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History 265 : Modern Japan (HC)
Published Resources in the Quaker Collection:
Find many books on the topic by searching for the subject headings:
Japan Church History
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Quakers - Japan
Society of Friends -Japan
Society of Friends - Missions - Japan
Or browse the shelves at these locations:
BX7682.3 J35
BX7708.J36
Some very helpful texts are:
Japan Church History
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Quakers - Japan
Society of Friends -Japan
Society of Friends - Missions - Japan
Or browse the shelves at these locations:
BX7682.3 J35
BX7708.J36
Some very helpful texts are:
Fifty Years of Quakerism in Japan. Seiju Hirakawa, ed.
Japanese text with an English introduction.
Friends in the Delaware Valley: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1681-1981.
The chapter by Elizabeth Gray Vining, "The Yearly Meeting and Japan" relates directly to the her papers on deposit at Haverford.
History of Friends Girls School, 1887-1937. Toki Tomiyama, ed.
Text in Japanese and preface in English.
Kawahara, Tetsuko. Friends Mission in Japan 1885-1947.
A chronological history of the Friends mission in Japan. Useful bibliography.
Kinuhata, Hitomi. Hugh Borton : his role in American-Japanese relations.
Hugh Borton was Haverford College President, 1957-1967, and Haverford Class of 1926.
Nicholson, Herbert V. Comfort All Who Mourn: The Life Story of Herbert and Madeline Nicholson.
Sharpless, Edith. Quakerism in Japan: A Brief Account of the Origins and Development of the Religious Society of Friends in Japan.
Toda, Tetsuko. From Pastoral to Non-Pastoral : Quaker Experience in Japan.
Vining, Elizabeth Gray. Windows for the Crown Prince.
EPHEMERA
Collections of pamphlets, newspapers articles and small publications are available in our PG Collections. Find them by searching the subject headings: Akihito, Emperor; Education, Japan; Japan, Government and Politics; and Society of Friends, Japan. An example of ephmeral holdings are:
Selected writings of Michael C. Brownstein.
Our Man in Mito, Yoshioka Kwansen and the First Quaker Missionaries in Japan
SERIALS
Friends missionary advocate.
Publisher: Richmond, Ind. : Woman's Missionary Union of Friends in America,
Friends oriental news.
Publisher: Damascus, Ohio : Missionary Board of Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends in the interest of American Friends Missions in Asia, 1908-1962.
Selected Non-Print Resources in the Quaker and Special Collections:
Manuscript Collections
Iwao Frederick Ayusawa Papers, 1918-1964.
Ca. 300 items.
Some restrictions on use.
Written by a graduate of Haverford College, the papers concern Ayusawa's work as Director of the National Labor Board of Japan, as professor at International Christian University, Tokyo, and as Japanese National Chairman of the Union for World Federated Government.
Hugh Borton Papers, 1954-1967
Papers include Haverford College president Hugh Borton's work with the Association for Asian Studies, the East Asian Institute, Japan International Christian University, China Policy Working Party, the East-West Center and related materials.
See especially: HCV R4, Og, Oh and Oi
See especially: HCV R4, Og, Oh and Oi
Bowles Family Papers, ca. 1900-1955.
Collection #1161 Finding aid available.
Papers of Gilbert and Minnie Pickett Bowles detail over 60 years of missionary and educational activities in Japan in the first half of the 20th century. Papers deal also with A.F.S.C. work in Hawaii and Philadelphia and L.A.R.A. (Licensed Agencies for Relief in Asia) activities in Korea, Japan, Okinawa, and the Philippines, as well as the peace movement in Japan, China, Korea and Hawaii.Also: In #975C, journal letters of Gilbert Bowles to friends concerning mission work in Japan and Bowles' work in Hawaii during World War II. ca. 125 items.
Howard Haines Brinton and Anna Shipley Cox Brinton papers, 1859-2005.
26 linear ft.
Collection #1189 Finding aid available.
The papers include Anna Brinton's Japan diaries dating September-December 1952, 1953 & 1954, as well as her Korea diary, 1954 and travel back to the U.S. via Hawaii, January -February 1955. As well, there are photographs and slides of Japan taken in the 1950s.
J. Passmore Elkinton Papers, 1936.
Collection #851
Three letters, written in 1936, tell of 50 years of Friends work in Japan.
