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Indigenous Documents Group
Activity Report
Workshops / Domestic Projects / Overseas Projects
Workshops
February 8, 2007 The 42nd Workshop
Domestic Projects
"Record of a Family - How the 'Kumagaya Family Biography' was made -" Prof. Yuriko YOSHIDA (Professor at TUFS) Outline of the Presentation (MS Word format: Japanese) February 1, 2007 The 41st Workshop "The Might of Documents in 18th Century Othman Empire Society - Focusing on the Hatt-? Hümayun (autograph) -" Yoichi TAKAMATSU (TUFS COE Post-Doctorate Researcher) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) November 30, 2006 The 40th Workshop "Metes and Bounds Disputes and Arbitration in 19th Century Central Burma" Prof. Teruko SAITO (Professor at TUFS) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) November 30, 2006 The 39th Workshop "An Aspect of Huizhou Society Through Court Records" Prof. Sachiko USUI (Professor at TUFS) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) October 26, 2006 The 38th Workshop "The Requirements of a Tibetan Living Buddha to Be Crowned King of Mongolia - Analyses of Mongolian Written Historical Documents at the End of the 19th Century -" Prof. Hiroshi FUTAKI (Professor at TUFS) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) June 22, 2006 The 37th Workshop "The Social Standing and Class of Women in the Process of Commercial Law Suits in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China" A Feng (Assistant Researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Institute of Historical Research) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) May 18, 2006 The 36th Workshop "Civil Examination System and Educational State Land in 18th-19th Century Qing China" Mototsugu KATOU (Doctoral Course in Social Science, Hitotsubashi University) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) January 27, 2006 The 35th Workshop "The Richness of the Palembang Culture Based on Hand Copied Documents" Titik Pudjiastuti (Lecturer at the University of Indonesia) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) January 23, 2006 The 34th Workshop "Research on Indigenous People of Taiwan in the Qing Dynasty Period and Indigenous Documents" Sho CHO (Adjunct Instructor at TUFS) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) December 8, 2005 The 33rd Workshop "Late 18th Century Procurement of Lumber by the Hmong People in the Southeast Region of Guizhou during the Qing Dynasty Period - Based on Descriptions in the "Caiyun Huangmu Andu" - " Yoshiyuki AIHARA (The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) October 27, 2005 The 32nd Workshop "Historical Value Potential of 'Handwritten Mongolian Records from Prince ?nd?r's Beijing Office' 'Held by the Toyo Bunko" Burensain BORJIGIN (TUFS COE Advisor) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) October 20, 2005 The 31st Workshop " 'Multinational Comparison of Historical Archives - Historical Documents in East Asia and Families, Commerce and Society' International Symposium in Shanghai" Prof. Sachiko USUI (Professor at TUFS) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) July 22, 2005 The 30th Workshop "About the Cham Literature During the Nguyen Lord-Cham Lord Honeymoon Period - Focus on Ariya Glang Anak and Ariya Tuen Phaow -" SHINE Toshihiko (Researcher, 21st Century COE Program Center for Documentation & Area-Transcultural Studies, TUFS) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) July 1, 2005 The 29th Workshop "About the Copied Manuscripts of the Cham, their Cataloguing and Research - An Attempt by the French School of the Far East (?cole Fran?aise d'Extrême-Orient) and the Malaysian Ministry of Culture to Preserve and Share the Hand Copied Manuscripts of the Cham -" Dr. Po Dharma QUANG (Professor at the French School of the Far East and Chief Researcher at the French School of the Far East Kuala Lumpur Centre) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) June 30, 2005 The 28th Workshop "Digitalization and Database Creation of Old Mongolian Maps - Current State and Its Future Application -" Akira KAMIMURA (Adjunct Instructor at TUFS) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) June 16, 2005 The 27th Workshop "Contractual Relationships in Real Estate Transactions in Taiwan Based on 'Guides (historical documents)' " Norma HAYASHI (TUFS Doctorate Course) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) May 19, 2005 The 26h Workshop "Document Research within 'Study of the Huizhou Merchant' " Prof. Sachiko USUI (Professor of the Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) November 17, 2004 The 25h Workshop (Lecture) 1. "The Institute of Han Nom and the Collection, Preservation, Research, Development, and Dissemination of Vien Nghien Inheritance in Vietnam" Chu Tuyet Lan (Head of the Information and Documents Center, The Institute of Han Nom) 2. "Various Issues Pertaining to Hand Copied Chu Nom Manuscripts in 17th and 18th Century Vietnam" Dr. Nguyen