UBC Japanese Library Resources Blog

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).

JapanKnowledge has begun uploading the full-text, searchable e-version of Shinpen Nihon koten bungaku zenshu 新編日本古典文学全集 to its database, starting with the full set of Genji monogatari 源氏物語 produced by the series. Users can now search for words within the original text, the gendaigo yaku 現代語訳, the annotations, or all three at once. Other works in the SNKBZ series will be uploaded in the near future. How can you access this resource? See below for details.

1. Log into your myVPN (if accessing from home)
2. Go to the JapanKnowledge website (http://www.jkn21.com/), and click on the ログイン/Login button
3. On the main screen, scroll down and find 新編日本古典文学全集 at the bottom right, and select 個別
   
4. Enter the search term and choose what part of the text you would like to search
   
5. Choose from the results (the search term is highlighted in pink), and you will be taken to a digital reproduction of the page in which the term appears.

Remember to log out when you are finished your search, so that others may access this resource.

Update:
Click here for the newly-released guide from JapanKnowledge.

UBC has started a new subscription to Zasshi kiji sakuin sh̄usei, an online periodicals index from Koseisha. This index, which we trialed in the fall, provides citation information for articles from the Meiji period to the present. Although information on recent publications can also be found in sources such as the National Diet Library’s Periodicals’ index and CiNii, this serves as a unique online resource for pre-1948 works.

To access this e-resource:
1) Sign into your myVPN (if accessing from home)
2) Go to the information page
3) Click on “via the web”

Here are some of the titles that we recently acquired at Asian Library:

Literature for Language Learners
Irasuto koten zen’yaku (イラスト古典全訳枕草子)
Kimi ga mitsukeru monogatari: Jūdai no tame no shinmeisaku
(きみが見つける物語 : 十代のための新名作)
10-pun de yomeru meisaku – grades 1 to 6 (10分で読める名作)
Rōdoku “bungaku no shizuku” (朗読「文学のしずく」)

Ghost and Mystery Stories
Edo kaii kisō bungei taikei (江戸怪異綺想文芸大系)
Purofuiru: tantei to ryōki (ぷろふいる : 探偵と猟奇)

Here are some of the titles that we recently acquired at Asian Library:

Fine Arts
Nihon ayatsuri ningyoshi (日本操り人形史)
Rinpa (琳派)

Language
Shigoto no Nihongo (しごとの日本語)
Watakushitachi to keigo (私たちと敬語)

Literature
1Q84 by MURAKAMI Haruki (1Q84 / 村上春樹)
Ise monogatari: sozo to henyo (伊勢物語 : 創造と変容)
Yumeno Kyusaku (夢野久作)

Religious Studies
Tendaishu zensho (天台宗全書)

History
Kibi dango (驥尾團子)
Mangaban Nihon no rekishi (漫画版日本の歴史)

DVDs
Kyoto Gionmatsuri (京都祗園祭)
Gekido no kiroku (激怒の記録)
Dokyumento Taiheiyo Senso (ドキュメント太平洋戦争)
Nihongo de kuraso (にほんごでくらそう)
Nishi no Majo ga shinda (西の魔女が死んだ)
Maiko haaaan!!! (舞妓 haaaan!!!)

Until the end of March 2010, our Asahi Shinbun‘s Kikuzo Visual II database will include pdf images of the paper’s shukusatsuban small print editions published between 1926 and 1945.

Instructions on accessing the archive:
1) log onto into your VPN and access Kikuzo via the information page
2) choose the 朝日新聞縮刷版 (Asahi Shinbun shukusatsuban) tab
3) 1926-1945 should be pre-selected

Please e-mail me if you have any feedback regarding this resource.

We are currently running a trial of Koseisha’s Zasshi kiji sakuin shusei, an index of Japanese periodicals that covers materials published from the Meiji Period to today. The database includes the full National Diet Library periodicals’ index, but is especially useful for those looking for resources published before 1948.

To access this index:
1) log into your VPN
2) go to the information page
3) click on “via the web”
4) click on 詳細検索

The trial ends October 24, 2009.

For more information on this database, check out this brochure (pdf).

I would appreciate any feedback you may have regarding this resource. Please e-mail me with your comments.