Hartshorne Family Papers, 1797-1957
Collection #1030
Papers of father, Henry Hartshorne, and daughter, Anna C. Hartshorne, contain his letters, notes, etc. from Japan, 1893-94, and letters about her missionary work in Japan, 1882-97. See the Esther Biddle Rhoads collection for additional letters by Anna Hartshorne. Ca. 40 relevant items.
Papers of father, Henry Hartshorne, and daughter, Anna C. Hartshorne, contain his letters, notes, etc. from Japan, 1893-94, and letters about her missionary work in Japan, 1882-97. See the Esther Biddle Rhoads collection for additional letters by Anna Hartshorne. Ca. 40 relevant items.
Esther Alsop Jones Papers, ca. 1890-1967. 1 linear ft.
Collection #851; Collection #1185 Finding aid for #1185 available.
Jones (ca. 1890-1967) was a Quaker missionary teaching Bible, English and sewing at Friends Girls School, Tokyo, and Press Superintendent of Japan Women’s Christian Temperance Union beginning in 1914. Her letters to the Mission Board in Philadelphia and others tell of her experiences in Japan, 1914-1917.
Lewis Family Papers, 1853-1960.
Ca. 100 relevant items.
Collection #1010 Finding aid available.
Inazo Nitobé Papers, 1894-1933.
Ca. 20 relevant items.
Collection #950
Letters of Nitobé to Anna Hartshorne giving news of daily activities in Japan including the split in Tokyo Monthly Meeting over peace testimony, 1894.Papers from History 347: Quakers in Asia
Student papers from seminar course in 1989 are on file.
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Japan Committee, 1882-1974
15 linear ft. of materials.
Collection #1250.
Esther Biddle Rhoads Papers, 1891-1979.
15 linear ft. of materials.
Collection #1153 Finding aid available.
Edward Wanton Smith Papers, ca.1681-1967.
ca. 200 relevant items.
Collection #955 Finding aid available.
Letters of Sarah A.G. Smith as a teacher at Friends Girls School, Tokyo, 1933-35 to family.Elizabeth Gray Vining Papers, 1897-1989.
6 linear ft. of materials. Some restrictions on use.Collection #1141 Finding aid available.
Includes letters from Japanese friends (1950s and later) and correspondence re former Emperor and Empress of Japan. Letters by or about the Crown Prince (now Emperor Akihito), 1946-present. Manuscripts relating to Japan. Some photographs.
Graphics:
1. Set of 100 handcolored Japanese photographs dated latter part of the 19th century-early 20th century.
Collection #812 B-R
2. Photo album of views of Friends Mission, Tokyo. ca. 1900 items.
Collection #975B
3. Meetinghouse photos, Japan. 6 items.
Collection #988E
Oral Histories:
Cadbury, Emma Burton
SCAP no. 173Cadbury, the daughter of William Warder Cadbury discusses her childhood in China in the first half of the 20th century, Quakerism in China, the Japanese invasion of China and other topics. To listen to this interview, go to: http://thesis.haverford.edu/dspace/handle/10066/3734
Websites:
American Friends Service Committee, Archives
http://www.afsc.org/ht/d/sp/i/388/pid/388
This Philadelphia based organization, founded in 1917 for Quakers to provide non-sectarian world service, provided relief and reconstruction in post war China and Japan as well as assisted relocated Japanese-Americans in the 1940s.
Friends World Committee for Consultation, Asia and South Pacific Section
This section of the FWCC serves the dispersed Quaker meetings if Asia, including Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. The newsletter for this group is available in the Quaker Collection.See also the Quaker Studies Subject Portal
http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/guides/Quaker_Studies/The Religious Society of Friends
An excellent place to begin and to find links to Quaker sites.
WorldCat Lists
Here are gathered primary and secondary source materials on Quakers in China and Japan located primarily beyond Haverford.
Published Resources in Magill Library Online and Stack Collections:
Primary Sources:
Primary sources, accounts and other kinds of documents written at the time of an event or era, allow a nuanced and detailed understanding of historical issues. Sources can take the form of any of the examples below in addition to such resources in archives as letters, commercial records, and papers from organizations.
Many primary sources are in manuscript only and have not been printed. For resources in Philadelphia area libraries and archives, see the web pages put together by Jason Oaks 09, Guide to Philadelphia Area English Language Primary Resources on East Asia.
Many primary sources are in manuscript only and have not been printed. For resources in Philadelphia area libraries and archives, see the web pages put together by Jason Oaks 09, Guide to Philadelphia Area English Language Primary Resources on East Asia.
