http://european-edo-network.org/projects/digitalonedoezu/
Overview
From Paula Curtis Collection[1]: The Digital On Edo ezu 御江戸絵図 was a research project involving the On Edo ezu of the ARC digital archives. Bachelor and master students of the Goethe University Japanology were to locate an assorted set of famous places on the map and attach brief articles and woodblockprints created by Utagawa Hiroshige from the ARC digital archives to these points on the map using DemiScript software. Beginning in 2017, DemiScript was developed under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Michael Kinski to facilitate the transcription and annotation of Edo period woodblock prints with digitally enhanced methods. The On Edo ezu project used the On Edo ezu 御江戸絵図 or Honorable Illustrated Map of Edo (revised edition of the Tenpô era, 1831 to 1845) map as a foundation to localize the famous places and scenic spots shown on a number of colored woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige at nearly the same time. All of the sites chosen by Hiroshige could be identified on the map, and it is easy to imagine that the Edo period user of this map might have consulted it to find his way to these places. Descriptions for these sites and accompanying woodblock prints can be found by clicking on them. A slider on the right will then open and offer specific information on the locations themselves, their history up to the present as well as on Hiroshige’s depiction of them. For use of this resource refer to the guidelines below.
- Institution/Author: Michael Kinski; Arts Research Center of Ritsumeikan University
- Period: Premodern
- Geographic Focus: Japan
- Access: Open Access
Digital Humanities Resources on East Asia by Dr. Paula R. Curtis ↩︎