This database contains materials related to visual representations of Manchukuo drawn from the collections of the following museums:
[祐生出会いの館」(鳥取県・西伯郡) http://www.town.nanbu.tottori.jp/kanko/
This museum was opened in 1995 and exhibits Japanese traditional toys, dolls, postal stamps, picture postcards, labels, and posters collected by Yusei Ita (1889-1956) who is known as both a kohangaka (screen-print artist) and a toy collector. His collections related to Manchukuo are mainly what he received from his friends from the same town and his disciples who were sent to the war. A detailed record about his collections, written by Ita himself, is also kept at the museum.
[函館市中央図書館」((北海道・函館市) http://www.lib-hkd.jp/
This library was opened in 2005 by expanding Hakodate City Library. The library houses the posters collected by Kenzo Okada who was the first director of former Hakodate Private Library. Some of the posters were digitized and are now available online as "Hakodate Poster Collection"; they can be viewed at the following URL: http://www.city.hakodate.hokkaido.jp/soumu/hensan/poster/poster_toppage.html(http://www.city.hakodate.hokkaido.jp/soumu/hensan/poster/poster_toppage.html)。
This database contains the images of posters related to pre-war Manchuria (Manchukuo), which were presumably collected by Kenzo Okada himself.
[東京大学大学院情報学環・学際情報学府」(東京都・文京区) http://www.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
This graduate school possesses “the Hideo Ono Collection,” “the Kyozo Mori Collection,” and “the World War I Propaganda Poster Collection.” In addition, there are also materials of the wartime Japanese Information Bureau (including 600 posters) that were transferred from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Institute of Journalism and Communication Studies of University of Tokyo after the end of World War II. For this database, we selected Manchukuo related posters found in the latter collection.
*This database was created as a part of the project, "Comprehensive Studies of Legal Status of 'Foreigners' in East Asia from Seventeenth to Twentieth Century" (the Director of the Project: Toshihiko Kishi, Kanagawa University) with the financial assistance of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under category of (A)(1). We gained cooperation from "Human Ook Corporation"(Nagaokakyo City, Kyoto Prefecture, URL: http://human-ook.jp/ ) for the development of the system and "HELMETZ. NET"(Osaka City, Osaka prefecture, URL: http://helmetz.net/) for the design of the database.