FY 2023 Adopted Joint Research Projects
<International Joint Research with Research Fund>
A. International Fixed Theme
<International Joint Research with Research Fund>
B. International Open Theme
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1 | AI-powered Text Recognition of Inscriptions in Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints |
Research Leader. Ewa Machotka Associate Professor, Stockholm University, Dept. of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Co-researcher. Ryo Akama, John Pavlopoulos, Konstantina Liagkou |
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2 | Ukiyo-e, illustrated books, albums and painted books in Madrid Collections |
Research Leader. Pilar CABAÑAS Associate Professor of Art History Department of Art History, Faculty of Geography and History, The Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Co-researcher. Matilde ARIAS, Ana TRUJILLO, Aitana MERINO, Javier PÉREZ |
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3 | Audio - Visual Archive of UNESCO's Borobudur Restoration Project (1973-1983) |
Research Leader. Fadjar Ibnu Thufail Director, Research Center for Area Studies, National Research and Innovation Agency Co-researcher. Satoshi Tanaka, Keiko Suzuki, Liang Li, Kyoko Hasegawa, Biligsaikhan Batjargal, Upik Sarjiati, Aryo Danusiri, Brahmantara |
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4 | Re-thinking Japonisme: Digitisation of the V&A's collection of Japanese illustrated books and researching its formation in the late 19th century |
Research Leader. Masami Yamada Curator, Victoria and Albert Museum Co-researcher. Ryo Akama, Ryoko Matsuba, Yuriko Iwakiri |
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C. Open Theme
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1 | A Basic Research for Using Digital Data of Japan National Railways' Documents: Focusing on Daily reports of Moji Railway Bureau of Japan National Railway |
Research Leader. Akimasa Suganuma Lecturer, Faculty of Collaborative Regional Development, Kyushu Sangyo University Co-researcher. Noboru Hirayama , Rihito Shima, Yuichiro Suzuki, Masaki Kusano, Teppei Doi, Kuniaki Watabe, Kazuki Hayashi, Shohei Yamazaki |
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2 | Dissemination of Kyomachiya culture using the collection database of the Nagae Family Residence |
Research Leader. Hirotaka SATO Assistant Professor, Faculty of Regional Policy, Aichi University Co-researcher. Yoshie Takagi, Susumu Hyuga, Mikiharu Takeuchi, Keiji Yano, Naomi Kawasumi |
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3 | The Role of Manuscripts in the Edo Period: Cataloging Japanese manuscripts in UC Berkeley C.V. Starr East Asian Library on ARC |
Research Leader. Motoi Katsumata Professor, Meisei University Co-researcher. Ryo Akama, Toshie Marura |
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4 | Construction of 3D Model Database of Japanese Armor in the possession of Tokushima City Tokushima Castle Museum |
Research Leader. Akihiro Tsukamoto Associate Professor, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Tokushima University Co-researcher. Toshio Nezu, Takafumi Moriwaki, Satoshi Tanaka, Kyoko Hasegawa, Li Liang |
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5 | A Study on the Construction of a Search and Browsing System for Theater Photo Materials using a Database of Theater Performance Records (provisional translation) |
Research Leader. Sachiko MUTO Chief librarian, Shochiku Otani Library Co-researcher. Ryo Akama, Mayuko Igawa, Eri Sasaki, Ayaka Murashima, Masumi Harada, Toshie Takeda |
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D. International Joint Research to Utilize the Center's Facilities and Equipment
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1 | A Study of Letters Written by Matsudaira Sadanobu |
Research Leader. Ryu SUGIMOTO Kuwana City Museum | |
2 | Decipherment of residential records of Jakumau in the Edo period |
