Support Projects for Enhancing Function
Building a Digital Archive for Kabuki and Ningyo Joruri Magazines
Fiscal 2016
The number of theater magazines held by the Theatre Museum is one of the largest in Japan; in advancing the digital viewing of magazine materials, we can expect it to benefit theater research as well as adjacent academic fields in Japan and abroad.
Summary of research findings, fiscal 2016
For this year, we chose three magazines, Opera (1919–1924, Tokyo: Opera-sha), Shin Engei (1916–1925, Tokyo: Genbun-sha), and Engei Gahou (1907–1942, Tokyo: Engai Gahou-sha), which are valuable, highly referenced theater magazines from the Meiji and Taisho Periods, as ones we will make available for in-museum digital viewing.
We are currently checking and digitizing the above-mentioned magazine materials held at the Museum while addressing issues in copyright to make them available for in-museum digital viewing. We hope to balance between preservation of rare documents and research utilization and then create a foundation for further cooperation with theater and film-related museums in Japan and abroad.
