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Category Archives: study tools
#Program: KCJS Deadline extended
Dear Colleagues, The deadline for KCJS Summer Programs in Advanced & Classical Japanese has been extended to March 13, 2015. Please share this information with your colleagues and students, and forward to appropriate email lists. The KCJS intensive summer programs, … Continue reading
Program: Summer Intensive Kanbun at IUC
Summer Intensive Kanbun Program at IUC Yokohama Applications due March 13, 2015 Program Dates: Friday, June 19, 2015 – Thursday, July 9, 2015 The Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama (administered by Stanford University), will offer a three-week intensive course in … Continue reading
Workshop: Reading Kuzushiji – Summer 2015 – University of Chicago
The Japan Committee of the University of Chicago is pleased to announce that it will be once again be holding its Early Modern Japanese Summer Workshop: Reading Kuzushiji. This year the workshop will meet from June 15th-19th and will be led by … Continue reading
Resource: Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia
The Okinawa Compact Encyclopedia entry for Tomari Jochiku, a 16th-17th century Confucian scholar from Yakushima, who served as an official tutor to both King Shô Hô and daimyô Shimazu Mitsuhisa. For those of us studying, or just interested in, Okinawan … Continue reading
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Tagged encyclopedias, Okinawa, okinawan culture, okinawan history, resources, ryukyu shimpo
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Call for Applications: Penn State Asian Studies Summer Institute: “Migratory Aesthetics and Asian/American Studies”
Penn State Asian Studies Summer Institute: “Migratory Aesthetics and Asian/American Studies” Penn State University invites applicants for its annual Asian Studies Summer Institute, to be held June 21-27, 2015. This year’s Institute, directed by Tina Chen and Eric Hayot, focuses on … Continue reading
Resource: Interactive Heiji Scroll Viewer
On the heels of our last post about the Mongol Invasion website from Bowdoin College, this week we give you a quick look at another great site they maintain for close examination of handscroll paintings. In addition to the Mongol … Continue reading
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Tagged Bowdoin Colege, emakimono, Heian Japan, Heian period, Heiji, Heiji Disturbance, Japan, resources, visual arts
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Resource: Interactive Resources on the Mongol Invasions
Looking back at 2014, there was big news in October that underwater remains of a shipwreck likely to be part of the 13th century Mongol fleet that attacked Japan were found near Nagasaki. Similar finds stirred historians and archaeologists alike … Continue reading
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Tagged emakimono, Japan, medieval history, medieval Japan, military history, Mongol invasions, Mongols, resources
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Call for Applicants: Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies (KCJS)
Greetings from the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies (KCJS)! As we look forward to 2015, we wanted to send information regarding the KCJS programs, including application deadlines for the upcoming semester. Summer Programs in Modern and Classical Japanese The KCJS … Continue reading
Workshop: Intensive Workshop in Japanese Early-modern Textual Scholarship 2015
J-PATS (Japanese Palaeography and Textual Scholarship Network; www.jpats), The University of Cambridge (Department of East Asian Studies) and Emmanuel College (Cambridge) are organizing the first Intensive Workshop in Japanese Early-modern Textual Scholarship. This three-day intense course offers an introduction to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Cambridge University, documents, Emmanuel College, England, language, language skills, paleography, texts, workshop
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