What kinds of scholarship have emerged in the field of East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities? What can they model for us? Today’s #NCCSpotlight is an article by Paula R. Curtis, “Toward a Digital Future in East Asian Studies: Case Studies in Dissimilarity and Possibility”: doi.org/10.1215/0021...
Were people gamifying learning a century ago? Learn all about sugoroku 双六 board games in 19th/20th cen Japan by revisiting this #NCCSpotlight by Dr. Matthew Hayes (Japan & Asian American Studies Librarian) on the Duke Libraries collections! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
How can we learn about performance when unable to attend in person? Revisit this #NCCSpotlight “‘Noh as Intermedia’: An Interactive Exploration of the World of Noh Theatre” by Jarosław Kapuściński (Stanford) for digital approaches to multimodal learning of #noh! 🎭 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
How can we integrate collections into interdisciplinary teaching, especially at small institutions? Revisit this #NCCSpotlight by Asuka Sango (@carleton.edu) to see!: “Exploring Buddhist Manuscript Culture through the Special Collections at Carleton College” 📿: guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Where can you find information on Japanese art, artists, exhibitions, and more? Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Masako Kawaguchi, “Art Platform Japan: Fostering the Development of Research on Japanese Art” to find our what their databases and articles can offer! 🖥️🖼️ guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Did you know the Scripps Collection of Japanese Prints at Scripps College features some 3,000 prints from the 17th-20th centuries? 😮 Including rare works on Japanese theatre & contemporary women artists! Learn more revisiting our #NCCSpotlight on the collection! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
If you’re working on the Pacific region don't miss an opportunity to integrate underrepresented histories–revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Ayaka Yoshimizu & Saeko Suzuki on intimate labor and imperial expansions in “Sex and Migration in the Transpacific Underground”! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
What was “paper theater” and how could it be used for propaganda in WWII? Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Ai Yamamoto ( @asia.ubc.ca ), “Performing Nationalism in UBC’s Kamishibai Propaganda Plays,” to learn about their themes, intermedia, and more! #紙芝居 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
If you’re interested in activist culture and Hiroshima history, Ann Sherif (Oberlin College) produced a fascinating digital exhibit! Revisit this #NCCSpotlight about her project “Popular Protest in Postwar Japan: The Antiwar Art of Shikoku Gorō”! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
What can we learn about premodern Japan from literature, book history, & material objects? 🗾For expert insights, revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Miaoling Xue “Exploring Premodern Japan through Video: A Collaborative Project at the University of British Columbia”! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
How were some of the earliest interactions between Japan and the US represented? Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Cameron Penwell (LOC) introducing this rich collection of digitally accession sources from the Pacific Encounters in Nineteenth-Century Japan collection! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Where can you find outstanding historical maps of Japan? Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Dr. Sonia Favion on @thejohnrylands.bsky.social collection (Manchester) to find world maps, provincial & regional maps, political maps, maps of spiritual sites, and more! 🗺️🗾 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
JSS articles introduce collections or projects; describe their content and creation; and demonstrate how they can be useful in research or classrooms. Email digitalmediamanager(at)nccjapan(dot)org to reserve a slot or explore past articles with #NCCSpotlight or at: guides.nccjapan.org/spotlights
Looking for an auspicious way to start the year? 🎍 You can always begin by revisiting the amazing noh prints highlighted in our #NCCSpotlight by Hiroyuki Good (Pittsburgh Libraries): “Kōgyo: The Art of Noh” about Tsukioka Kōgyo 月岡耕漁 (1869-1927)! 🖼️ #能 #能楽 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Are you planning classroom content on modern Japan next term? 🗾 Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by @sayakachatani.bsky.social (National University of Singapore) on Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire for fascinating primary sources for your teaching needs! 📃 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
What sources are available for exploring the earliest US-Japan interactions? ⛵ Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Cameron Penwell (LOC) on “Exploring Early US-Japan Encounters at the Library of Congress” to find digitized resources for your teaching and research! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
How did Edo elites engage in Heian nostalgia? What does it have to do with crickets?🦗👀 Revisit an #NCCSpotlight by Kiyoe Minami (Honolulu Museum) “Exploring Heian Cultural Revival in Edo through the Jūban Mushi-awase Emaki at the Honolulu Museum of Art” to learn! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Digitizing rare materials is an involved collaboration with specialists! If you want to learn more about this process through the fantastical works of the Harvard-Yenching Library, revisit this #NCCSpotlight by Japanese Collection Librarian Kuniko Yamada McVey! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
If you’re interested in a guide to resources on the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, revisit this #NCCSpotlight on the development of a libguide & interactive map of materials!🗾🗺️ See “The CDDP Great Kantō Earthquake Project: A Collaborative Mapping Project”! #関東大震災 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Where can you find high resolution showcases of Edo period illustrated books? ✨🗾 Revisit this #NCCSpotlight by Dr. Kit Brooks on the National Museum of Asian Art’s Pulverer Collection and all its fascinating materials! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Where do we encounter Alice in Wonderland in Japanese popular media culture? 🍄🐛 Revisit our #NCCSpotlight on the Cassady Lewis Carroll Collection at USC Libraries by Drs. Rebecca Corbett & Jesse Drian to find out what their collections have to offer! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
How is US activity in Okinawa documented & can it be accessed? Okinawa Times Correspondent Jon Mitchell shares his experiences/methods in "Documenting US Operations in Okinawa: The Jon Mitchell Collection at Okinawa International University & Beyond" #NCCSpotlight guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Scholars who use art catalogs for their research & teaching will want to revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Reiko Yoshimura & Kit Brooks introducing the history and goals of the Japan Art Catalog Project, which makes rare & hard to acquire art catalogs available! Seet: guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
How do postcards capture historical moments & places? How can we “read” even the structure of their printing? 📮 Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Tokiko Bazzell (Formerly University of Hawai’i’ at Manoa Library) on Hawai’i’s historical postcard collection to find out! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Looking to globalize your approaches to history, gender, & art? 🗾 There are online resources that can help! Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Carrie Cushman & Kelly McCormick: “Behind the Camera: Digital Interventions in the History of Japanese Women Photographers”! 📸 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Did you know that Penn Libraries received a donation of 1200+ early modern & modern illustrated Japanese books in recent years? 📖 The Tress Collection offers a wealth of rare Edo pubs! 🗾 Revisit this #NCCSpotlight by Julie Nelson Davis & Lynne Farrington for more! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Digital access is helpful, but could or should we be smelling, touching, or even tasting the archive? 👀👅 Revisit this #NCCSpotlight by Luciana Sanga to learn about materiality in the stacks & library collaborations while studying the 1930s magazine Fūzoku zasshi! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
How did Japanese textile makers document patterns & themes?💮👘 Art enthusiasts & makers will want to revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Hamish Todd (British Library) “Exquisite Patterns–Japanese Textile Design Books at the British Library” to see gorgeous guides! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Those interested in modern Japan and digital exhibitions will want to revisit our fascinating #NCCSpotlight by Ann Sherif (Oberlin) exploring histories of activist culture and Hiroshima in “Popular Protest in Postwar Japan: The Antiwar Art of Shikoku Gorō”! See: guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
Today we're delighted to share a new #NCCSpotlight by Haruko Takahashi & Keiko Suzuki (Minpaku Costume Database Project) introducing digitized sources on modern Japanese clothing culture/history. 👘👖 See “Decoding Clothing Culture with the Shinsō Digital Archive”! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...
