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Depicting the Edo or the Meiji Worldview

  • Decipher the implied worldview represented in the artifacts from the assigned period.
  • Select five historical artifacts that best reflect the worldview of the Edo or the Meiji period.

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Title: Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People
Host: The Arctic Studies Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Description: This website contains a virtual tour of an Ainu exhibit of culture, history, architecture and art.
Navigation Tips: Click on the downward arrow to scroll down. Click on Click for more rooms in the top left-hand corner of the screen and select an image collection. Then, click on the thumbnails across the bottom of the screen to enlarge images and access descriptions.
URL: http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/ainu/index.html

 

Title: Edo period
Host: ArtLex Art Dictionary
Description: This website contains a history of Japanese art during the Edo period from 1615 to 1868.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to access complete text. Click on highlighted terms within the text to view images and descriptions of all types of art from this period and to access other museum sites.
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Title: Kyoto National Museum
Host: Kyoto National Museum
Description: This website contains images of the art collection of the Kyoto National Museum.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to view recent exhibitions and click on the titles to access information and images. Click on topics in the menu bar at the top of the screen to view other works of art and to access additional information.
URL: http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/eng/index.html

 

Title: The Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts
Host: Kodansha International Ltd.
Description: This website contains a brief history of Japan as well as information and images related to different categories of Japanese arts. 
Navigation Tips: Click on the History tab near the bottom right-hand corner for a brief overview of the history of Japan. Click on arts categories to access menus that detail the collections for each genre of the arts.
URL: http://web-japan.org/museum/menu.html

 

Title: Welcome to Edo!
Host: Ken Matsushima
Description: This website contains information about the city of Edo (Tokyo's name 200 years ago). It contains a tour of the city, including illustrations taken from Ukiyo-e prints, and a narrative text as told by a fictitious 18th century messenger. There is also a map of the city that has links to images and descriptions of various locations.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to view complete text. Click on the Edo Map icon to access a map of Edo and then click on a star on the map to select a location to visit. Scroll down to read the information about the selected location and click on highlighted terms within the text to access additional information.
URL: http://www.us-japan.org/edomatsu/Start/frame.html

 

Title: Metadata Database of Japanese Old Photographs In Bakumatsu–Meiji Period
Host: University of Nagasaki Library
Description: This website contains a collection of 6000 archival photographs taken in Japan from the Bakumatsu to the Meiji period.
Navigation Tips: Scroll down to view complete list of categories and keywords. Click on a category image to access all of the thumbnails within that category. Or, click on the keywords under each category image and then click on the Search button at the bottom of the screen to view the selected photographs. Click on the thumbnails to view them in larger format.
URL: http://hikoma.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/en/category.html
Last updated: October 20, 2017 | (Revision History)
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