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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 14h

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...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 1d

What goes into creating digital collections & how can we collaborate? At our 2017 digital scholarship workshop Victoria Bestor, Michaela Kelly, & Noriko Sugimori tackled these issues in “Creating Digital Collections: Working with Partners, Students, & Volunteers”! guides.nccjapan.org/torontodigit...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 2d

Did you know that the National Museum of Asian Art participates in the Japan Art Catalog project to make rare & hard-to-find art catalogs available to researchers? As of 2022 they hold 10.5k+ volumes! 🖼️😮📚 Learn more about the JAC and accessing these materials at: guides.nccjapan.org/japanartcata...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 4d

What is #IIIF? How does it work & how could our scholarship benefit? In this 2018 Digital Scholarship Workshop session Kiyonori Nagasaki (International Institute of Digital Humanities) & Satoru Nakamura (U Tokyo) explain the ins & outs of IIIF tech & applications! guides.nccjapan.org/c.php?g=8894...

NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 5d

Have you wondered how to go about regular kuzushiji learning & practice? 🖌️ One great way to start (and continue) is the Minna de Honkoku みんなで翻刻 project! Learn about their community for crowdsourcing transcription in this CDDP video introduction by Yuta Hashimoto! guides.nccjapan.org/cddp/video-s...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 6d

This is a friendly reminder that the application deadline for the 2026-2028 NIJL-NCC CDDP Digitization Grant Program is one month away! 🗓️ Application guidelines can be found on our site--deadline November 1! guides.nccjapan.org/cddp/nijl-nc...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 7d

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...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 8d

What kind of information do researchers & students need before they head off to the archives? 🛫 Learn more from this talk & accompanying guide materials by Izumi Koide (Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation) & Kuniko McVey (Harvard Library) from our 2012 workshop! guides.nccjapan.org/c.php?g=3557...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 10d

It's a time for joyful bunnies! 🐇 This expression is joyful, right? 😅 Yesterday was #InternationalRabbitDay, so take a moment to appreciate this Imari dish from the 19th century of rabbits and pondweed. Held by the Tokyo National Museum: colbase.nich.go.jp/collection_i...

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Hishi Setsuki @hishisetsuki.com · 11d

I didn't know about this collection. Very cool! The volumes digitized so far are available from UPenn Libraries' repository. colenda.library.upenn.edu?_=1759015365...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 11d

Where do the digital archives meet local history? Learn about our 2022-23 CDDP Video Award winners, The Film Cycle Project Team (Tokushima University), to learn about their work with over 1,000 vintage videos & photos from the ‘30s-‘80s! 🎬 guides.nccjapan.org/cddp/video-s...

NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 14d

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...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 15d

How are you feeling as the fall arrives? This wild boar in autumn flowers and grasses c. 1800 is definitely telling us. 👀💦 Let’s a be a little more celebratory of Autumnal Equinox Day #秋分の日 as the colors turn! 🍂 This Mori Sosen painting held by LACMA: collections.lacma.org/node/215192

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 16d

Ephemera like postcards can show us fascinating glimpses of the past. 📮 If you’re interested in the early 20th century, check out Nichibunken’s database of Japanese art exhibition postcards from the 1900s to the 1930s! Check out their pre-war materials at: tenrankai.nichibun.ac.jp/il/meta_pub/...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 19d

What paths to discovery can digital scholarship lead us down? 🔎 At our 2017 workshop Ryuta Komaki (Rikkyo University) provided insights in his talk “Thinking Beyond Digital ‘Scholarship,’” which you can view here! guides.nccjapan.org/torontodigit...

NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 21d

Today we're pleased to shine our #NCCSpecialist spotlight on Ayako Yoshimura, Japanese Studies Librarian at University of Chicago! Her career path highlights the dual roles many information specialists have as scholars and library experts. Read about her journey: guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 22d

Those interested in Japanese Studies librarianship will be delighted to learn that University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hamilton Library has established a new training program for mentoring Japan subject librarians! Learn about this exciting new opportunity: www.hawaii.edu/news/2025/09...

Hamilton Library launches Japanese studies librarianship training program | University of Hawaiʻi System News

The Uehiro Foundation gift makes the new training program possible.

www.hawaii.edu

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 22d

When building a database on visual materials what considerations are there? Are there best practices? Revisit slides considering these issues from our 2015“Growing the East Asia Image Collection over a Decade” by Paul Barclay & Eric Luhrs (Lafayette College)! 💻 guides.nccjapan.org/2015harvardw...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 23d

Today is Japan's Respect for the Aged Day #敬老の日! If you’re a fan of noh/folklore, enjoy this 1920s painting by Kamisaka Sekka representing Takasago, the story of two ancient pines personified as a devoted elderly couple. 🌲 Held by Minneapolis Institute of Art: collections.artsmia.org/art/117762/n...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 26d

In addition to her full-time work as Professor of Japanese and Visual and Cultural Studies at Rochester, Bernardi also contributes to NCC’s Image Use Protocol Working Group, which helps guide researchers in best practices for locating and using Japanese visual images! guides.nccjapan.org/imageuse

NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 26d

Today’s #NCCShowcase is a recent @aasasianstudies.bsky.social feature on Joanne Bernardi (Rochester University), who received a NEAC Grant to travel to Japan and work on her upcoming book: Films for the Living: The Cinema of Jūzō Itami! 🎬 www.asianstudies.org/grants-award...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 28d

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...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · 29d

Where might technological innovations and changes to the information field take Japan Studies in the near future? 🗾➡️ As a part of our 30th anniversary event Yoshitaka Yamamoto reflected on the possibilities in “NCC 2.0: Envisioning the 4th Decade”! guides.nccjapan.org/30th-anniver...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our Multimedia History Project records the origins of the Japan Studies librarianship & research field with insights from those who contributed to its founding! Listen to our 2020 interview with Patricia Steinhoff (Emeritus, Hawaii) on her decades in scholarship! guides.nccjapan.org/multimediahi...

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NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social · Sep 5

Analog though it might have been, you can now practice classical kana with digital tools! 🖌️ Check out this video by the late X. Jie Yang (University of Calgary) for our CDDP video series “100 Classical Kana Words in Motion” to explore some of the possibilities! guides.nccjapan.org/cddp/video-s...

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