Ta Nhi, Assistant Professor (Head of the Vien Nghien cuu Han Nom) 3. The Character Phu in Vietnam and "Quan Hien Phu Tap" Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Nhuan (Researcher at The Institute of Han Nom) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) October 27, 2004 The 24th Workshop Analyses on 17th through 19th Century Mongolian Historical Documents - Yearly Records and Documents -" Junko Miyakawa (Adjunct Instructor at TUFS, Advisor to the COE) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) October 16, 2004 The 23rd Workshop "Performing Arts and Religious Qualities - Marginalized Indigenous Documents -" Prof. Yuriko YOSHIDA (Professor of the Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Outline of the Presentation (PDF format: Japanese) June 11, 2004 The 22nd Workshop "Creation and Preservation of Documents and Books in the Era of the Ottoman Empire-Focusing on the 18th to Early 19th Century" Yoichi TAKAMATSU (COE postdoctoral researcher) Presentation outline (PDF format: Japanese) February 12, 2004 The 21st Workshop Teruko SAITO "Documents on Agricultural Land as Mortgage during the Konbaung Dynasty in Burma: Research Theme from a Socio-Economic History Viewpoint" December 11, 2003 The 20th Workshop Sachiko USUI "Documents Related to finance within the Huizhou documents" December 4, 2003 The 19th Workshop Isamu SAKAMOTO (Profess of Department of International Conservation Studies for Cultural Properties, School of International and Industrial Studies at KIBI International University) Lecture: "The Importance of Conserving Original Copies of Old Traditional Documents-1. The Current State and Future of Scientific Documents and Materials Study from a Conservator's Viewpoint" October 23, 2003 The 18th Workshop Yumi SUGHARA (COE Fellow) "Interim Report on Studies on Sumatran Manuscripts" October 16, 2003 The 17th Workshop "The Current State and Issues of the Study of Documents Related to Mongolian History" October 9, 2003 The 16th Workshop Akiko IIJIMA (Professor of International Culture Studies at Tenri University) "Case Studies of the Tham Manuscript Culture Area: Palm Leaf Manuscripts Owned by Wat Maha That Temple in Yasothon, Thailand" June 26, 2003 The 15th Workshop Borjigidai OYUNBILG (Professor of Inner Mongolia University, China; JSPS fellow ) "On Archival Documents of the Ministry of War (Bingbu) in the Ming Dynasty Related to the Mongolian History in the First Half of the 17th Century" May 29, 2003 The 14th Workshop Yumiko TAKASU (Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies, Doctoral Degree Studies) "Noro(priestess)-related Documents from the Amami Islands in the 16th-19th Century" May 15, 2003 The 13th Workshop "Discussions on the Preservation, Archiving, and Digitalization of Documents" -"Creation of a Catalogue" Yuriko YOSHIDA -"Microfilming and Digitalization" Satsuki KATO (Library) -"Image Filing Systems" Mr. Satoshi NISHIKAWA (Kokusai Micro Syashin Kogyosha) May 8, 2003 The 12th Workshop Mr. I Gusti Made Sutjaja (Instructor of English Literature at Udayana University) "Preserving Bali's Traditional Manuscripts: Problems and Tentative Solutions" April 24, 2003 The 11th Workshop Christian Daniels (Professor of ILCAA) "Publication of Documents on Forestation Agreements by Minorities in China: 'Old Forestry Contracts of the Miao in Guizhou(1736 -1950)'" February 20, 2003 The 10th Workshop On Rotating Credit Society Contracts of Huizhou in China XIONG Yuanbao (Fellow of Tokyo University) February 6, 2003 The 9th Workshop Junko MIYAWAKI (Part-time Instructor at TUFS) "Documents in Manchurian and Mongolian Stored at National Central Archives of Mongolia" January 23, 2003 The 8th Workshop Edi S. Ekajati (Visiting Professor of ILCAA; Professor of Literature at Pajajaran University, Indonesia) "Sundanese Documents: Form, Usage, and Contents" Interpreter: Yumi SUGAHARA January 16, 2003 The 7th Workshop Kayoko HAYASHI "Ottoman Documents: Focusing on the Waqf documents " December 12, 2002 The 6th Workshop "Digitalization of Indigenous Documents" December 5, 2002 The 5th Workshop Yumi SUGAHARA "Materials on Arabic Script from Indonesia, Focusing on Java" November 28, 2002 The 4th Workshop Yuriko YOSHIDA "Written Contracts in Modern Japan" November 14, 2002 The 3rd Workshop Hiroshi FUTAKI "Documents on the Emancipation of Slaves in Mongolia" November 7, 2002 The 2nd Workshop Teruko SAITO "Collections and Studies on Thet-Kayi, Indigenous Documents from the Period of the Konbaung Dynasty" October 31, 2002 The 1st Workshop Sachiko USUI "On Huizhou documents" October 24, 2002 The 1st Group Meeting Activity policies, projects, and documents to be collected and studied Research, Compiling and Editing of the Document Collection of the Minato Tax Office (Jubunsho) Project Manager: Yuriko YOSHIDA
Execution of research and on-site training of graduate students on the Document Collection of the Minato Tax Office (Jubunsho) held by the Hishida Family of Futtsu City, Chiba Prefecture.
