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- Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of EdoHiroshige's “One Hundred Famous Views of Edo,” actually composed of 118 splendid woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art. In order to protect these very special prints, the Museum can only physically display them periodically, but they are presented here in this ongoing online exhibition.
- Gahōsha. Taishōshin kasai mokuhan gashū Gahōsha, 1924.Digital images of 36 woodblock prints depicting the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. From Harvard University's Yenching Library rare book collection.
- Earthquake Children image archiveThe images collated in this website visually document children’s experiences of the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake and daily life in 1920s Tokyo.
- MIT Visualizing CulturesVisualizing Cultures weds images and scholarly commentary in innovative ways to illuminate social and cultural history.
- Cultural JapanDiscover digital resources on Japanese Culture from all over the world
- JapanKnowledge This link opens in a new window
JapanKnowledge is an extensive database, mostly in Japanese, with information about Japanese language, culture, history, and more. It Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, ebooks, news articles, and multimedia.
- AM Explorer This link opens in a new window
AM Explorer is a cross-collection search of the entire corpus of Adam Matthew's digitized arts and cultural heritage material in subjects including Area Studies, Cultural Studies, Empire and Globalism, Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality, History, Politics, Literature, Theatre, and War and Conflict.
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A Tokyo Anthology : Literature from Japan's Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920 by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2017This wide-ranging anthology--including fictional and dramatic works, essays, newspaper articles, political manifestos, and cartoons--tells the story of how Tokyo's literature and arts grew out of an often chaotic and sometimes paradoxical political environment to move toward a consummate Japanese "modernity."
Imaging Disaster : Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 by Location: Mugar Stacks NX584.A1 W45 2012Publication Date: 2012Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nation--the Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923--this fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. T
The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2005During the twentieth century, Japan was transformed from a poor, primarily rural country into one of the world's largest industrial powers and most highly urbanised countries. André Sorensen examines Japan's urban trajectory from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, paying particular attention to the weak development of Japanese civil society, local governments, and land development and planning regulations.
Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2010Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. Contributors explore dystopic images of the modern city in Germany, Mexico, Japan, India, South Africa, China, and the United States. Their topics include Weimar representations of urban dystopia in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis; 1960s modernist architecture in Mexico City; Hollywood film noir of the 1940s and 1950s; the recurring fictional destruction of Tokyo in postwar Japan's sci-fi doom culture; the urban fringe in Bombay cinema; fictional explorations of urban dystopia in postapartheid Johannesburg; and Delhi's out-of-control and media-saturated urbanism in the 1980s and 1990s.
