{"id":5307,"date":"2006-01-10T03:02:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-10T08:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/2006\/01\/on-line-japanese-history-resources\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:06:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:06:46","slug":"on-line-japanese-history-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2006\/01\/on-line-japanese-history-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"On-line Japanese history resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While looking for a supplement to the anemic textbook offerings on Tokugawa Japan (none of the stuff is out of copyright, probably, which is why it&#8217;s not in the document set), I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/newton.uor.edu\/Departments&#038;Programs\/AsianStudiesDept\/japan-history.html#edo\">this great collection<\/a> of links to history resources.  (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlymodernweb.org.uk\/emr\/index.php\/category\/regions\/asia\/\">Early Modern Resources<\/a>) I still haven&#8217;t found what I&#8217;m looking for (quick document readings for world history students) but it&#8217;s a likely source for <i>something<\/i> especially visual materials.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b> (1\/23\/06): I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d find much in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrumsey.com\/\">David Rumsey Map collection<\/a>, because it seemed to be heavily European maps, and I was right: a few interesting maps of Japan produced by Europeans, but not much compared to the wealth of material for Western historians. Then, as I was about to give up, I noticed the link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrumsey.com\/japan\/\">the Japan collection<\/a> Yes, the UC Berkeley East Asian Library collection of historical Japanese maps (and a few other images) has been digitized and is available under Creative Commons license.  There&#8217;s a lot of mid-to-late Tokugawa and Meiji era stuff, in particular: right up my alley.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good illustration of the image quality and flexibility of the service: the very center of a 1710 map of the world:<\/p>\n<div align=center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/images\/\/1710NanzenBushuBankokuShoka.JPG\"><img src='http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/images\/thumb-1710NanzenBushuBankokuShoka.JPG' title='1710 Map of the World: Center of the World' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While looking for a supplement to the anemic textbook offerings on Tokugawa Japan (none of the stuff is out of copyright, probably, which is why it&#8217;s not in the document set), I came across this great collection of links to history resources. (via Early Modern Resources) I still haven&#8217;t found what I&#8217;m looking for (quick&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[95,173,119,126,63,138,200,203,205,207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","category-cultural","category-english","category-general","category-japan","category-libraries","category-web-sites","category-203","category-205","category-207"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-1nB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5636,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307\/revisions\/5636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}