“INTRODUCING RE-ENVISIONING JAPAN”Joanne Bernardi

Assoc. Prof. Japanese Studies and Film & Media StudiesPanel: RE-ENVISIONING JAPAN: A FACULTY-DIGITAL HUMANITIES CENTER

COLLABORATIONThe Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship Colloquium 2014: “Pedagogy &

Practices”

1. OVERVIEW

2. PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

3. PEDAGOGY

4. REWARDS, CHALLENGES, FUTURE PLANS

1. OVERVIEW

• PRESERVATION• ACCESS• HISTORICAL ANALYSIS

EDIFICATION & INFORMATION:General culture, history, language, social

work, US Occupation (1945-1952), US WW II

propaganda

LEISURE & ENTERTAINMENT:Advertising, shopping, World Fairs, Photographs, Slides, Stereoviews,

Literature, Sheet Music

FILMS:16mm, Regular 8mm, Super 8mm,

Archival films

POSTCARDS:actors, children, cities and sites, colonial,

illustrated, Great Kanto Earthquake, Mt. Fuji, Imperial family, Japan in America, occupational,

recreation, war, women, etc.

TOURISM & TRAVEL:Brochures, Guide Books, Hotels, Travel (Air,

Land, Sea)

2. BACKGROUND

Tokyo and Yokohama

AsakusaTokyo’s entertainment district

Benten-dori main street, Yokohama

Topical postcards as visual record of place,Particularly urban landscapes, e.g.

Global circulation of objects, images, cultures:basic units of communication

Exposition Universelle 1900 Paris St. Louis World’s

Fair 1904

Japan-British Exhibition 1910 Panama-California Exposition 1915 San Diego

Y.M.C.A.(n.d.)

“For the Rights of Mankind” (1917)“Today we chin with China, and faraway Japan. . . .”

JAPAN IN THE WORLD ( 1926)

“Japan’s mission is to

harmonize theCivilization of the East and West” USA

( n.d.)

Japan conjured up as amusement park: Japan Gardens, Wonderland, Revere Beach, Massachusetts

(1906-1911)

Stereoviews

Tourist Brochures

Board of Tourist Industry,Japanese Government Railways

Nippon Yusen Kaisha(N.Y. K. Shipping Line)

Singer Co. promotional item:Popular consumption----product and edification

Sheet music: Orientalist fantasy and entertainment

Images, objects not of Japanese origin

Magazines, assorted publications

19231935

1916

3. PEDAGOGY

4. REWARDS, CHALLENGES,FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Re-Envisioning Librarianship

Change in Orientation

Shift in Priorities

Different Tools

21st Century Practice

http://humanities.lib.rochester.edu/rej/

“Re-envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture”