国際共同利用・共同研究拠点関連

The 76th International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar on Wednesday, November 11, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

"Book design and the presentation of text in hanpon" (in English)

Speaker: Dr. Ellis TINIOS (Honorary Lecturer, University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

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Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate.

Please click here to watch the Webinar on YouTube.

The Art Research Center is pleased to announce that The World of the Takeuchi Dokei Collection (『竹内道敬文庫の世界』), a treasure trove of early modern Japanese music materials, has been released.

With the aim to digitize and publish one of the representative collections of the Kunitachi College of Music Library - the collection of Takeuchi Dokei - the Art Research Center has been collaborating with the library to release the official version of The World of Takeuchi Dokei and make it available on the ARC's Virtual Institute: https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/e/v_institute/.

The Takeuchi Dokei Collection is the world's largest collection of modern Japanese music, especially regarding shamisen music, with over 10,000 items in total, including nishiki-e (woodblock prints), music books, and banzuke (playbills).

While we had previously released the nishiki-e database in March 2019, we officially launch an online digital exhibition this time based on the Kunitachi College of Music 90th Anniversary Project: Takeuchi Dokei Collection Nishiki-e Picture Book. At the same time, the entire banzuke collection (over 5,600 items) with the focus on kabuki and joruri theater playbills will be made available to the public from our banzuke database.

Please feel free to use this as an online hub for your research on Japanese music: https://www.arc.ritsumei.ac.jp/lib/vm/kunitake/.

As we strive to continue with the digital archiving of music books to release them in the next fiscal year and beyond, please visit our website again in the future.

Furthermore, our digital exhibition is also accessible from the top page of the Kunitachi College of Music Library: https://www.lib.kunitachi.ac.jp/.

The Art Research Center is pleased to announce that the group of drawings by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) made for a book called Great Picture Book of Everything (『万物絵本大全図』) and published online by the British Museum on September 3, 2020, is now also available in the ARC database.

The metadata in the ARC's database is more detailed than the original database due to the additional information provided with the ARC's own research.

<Background>

The existence of these drawings that were formerly owned by Parisian jeweler and art collector Henri Vever had been unknown to the wider world for 70 years after they were sold at an auction. It was only last year when they were finally re-discovered and acquired by the British Museum.

In a total of 103 drawings, Hokusai depicted a wide range of subjects related to natural phenomena, landscapes, ancient China, India and Southeast Asia, amongst others. The discovery of these drawings is especially significant as they stem from a period in the artist's career, the late 1820s, where he was previously thought to have created relatively little due to a series of difficult personal challenges. However, this group of drawings actually marks a turning point in the artist's career, giving him a new burst of creativity that was to be reflected in his subsequent famous print series, Thirty-Six Views of Mt Fuji (c. 1831-1833).

◇Ukiyo-e Portal Database:

https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/results.php?f1=BM-2020.3015&-max=50&enter=portal&lang=ja (in Japanese)

https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/results.php?f1=BM-2020.3015&-max=50&enter=portal&lang=en (in English)

◇The Early Japanese Books Portal Database

https://www.dh-jac.net/db1/books/BM-2020.3015/portal/

The published images were taken by Art Research Center staff.

<Cooperation with the British Museum>

The ARC has been engaging in the digitization of the British Museum's Japan-related artworks for more than 10 years.

While the artworks that have been digitized by the ARC are available in the British Museum's collection search system, they are also published online by the ARC based on the contractual terms, and many items are only available in the ARC database.

Please refer to the ARC's databases for the British Museum below.

◇The British Museum Japanese Old Books Database (1,567 items)

https://www.dh-jac.net/db1/books/search_bm.php (in Japanese)

https://www.dh-jac.net/db1/books/search_bm.php?lang=en (in English)

◇Ukiyo-e Online Database for the Collection of the British Museum (20,436 items)

https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/search_bm.php?lang=ja (in Japanese)

https://www.dh-jac.net/db/nishikie/search_bm.php?lang=en (in English)

The 75th International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar on Wednesday, October 28, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

"Some Thoughts on 『改正絵入南都名所記 (Kaisei e iri Nanto meishoki)』--Regarding the Characteristics and Sources of its Illustrations" (in Japanese)

Speaker: Mr. ATAKA Nozomu (Ph.D. Candidate, Digital Humanities for Arts and Cultures, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)

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Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 18:00 - 18:45 JST

Participation: online, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate.

