Japanese Narrative Pictures:

Japanese Narrative Pictures: Heroes, Heroines, Ghosts and Demons

Research Sources & Tips

I. Course Reserves

Check out the Course Reserves.

II. Facts, Definitions & Overviews

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

The Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts

Oxford Art Online

III. Monographs & Essays

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)

Broader Contexts:

Narrative art

pictorial and narrat* (pictorial narrative)

Narrative painting -- Japan.

Artworks:

Genji and illustrat* (Tale of Genji in paintings, etc.)

Minister Kibi

Ban Dainagon

Shigisan Engi

Hogen-Heiji Rebellion (keywords: (Hogen- or Heiji)

Kitano Tenjin (Kitano Shrine)

Forty-seven Rōnin in art. (Chushingura)

Jigoku zoshi (Hell scrolls)

Gaki Zoshi (Hungry Ghost scrolls)

Japan* and (scroll* or emaki*)

Japan* and (scroll* or emaki*) and narrat*

Liteary Works with Images

Ugetsu Monogatari
(based on the first woodblock edition of 1776 with illustrations....)

Exotic Japanese Stories, the Beautiful and the Grotesque; 16 Unusual Tales and Unforgettable Images.
(22 collage illus. in color and black & white by Masakazu Kuwata.)

Themes:

ghosts in art

monsters in art

demonology in art

grotesque in art

supernatural in art

devil in art

Kabuki in art

(gender or sex or women) and japan* and art

Japanese wit and humor

Artists, Filmmakers:

Mizoguchi Kenji

Katsushika, Hokusai

Utagawa, Kuniyoshi

Japanese Art and Anime (open up another page)

5. Types of Documents:

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

Japanese Ghosts & DemonsL Art of the Supernatural
edited by Stephen Addiss.
N7353.6.U35 D47 2008

IV. A Few Titles at Tisch

Handbook of Narrative Analysis. [PN212 .H4813 2005]

Narrative Across Media: the Languages of Storytelling. [PN212 .N3727 2004]

Studies in Pictorial Narrative. [Oversize: N5975 .K47 1994]

A Theory of Narrative. [PN212 .A47 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

Appendix I. Images

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.

V. Journal Articles

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. Art History and Literature

5. History, Religion, Women's Studies and Film/Television

6. Bibliography of Asian Studies

7. 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:

Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times (review). Journal of Japanese Studies, Monumenta Nipponica, Summer 2010.

Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese Modern Times (review), Monumenta Nipponica, Autumn 2008.

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.

VI. Popular Press

LexisNexis Academic

Factiva (Much more international coverage)

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

Times Digital Archive (1785 - 1985)

Essays and Popular Magazines
Search across: Essay and General Literature (1900 -84), Art Retrospective (1929 - 84), Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (1890 – 1982).

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

Appendix II. Finding Full Text

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.

Appendix III. Request Articles/Books

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.

Appendix IV. Writing/Citing

Writing the Art History paper (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Citing Sources:

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks (a Citation Management Tool)