Research Leader. Susan L. Burns Director, Center for East Asian Studies Professor of Japanese History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, University of Chicago Co-researcher. Yoko Nabeshima |
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3 | A Comprehensively Study on Primary Sources in the possession of Itoi Bunko Library in Maizuru City |
Research Leader. Eriko Hata Professor, Shizuoka Eiwa Gakuin University | |
4 | Infrastructure Development of Digital Research Environment for Modern Woodblock-printed Kuchi-e (Frontispieces) |
Research Leader. Tomoo Asahi Independent Researcher Co-researcher. Ryo Akama, Kana Tsuneki |
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5 | A Research Project on Construction of Comprehensive Digital Archives Focusing on the Third Phase Yakusha Hyobanki |
Research Leader. Yoko Kaguraoka Professor, Ehime University Faculty of Law and Letters Co-researcher. Ryo Akama, Masae Kurahashi, Yoko Kuroishi, Chie Saito, Takashi Noguchi, Kayano Mizuta, Takaaki Kaneko |
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6 | A Digital Database Project on the high-altitude Settlements of the Yayoi Period |
Research Leader. Hideto Morioka THE PALEOLOGICALASSOCIATION OF JAPAN, Inc Visiting Researcher Co-researcher. Hisao Kuwabara, Tamiki Kunishita, Kunihiko Wakabayashi, Atsushi Ito, Shoji Shibata, Naohiko Tabata, Naoto Teramae, Takanori Mori, Ryo Yamamoto, Tomoyuki Usami |
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7 | Three-Dimensional Photogrammetry of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Artworks for Detecting Symptoms of Mental Health Disorder |
Research Leader. Wanda Listiani Institut Seni Budaya Indonesia Bandung/Dr. Co-researcher. Anrilia Ema M.N, Ida Ayu Laksmita Sari |
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8 | Pioneer of the Kyoto Film Industry―Focusing on Katsutaro Inabata and Einosuke Yokota |
Research Leader. Kenichiro Hase Professor, Surugadai University | |
9 | Research of Kyoto-based Global Development of Printing Techniques and Designs |
Research Leader. Masako Yamamoto Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(RPD) Co-researcher. Aya Ueda, Seishi Namiki, Mihoko Aoki, Keiko Suzuki, Miki Sugiura, Mizuho Kamo |
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10 | History of the Reception of Objects through Iconography in Early Modern and Modern Kyoto―Focusing on books and dyed textiles |
Research Leader. Aki Ishigami Associate Professor, Kyoto University of the Arts Co-researcher. Mizuho Kamo |
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11 | Digital Archiving and Promotion of "Tsuchitaro / Mototugu Hayashi's Movie Sounds Collection" |
Research Leader. Genki Takigawa Associate Professor, Kyoto University of the Arts Co-researcher. Toshinari Tsuji, Koichi Hosoi, Mami Yamada |
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12 | A cursive script reprinting class for first-year students in at National Institute of Technology (KOSEN), Maizuru College |
Research Leader. Midori Ogita Associate Professor, Maizuru Industrial College of Technology | |
13 | Management for the Japan Art Documentation Society Utilizing Cloud Storage |
Research Leader. Japan Art Documentation Society Co-researcher. Satoshi Tarashima, Yu Homma, Momoko Tateishi |
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14 | Okinawan Arts & Culture under Occupation: A Study of Gima Hiroshi and Yamazato Eikichi |
Research Leader. Eriko Tomizawa-Kay Lecturer, University of East Anglia Co-researcher. Travis Seifman |
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15 | Compilation of a database of documents nationally designated as cultural properties in the possession of Eigen-ji and related temples |
Research Leader. Jijin MORI Visiting researcher, International Research Institute for Zen Buddhism, Hanazono University Co-researcher. Soichiro Ota, Koichi Watanabe, Atsushi Nakagawa, Koshi Taguchi, Kimimoto Teramae, Miki Hamano |