Please click here to watch the Webinar on YouTube.

The Otojiro & Sadayakko Kawakami's Album of European and American Performance Materials (commonly known as Otosada Album)/「川上音二郎・貞奴一座欧米公演関係資料アルバム（通称【音貞アルバム】）」 has been published in the Art Research Center's Shochiku Otani Library Special Data Browsing System.

Implementing the FY 2020 Adopted Joint Research Project (Open Theme) "A Study on the Construction of a Theater Material Image Search System that Utilizes the Theater Performance Record Database (演劇上演記録データベースを活用した、演劇資料画像検索閲覧システムの構築に関る研究)" as part of the International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC), the Shochiku Otani Library has released the Otojiro & Sadayakko Kawakami's Album of European and American Performance Materials (Otosada Album).

Please access the database from here:

https://www.dh-jac.net/db1/resource/search_sol.php?lang=en

The Shochiku Otani Library Special Data Browsing System has been developed by the ARC-iJAC.

The digital archiving of these materials was made possible by funds raised through the crowdfunding project [No.7] Preserving the Trajectory of Otojiro & Sadayakko Kawakami on the Global Stage for the Future that was launched by the Shochiku Otani Library in 2018. Currently, the crowdfunding project has successfully reached to the round [No.9].

Otojiro Kawakami was a pioneer of the Liberal Civil Rights Movement, actor, and entertainer who enjoyed great popularity with his Oppekepe song. Regarded as a founder of the shinpa theatrical form that originated in the Meiji Period, he played a major role in the modernization of Japanese theater. Furthermore, Sadayakko, who became his wife, is considered as Japan's first actress in the modern period.

This album is extremely valuable because it contains letters and magazine articles from the time when Otojiro and his troupe toured the United States and Europe starting from April 1902.

For more details on the Otosada Album, please see the article below:

https://readyfor.jp/projects/ootanitoshokan7

The Shochiku Otani Library, founded in Tokyo in 1956, is dedicated to materials concerning Japanese theatrical works (mainly kabuki, bunraku, shinpa, shingeki, and commercial plays) as well as movie and TV-related scripts, magazines, posters, and photo collections, amongst others.

The Art Research Center (ARC) is pleased to announce that a special video of Mio no Kai (澪の会), which could not take place on September 7, 2020, has been released and will be available online until December 6, 2020.

Deleted due to the end of the publication period.

Please click here to watch the video PART 1.

Please click here to watch the video PART 2.

Please click here to watch the video PART 3.

Background

Kyomai refers to the Kyoto style of the Japanese traditional dance expressed by the Inoue school that is based in the geisha district of Gion, Kyoto. The Inoue style is the only dance form studied by the geiko (geisha) and maiko (apprentice geisha) in the center of Gion district, and it incorporates influences from the traditional Japanese noh dramas as well as joruri puppet theater performances.

With a history extending back to the Edo period (1603 to 1868), the Inoue style of kyomai has been passed from generation to generation by a succession of female dance artists. The current headmaster of the Inoue school is Yachiyo Inoue V, designated as a Living National Treasure by the Japanese government.

Mio no Kai (澪の会)

Mio no Kai (澪の会) was started as a study session by Yachiyo Inoue V in 1981 using the rehearsal hall in Shinmonzen, Kyoto.

As it is a rare and sophisticated dance performance by the headmaster of the Inoue school, Yachiyo Inoue V, this event has been widely known across Japan, attracting both the citizens of Kyoto as well as many people from the Kanto area.

Mio no Kai (澪の会) is usually held four times a year (April, June, September, and December). However, due to the impact of COVID-19, it has not taken place this year.

Therefore, we are even more pleased to share this video of Mio no Kai (澪の会) online for the people who were looking forward to the event and to provide an opportunity for a broader audience outside of Japan to watch the kyomai dance.

While the performance is usually held on a relatively small scale in the rehearsal hall in Kyoto with an audience limited to around 70 people, please take this unique opportunity to watch the performance from home.

