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Japanese Classics in a Time of Contagion

※この動画の記載情報は、２０２０年４月２４日現在のものです。 National Institute of Japanese Literature：https://www.nijl.ac.jp/en/ NIJL-NW Project to Build an International Collaborative Research Network: https://www.nijl.ac.jp/pages/cijproje... NIJL Online Journal “Studies in Japanese Literature and Culture” : https://www.nijl.ac.jp/pages/cijproje... 動画の日本語版　Watch in Japanese：   • 日本古典と感染症   Message from General-Director Dr. Robert Campbell 【Japanese Classics in a Time of Contagion】 Recently, users of all ages have been posting to social media their drawings of a mythical figure known as “Amabie.” According to legend, Amabie is a mermaid-like creature that was once seen off the coast of Higo Province (modern Kumamoto Prefecture), emerging from the waters in a glowing nimbus of light. This was towards the troubled end of the Edo Period (1603-1868). It is said that upon appearing, Amabie foretold the future, predicting abundant harvests but also a deadly epidemic, then disappeared again, leaving behind one final message of hope: “Draw pictures of me, and show them to other people.” Amid the gloomy atmosphere of the coronoavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the story itself has again surfaced and gone viral, seeming to resonate with people’s longings today for some hope of an end to our own crisis. This Amabie story is but one example from the great number of works, literary and otherwise, that were produced during the Edo Period on the topic of infectious diseases. One of the major depositories of such works is the National Institute of Japanese Literature, located in Tachikawa City, Tokyo, which has made many of them freely accessible online. The National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) houses hundreds of thousands of volumes of such premodern texts, and we are currently building a massive database to provide the public with access to digitized images of books both in our own collections and beyond. Many works among these depict vividly, not only in prose and poetry, but also in abundant, beautiful illustrations, how people in Japan’s past faced the frequent natural disasters of their own times, and how they went about rebuilding their communities in each aftermath. Some of the details they record remain applicable up to the present day. In this video I share with you a few glimpses of that legacy. While it would be even better if you could visit NIJL in Tokyo, and encounter the original texts in person, due to the COVID-19 situation we are currently closed. In the meantime, digitized versions of the texts seen in the video are available on NIJL’s own website, accessible freely without any login or subscription. I invite you to explore these books and others in our database after watching this clip. Just like our Edo predecessors, who over the years worked together to successfully survive so many catastrophes, for us too the day will come when the current virus outbreak is a thing of the past. And strewn throughout the deep legacy of Edo’s literary, linguistic, and artistic history, left us by ages past for those who look, there remain—even today—many seeds of hope only waiting to be found. I hope you will have a look too. #RobertCampbell#NIJL#NationalInstituteofJapaneseLiterature#ClassicalLiterature#Disease