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16 | Construction of a Digital Archive of Social, Spatial, and Disaster History of the Kii Peninsula, Japan |
Research Leader. Noriko MATSUDA Associate Professor, Kyoto Prefectural University Co-researcher. Naomi Kawasumi, Osamu Oba, Kantaro Fujioka, Yukihiro Fukushima, Eisuke Ono |
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17 | Development of a database on traditional river management information in the Echi River, Shiga Prefecture, Japan |
Research Leader. Takuro OGURA Lecturer, Hyogo University of Teacher Education Co-researcher. Hiroyuki Yamauchi, Kazuyuki Shimamoto, Toshiaki Mizuno, Daisuke Katayama, Tsuyoshi Hattanji |
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18 | Stickiness and path dependence of land use patterns |
Research Leader. Yasuhiro SATO Professor, University of Tokyo Co-researcher. Atsushi Yamagishi |
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19 | Kyoto News" Preservation and Utilization Project |
Research Leader. Yoneo OTA Representative, The Toy Film Museum in Kyoto Co-researcher. Fumio Ota, Akiko Miyamoto, Yuki Hidaka, Keiji Yano, Naomi Kawasumi, Yuji Miyata |
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20 | A Study on Kyoto-Haikai through the 18th and 19th Centuries Concerning Hanakuyo |
Research Leader. Chiyoko TAKEUCHI Lecturer, Ritsumeikan University Co-researcher. Junko Hori, Tadayoshi Hata, Setsuko Matsumoto, Ryo Akama, Takaaki Kaneko |
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21 | Nōgu taikan Transcribe and Translate Project |
Research Leader. Hiroyuki NAGAHASHI GOOD Japanese/ Korean Studies Librarian, University of Pittsburgh Library System Co-researcher. Midori Hasegawa, Elizabeth Oyler |
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22 | Research for the utilization of digital database "TVCM of the 20th century" |
Research Leader. Kohei KONO Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Social Sciences, Ibaraki University Co-researcher. Ryo Akama, Saeko Ishita, Hiroshi Ogawa, Yukie Takeuchi, Daisuke Tsuji, Koji Nanba, Shoji Yamada |
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23 | Construction of a digital archive of the Yamori family postcard collection and geographical analysis of its images and texts |
Research Leader. Kazuko SUGIURA Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University Co-researcher. Keiji Yano, Naomi Kawasumi, Hirotaka Sato, Muneyuki Natsume, Toshinari Tsuji |
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24 | Study on advertising materials that early advertisement trade journal " Press Art " distributed |
Research Leader. Yukie TAKEUCHI Professor, Faculty of Social Studies, Doshisha University Co-researcher. Morihiro Sato, Kazusa Kumakura |
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25 | Research on Gidayubushi Joruris works during the heyday for the expansion and developmental utilization of digital archives |
Research Leader. Yoko KUROISHI Professor, Tokyo Gakugei University Co-researcher. Harumi Higashi, Mizuki Takusagawa, Sae Ueno, Mikiko Uchiyama, Masumi Harada, Kiyoe Sakamoto, Shiho Takai, Mitsuru Ijima, Takashi Mori, Hiromu Sakura, Michie Tomizawa, Eimei Yamonouchi, Setsuko Kawaguchi, Risa Ito, Yuusuke Fuchida |
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26 | A Research on the Construction Method of a Web-based Encyclopedia of Theatre |
Research Leader. Masami IWAI Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Meijo University Co-researcher. Ryo Akama, Keiji Sawada, Norikazu Hirabayashi, Yukako Abe, Ayako Hanake |
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27 | Re-Examining the Publishing System from 17th through 19th Century Utilizing Murakami Family Historical Documents |
Research Leader. Maya HIGUCHI Part-time Lecturer, Doshisha University Co-researcher. Takaaki Kaneko |
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28 | Expansion of the Woodblock Digital Archive using the ARC Research Space and construction of a comprehensive research infrastructure for Japanese early modern publishing |
