QUICK LINKS TO SELECTED PAGES WITHIN THE COURSE:
Readings
Black Ships and Samurai
- Day 3: Chapter 1: Introduction
- Day 2: Chapter 2: Perry
- Day 5: Chapter 3: Black Ships
The Hibiya Riot of 1905
- Day 14: Chapter 1: Making News Graphic
- Day 15: Chapter 2: Challenging the State
- Day 15: Chapter 3: Identifying the People
- Day 17: Chapter 4: Democracy and the Crowd
- Day 17: Chapter 5: Protests and Profits
Selling Shiseido
- Day 21: Chapter 1: Introduction
- Day 21: Chapter 2: Cosmopolitan Glamour
- Day 22: Chapter 3: Marketing Beauty
- Day 24: Chapter 4: Luxury and Thrift in Wartime
Archive Visits
- Day 1: Visits to Japanese Archives
- Day 8: Ryosenji Temple in Shimoda
- Day 10: Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
- Day 14: Meiji Bunko
- Day 14: Hibiya Park
- Day 18: Ōhara Institute
- Day 23: The Shiseido Archive
Visual Narratives
- Day 5: Facing East: Gunboat Diplomacy
- Day 5: Facing West: Foreign Intruders
- Day 7: the Commodore and Crew
- Day 10: The Great Encounter through Japanese Eyes
- Day 16: The Tokyo Riot Graphic: Concluding Pages
Discussions
- Week 1, Day 1: Introduction to the Shiseido Module / Forum
- Week 1, Day 1: Goals for the Course / Forum
- Week 2, Day 8: Private Williams / Forum
- Week 3, Day 9: Encounters / Forum
- Week 3, Day 10: Black Ship Screen - Top / Forum
- Week 3, Day 10: Black Ship Screen - Middle / Forum
- Week 3, Day 10: Black Ship Screen - Bottom / Forum
- Week 4, Day 14: Media and the Hibiya Riot / Forum
- Week 4, Day 15: Examining the Urban Crowd / Forum
- Week 4, Day 16: Retelling the Hibiya Riot through Images / Forum
- Week 5, Day 20: Reactions to Shiseido Advertising / Forum
- Week 6, Day 24: Final Discussion - Shiseido and Consumer Culture / Forum
- Weeks 5 & 6: Compare and Contrast Shiseido Ads (forum only)
- Weeks 5 & 6: Analyze an Image of 'New Tokyo' (forum only)
- Exit Remarks / Forum
READINGS (PDFS OF ALL VISUALIZING CULTURES UNITS IN THE COURSE):
1. Black Ships & Samurai
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Perry
1.3 Black Ships
1.4 Facing "East"
1.5 Facing "West"
1.6 Portraits
1.7 Gifts
1.8 Nature
1.9 Sources
2. The Hibiya Riot of 1905
2.1 Making News Graphic
2.2 Challenging the State
2.3 Identifying "the People"
2.4 Democracy & the Crowd
2.5 Protest & Profits
2.6 Sources & Credits
3. Selling Shiseido
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Cosmopolitan Glamour
3.3 Marketing Beauty
3.4 Luxury & Thrift in Wartime
3.5 Sources, Resources, Credits
ADDITIONAL TEXTBOOK READINGS
For additional reading, we recommend Professor Andrew Gordon's A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present, available for rent or purchase here.
Professor Gordon’s survey history of modern Japan, used in many college classes, is available for purchase as an e-book, here.
GALLERIES
Links to Galleries on Visualizing Cultures
If you'd like to view the galleries on the VC website:
Tokyo Riot Graphic: Complete Issue
The Japanese Graphic: Selected Covers
Shiseido: Modernity in Interwar Japan