PMJS section at Meiji Gakuin website is gone...

[Alexander Zapryagaev (萌覺・Miǒgacu)]

The webpage at https://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/ does not exist anymore. The valuable resources such as "Premodern Japanese texts and translations", "Noh translations", "Genpei noh plays", are now gone. Of course, the pages still open at the Waybacl Machine, but I wish they would return.

Zapryagaev Alexander

[Christopher Larcombe]

I speculate, but perhaps Prof. Watson's invaluable bibliographies are now (re-)published in the Appendices to Vol. 2 of A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre (Brill, 2024)?

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[Michael Watson]

Thank you, Alexander. Meiji Gakuin allowed me to keep the pages after my retirement in 2022 but then  made me change the URL structure this spring. I had to move all pages from “www” to “wwwres” — with the “res” standing for faculty “research” I assume. 

and so on.  I am aware that Google searches only lead to the old URLs and display a 404 error message. Internal links (from page to page in the site) also need correction, something that I can  do now I have remote access—I had to travel to Tokyo to do the initial 大移動 on campus. I was not able to edit pages as I hoped because the simple web authoring software  I had used is no longer available.

Many of the databases are frozen in time—as our the early PMJS logs. I hoped that others would take up the task of a pre-1600 database. The nō (noh) related databases are of active interest to me. A much revised and enlarged version is printed as an appendix in _A Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre_

I will be discussing the future of the online noh database at a symposium organized by the Noh Theatre Research Institute, Hosei University. My talk is on Sunday, Oct 12. 

I welcome suggestions and advice  here or to me privately (watson.mg at gmail.com). 

I have followed with interest the discussion about Humanities Commons. The simplest thing to do with the “Premodern Texts and Translations” DB would be to convert it to text format or PDF and post it to H-Commons, allowing others to search it or download it and annotate themselves. 

Michael Watson

Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan

On Oct 5, 2025, at 2:00, Alexander Zapryagaev <rudet...@gmail.com> wrote:



The webpage at https://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/ does not exist anymore. The valuable resources such as "Premodern Japanese texts and translations", "Noh translations", "Genpei noh plays", are now gone. Of course, the pages still open at the Waybacl Machine, but I wish they would return.

Zapryagaev Alexander

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