Check out the Course Reserves.

34 Thematic Essays on Japanese Art
(images & bibliographies, the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts

Oxford Art Online

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; adapt for your own needs)

1. Artists, Authors, and Filmmakers:

Suzuki, Harunobu.

Ihara Saikaku.

Chikamatsu, Monzaemon.

Mizoguchi Kenji

2. Topics:

(anime or manga) and cultur*

Hiroshige and ("floating world" or ukiyoe)

Japanese Anime (limit search results to books)

Tips: 1. cultur* searches for culture, cultural, etc.; 2. Or and ( ) to search any or all of the words.

3. Specific Forms and Styles

Ukiyoe

Masterworks of ukiyo-e

Color prints, Japanese

      -- Edo period

 

Kabuki in art

Kabuki -- History.

Bunraku (Japanese puppet theater)

 

Motion pictures -- Japan

4. Broader Contexts:

Japan -- Social Life And Customs -- 1600-1868.

Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868.

 

Mass media -- Japan.

Popular culture -- Japan.

Subculture -- Japan.

5. Types of Documents:

Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions.

Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Catalogs.

These exhibition/museum catalogues are uniquely valuable sources. They may include:

• Fundamental data on each work of art;
• Official images of the artworks;
• Curatorial statements/essays;
• essays by art critics/historians;
• list of scholarly publications on the art,
• and more.

An example, Designed for Pleasure: the World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860. / edited by Julia Meech and Jane Oliver ; with essays by John T. Carpenter ... [et al.].
N7353.6.U35 D47 2008

Art of Edo Japan: the Artist and the City 1615-1868. / Christine Guth.
Oversize: N7353.5 .G88 2010

Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan. / edited by Haruo Shirane. PL747.4 .K46 2006

Traditional Woodblock Prints of Japan (ukiyoe) NE1310 .T2913

A Guide to Japanese Prints and Their Subject Matter (Color prints, Edo period). NE1321.8 .S74 1979b

Images from the Floating World: The Japanese Print, Including an Illustrated Dictionary of Ukiyo-e. NE1321.8 .L36 1978

Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Bibliography of Writings from 1822-1992. NE1321.8 .W42

Japanese Woodblock Prints: the Reciprocal Influence between East and West / Lucille R. Webber. NE1321.8 .W42

Living Japan: Essays on Everyday Life in Contemporary Japan / ed. by Harumi Kimura ; translated by Haruko Miyazaki, Yuriko Takahashi. DS821 .L58 2009

Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture / ed. by Yoshio Sugimoto.
DS822.5 .C365 2009

Digital Images

ARTstor

More than one million images with contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world.

Artifact

Thousands of images by Art History course at Tufts.

Image Quest

an online file of more than two million rights-cleared images from some 40 image collections.

Art Project (museums from around the world by Google)

 

Print Images

Art, Japanese -- Catalogs.

Art, Japanese -- To 1868 -- Exhibitions .

Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions.

Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Catalogs.

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles and to situate yourself within a critical discourse; that's where you can learn to be conversant with the critics writing in your field.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

 

3. Academic OneFile
All subjects; a convenient Quick Start. Here are some sample findings:

 

with Particular Focuses/Perspectives:

4. ARTbibliographies Modern

5. Film and Television Literature Index

6. Bibliography of Asian Studies

7. Literature, Drama/Theatre (MLA)

8. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Current Scholarship on a Topic

Reviews of recent books and other types of review articles in major journals in a discipline are likely to summarize the current state of research in an area.

An example:

Manga from the Floating Word: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan (review). The Journal of Japanese Studies, Summer 2009.

 

A Few Notable Journals:

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

The Journal of Japanese Studies

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

Mechademia

Monumenta Nipponica

Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique

 

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

Art Journal

C. Find More Articles like this "perfect" one

How:

Search, in Arts and Humanizes Citation Index, for the article you have read.

For example:

Ogi, Fusami. "Female Subjectivity and Shoujo (girls) Manga (Japanese comics): Shoujo in Ladies' Comics and Young Ladies' Comics." Journal of Popular Culture  36: 4 (2003), 780-803.
References: 32 Times Cited: 3

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 32 references that Ogi cited for her article and, in turn, 3 articles that cited hers. The assumption is that these articles address related issues.

 

Note:

1. Not every single article is cited;
2. Influential authors are cited more often;
3. More recent publications take time to be cited.

LexisNexis Academic

Factiva (Much more international coverage)

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

Art Index Retrospective   (1929- 1982)

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740-1940)
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)
British Humanities Index (1962- )

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

Writing the Art History paper (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Citing Sources:

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks (a Citation Management Tool)