなで書いて、集めた情報はCC0(パブリックドメイン) として共有し、みんなが好き勝手に使ってもらおう、というのがこのプロジェクトの趣旨です。

Make Japanese exposition and exhibition materials open access (2018)

Kikkawa, Hideki

東京文化財研究所は、2016年2月にゲッティ研究所(米国、ロサンゼルス)と取り交わした日本美術の共同研究に関する協定書に基づき、現在、明治・大正・昭和戦前期博覧会・展覧会資料のデジタル化、オンライン公開、および美術史分野の電子リソースへのアクセスプラットフォーム「ゲッティ・リサーチ・ポータル」への掲載の準備を進めている。対象資料は、当研究所が『日本美術年鑑』編纂事業、明治大正美術史編纂事業などを取り組むなかで収集してきたものであり、近代以降の日本美術研究、とりわけ欧米における日本美術・文化財受容に関する研究、あるいは美術家の経歴調査を遂行するうえでも、必須の基礎資料である。これまでもこれらの資料の重要性は認知されており、今回のオープン・アクセス化は、国内外の日本近現代美術史研究者にとって待望のものであるといえる

The first Japanese books to reach Europe? (2018)

Kornicki, Peter

The earliest Japanese books known to have reached Europe in the seventeenth century and still to be found there are mostly in libraries in England and Ireland. How did they get there and what connection did they have with the English Factory (trading outpost) in Hirado, which was operating from 1613 to 1623? What was the subsequent fate of those books and what impact did they have? What other Japanese books reached Europe in the seventeenth century and what happened to them?

The fate of the Japanese embassy library, Berlin after WWII (2018)

Koyama, Noboru

After Germany had been defeated in May 1945, Japanese documents and books in Germany were seized by the Allied Powers such as the United States and Britain initially for military intelligence and military tribunals, then for other purposes. Some of them were brought to the United Sates and were microfilmed in Alexandria near Washington D.C. The largest collection of those confiscated Japanese materials in Germany is sometimes described as the Library of Japanese Embassy, Berlin which had contained the Embassy’s books and documents, but also books and private materials of the Japanese nationals who were living in Germany, mainly in Berlin, during the War.

Reading room in Chiune Sugihara memorial museum (2018)

Kumpis, Arvydas

Chiune Sugihara museum is a public institution primarily functioning as a memorial site for Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara. Nevertheless, the Sugihara foundation – Diplomats for Life have also an objective to gather intellectual potential, not only the people from scientific and cultural spheres of life, for the mutual effort analyzing the manifestations of tolerance and hate but also the published materials. This objective is mainly carried out by creating a specialized collection, functioning as a reading room in the museum.

Replenishment of the collection of manuscripts and block-prints (2018)

Marandjian, Karine

The Japanese collection of manuscripts and block-printed books was replenished by a substantial number of xylographs transferred from Moscow Library For Foreign Literature to the IOM RAS in 1980s and until recently has not been investigated. It includes more than 50 titles in approximately 150 volumes.
In my opinion, all books are related to the kokugaku tradition and form a thematically united and complete collection that once belonged to some unidentified collector or scholar.

Combination of JACAR and foreign primary sources (2018)

Masunaga, Shingo

The establishment of the Japan Centre for Asian Historical Records (JACAR) enabled us to search millions of primary sources online. On the other hand, in Estonia, digitalization of the materials of the Estonian National Archives (ERA) is proceeding as well. The combination of the newly available online sources created a synergy in terms of the research of the Interwar Baltic-Japanese relationship.

Digitized Collection of Pre-modern Japanese Works (2018)

Fujimura, Ryoko
Matsubara, Megumi
Yamamoto, Kazuaki

The NIJL-NW Project, hosted by National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL), launched the “Database of Pre-modern Japanese Works” in 2017.
In cooperation with various domestic and overseas universities and specialized institutions, this database publishes images of pre-modern Japanese works widely. It allows general public to access easily the pre-modern Japanese works from anywhere on the ground, without which they have to visit libraries and holders of such works around the world.

