Doshisha Womens College
Cultural Issues in Japan
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RESOURCES:
ANIME:
- Japanese Animated Film Classics, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
ANTHROPOMORPHISM:
- アンパンマン
COOL JAPAN:
- Cool Japan/Creative Industries Policy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
CRITICAL ANALYSIS & THEORY:
- Comparative Analysis
- “How to Write a Comparative Analysis,” Harvard College Writing Center
- Critical Analysis (Formalist, Gender, Historical, Mythological, Psychological, etc.):
- Critical Approaches to Literature, John B. Padgett, University of Mississippi
- Film Analysis:
- Film Analysis, The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Film Analysis, Yale Film Analysis Web Site
- Formal, or Visual Analysis:
- Art Criticism and Formal Analysis Outline, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
- Understanding Formal Analysis, The J. Paul Getty Museum
- Visual Analysis, Writing Studio, Thompson Writing Program, Duke University
- Writing a Formal Analysis in Art History, The Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center, Hamilton College
FILM:
Akira Kurosawa
- The Criterion Collection
(Tokusatsu Film)
- Growing up with Godzilla: A Global History, by Gregory Pflugfelder
GENDER & SEXUALITY
- Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, edited by Carolyn Brewer, Department of Gender, Media, and Cultural Studies, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University
LITERATURE:
- Kyoto University Digital Library Rare Materials Exhibition
- Konjaku Monogatari Shū (京都大学附属図書館所蔵 国宝 鈴鹿家旧蔵)*
MANGA:
- AIKAWA Minwa (相川珉和)
- from The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
- Sketchbook of One Hundred Women (Manga Hyakujo, 漫画百女), Edo period, 1814
- KATSUSHIKA Hokusai (葛飾北斎)
- British Museum:
- Transmitted from the Gods: Random Drawings by Hokusai, Vol. 3 (Denshin Kaishu Hokusai Manga Sanpen, 伝神開手北斎漫画 三編), Edo period, Bunka era, 1815
- Harvard Art Museums:
- Hokusai Sketchbooks (Hokusai Manga, 北斎漫画), Edo period
- New York Public Library:
- The Hokusai Sketchbooks (Hokusai Manga, 北斎漫画), Edo period
- Princeton Library:
- Transmitting the Spirit and Revealing the Form of Things: Random Drawings of Hokusai (Denshin Kaishu Hokusai Manga, 伝神開手北斎漫画), Edo period, Bunka era, 1816 – 1817
- British Museum:
- New York Times
- TEZUKA Osamu (手塚治虫)
- (WIRGMAN, Charles)
- Princeton University, Firestone Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Graphic Arts Collection:
- The Japan Punch, Edo period, 1865-1866
- Princeton University, Firestone Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Graphic Arts Collection:
MEDIA THEORY:
- “The Chicago School of Media Theory; Keywords,” University of Chicago, 2018
MLA FORMAT
General Format
- MLA General Format, Purdue Online Writing Lab
In-Text Citations in MLA Format
- MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics, Purdue Online Writing Lab
Works Cited Pages in MLA Format
- For books: MLA Works Cited: Books, Purdue Online Writing Lab
- For periodicals: MLA Works Cited: Periodicals, Purdue Online Writing Lab
- For electronic sources (including images): MLA Works Cited: Electronic Sources, Purdue Online Writing Lab
- For films, T.V. shows, music, paintings, sculptures, photographs, digital files, etc.: MLA Works Cited: Other Common Sources, Purdue Online Writing Lab
Citing Manga in MLA Format
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- Citing Graphic Novels and Manga in MLA, Western Michigan University, University Libraries
- The Ultimate Guide to Citing Japanese Sources, Kristen Dexter, Tofugu, September 4, 2015
MONSTERS, SPIRITS, and DEMONS
- 異界・妖怪画像データベース*、国際日本文化研究せんたー、日文研
- Night Parade of One Hundred Demons, 19th century, handscroll, ink, color, and gold on paper, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
PHOTOGRAPHY:
- Hiroshima: Ground Zero 1945, International Center of Photography
PICTURE SCROLLS & PICTURE BOOKS
- British Library
- Digitised Manuscripts (search Keyword: “emaki” or “ehon”)
- Hyogo Prefectural Museum of History
- Collection of Picture Tales from the Medieval Age, Learn about the Works*
*captions for each work, including dates, dimensions, etc., can be found on Japanese language pages
- Kyoto University Digital Library Rare Materials Exhibition
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Collection (search: “handscroll”, Filter Results By Geographic Location: “Japan”)
- National Diet Library Digital Collection
- “Story of the Courtier Ban Dainagon” (replica), original attributed to Tokiwa Mitsunaga (illustrator) and Asukai Masatsune (author)
- Osaka Ohtani University Library (酒天童子絵巻 大阪大谷大学図書館 所蔵)
- Shuten Dōji Emaki*
*Japanese only
- Shuten Dōji Emaki*
- RADIO & TELEVISION:
- NHK (Japan Broadcasting Company)
WOODBLOCK PRINTS
- British Museum
- Collection online, Advanced search options (search Techniques: “woodblock,” and Places: “Japan,” etc.)
- National Diet Library Digital Collections
*Japanese only
Tsuikioka Yoshitoshi (月岡芳年)
- Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Yoshitoshi.net
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