The attic letters
Publisher: New York : Weatherhill, 1991.
Umeko Tsuda was sent to the United States to study as a young child, travelling with the Iwakura Embassy. She later attended Bryn Mawr College and returned to Japan to found a school for women now known as Tsuda College.
This book edits her correspondence with her American foster mother, 1882-1911. Bryn Mawr College Archives has a dozen letters written by Tsuda to M. Carey Thomas ranging from about 1896 to 1915, which are also on microfilm as part of the Papers of M. Carey Thomas Collection. Contact archivist Lorett Treese (ltreese@brynmawr.edu) if you would like to see the letters. She also notes that the best source of information about Tsuda's time spent in the U.S. is Kinuko Kameda, a professor at Tsuda College. Bryn Mawr has articles and a book by Kameda, but only one is in English.
This book edits her correspondence with her American foster mother, 1882-1911. Bryn Mawr College Archives has a dozen letters written by Tsuda to M. Carey Thomas ranging from about 1896 to 1915, which are also on microfilm as part of the Papers of M. Carey Thomas Collection. Contact archivist Lorett Treese (ltreese@brynmawr.edu) if you would like to see the letters. She also notes that the best source of information about Tsuda's time spent in the U.S. is Kinuko Kameda, a professor at Tsuda College. Bryn Mawr has articles and a book by Kameda, but only one is in English.
Databases from the Historiographical Institute [In Japanese]
The Historiographical Institute at the University of Tokyo concentrates on editing and publishing sources for the history of premodern Japan.
International Research Center for Japanese Studies [Some Collections in Japanese]
This web site incorporates a number of research tools including 66 digitized rare books in European languages concerning Japan,a catalog of many more titles published in Europe prior to 1900, a database of over 56,000 foreign images of Japan and many other smaller collection. Some of the collections require online registration prior to use.
Anthologies of Primary Sources
The Columbia anthology of modern Japanese literature
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Press, c2005-
Japan in English
Publisher: London : Ganesha Pub. ; 2002-2003.
Reprints of 19th century books written about Japan by British and American authors and travelers. Note that the volumes BMC does not own can be requested through E Z Borrow.
Modern Japanese diaries
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1995.
Modern Japanese Diaries is a collection of journals written by Japanese who journeyed to America, Europe, and China between 1860 and 1920. It begins with entries by the first Japanese to be sent abroad when the country was opened after more than two hundred years of isolation... The diaries are written by a range of individuals, including samurai and other government officials, several novelists and poets, a pioneer in education for women, a painter, and an anarchist who recorded his impressions of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
A reader in Edo period travel
Publisher: Folkestone, Kent, UK : Global oriental, 2006.
"Largely ignored hitherto by Western scholars, Plutschow's Edo Period Travel provides the first in-depth study of the subject which is centred on fifteen of the period's most notable travellers, some of whom are well known in other fields - as intellectuals, artists, poets, folklorists and natural scientists, for example - but rarely, if at all, as travellers." Such was the thirst for knowledge in the Edo period that some travel accounts (estimated to number over 2000) became best-sellers in their day, not least for their voyeuristic appeal, including those of Kaibara Ekiken and Tachibana Nankei, which are included in this volume." --BOOK JACKET.
Government Publications
The Iwakura embassy, 1871-73
Publisher: Chiba, Japan : Japan Documents ; 2002.
Kume Kunitake accompanied Prince Iwakura and four other ambassadors on a long trip through the United States and Europe. Kume's observations are detailed with particularly great interest in landscape, finances, and technology. He is quick to point out praiseworthy things but also is realistic about problems,
Japan Center for Asian Historical Records
Digitized Japanese government documents concerning Japan's relations with other Asian countries. The majority of documents are in Japanese, but there are 98 with English translations. In the Keyword Search enter the phrase english translation. There are also online exhibitions in English including the topics U.S.-Japan War talks, the Iwakura Mission, and the Russo-Japanese War.
Narrative of the expedition of an American squadron to the China seas and Japan
Publisher: New York : Appleton, 1857.
This is the first volume in the official report of Commodore Perry's voyage, landing in Japan, and meeting with Japanese officials. Remarkable for its many illustrations and maps. Volume 2 is also in the Philips Wing Mezzanine Collection.
