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Tag Archives: early modern
Workshop: Hokusai & Book Illustration
Rare Book School offers five-day, intensive courses for students from all disciplines and levels to study the history of manuscript, printed, and born-digital materials with leading scholars and professionals in the field. This year, we are pleased to present more … Continue reading
Workshop: Reading Kuzushiji
The University of Chicago’s Committee on Japanese Studies invites applications to its 2013 Early Modern Japan Summer Workshop: Reading Kuzushiji. Led by Professor Suzuki Jun of the National Institute of Japanese Literature (Kokubungaku Kenkyuu Shiryoukan), the workshop will be devoted … Continue reading
Book Announcement: An Imperial Concubine’s Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Japan in the early seventeenth century was a wild place. Serial killers stalked the streets of Kyoto at night, while noblemen and women mingled freely at the imperial palace, drinking saké and watching kabuki dancing in the presence of the … Continue reading
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Tagged aristocrats, book announcement, books, concubine, early modern, early modern Japan, Japan
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Job Opening: Early Modern Literature Assistant Professor
The Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Early Modern (Edo period) Japanese literature to begin August 2013. Research expertise in one or more of the … Continue reading
Job Opening: Early Modern Intellectual History (any region of the world), Assistant Professor
Institution: Yale University Location: Connecticut, United States Position: Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor-Early Modern Intellectual History Early Modern Intellectual History The Yale University Department of History and Humanities Program intend to make a tenure-track assistant professor appointment, to … Continue reading
Visual Culture and Social Upheaval: Imaging Change in Late Edo Period Japan
Upcoming program open to the public at the Freer Gallery in conjunction with two ongoing exhibits at the Freer-Sackler: Visual Culture and Social Upheaval: Imaging Change in Late Edo Period Japan Saturday, May 5, 2 pm Freer Gallery, Meyer Auditorium … Continue reading
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Tagged art, early modern, Edo period, Freer Gallery of Art, Japan, Japanese art, pop culture, visual culture, Washington DC
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Resource: USCF Japanese Woodblock Prints
Interested in Japanese medical history and art? Check out the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Digital Collection of Japanese Woodblock Prints! About In 1963, an East Asian collection was started by UCSF Provost and university librarian, later Chancellor, John … Continue reading
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Tagged art, culture, early modern, early modern history, Edo period, history, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese culture, medicine, Meiji period, resource, science, ukiyo-e, University of California San Francisco, woodblock prints
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Fun Link Friday: Then and Now Photos of Dejima (via Japan Probe)
Fellow history enthusiasts will enjoy this quickie Fun Link Friday: Japan Probe recently posted Then and Now images of Dejima (or Deshima), the artificial island built in the bay of Nagasaki in 1634 to direct much of what little trade … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, Dejima, Deshima, early modern, Edo period, fun link friday, images, Japan, modern, photos, topography, trade
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Book Announcement: Voices of Early Modern Japan. Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns
Constantine Nomikos Vaporis. Greenwood Press,2012. 254 pages. ISBN 978-0-313-39200-9 eISBN 978-0-313-39201-6. Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns spans an extraordinary period of Japanese history, ranging from the unification of the … Continue reading
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Tagged books, culture, early modern, early modern Japan, economics, history, Japan, politics, religion, research, Tokugawa
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Job Opening: Assistant Professor in Early Modern and/or Modern Japanese Literature
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Taper Hall of Humanities 356, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357) is … Continue reading
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