{"id":49,"date":"2024-09-18T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/japanese\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2024-09-18T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T16:31:22","slug":"asian-rare-books-and-manuscripts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/japanese\/japanese-studies\/japanese-studies-library-resources\/asian-rare-books-and-manuscripts\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Rare Books and Manuscripts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shortcode sh-grid sh-grid-cols-1 md:sh-grid-cols-12 sh-gap-3\"><div class=\"shortcode sh-col-span-3 sh-pb-3\"><\/div><div class=\"shortcode sh-col-span-9 sh-pb-3\"><\/p>\n<p>The Asian Collection housed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/\">Rare Book and Manuscript Library<\/a> consists of over 886 volumes dating from the 14 <sup>th<\/sup> to the 20 <sup>th<\/sup> centuries. The great majority of items are Japanese books printed between the 17 <sup>th<\/sup> and 19 <sup>th<\/sup> centuries, which came from the library of Joseph K. Yamagiwa (1906-1968).\u00a0 Professor Yamagiwa was a leading scholar and professor of Japanese at the University of Michigan. Professor Yamagiwa&#8217;s 1,800 volume collection, purchased in 1969, is divided between the Asian Library and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Digitization of <em>H\u014drai no Makimono<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We would like to introduce to you a recent digitization project we collaborated with Professor Persiani of Eastern Asian Language and Culture. This video describes the process and rationale for the digitization of the H\u014drai no makimono, a 17th century Japanese scroll in the Nara emaki style. The scroll is a textual and illustrated depiction of H\u014drai Monogatari. Interviews with scholars, library conservators, digitization experts, and meta-data librarians provide a comprehensive view of the overall process involved in organizing the expertise necessary to digitize and make available important cultural objects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mediaspace.illinois.edu\/media\/t\/1_i4y4reyq\/19889991\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnsecakmi.kaltura.com\/p\/1329972\/sp\/132997200\/thumbnail\/entry_id\/1_i4y4reyq\/version\/100031\/width\/970\/height\/579\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"546\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on this collection, please see the finding aid for <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.library.illinois.edu\/c.php?g=347299\">Asian Rare Book Collection.<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asian Collection housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library consists of over 886 volumes dating from the 14 th to the 20 th centuries. The great majority of items are Japanese books printed between the 17 th and 19 th centuries, which came from the library of Joseph K. Yamagiwa (1906-1968).\u00a0 Professor Yamagiwa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"parent":55,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49\/revisions\/50"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}