All three volumes of the report are available online:
Volume 1
Volume 2 with Illustrations
Volume 3 Observations on the Zodiacal Light
All three volumes of the report are available online:
Volume 1
Volume 2 with Illustrations
Volume 3 Observations on the Zodiacal Light
National Archives of Japan
U.S. Congressional serial set
Provider: Readex
The online version of the multi-volumes resource that contains all the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Provides primary source material on all aspects of American history from 1817 to 1974 (digitization is in progress to complete the twentieth century).
Includes such reports as:
Japanese pupils to West Point. Letter from the Secretary of State. April 11, 1871.
Relations with Japan. Reports of the inaugural meeting of the American Peace Society of Japan, held in Yokohama, January 30, 1911.
For the relief of sufferers from earthquake in Japan. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting a draft of proposed legislation for the relief of sufferers from earthquake in Japan. April 22, 1924.
Includes such reports as:
Japanese pupils to West Point. Letter from the Secretary of State. April 11, 1871.
Relations with Japan. Reports of the inaugural meeting of the American Peace Society of Japan, held in Yokohama, January 30, 1911.
For the relief of sufferers from earthquake in Japan. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting a draft of proposed legislation for the relief of sufferers from earthquake in Japan. April 22, 1924.
Newspapers
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) daily reports 1974-1996
Translations of newspaper articles and television and radio broadcasts from around the world. Material after 1996 is available in World News Connection.
The New York times on the Web
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1851-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1851-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1851-present.
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : New York Times.
Searchable full text of all New York Times papers from the first issue in 1851 to recent years. Useful for finding American attitudes and reactions like this article which approves of Japan's growing strength against the European powers:
Ends Dream of White Race: Prof. Knox Says the War Makes Japan Master of the Far East Sept. 5, 1905.
In an address on "Japan, a World Power," at the Quaker Hill conference to-day, Prof. George William Knox of Union Theological seminary declared that the victory of Japan wiped out the most shameful programme that had ever been conceived-- the proposed partition of China. ...
Ends Dream of White Race: Prof. Knox Says the War Makes Japan Master of the Far East Sept. 5, 1905.
In an address on "Japan, a World Power," at the Quaker Hill conference to-day, Prof. George William Knox of Union Theological seminary declared that the victory of Japan wiped out the most shameful programme that had ever been conceived-- the proposed partition of China. ...
Newspaper Article Digital Archive (Kobe University) [In Japanese]
Digitized newspaper articles published from the end of the Meiji period through 1970. Taken from scrapbooks maintained by an economic research institution.
Visual Resources
High-Definition Image Database of Old Photographs of Japan
The Nagasaki University Library has digitized photographs and maps of Japan from the middle to the end of the nineteenth century.
Imaging Meiji: Emperor and Era 1868-1912
Online page from a 1997 Haverford College exhibit of Meiji era woodblock prints.
Japan
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : J. B. Millet company, [1897-98]
This 15 volume set has essays written by Japanes authors. The introduction empasizes the importance of letting the Japanese themselves describe their culture and history because foreign writers don't understand Japan. The photographs were all taken by Japanese photographers. Even the decorative papers were designed and made by Japanese artists. The intention of the contributors is to make Japan better know to the American people. For a discussion of the set's popularity and its editor, Captain Frank Brinkley, see MIT's web pages, Globetrotters' Japan: Foreigners on the Tourist Circuit in Meiji Japan. The 138 images from the set are arranged thematically in the Visual Narratives section.
Globetrotters' Japan is part of a larger web site, Visualizing Cultures: Image-Driven Scholarship which presents multiple portfolios of images and essays on late 19th and early 20th century Japanese history.
Globetrotters' Japan is part of a larger web site, Visualizing Cultures: Image-Driven Scholarship which presents multiple portfolios of images and essays on late 19th and early 20th century Japanese history.
Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints at Bryn Mawr College (College annual report illustrated with Japanese prints throughout)
The art collection has a group of over 250 Japanese woodblock prints. Make an appointment with Emily Croll (ecroll@brynmawr.edu) to see the prints.
Mainichi Photo Bank [In Japanese]
The newspaper maintains this large database with 120,000 photographs from the prewar era.
Meiji kaikaki no nishikie
Publisher: Tōkyō : Tōkyō Daigaku Shuppankai, 1989.
This is a catalog of an exhibit entitled Meiji Japan through Woodblock Prints.
Note the frequent representations of Western technologies and customs alongside a traditional Japanese way of life.
Note the frequent representations of Western technologies and customs alongside a traditional Japanese way of life.