The work has been published as a document collection. Organizing the Chinese Document Research Groups into a Single Organization Project Manager: Sachiko USUI
From June 2003, USUI has started a research circle focusing on documents from the Ming and Qing Dynasty periods in China. This has attracted the participation of young researchers from outside the TUFS as well as inside. The organization works on preservation and decipherment projects. The research meeting is held at the Hongo Satellite Campus. The research organization works very closely with the Indigenous Documents Group in pursuing its research activities.
From 2006 academic year onwards Indonesia Project (Project Manager: Yumi SUGAHARA, Toru AOYAMA)
• a. Minangkabau Project
Publishing of a copied documents catalogue • b. Palembang Project Evaluation meeting of the "Catalog Naskah Palembang" (July 28, 2006: International Symposium organized by the Indonesian Manuscripts Society) Creation of a CD catalogue of digital photos of copied documents • c. Ache Project Creation of a catalogue of copied documents China Project (Project Manager: Sachiko USUI)
• a. Digitalization of historical documents
(1)The bound documents of Cheng family in Huizhou Shexian (2)The bound and non-bound documents of Wang family in Huizhou (3) The non-bound documents of Wang family in Huizhou Qimenxian (4)Some of the bound documents of Fang family in Huizhou Qimenxian • b. Creating catalogues of digitalized historical documents Mongolia Project (Project Manager: Hiroshi FUTAKI)
• a. Digitalization and cataloguing of 'Documents of the office of the Manchu Amban stationed in Khuree (Fond M1) ' held by the National Central Archives of Mongolia.
Approximately 1,350 photos of documents are shared with the Mongolian collaborators in the form of CDRs. Cataloguing of digitalized content in 2005 (approximately 2,000 photos, recorded on five CDRs.) b. Landscapes Reflected in Old Mongolian Maps, edited by Futaki Hiroshi and Kamimura Akira, published in 2005, has been registered under 'Old Mongolian Maps' in the digital library, Dilins, and published. For details, see: http://mongol.tufs.ac.jp/landmaps/ Cambodia Project (Project Manager: Kozue TERAUCHI) Three types of hand-written documents have been miclofilmed in collaboration with National Archives of Cambodia. The microfilming of Collection of Cambodian Customary Law and Minutes of Council of Ministers (1897 1937) was concluded by the end of the 2005 academic year. The third and final documents scheduled to be microfilmed this academic year were the "Minutes of the National Assembly 1947-1948." However, damage to the documents was found to be very severe and those microfilming had to be abandoned for technical reasons.
Burma (Myanmar) Project (Project Managers: Teruko SAITO and Thu NANDAR)
a. Documents in the Shan language
Of all the available vernacular documents in the Shan region of Burma, microfilming of scrolls and folded documents on the Shan customary law, the Wheel of Truth (Dhamma-sekya), and the regional history of Shan has been completed on four reels of microfilm. b. Palm Leaf Manuscripts and Para-baiks of the U Bo Thee Monastery Library Of the palm leaf manuscripts and Para-baiks held at the Monastery Library built and funded by U Bo Thee, 'History', 'Buddhist sutras', 'Customary Law', and 'Palace Drama' were selected and microfilmed on three rolls of microfilm. c. Rare documents collection held by Dr. Hla Pe Rare documents, Para-baiks, and ink print images of stone tablets collected by Dr. Hla Pe were photographed on 11 rolls of microfilm and then digitalized. d. A collection of Para-baiks of the Konbaung period, a total of 814 tiles, was registered with the digital library, Dilins, and published. Vietnam Project (Project Manager: SHINE Toshihiko) The 'Panduranga-Champa royal archives owned by Sociêtê Asiatique in Paris, France consists of two types of copied documents: Han Nom (Sino-Vietnamese) version and Akhar Thrah (Malay-Cham) version. The COE, in collaboration with the French School of Asian Studies (?cole Fran?aise d'Extrême-Orient) executed 'The Digitalization and Cataloguing of the Champa Royal Archives Project.'
