Nōsatsu Crowdsourcing at the University of Oregon

The University of Oregon Libraries holds one of the largest collections of Japanese votive slips in the world. The collection contains dozens of albums that are being digitized and cataloged as part of the Oregon Digital collaboration between the UO and Oregon State Univeristy.

The purpose of this project is to enrich the basic cataloging records by adding descriptions, translations, and transcriptions to the individual nōsatsu as well as the pages of collected nōsatsu.

If you are interested in contributing to this project, please contact Kevin McDowell at the Univeristy of Oregon Libraries.

 

Project Texts: 
Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 1Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 2Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 4Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 5Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 3Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 10Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 11Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 12Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 13Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 17Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 20Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 25Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 7Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 30Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 26Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 32Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 33Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 9Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 14Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 16Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 21Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 22Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 6Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 9Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 14Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 15Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 16Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 22Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 23Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 23Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 24Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 27Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 28Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 6Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 8Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 34Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 35Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 39Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 39Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 39Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 39Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 39Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 39Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 39Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 39Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 39Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 39Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 38Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 38Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 41Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 44Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 53Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 57
Bibliography: 

McVicker, Donald. Frederick Starr : Popularizer of Anthropology, Public Intellectual, and Genuine Eccentric. Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira Press, a Division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012.

Salter, Rebecca. Japanese popular prints: from votive slips to playing cards. London: A & C Black. 2006.

Salter, Rebecca. Ofuda Hakushi: Frederick Starr and the Senshafuda tradition in Ofuda: amulettes et talismans du Japon ed. Josef A. Kyburz. Paris: Collège de France, Insitut des hautes études japonaises. 2014.

Smith, Henry. Folk toys and votive placards: Frederick Starr and the ethnography of collector networks in Taisho Japan in popular imagery as cultural heritage: aesthetical and art historical studies of visual culture in modern Japan. 2012.

Starr, Frederick. The nosatsu kai. Tokyo: Asiatic Society of Japan. 1917.http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/6342937.html

Starr, Frederick.  Japanese collectors and what they collect.  Chicago, the Bookfellows. 1921.https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006570440

Steinmetz, Mayumi Takanashi. Artistic and Religious Aspects of Nōsatsu (senjafuda). University of Oregon, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22962

Takiguchi, Masaya. 2008. Senjafuda ni miru Edo no shakai. Tōkyō: Dōseisha.

 
Links: 

The Gertrude Bass Warner Collection of Japanese Votive Slips (nōsatsu), 1850s-1930s on Oregon Digital