Check out the Course Reserves.

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)

Topics:

(film* or cinema) and (tea or chado) and japan*

 

art and (tea or chado) and japan*

 

(tea or chado) and zen and japan*

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

 

Zen Monks, Tea Masters and Filmmakers:

Mizoguchi Kenji

 

Sen, Rikyū

 

Hakuin, 1686-1769.

 

in the Broader Contexts:

Japanese tea ceremony

Japanese tea masters

Chashitsu (Japanese tearooms)

 

Zen Buddhism -- Japan

 

Zen Buddhism rituals

 

Spiritual life -- Zen Buddhism

 

Path of Discovery in the Catalog

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

 

e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

 

Author	Gross, Rita M.
Title	Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice / edited by Morgan Pitelka
Publisher	London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.
Contents	Portraits of Shinran in medieval pure land Buddhism / James C. Dobbins -- "My reflection should be your keepsake": Myōe's vision of the Kasuga deity / Karen L. Brock -- Icons and relics in Eison's religious activities / Paul Groner -- Visualization and mandala in Shingon Buddhism / Robert H. Sharf.
Subject	Japanese tea ceremony
	Tea -- Japan -- History.
	Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism.
Added Author	Pitelka, Morgan, 1972-

Chado: the Way of Tea: a Japanese Tea Master's Almanac.
Sasaki Sanmi; translated from the Japanese by Shaun McCabe and Iwasaki Satoko; foreword by Sen Sôshitsu XV.
GT2910 .S37213 2005

The Tea Ceremony.
Sen'ō Tanaka, Sendō Tanaka; preface by Edwin O. Reischauer; foreword by Yasushi Inoue.
GT2910 .T2978 2000

Wind in the pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path.
ompiled & edited by Dennis Hirota.
GT2910 .W56 1995
GoogleBooks limited preview

History of Japanese Art.
Penelope Mason; revised by Donald Dinwiddie.
N7350 .M26 2005

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.

Digital Images

ARTstor

Artifact

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:

 

 

4. with Particular Focuses/Perspectives:

Bibliography of Asian Studies

Anthropology Plus

 

5. Search across groups of Databases. Or, separately:

History, Religion, and Women's Studies

 

Film & Television and Mass Media

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

 

ARTbiliographies Modern
International Bibliography of Art
Architecture (the Avery Index)
MLA (Literature)

 

 

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

B. Build up Your Search

1. Start with "nouns": the art objects, authors, and titles of books and articles in your readings.

2. Examine the initial search results to discover what scholars have written about these writers, authors, and their works: "issues" addressed; the central debates on these issues, evidence and methods applied in analysis of these issues, and so on.

C. 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:

Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan (review). Monumenta Nipponica, Summer 2007.

D. Find More Articles like this "perfect" one

How:

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

Bodart, Beatrice M. "Tea and Counsel - Political-Role of Rikyu, S." Monumenta Nipponica  32: 1 (1977), 49-74 .
References: 41 Times Cited: 3

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 41 references that Bodart 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.

A. Current:

Book, Movie, Music, Play, And Video Reviews (in LexisNexis)

Factiva (more international coverage)

B. Historical

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

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

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

British Humanities Index (1962- )
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)

Writing the Art History paper (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Citing Sources:

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks (a Citation Management Tool)