Video games as a resource in Japanese studies (2018)

Mühleder, Peter
Hoffmann, Tracy

Video games provide many challenges for libraries, be it technical problems, the lack of authority vocabularies or archival practice. Furthermore, as E. Aarseth and C. Gorden argue, a ‘video game’ can both refer to a cultural object as well to a cultural process. Research on Japanese video games have to take both aspects into account and therefore, the aim of Leipzig University is to provide a comprehensive research environment for Japanese video games.

E-globalization or E-localization in studying Japanese language (2018)

Zhivkova, Stella
Nikolova, Vyara

Japanese language is simultaneously distant and close thanks to the modern technologies.
Dissemination of a language and culture through the ages happens through numerous communication channels - manuscript and printed sources, oral and folk traditions, legends etc. On a local level in Bulgaria we observe various examples for dissemination of elements of Japanese culture through the new possibilities offered by the new technologies.

Corpus of historical Japanese (2018)

Ogiso, Toshinobu

At the National Institute for Japanese Language Studies, we are constructing the "Corpus of Historical Japanese " as a diachronic corpus where you can study the history of Japanese from the Nara period to the Meiji and Taisho eras. This corpus enables advanced search by annotating word information to the whole sentence. It can be used online through the search service "Chunagon" (https://chunagon.ninjal.ac.jp) for free of charge.

Searching the JACAR database and Chiune Sugihara related documents (2018)

Oono, Taikan

Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR) operates a database that has released many records relating to Chiune Sugihara. Sugihara spent about sixteen years, from 1919 to 1934, in Harbin, Manchuria (Manchukuo from March 1932), and there were numerous documents produced over this timespan. Sugihara started in the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs by enrolling abroad at the Russo-Japan Association School (later Harbin Institute). Subsequently Sugihara worked in the Japanese Consulate in Manchuria, Japanese Consulate General in Harbin, and at the Office of Agents Stationed in North Manchuria, Manchukuo.

How to search for administrative information in Japan (2018)

Ozawa ,Takashi

This presentation will provide an overview of a number of tools that are useful for researching information published by Japanese government agencies, including the National Diet Library (NDL) Digital Collections, the Web Archiving Project (WARP), search guides, and other material created by the NDL as well as tools created by other institutions such as the National Archives of Japan Digital Archive and the Japan Center for Asian Historical Records (JACAR).

How to make uncatalogued Japanese collections accessible (2018)

Tsuda, Mayumi
Pedersen, Merete

This presentation is a modest report by two members who met at the EAJRS Oslo Conference in 2017, where we question how we at this stage should proceed in the future. Both Mayumi Tsuda and Merete Pedersen are worried about the increase in institutions that hold Japanese collections, but do not have any staff that understand Japanese.

Osaka prints in the collection of the National Gallery in Prague (2018)

Ryndová, Jana

The paper shall focus on the research and in detailed study of the Osaka prints in the collection of the National gallery in Prague and of the records on the activities of the Czech collectors. The Osaka prints (about 500 of them) represent a significant part of the National Gallery in Prague collection. A collection of Osaka prints exists in the Czech National Museum (Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and Asian Cultures) as well, consequently there is the possibility of comparing the two convolutes. Unlike the Náprstek Museum collection, there has been no major record on the Osaka prints in the collection of the National Gallery in Prague published so far, the comparison of the two collection may thus bring interesting results.

The East Asia Resource Library at the University of Ljubljana (2018)

Ryu, Hyeonsook

The East Asia Resource Library (EARL) was established at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. EARL is a library established through a partnership of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Arts.
In October 2016 the Korean Corner was opened, in April 2017 the Japanese, in May of the same year Taiwanese and in October 2017 the Chinese Corner was officially opened. The Japanese Corner receives support from the Embassy and the Japan Foundation, and enables access to the JapanKnowledge Lib Database. In addition, the Japanese Corner also includes a part of the Hamaguchi Collection which was donated to the Department of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts.

