Tokyo’s Long Nineteenth Century: A Cultural Atlas of the City, 1787-1923

FAIN: MD-263863-19

University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA 94704-5940)
Jonathan Zwicker (Project Director: June 2018 to present)

Development of an online cultural atlas of the city of Edo/Tokyo in the years 1787–1923.

This proposal seeks funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the initial Discovery phase of a project that aims to consider the ways in which the University of California, Berkeley can leverage digital platforms in order to create a work of public scholarship that explores the cultural history of the city of Edo/Tokyo from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. The idea for this project of a cultural atlas emerges out of the particular institutional setting that the University of California provides. The University’s collections, housed in the C.V. Starr East Asia Library and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive have a breadth and range that makes them unique in North America and particularly suited for a project that seeks to engage public interest in the humanities by drawing links between and among cultural objects of various forms and media.