Have you ever thought about exploring the digital with your work or teaching? 💻📏 Where to even begin? At our 2017 workshop Ryuta Komaki (Rikkyo University) provided insights into this process in his presentation “Thinking Beyond Digital ‘Scholarship’”! guides.nccjapan.org/torontodigit...

It’s #WorldElephantDay! Let’s respect our big friends a little more than this monkey teasing an elephant with a stick. 🐘 This metal sword guard from 1724 is by Tamagawa Masaharu and held by The Walters Art Museum! art.thewalters.org/object/51.281/

Today is Mountain Day #山の日 in Japan! 🏔️ Mt Fuji has always been the subject of paintings and prints, so it’s no surprise that once photography came about Fuji had a front row seat! This photo is from c. 1897. See the Nichibunken database: sekiei.nichibun.ac.jp/GAI/ja/detai...

As a part of our Comprehensive Digitization and Discoverability Program’s pilots for enhancing digital accessibility NCC partnered with Berkeley to digitize Kadenshū 家伝集, a 19th c genealogy of courtiers! For more on this fascinating project, visit Pilot Case 3 at guides.nccjapan.org/cddp/pilot-c...

Today is #InternationalCatDay! Kiss your longgg buddy on the ears, they deserve it! 🐈‍⬛ This round friend by Sasaki Asako and held by the Seattle Art Museum: art.seattleartmuseum.org/objects/25680

This week is the anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings, when US devastated Hiroshima & Nagasaki. How do we teach that history? Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Aleksandr Sklyar (Colgate Univ) “Humanizing History: Creating Nagasaki Atomic History and the Present.” guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

What is web archiving & how can it be used in research? At our 2018 Digital Scholarship Workshop Koko Fujita Howell spoke on “Introduction to Web Archiving Using Archive-It”! Check out the slides on our workshop site: guides.nccjapan.org/c.php?g=8894...

Ready to give yourself the gift of exploring a fascinating world of rare Edo publications? 😍 Revisit this #NCCSpotlight Julie Nelson Davis & Lynne Farrington to learn about these 1200+ treats in “The Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books”! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

In addition to our #NCCSpotlight posts, our Multimedia History Project features the history of some of the first specialists to help develop NCC & the field!🗾 Learn all about Sachi Noguchi, who initiated some of our first projects & helped build Japan collections! guides.nccjapan.org/multimediahi...

What is the Image Use Protocol site, and how does it help scholars get publication permissions for Japanese images? 👀 Learn all about this helpful guide from this talk by Fabiano Takashi Rocha (Librarian @uoftlibraries) at our 2012 librarianship workshop! guides.nccjapan.org/c.php?g=3557...

Collections processing bibliographic data is essential to discoverability–how could we automate it? Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Adam H. Lisbon (U Colorado Boulder) “Automating Book Selections and Donation Intake for Japanese (or any other language) Materials”! 💻📖 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

Leveling up Japanese is always on our minds! Tackle reading improvement with Tadoku #多読, a practice of reading comprehensively at your level to enjoy what you’re working on as you develop skills. 🤩📚 Check out NCC’s tadoku guide for lots of great resources! guides.nccjapan.org/tadoku-exten...

If you’re curious how tools like ArcGIS/StoryMaps are used for digital exhibitions, you’ll want to check out this example by Dylan Siegel (Yale) from our CDDP Video series! 🗺️💻 “Digital Mapping and Presentation Tools: Fragments of the Incendiary Bombing of Japan”: guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

How did artists & writers depict the earliest US-Japan interactions? ⛵ Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Cameron Penwell (LOC) on digitally-accessible materials on this fascinating history: “Exploring Early US-Japan Encounters at the Library of Congress”! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

What kind of institutional support is needed to facilitate digitally-enabled research? At our 2018 digital scholarship workshop, Nick Budak (Princeton DH) discussed these issues in his talk: “Lessons from DARIAH beyond Europe”! 💻 guides.nccjapan.org/2018princeto...

