AAS Toronto 2012 - resend

["Good, N. Hiroyuki"]

Dear all,

I am not sure if the following email went though, so I resend.
Apology for possible duplication.

Hiroyuki Good

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Dear Shashi Interest Group Members,

I am working to organize a panel by the Shashi Interest Group for AAS
annual conference in Toronto, March 15-18, 2012 and due date of
submission, August 4, is approaching.

Dr. Richard Smethurst, who is a history professor at Pitt, kindly
agreed to be a chair for our panel. Having a professor as a chair
increases possibility of our panel being selected as an official AAS
panel.

I also found a presenter, Dr. Martha Chaiklin, who is also a professor
of Pitt History Dept . She used two books of shashi from the Mitsui
collection for her studies. Her paper title and abstract are
follows.
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The March Forward: The Mechanization of Shoe Production in Meiji
Japan

One of the most iconic images of modernization in Japan is the
photograph of Sakamoto Ryoma in full samurai regalia, except for his
feet, which were shod in brogans. Nevertheless, Ryoma’s boots were
not a symbol of modern production, but instead were probably custom-
made by hand using time-honed techniques. Images of Japanese people
dressed in Western clothing are commonly used to exemplify
modernization, yet the shift from traditional dress forms was neither
immediate or linear.
Shoes represent one important aspect of this change and in terms of
technological development are a more interesting case study than
clothing. Specifically, weaving and sewing are some of the earliest
mechanized technologies, but shoe construction is complex and requires
a number of steps that require different technologies.
.This paper will examine how western footwear was adopted and
produced in nineteenth century Japan. Contemporary newspapers,
magazines, company histories and fiction will be utilized to place
mechanization within a social, political and economic context. It
will discuss the interaction between the Meiji government, especially
the Ministries of the Army and Navy, and the private sector and the
introduction of technologies that led to a from traditional footwear
produced by burakumin or as a by-industry on farms to cordwainers,
cottage industry and ultimately mechanized mass production.
We need two more presenters and one discussant. I asked Ms. Tomoko
Bialock of USC to encourage her Ph.D student, who are studying a
Japanese company (Mitsui or Mitsubishi?) by minutes of corporate
meetings, to present her paper. Study by Shashi-related material is
good to broaden range of panel.

Setsuko-sama,
I’d like to contact Ms. Rebecca Nickerson, who was a Ph.D. student at
your university and has studied Shiseido by shashi and archives. Her
uiuc.edu email address has been bounced. Could you please let me know
her current email address? Thank you.

Dr. Charles Andrews,
Will you come to AAS Toronto next March and you are not on any panel
yet? If so, please consider to present your paper on our panel. You
briefly told us how you did use shashi of Nihon Tsûun for your studies
on communication during edo period at our meeting before. I
appreciate very much if you can present your formal paper regarding
your studies and how you did use shashi on next shashi panel.
Presentation will be about 20 min. and I need your title and abstract
by Monday, July 25 if you agree to present your paper. Thank you.

I am still looking for potential presenters and a discussant. If you
would like to present your paper or to be a discussant, I am more than
welcome to hear from you. If you have suggestion whom I should
contact, please let me know.

Sorry for long email and thank you for your attention.

Have a nice weekend,
Hiro

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Hiroyuki Nagahashi Good,
Chair, Japanese Company Histories (Shashi) Interest Group
Japanese Bibliographer
East Asian Library, University of Pittsburgh
207H Hillman Library
3960 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: 412-648-8187, Fax: 412-648-7683
Shashi Wiki: Database of Japanese Company Histories Books in North
America: http://library.osu.edu/wikis/shashidb/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: Nihon Kenkyu @Pitt: http://nihonkenkyu.wordpress.com/
LibGuides for Japanese Studies: http://pitt.libguides.com/cat.php?cid=24454