UBC Japanese Library Resources Blog

Asada Jiro, Atoda Takashi and Mori Eto

Canada Meets Japan: A Conversation of Authors

Monday May 3rd, 7-9:30 p.m.
Asia Pacific Hall, SFU Wosk Centre for Dialogue

Admission: FREE, but registration required

Hosted by David Chariandy, SFU Department of English, Melek Ortabasi, SFU World Literature Program, and Hal Wake, Artistic Director of the Vancouver International Writers Festival.

Featuring Atoda Takashi 阿刀田高, President of PEN Japan, Mori Eto 森絵都, winner of the Naoki Prize for Kaze ni maiagaru biniiru shiito 風に舞いあがるビニールシート　and Asada Jiro 浅田次郎, winner of the Naoki Prize for Mibu gishiden 壬生義士伝. In dialogue with Steven Galloway, author of The Cellist of Sarajevo, Nancy Lee, author of Dead Girls, and Timothy Taylor, author of Story House. With special guests Ayako Sato, Takeaki Hori and PEN Canada spokesperson Douglas Coupland.

Check out the Vancouver International Writers & Readers Festival website, or download a poster for more details.

Workshop: Citation Management Workshop for Japan Specialists
Featuring Zotero

• April 30 (Friday), 1:30-3:00pm
• Asian Library, Room 506 (may change to Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Rm 318 depending on demand)

Citation management tools are not only useful in storing and formatting citations, but they can also be used to store and organize article pdfs and notes. For this session I will be looking at the Zotero Firefox plugin, and providing information on its functionality with Japanese-language records and script.

To register:
Please contact me, and I will provide you with instructions on what to bring to the workshop.

Print by Toyohara Kunichika (Private Collection)

We are currently hosting an exhibition entitled “Kabuki in Print” as part of our 50th Anniversary celebrations. The exhibition is presented by the Canadian Society for the Asian Arts and is in anticipation of the TomoeArts’ production of “Odori: The World of Kabuki Dance”, which will be performed this weekend (April 10 & 11) at UBC’s Frederic Wood Theatre. Included in the exhibition are woodblock prints from private collections, as well as books from the UBC Library collection. Highlights include several original Japanese woodblock prints from the 18th to 20th centuries by popular artists Utagawa Toyokuni (1769–1825), Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861), and Toyohara Kunichika (1835–1900).

The Asia Voilà festivities will also be taking place on April 10, so please drop by the library and enjoy all the activities taking place 12-4pm at the Asian Centre, the Nitobe Gardens and the C.K. Choi Building.

I am happy to announce that we have just purchased over 120 Japanese-language e-books from netLibrary. To access this collection, please go to the netLibrary information page (after logging into your myVPN if accessing from home), and click on “via the web”.

How can you search inside the e-books? Simply enter your Japanese search term(s) in the search box and choose “Japanese” from the drop-down menu to the right.

You can also browse for Japanese e-books by doing the following:

1. Choose “e-books” from the “In our collection” section to the far right of the home page.



2. Limit by “Japanese”

(note: you may need to reset this limit if you click on “next page”)

Please note that within our current subscription to Kikuzo II (the Asahi Shinbun database), you can now access all articles from 1879 to 1945. This additional content will be freely available to us only until July, when our subscription is due to be renewed. This added content has a significant cost, and we will need to determine whether it’s feasible to purchase this. Please contact me with feedback as to whether the 1879-1945 content is useful for your research and teaching.

The added articles can be found simply by searching the 朝日新聞縮刷版 part of the database, and by leaving the 明治・大正 and 昭和（戦前）boxes checked (see below).