a. Digitalization of the Sino-Vietnamese version By October 2006, 800 pages of Sino-Vietnamese version have been digitized into 491 images in JPEG format. b. Cataloguing of the Sino-Vietnamese version The cataloguing of the 'Sino-Vietnamese version of the Champa R0yal Archives,' which are divided into 94 files (approximately 800 pages), was commenced in 1984 by the Sorbonne University Indochina Peninsula History Culture Center (CHCPI). However, we discovered many errors and oversights, hence we made overall revision of the catalogue. c. Digitalization of Malay-Cham version of the Champa royal archives 1,872 pages of Cham manuscripts were recorded on thirteen CD-ROMs in JPEG format. Activities up to 2005 January 14-15, 2006 The International Symposium on Preservation of Myanmar Traditional Manuscripts was held in Yangon, Myanmar (Co-Sponsored with the Myanmar Ministry of Religion) Venue: International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University (Yangon) Focusing on 18th and 19th Century Para-baiks and palm leaf manuscripts, thirteen presentations on the collection, preservation, and historical research based on documents were given by librarians, archivists, and researchers from five countries: Myanmar, Japan, the United States, the UK, and France. The contents of this symposium are recorded in the C-DATS publication, Enriching the Past: Preservation, Conservation and Study on Myanmar Traditional Manuscripts .
August 25-26, 2005 An International Symposium on "Multinational Comparison of Historical Archives - Historical Documents in East Asia and Families, Commerce, and Society -" was held in Shanghai (Co-sponsored by Fudan University and National Institutes for the Humanities National Institute of Japanese Literature Archives) Venue: Baolong Hotel, Shanghai
Presentations were given on Ming-Qing period and modern history in China and the Middle Ages and modern history in Japan by researchers who utilize historical documents. Details of the symposium and the individual presentations are published in the March 2006 issue of "Journal of Centre for Documentation and Area-Transcultural Studies", Issue 7 (pp 7 -150).
July 26-28, 2004 The "Indonesian Copied Documents International Symposium" was held in Jakarta, Indonesia (Co-Sponsored by National Islam University, Indonesia (Jakarta) and Masyarakat Pernaskahan Nusantara: MANASSA) Venue: National Islam University, Indonesia (Jakarta)
September 5-6, 2003 International Symposium held in Ulan Bator (Mongolia) Project Manager: Hiroshi FUTAKI International Symposium Co-Sponsored by TUFS "Center for Documentation and Area-Trancultural Studies" and the National Archives of Mongolia "Current Situation and Objectives of Research Work on Archival Materials Related to Mongolian History"
Project Manager: Yumi SUGAHARA
In Palembang, situated in the southern part of Sumatra Island, a research and cataloguing project on manuscripts started with the participation of researchers from the Nusantara Manuscript Foundation (Yayasan Naskah Nusantara), the Nusantara Manuscript Society (Masyarakat Pernaskahan Nusantara), Jakarta and Palembang Branch, and the National Islam University. In the western part of Sumatra (Minangkabau area) research on manuscripts is also under progress with the effort being spearheaded by researchers of the Andalas University.
May 21, 2003 Burma (Myanmar)
Microfilming and digitalization of Para-baiks and palm leaf manuscripts commenced Project Manager: Teruko SAITO
"An Agreement Pertaining to the Historical Documents Preservation Project" was signed between TUFS and Universities Historical Research Centre (a national collaborative institute based within the Yangon Campus). Currently, the microfilming and cataloguing of mainly legal contracts from the 18th to 19th Centuries is under way.
"Huizhou Documents (China) Organization and Preservation, and Cataloguing Project Promotion"Project Manager: Sachiko USUI
Through collaboration with the library of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan, a project is under way to share Huizhou Documents. The scope of collaboration is scheduled to expand to relevant institution and researchers in Huizhou China during this academic year.
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