EAJRS

EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF JAPANESE RESOURCE SPECIALISTS

2011 Conference in Newcastle

Programme

07 September 2011 (Wednesday)

09.00 - 10.00: Registration
10.00 - 10.30: Opening ceremony

• Welcome greetings by Prof. Máire Cross, Acting Head of the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University
• Welcome greetings by Dr. Joanne Smith Finley, Head of the East Asian Studies Section, Newcastle University
• Welcome greeting by Ms. Lucy Keating, Faculty Liaison Librarian (HASS) of Newcastle University Library
• Opening address by Prof. W. F. Vande Walle, Chairman of the EAJRS

10.30 - 12.00 General Session I (Chair W.F. Vande Walle)

1. 10.30 - 11.00 OKAHISA Kei (National Diet Library): Great East Japan Earthquake and Libraries. Clearing the Aftermath and Mounting Support Measures. (ENG)
2. 11.00 - 11.30 KIYOI Mikie (Japan Center for Asian Historical Records National Archives of Japan): Earthquakes and Resilience as Seen in Official Documents from Meiji, Taisho, Showa Eras. (ENG)
3. 11.30 - 12.00 Fabiano ROCHA (University of Toronto Libraries): Report from the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC)‟s project to develop an online Guide to Research Affiliation. (ENG)

12.00 - 12.30 Visit to the Language Resource Centre of Newcastle University

12.30 -13.30 Lunch

13.30 - 14.30: Keynote Speaker Lecture
HASHIGUCHI Kōnosuke (Seikei University and Seishindō): 江戸時代の出版事情から見た和本調査について (Investigating Wahon from the Perspective of the Edo-period Publishing Scenes). (JPN)

14.30 - 15.30 Japanese Resources in the North East of Great Britain

1. 14.30 - 15.00 Rosina BUCKLAND (National Museum of Scotland): Japanese Art in Edinburgh Collections. (ENG)
2. 15.00 - 15.30 KOYAMA Noboru (Cambridge University Library): An Introduction to the Confiscated Japanese Documents and Books at Durham University Library.(ENG)

15.30 - 16.00: Coffee break

16.00 - 17.00: Visit to Newcastle University Library (special collection)

17.30 - 19.30: Reception hosted by the local organizer at the School of Modern Languages (Old Library Building, Pybus Room)

08 September (Thursday)

9.00 - 10.30: Digitizing Japanese Resources: Opportunities and Challenges (Chair Hamish Todd)

1. 9.00 - 9.30 NAGASHIMA Hiroaki (Tokyo University): 日本語の歴史的典籍のデータベースの構築―文部科学省による学術研究の大型プロジェクトの推進と関連して― (The Construction of a Database for Japanese Antiquarian Books: the Advancement of a Large-scale Scholarly Project Funded by the the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology). (JPN)
2. 9.30 - 10.00 AKAMA Ryō (Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University): ARC デジタル化モデルによる新 た挑戦 (New Challenges in the ARC digitization model). (JPN)
3. 10.00 - 10.30 KASHIMURA Masaaki (Keio University): HUMI プロジェクトによる貴重書デジタル化を振り返って (Looking back on the digitization of rare books by the HUMI Project). (JPN)
4. 10.30 -11.00 OUCHI Hidenori (Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo): 史料編纂所の公開 DB とデジタルアーカイブ (Databases and the Digital Archive of the Historiographical Institute). (JPN)

11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 - 12.45: Recent Developments in Commercial Database (Chair Antony Boussemart)

1. 11.30 -11.50 OTA Makoto (The Yomiuri Shimbun):ヨミダス歴史館--- 明治の広告、連載小説まで検索可能な新聞データベース (Yomidas Rekishikan: Yomiuri‟s Award Winning Database, enables you to search even advertisements and serial novels). (ENG & JPN)
2. 11.50 - 12.10 UJITA Kaori (The Asahi Shimbun): 朝日新聞記事データベースの号外に見る日本の近現代史 ("Japanese Modern History in the Extra Editions of The Asahi Shimbun Online Newspaper Database‟). (ENG & JPN)
3. 12.10 - 12.30 TANAKA Masashi (NetAdvance, inc.): 2011 年ジャパンナレッジ追加の新コンテンツ/新機能 (New Contents and Functions Added to JapanKnowledge in 2011). (ENG & JPN)
4. 12.30- 12.45: Q&A

12.45 - 14.00: Lunch

14.00 - 16.00: The Uses of Resources in Research (Chair W. F. Vande Walle)

