Projects

Workshop projects, etc

Glossary of bibliographic and literary terms

This project is based on a glossary published in the Descriptive Catalogue of Japanese Books in the British Library Printed before 1700, by Kenneth B Gardner, pages xxiii - xxxiv, revised by Yasuyo Ohtsuka 大塚靖代, Curator of Japanese collections at the British Library with the assistance of Yen-Chen Chu 朱晏禛, Graduate of the school of Museum Studies at the Leicester University.

用例集

This list of examples of technical terms/phraseology useful for cataloguing antiquarian Japanese materials has been derived from the online catalogues of Tenri Central Library.


Descriptive Cataloging Guidelines for Pre-Meiji Japanese Books

Enlarged and Revised Edition, 2011


くずし字を学ぶ

The instructor of the course is Prof. Nobuyuki Kanechiku (兼築信行)and language is in Japanese. This online course may be a good start / enhancement


Mini-workshop, dealing with Japanese antiquarian materials for librarians

conducted by Mr Takashi Kuramochion (Keio Univeristy) on 4th November 2015 at the British Library


Intensive Workshop in Japanese Textual Scholarship

Based in Cambridge University


和漢古書に関する取扱い及び解説(NII)


和色大辞典


表紙文様集成

[Collection of patterns used on book covers]
This illustrated survey, originally published by the National Institute of Japanese Literature in 2004, is an invaluable resource for bibliographers, curators, conservators and others who need to provide accurate descriptions of patterns on Japanese book covers, textiles etc.