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Natural and synthetic arsenic sulfide pigments in Japanese woodblock prints of the late Edo period

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2018
We recently described the use of an artificial arsenic sulfide pigment in Japanese woodblock prints from the Meiji period (1868–1912): we now expand on our previous work by investigating arsenic sulfide pigments used in Japanese woodblock prints of the ...
Stephanie Zaleski   +2 more
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Illustrations in “Precious notes on papermaking” (“Kamisuki chohoki”): function, methods and context

open access: yesЯпонские исследования, 2022
In this paper the author makes an attempt to analyze and categorize the illustrations to “Precious Notes on Papermaking” (“Kamisuki Chohoki”, ed. 1824) according to their function.
Elizaveta S. Vaneian
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Productions agricoles et mesures contre les famines aux époques de Muromachi et d’Edo

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2013
This article proposes an analysis of the policies that were put into place in Japan to combat famines between the middle of the 14th Century and the end of the 19th Century.
Nobuhiro Ito
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La marchandisation d’« Edo » pendant les ères Meiji et Taishō. La création des « motifs Genroku » et d’un « goût pour Edo » par le grand magasin Mitsukoshi

open access: yesEbisu: Études Japonaises, 2019
In the Meiji 20s (1887–1896), the political development of an “Edo style” came about as a form of resistance to Europeanisation policies and reflected a desire to preserve national characteristics.
Reiji Iwabuchi
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“Precious notes on papermaking” (“Kamisuki chohoki”) as the first illustrated guide to papermaking

open access: yesЯпонские исследования, 2022
The article touches upon the phenomenon of Japanese handmade paper given the example of “Precious Notes on Papermaking” (“Kamisuki Chohoki”) as the first printed illustrated manual on papermaking in Japan.
Anna S. Oskina, Sofia A. Pasivkina
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Study focuses on local government formation process in Kawagoe City from Edo Period to Meiji Era

open access: yesJapan Architectural Review, 2023
This paper focuses on the process of local government formation, from the Edo Period to the Meiji Era, in Kawagoe City, which has its roots in a castle town at the end of the Edo Period, in order to discover regional formation for urban reorganization ...
Hiroshi Tsuchida, Yuka Honda
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Reform of History Lessons in Elementary Schools (I) : A Teaching Plan for "Edo Period and Urban Culture" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The aim of this study is to develop a teaching plan for history lesson in elementary schools. The purpose of this teaching plan is to make pupils understand theories of urban culture through studying the culture of the Edo period.
Yamada, Hidekazu, Katakami, Soji
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Illegal Border Crossing: The Experience of Edo Period Travelers

open access: yesRussian Japanology Review, 2021
Travel diaries of the Edo period contain records about border posts and descriptions of illegal border crossing. Travelers resorted to paying bribes, changing clothes, and going around border posts if they did not have a tegata document, or for other ...
A. A. Dudko
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“The Myriads of People Are All One”: Andō Shōeki’s Self-with-Others

open access: yesAmerican, British and Canadian Studies Journal, 2023
Japanese Edo period thinker Andō Shōeki 安藤昌益 (1703-1762) was one of the most mysterious figures in the intellectual landscape of his time. Very little is known about his life, and only fragments of his writings have survived to this day.
Paşca Roman
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Can You Question Science in a Pandemic? Provocations on the History of Health (and Food) in Japan After COVID

open access: yesNew Voices in Japanese Studies, 2021
This article, through a series of provocations and anecdotes from my research into dietary health in early modern Japan (1600-1868), makes the case for transhistorical thinking as a productive analytical mode, allowing the past to speak to present ...
Joshua Schlachet
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