Challenges of building a multilingual web resource on Hokusai (2018)

Santchi, Stephanie

'Late Hokusai: Thought, Technique, Society' at The British Museum and SOAS, University of London (04/2016-03/2019) is an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded research project exploring the last thirty years of the life of Japanese painter and print artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). One component of the project is building a pilot contextual research database with semantic web tools on the open-source platform ResearchSpace. Combining legacy data with current research outcomes and the conceptual reference model CIDOC CRM, the project’s aim is to explore how semantic web technology can support the Hokusai research community by digitally recreating ways for them to connect, query and explore information.

Private collections of Japanese old books at IOM RAS (2018)

Shchepkin, Vasilii

Over a period of three years Japanese resources specialists of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences have conducted a research project on identifying private collections of Japanese manuscripts and woodblock-printed books among those preserved at the institute. In our previous presentation at EAJRS conference in Bucharest we attempted to view some early collections of Japanese books and manuscripts and their pathways to Russia as a part of the history of early Russia-Japan relations. This time we are going to try to show how a closer examination of the contents of these collections can contribute not only to the study of early Russia-Japan relations, but to the history of early modern Japan as well.

System of integrated studies of cultural and research resources (2018)

Gotō, Makoto
Shibutani, Ayako
Ishitsuka, Masateru

The National Museum of Japanese History (NMJH; popularly known in Japanese as Rekihaku) is developing a comprehensive digital network of Japanese historical resources as part of the core research ‘Constructing Integrated Studies of Cultural and Research Resources’. This project enables access to data in universities and museums across Japan through interdisciplinary studies in the humanities and sciences using information infrastructure. This digital network includes links to relevant information; search results can display advanced information.

History of Japan in Lithuanian (2018)

Švambarytė, Dalia

My paper will be based mostly on my own experience of writing Japonijos istorija (History of Japan) as a Lithuanian-language teaching material for Vilnius University students and incorporating it into the curriculum of BA program of Japanese Studies. I will concentrate on pragmatic reflections in this paper but also touch upon broader pedagogical considerations on the production of native-language material in Japanese Studies and adjusting its contents to local needs, as well as building a course around it.

Utilization of library resource for Japanese language class activity (2018)

Takagi, Kayako

Vytautas Magnus University possesses approximately 7,000 items in Asian Books Space at main library of university, however, it is quite low frequency of use by Japanese language students. There were 40 students in the second-basic and intermediate level of Japanese language classes, and only three of them had borrowed books in 2017.

How to make uncatalogued Japanese collections accessible (2018)

Tsuda, Mayumi
Pedersen, Merete

This presentation is a modest report by two members who met at the EAJRS Oslo Conference in 2017, where we question how we at this stage should proceed in the future. Both Mayumi Tsuda and Merete Pedersen are worried about the increase in institutions that hold Japanese collections, but do not have any staff that understand Japanese.

Research data management services for Japanese Studies in the library (2018)

Wagner, Cosima

The digital transformation of science and its implication for the development of library services is currently being discussed in the German academic library community. Especially research data management and the establishment of a National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) has been appointed as a central sphere of action. Though, the discussion on how to define research data within the respective academic disciplines and what kind of services is expected from the library at which stage of the research life cycle has only begun.

Digitized Collection of Pre-modern Japanese Works (2018)

Fujimura, Ryoko
Matsubara, Megumi
Yamamoto, Kazuaki

The NIJL-NW Project, hosted by National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL), launched the “Database of Pre-modern Japanese Works” in 2017.
In cooperation with various domestic and overseas universities and specialized institutions, this database publishes images of pre-modern Japanese works widely. It allows general public to access easily the pre-modern Japanese works from anywhere on the ground, without which they have to visit libraries and holders of such works around the world.

E-globalization or E-localization in studying Japanese language (2018)

Zhivkova, Stella
Nikolova, Vyara

Japanese language is simultaneously distant and close thanks to the modern technologies.
Dissemination of a language and culture through the ages happens through numerous communication channels - manuscript and printed sources, oral and folk traditions, legends etc. On a local level in Bulgaria we observe various examples for dissemination of elements of Japanese culture through the new possibilities offered by the new technologies.