07.20,2023 Column 2023 Local Partners and Big Business in Tokugawa Japan – an example from the archive of the Nakai Genzaemon merchant house Big businesses always need local partners. During the Tokugawa period (1600-1868), large-scale merchant houses […]
03.13,2023 Column 2022 Learning Kuzushiji and the Preservation of Historical Materials at Tohoku University My name is Berfu Şengün, and I am a second-year master’s student at Université Paris Cité and a PhD student at […]
02.20,2023 Column 2022 Studying modern Asian intellectual history in a world-historical perspective “Asia” and its problems While often taken for granted, “Asia” is actually a space subject to ceaseless ideolog […]
01.18,2023 Column 2022 Using mixed-methods to better understand and preserve local cultures The use of case studies as a research design enables for a multi-faceted understanding of complex issues in re […]
12.01,2022 Column 2022 How Japanese and Russian written sources complement each other in studying history of Ainu lands? Until the modern era the Ainu people didn’t have any native written forms for their language to record their h […]
02.28,2022 Book introduction 2022 A collection of papers titled Samurai Residences and Political Space in the Sendai Domain has been published. On February 18, 2022, Iwata-Shoin published a book titled Samurai Residences and Political Space in the Sendai […]
02.02,2022 Book introduction 2022 The essay collection Kinsei, kindai no murayama chiiki: Dewa no kuni kara Yamagata-ken e has been published. On January 20, 2022, Seibundo Shuppan published Kinsei, kindai no murayama chiiki: Dewa no kuni kara Yamagata- […]
10.14,2021 Column 2021 Reading Kuzushiji with Technology Outside of Japan I am Saeko Suzuki, a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Canada. My doctoral project aims to un […]
10.30,2020 Notice 2020 Publication of Michinoku History Course: The Tohoku Region during the Edo Period as Depicted in Contemporary Documents Yoshikawa Kobunkan is pleased to announce the publication of Michinoku History Course: The Tohoku Region durin […]
10.23,2020 Column 2020 Studying Japanese History at the University of Chicago during the COVID-19 pandemic By way of introduction, I am Mark Chen, a visiting undergraduate student at Center for Northeast Asian Studies […]