1. 14.00 - 14.30 Ellis TINIOS (University of Leeds): Maximizing Profits: Modified Blocks and Other Publishers' Tricks in the Edo Period. (ENG)
2. 14.30 - 15.00 Andrew GERSTLE (School of Oriental and African Studies – SOAS – University of London): Researching Shunga: Accessing Private Collections. (ENG)
3. 15.00 - 15.30 Ian ASTLEY (The University of Edinburgh): Mapping Buddhist Monasteries: Modern Technology in the Service of Plotting Ancient Networks. (ENG)
4. 15.30 - 16.00 Tokiko Y. BAZZELL (University of Hawaii at Manoa): All about the “Magic”: Looking Through Takie Okumura's Magic Lantern Slides. (ENG)

16.00- 16.30: Coffee break

16.30 - 18.30: Cataloguing Materials (Chair Laura Moretti)

1. 16.30 - 17.00 KANSAKU Ken'ichi, MASUI Yuko, KANATA Fusako (National Institute of Japanese Literature): 国文学研究資料館の和古書―新分類表の適用 ("Early Japanese Books of NIJL : The Application of a New Classification System‟). (JPN)
2. 17.00 - 17.30 OKAJIMA Ikuko (Tenri Central Library): 天理図書館の古典籍目録(仮)(The Catalogue of Japanese Antiquarian Materials at Tenri Central Library). (JPN)

17.30 - 18.30: General Discussion on Digitizing and Cataloguing Antiquarian Materials (Chair Hamish Todd, Antony Boussemart and Laura Moretti)

20.00: Traditional Dinner at Blackfriars Restaurant

09 September (Friday)

9.00-10.40: NACSIS-CAT Clinic/Q&A Workshop (organized by Izumi Tytler, Bodleian Japanese Library, University of Oxford)

1. 9.00 - 9.20 TAKAHASHI Nanako (National Institute of Informatics): NACSIS-CAT 最新動向 ("The latest developments of NACSIS-CAT‟). (JPN)
2. 9.20 - 9.40 OHTSUKA Yasuyo (The British Library): Report on NII Trainers' Training. (JPN)
3. 9.40 - 10.40 HIRANO Akira (The Sainsbury Institute) and OHTSUKA Yasuyo: NACSIS Cataloguing Workshop & Clinic. (JPN & ENG)

10.40 - 11.00: Coffee break

11.00 - 13.00: General Session II (Chair Naomi Yabe Magnussen)

1. 11.00 - 11.30 Yasuko D‟HULST and Ursula FLACHE (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales / Centre de recherches sur le Japon; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, East Asia Department): 日本専門家ワークショップ 2011」参加報告とその成果 (How to Learn a Lot in One Week - Report on the Japan Specialist Workshop 2011‟). (JPN)
2. 11.30 -12.00 Donatella FAILLA (Museo d'Arte orientale "Edoardo Chiossone", Genova): Ohanaire-shi: Flower Vase Masters of the Edo Period and their Signatures as Primary Historical Sources. Recently Discovered rikka, nageirebana, and bunjinbana Vases in the Chiossone Museum, Genoa.‟ (ENG)
3. 12.00 -12.30 Sonia FAVI (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia): Orientalism and Fifteenth-century European Representations of Japan in Historical and Geographical Resources. (ENG)
4. 12.30 -13.00 Alessandro BIANCHI (Cambridge University): Peculiar Examples of Kanji and Furigana Scripts: Some Thoughts on the Transcription of Woodblock-printed Texts from the Edo Period. (ENG)

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.30 - 17.00 Visit to the collection of woodblock prints at the Laing Art Gallery conducted by Lesley Richardson (Laing Art Gallery).

10 September (Saturday)

9.00 - 11.00 General Session III (Chair Koyama Noboru)

1. 9.00 - 9.30 NAKAMURA Sumiko (Independent scholar): (続)『江戸紫五十四帖』― 新たに姿を現した一枚 (A New Print in the Series Edo murasaki gojūjō). (JPN)
2. 9.30 - 10.00 EGAMI Toshinori (International Research Center for Japanese Studies): 国際日本文化研究センター外書館と外書の歴史 (JPN)
3. 10.00 - 10.30 KADOKURA Yuriko (Resource Center for the History of Entrepreneurship, Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation): The New Blog Category: Disaster and Revival as Seen in "Shashi". (ENG)
4. 10.30 - 11.00 Gill GODDARD (University of Sheffield, Library): Continuing the Work of Nagase Takashi: the Perils and Pitfalls of Making a New Edition of Two Books Previously Published by the Author. (ENG)

11.00 - 11.30: Coffee break

11.30 - 12.30: Annual General Assembly of the EAJRS

12.30: End of the Conference

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 17.00: Optional visit to the Oriental Museum in Durham