The ARC's Involvement

Based on the agreement with the Katayama Family Foundation for the Preservation of Noh and Traditional Kyoto Dance, the Art Research Center has been in charge of the production (recording and editing) and distribution of this video.

Furthermore, master's students of Digital Humanities for Arts and Cultures, the Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University, have participated in this video production.

We sincerely hope that you will enjoy this video and spread the word to your friends and family.

Name of the group: Mio no Kai (澪の会)

京舞　　地歌「邯鄲」　井上八千代

Kyomai Jiuta「Kantan」 INOUE Yachiyo

京舞　　地歌「花の旅」　井上安寿子

Kyomai Jiuta「Hana no tabi」 INOUE Yasuko

* 地歌 Jiuta (song accompanied by shamisen)

「邯鄲」Kantan (Handan in English- name of a city in China)

「花の旅」Hana no tabi (The journey of the flowers)

The Art Research Center (ARC) is pleased to announce that a video of the "Katayama Noh Online Special Performance" held on September 5, 2020, at the Nagoya Noh Theater has been released and will be available on YouTube until October 10, 2021.

The ARC has been closely working with the Katayama Family Foundation for the Preservation of Noh and Traditional Kyoto Dance to film and digitally archive their performances for more than 20 years.

With the changes in the global environment in 2020, the world of classical performing arts has also entered a phase of exploring new methods for disseminating performances.

To address the issue of how to promote classical Japanese performing arts to the world amid a global pandemic, the Katayama Family Foundation for the Preservation of Noh and Traditional Kyoto Dance and the ARC have been conducting practical research on the topic "Study on the Effective Promotion of Noh Theater to the Global Audience (能楽の効果的な世界にむけた発信に関する研究)".

This research project is one of the FY 2020 Adopted Joint Research Projects (International Joint Research to Utilize the Center's Facilities and Equipment) of the International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC).

The video represents one of the research achievements of this project.

Program:

Noh "Yoroboshi" / performed by KATAYAMA Kuroemon and others

Noh "Sessho-seki" / performed by MIKATA Shizuka and others

Click here to access the official YouTube channel of the Katayama Family Foundation for the Preservation of Noh and Traditional Kyoto Dance.

The 74th International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar on Wednesday, October 14, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

"The Future of the Preservation and Utilization of Cultural Properties" (in Japanese)

Speaker: Mr. OKAMOTO Kimihide (Senior Cultural Properties Specialist, Promotion of Inter-Regional Cultural Tourism and Regional Development Group, Headquarters Secretariat for Vitalizing Regional Culture, Agency for Cultural Affairs - Japan)

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Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate. Please access the Webinar via the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlN7ppEMMnF_eoA0PXl2dA/featured

The charity performance -Sending prayers from Kyoto- by the Noh performers of the Kyoto Kanze School had been streamed online from the ROHM Theatre Kyoto on September 25 (Friday).

The video is now available to watch online for free via YouTube until October 12 (Monday), 24:00.

Please click here to watch the video.

Besides the Noh performance, the video features a commentary by Kurouemon KATAYAMA, a shite (primary actor) of the Kanze School of Noh and eldest son of Yusetsu KATAYAMA (Kurouemon Katayama IX ･living national treasure). Kurouemon KATAYAMA has been designated as a holder of Intangible Cultural Properties and serves as the chairman of the Katayama Family Foundation for the Preservation of Noh and Traditional Kyoto Dance.

Based on the agreement with the Katayama Family Foundation for the Preservation of Noh and Traditional Kyoto Dance, the Art Research Center studio members have been in charge of the video recording, editing, distribution and live streaming of this performance.

Details:

Noh Charity Performance -Sending prayers from Kyoto-

能「大会」 片山九郎右衛門 ほか Noh "Daie" performed by Kuroemon Katayama and others

祝言謡「四海波」 有志全員 Shugen no utai "Shikai-nami" performed by all

能「羽衣」 浦田保浩 ほか Noh "Hagoromo" performed by Yasuhiro Urata and others

狂言「口真似」茂山千五郎 ほか Kyogen "Kuchimane" performed by Sengoro Shigeyama and others

Please feel free to spread the word to your friends and family as well.