Assistant Professor James Harry MORRIS launches new project. “Kirishitan-ban in the Digital Age: A Study of the Opportunities and Limitations of Applying Digital Methods to Kirishitan-ban.”
“Kirishitan-ban in the Digital Age: A Study of the Opportunities and Limitations of Applying Digital Methods to Kirishitan-ban” is a research project headed by James Harry Morris (Waseda University) and partially funded by a DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion Graphic Culture Research Grant<https://www.dnpfcp.jp/foundation_e/grants/>.
The project investigates the use of digital tools and methods to analyze and deepen our understanding of texts related to Christianity in early modern Japan. It seeks to critically explore the potential opportunities and challenges that the hybridity of Kirishitan and anti-Kirishitan literature create for scholars and survey the limitations of pre-existing digital tools.In addition, we will attempt to develop several digital tools for use with related texts.
As part of the project, we will create transcriptions of Kirishitan and anti-Kirishitan texts collaboratively using the platform Minna de honkoku<https://honkoku.org/>.
Anyone who is interested is free to get involved with this part of the project. Simply visit our project page<https://honkoku.org/app/#/projects/kirishitan/info>, choose a document that you would like to work on, and then start transcribing.
Please also visit the project website: https://kirishitanbank.com
