Documents

Finding aid for Gerald Warner Taiwan Image Collection
Tri-fold brochure for East Asia Image Collection
1935 Tourist Map of Taiwanhe Aborigines of Taiwan”
1940 Magazine article about Wufeng myth, “Goho the Interpreter”

Links to Related Image Sites

Database of the Pre-1945 East Asian Postcards

Kyoto University Area Studies Center for Integrated Information

Taiwan Memory

National Central Library Taiwan Historical Images from Japanese Period

Boston Museum of Fine Arts

The Leonard A. Lauder Collection

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Visualizing Cultures 

Formosa

The Reed Institute

N.Ogawa / E.Asai Formosan Collection

小川尚義 浅井恵倫 臺灣資料 小川尚義(1869–1947) 浅井恵倫(1895–1969)収

American Geographical Society Library

AGSL Digital Photo Archive: Asia and the Middle East

Virtual Shanghai: Urban Space in Time

Editor: Christian Henriot

Japan Postcard Society 日本絵葉書会

Reference Material for Postcard Research

Basic Books:

Christraud Geary and Virginia-Lee Webb, eds., Delivering Views:Distant Cultures in Early Postcards. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1998.

Ikuta, Makoto 生田誠. 2005 Nihon ehagaki katarogu [2005 Japanese Picture Postcard Catalog] 日本絵葉書カタログ. 東京:里文出版, 2004.

Morse, Anne Nishimura, J. Thomas Rimer and Kendall H. Brown. Art of the Japanese Postcard. Boston: MFA Publications a Division of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2004.

Shimada Kenzō. Checklist of Japanese Commemorative Picture Post Cards 日本記念絵葉書総図鑑 カラー復刻版. 日本郵趣出版, 2009.

Korea:

Henry, Todd A. “Sanitizing Empire: Japanese Articulations of Korean Otherness and the Construction of Early Colonial Seoul, 1905-19,” Journal of Asian Studies vol. 64, no. 3 (Aug. 2005): 639-75.

Kwŏn, Hyŏk-hŭi 권 혁희. Chosŏn esŏ on sajin yŏpsŏ [Postcards from Korea] 조선 에서 온 사진 엽서. Sŏul: Minŭmsa, 2005.

Lynn Hyung Gu, ‘Moving Pictures: Postcards of Colonial Korea’, IIAS Newsletter 44 (2007):8-9.

Pai Hyung Il. “Navigating Modern Keijō : The Typology of Reference Guides and City Landmarks.” Seoul Hak [Seoul Studies] XLIV (August 2011):1-40.

_______. “Tracing Japan’s Antiquity: Photography, Archaeology and Representations of Kyŏngju.” Symposium Volume Oriental Aesthetics and Thinking: Conflicting Visions of “Asia” under the Colonial Empires edited by Shigemi Inaga. pp. 289-316 (International Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan, 2011).

Urakawa Kazuya 浦川和也. ‘Ehagaki de Chōsen sōtokufu o miru: “Chōsen hantō ehagaki” no shiryōteki kachi to naihōsareta “mezashi”‘ [Looking at the Government General of Korea with Picture Postcards: The Value of “Korean Peninsula Postcards” as Historical Materials and their Implicit Views]. Shuka 朱夏21 (August 2006):39-52.

Taiwan:

Barclay, Paul D. ‘Nihontsū no me o tsūshite mita Taiwan: Taiheiyō sensō chokuzen ni Amerika ryōjikan ga shūshū shite ita ehagaki to shashin’ [Formosa Through the Consul’s Eyes: Postcards from a ‘Friend of Japan’ on the Eve of the Pacific War] Taiwan Genjūmin Kenkyū 12 (2008):85-112.

_______, Peddling Postcards and Selling Empire: Image-Making in Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule. Japanese Studies 30,1 (May 2010):81-110.

Liu Wei-min 劉 偉民. “The representation of the colonial image: the research of the aboriginal postcards’ images in Japanese period.” Doctoral Dissertation, National Chenggong University, Department of Art. 碩士論文–國立成功大學藝術研究所. 2005.

Yamaji Katsuhiko. ‘Ehagaki no minzokushi, aruiwa shokuminchi no hyōjō: kōminka jidai, senkakusha no egaita Taiwan Tsuouzoku no jigazō’ [Picture-postcard ethnography and Colonial Representations: Self-Images of the Taiwan Tsou People as Depicted by a Visionary during the Imperialization Era]. Taiwan Genjūmin kenkyū [Studies on Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan] 13 (2009):76-93.

Russo-Japanese War:

Dower, John. MIT Visualizing Cultures. “Asia Rising: Japanese Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905).” http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/asia_rising/index.html

Kōgo Eriko. 向後恵里子. ‘Nihon ehagaki: Nichiro sensōki ni okeru ehagaki buumu to suisaiga buumu o megutte’ [Japanese Picture Postcards: On the Watercolor Painting and Picture Postcard Booms of the Russo-Japanese War Period]. Waseda Daigaku kyōiku-bu Gakujutsu kenkyū 58 (February 2010):59-90.