It’s Marine Day #海の日 in Japan! Whip out that kimono covered in your favorite sea creatures and enjoy the bounty of the ocean! 🐙🐟🦀🌊🦐 This festival kimono from the early 20th century held by Minneapolis Institute of Art: collections.artsmia.org/art/131646/d...

Did Edo elites think nostalgically of Heian Japan? Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Kiyoe Minami (HMoA), “Exploring Heian Cultural Revival in Edo through the Jūban Mushi-awase Emaki at the Honolulu Museum of Art” to explore paintings, poetry, and thoughts on the past! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

How can digital methods allow us to think through our scholarship? 🤔 At our 2015 digital workshop, Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth) provided some places to start! See his slides on “The Study of Japan in the Age of Digital Humanities and Quantitative Social Sciences”: guides.nccjapan.org/c.php?g=397542

Did you know NDL’s Digitized Contents Transmission Service for Individuals (DCTI) provides free access to over 2 million digitized items? Access is currently limited to users in Japan, but NCC is always in conversation with reps about expanding access. Learn more: guides.nccjapan.org/illdd/news

How can we leverage content management systems for collaborative research & discoverability? 💻 In this video, Dr. Rebecca Corbett (USC), 2021 winner of our NCC-CDDP Video Award, explains using Scalar to showcase early 20th c USC's Japanese posters collections! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

Does your library/archive outside of Japan have "movable" Japanese books? 📜 NCC's Comprehensive Digitization and Discoverability Program task force wants to know! Visit their survey to help them gather information on these fascinating resources! The survey will close 8/15: forms.gle/tzcEGzAyTfQX...

#OTD in 1853 Commodore Perry arrived in Japan. To explore dramatic representations of the sea 🌊 and those who traveled to Japanese shores, you can peruse the digitized collections of the Library of Congress: www.loc.gov/resource/asi...

Interested in the intersection of public history and pedagogy? Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Alan Christy (UCSC History) on The Okinawa Memories Initiative, an international project on postwar Okinawan history, archives, and memory! guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

What kind of services are available through the NDL to obtain copies of research materials? Our Resource Sharing Committee has information on eligibility and restrictions on our Public Transmission Service webpage! 👇 guides.nccjapan.org/c.php?g=8420...

Textiles are more than fabric and books are more than paper! Art enthusiasts of all kinds will want to revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Hamish Todd (British Library) on Japanese textile design books full of lavish and lovely patterns and prints! 😍👘🪻 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

Today’s #NCCShowcase is exciting news from Toshie Marra (UC Berkeley) that 125 titles of Japanese 14th-19th c manuscripts have been digitized & made available! This is part of a multiyear project to make research materials more accessible & discoverable. Explore at: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Are you getting ready for a spooky summer? 👻 We have just the thing! Revisit some quality bakemono and yokai in this #NCCSpotlight by Jack Stoneman (Brigham Young University), introducing their Edo period Pictures of Monsters scroll! 💀 #妖怪 #化け物 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

NCC’s 25th Anniversary in 2018 marked an important milestone for the Japan Studies field! Listen to former NCC Executive Director Vickey Bestor share her expertise and experience on where NCC has been and will go! guides.nccjapan.org/events/25tha...

If you’ve ever wanted help transcribing calligraphic Japanese texts for your work or teaching, you won’t want to miss this CDDP introductory video by Tarin Clanuwat on the ROIS CODH Kuronet Kuzushiji Recognition tools and IIIF Curation Viewer! guides.nccjapan.org/cddp/video-s...

What’s the latest from the NDL? If you’re interested in woodblock prints or early Meiji efforts to document manufacturing and regional products, you’ll want to check out these oshiegusa prints from 1872-1876! 🌾 See this and more in the NDL's latest newsletter: www.ndl.go.jp/en/publicati...