Research Leader. Takaaki KANEKO Associate Professor, Kyoto University of Advanced Science |
E. International Joint Research to Utilize the Center's Database System
No. | Purpose of Database Use / Affiliation / Name |
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1 | Maintaining and Updating the Japanese Special Collections in the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley |
Librarian, C.V. Starr East Asian Library University of California, Berkeley Toshie MARRA | |
2 | Elucidating the Relationship between Taoist sexual practices and Shung |
Research Member, Public Interest Incorporated Foundation KENIKAI FOUNDATION Kenji NAKATSUKA | |
3 | Exploring group study and research activities using the ARC database on picture books, Esugoroku, Oraimono published in the Edo period |
Tokyo Gakugei University Library Yumi SEGAWA | |
4 | Memories of the Miyazaki Pleasure Quarters: Reading Primary Materials with the ARC's Database and Exploring kuzushiji Deciphering Pedagogy for Learners in Canada |
Ph.D. student, Department of Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia Saeko SUZUKI | |
5 | Multi-Label Classification of Stencil Images in the Katagami Database |
Professor, Computer Centre & Graduate School of Humanities Graduate Course in Archival Science, Gakushuin University Tetsuji KUBOYAMA | |
6 | Publishing Osaka Prefectural Nakanoshima Library's banzuke collection online using the ARC's databases |
Osaka Prefectural Nakanoshima Library Keiji OSHIMA | |
7 | Using the ARC Transcription Support System for Kuzushiji as a digital pedagogy tool for teaching classical Japanese literature at the University of British Columbia |
Professor, Department of Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia Joshua S. MOSTOW | |
8 | A study of 18th to 19th century Shen Quan and Japanese Nanpin School paintings through art historical and material analysis of the British Museum and the Ashmolean |
Ph.D. Candidate,Nottingham Trent University Makiko TSUNODA | |
9 | Making a Honkoku version of the books and writings from late Muromachi through Edo periods (15th C - 19thC) that were used for disseminating a literacy as well as humanitarian ways of life to commoners. Sample: Tsuda, Masanari. Manoatari Oshieno Chikamichi "Quick Guide to Teachings of Life" (1927, 1847) |
Associate Professor, Brown University Kikuko YAMASHITA | |
10 | Research on wakan renku and wakan haikai |
Assistant Professor of Japanese, Kenyon College XIE Kai | |
11 | Providing online access to the collection of ukiyo-e, surimono related to industrial history, and early Japanese books held by the Amagasaki City Museum of History |
Director, Amagasaki City Museum of History Toshiyuki IMOTO | |
12 | WUSTL: Kuzushi-ji Trainings on ARC databases with "Sotatsu isemonogatarizu shikishi," et al. |
Japanese Studies Librarian, East Asian Library, Washington University in St. Louis Jamie Newhard | |
13 | Information on the location of Buddhist temples and shrines in Medieval Kyoto for the study of the Illustrated Biography of Priest Ippen. |
Emeritus Professor, Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties Michio YONEKURA | |
14 | 秩父宮記念スポーツ博物館収蔵品データベースの構築 |
Curator, Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum Sachiko Niina | |
15 | 竹内道敬文庫のデータベース化 |
Kunitachi College of Music Kyoko Takahashi | |
16 | ホノルル美術館所蔵の古典籍の翻刻、英訳、研究・調査、古典籍の展示・公開 |
Honolulu Museum of Art Research Associate Kiyoe Minami | |
17 | 専修大学図書館「向井信夫文庫」浮世絵データベース、古典籍閲覧システム |
Senshu University Library Administration Section / Manager Tomomi TSUNETSUGU | |
18 | 築地双六館双六データベース |
Tsukiji Sugoroku Museum / President Osamu Yoshida | |
19 | ハワイ大学マノア校図書館所蔵の古典籍・翻刻プロジェクト |
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library Mitsutaka Nakamura | |
20 | 古今和歌集の古筆や古今和歌集の写本の文字をデータベース化することで書作品創作をするための検索や、他の古筆を読む時の検索資料として活用する |
Kyoto University of Advanced Science Senior High School Tomoko Sakamoto |