University of Oregon Nōsatsu Metadata Crowdsourcing Project

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 22Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 1 Collection 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 2Collection of the Japanese colorprinted placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, volume 4Collection of the Japanese color-printed placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, vol 5Collection of the Japanese color-printed placards and greeting cards, called Nōsatsu or Senjafuda, vol 6
Bibliography: 

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: 

https://oregondigital.org/sets/gb-warner-nosatsu