_______. ‘Teishinshō hakkō Nichiro seneki kinen ehagaki: sono jissō to igi’ [Ministry of Telegraphs and Posts Commemorative Battle Postcards of the Russo-Japanese War: On their Empirical Status and Significance] 逓信省発行日露戦役紀念絵葉書―その実相と意義―. Bijutsushi kenkyū 美術史研究 41 (2003):103-142.

Miura Yasuyuki 三浦泰之. ‘1900 nendai kara 1920 nendai no ehagaki arubamu kō’ [On a Picture Postcard Album from the 1900-1920 Era]. Hokkaidō Kaitaku kinenkan kenkyū kiyō[Bulletin of the Historical Museum of Hokkaido] 37 (2009): 129-164.

Sharf, Frederic A., Anne Nishimura Morse and Sebastian Dobson. A Much Recorded War: The Russo-Japanese War in History and Imagery. Boston: MFA Publications, a division of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2005.

China and Manchukuo:

Kishi Toshihiko (2010): Manshūkoku no bijuaru-media: Postā, ehagaki, kitte [Colonial Manchuria’s visual media: Posters, pictorial postcards, postal stamps]. Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan.

Mōri Yasuhide 毛利康秀. ‘Ehagaki kenkyūshi kara mita Harubin ehagaki no ichizuke to Dejitaru aakaibuka no igi’ [The Place of Harbin Picture Postcards viewed from Postcard Historiography and the Significance of Digitization of Archives]. Nihon Daigaku bunrigaku-bu jōhō kagaku kenkyūjo nenji kenkyū hōkokusho 8 (2009);55-64.

Politzer, Eric, ‘To Look at Flowers while Riding an Iron Horse: Some Railway Depots of North China,’ Image File: A Journal from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives, Lake County Discovery Museum, 13:1 (2002): 3-7.

Japanese Postcards:

Satō Kenji, ‘Postcards in Japan: A Historical Sociology of a Forgotten Culture,’ International Journal of Japanese Sociology 11:1 (November 2002):41.

_______, ‘Ehagaki no naka no jinruigaku’ [Anthropology in Picture Postcards] in Yamashita Shinji, ed., Kankō jinruigaku [Touristic Anthropology]. Tokyo: Shin’yōsha, 1996, 45-53.

Tanabe Motoki 田邊幹. ‘Media toshite no ehagaki’ [The Meaning of Postcards as Media] メディアとしての絵葉書. Niigata kenritsu rekishi hakubutsukan kenkyū kiyō 3 (2002):73-83.

_______. ‘Kindai Nihonjin no Higashi Ajia, Nan’yō shotō e no “manazashi”: ehagaki no rekishiteki kachi no “ibunka” hyōshō’ [The Japanese “Views” to the People of East Asia and Micronesia: Archives Importance and the Other Race Representation, in the Japanese Picture Postcards]. Kokuritsu rekishi minzoku hakubutsukan kenkyū hōkoku 140 (March 2008):117-164.

Postcard Research:

Albers, Patricia. ‘Symbols, Souvenirs, and Sentiments: Postcard Imagery of Plains Indians, 1898-1918’ in C. Geary and Virginia-Lee Webb, eds., Delivering Views:Distant Cultures in Early Postcards.Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 65-89.

Banta, Melissa. ‘ Photographic Encounters in the Philippines, 1898-1910.’ IIAS Newsletter 44 (2007):14-15.

Fraser, John, ‘Propaganda on the Picture Postcard,’ The Oxford Art Journal(October, 1980): 39-47.

Geary, Christraud M. ‘Different Visions? Postcards from Africa by European and African Photographers and Sponsors’, in C. Geary and Virginia-Lee Webb, eds., Delivering Views:Distant Cultures in Early Postcards.Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution. pp. 147-178.

Hoskins, Janet. ‘Postcards from the Edge of Empire: Images and Messages from French Indochina.’ IIAS Newsletter 44 (2007):16-17.

Mathur, Saloni. “Wanted Native Views: Collecting Colonial Postcards of India.” In Gender Sexuality and Colonial Modernities, ed. Antoinette Burton, 95-116. Florence, KY, USA: Routledge, 1999.

Webb, Virginia-Lee, ‘Transformed Images: Photographers and Postcards from the Pacific Islands’, in Christaud M. Geary and Virginia-Lee Webb, eds., Delivering Views:Distant Cultures in Early Postcards. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 115-45.

Woody, Howard. ‘International Postcards: Their History, Production and Distribution (circa 1895 to 1915)’, in Christaud M. Geary and Virginia-Lee Webb, eds., Delivering Views:Distant Cultures in Early Postcards. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution, 13-46.