Visualizing Japan (1850s-1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity

1. Entrance Survey
2. How to Use the Course
1. Day 1 - Course Overview (1 Question)
  
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2. Day 2 - Doing History with Visuals (3 Questions)
  
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1. Day 12 - Yokohama Boomtown and Meiji Modernization (7 Questions)
  
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2. Day 13 - Modernization, Westernization, the Rise of Imperial Japan (3 Questions)
  
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1. Day 19 - New Forms of Protest in Interwar Japan (7 Questions)
  
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2. Day 20 - From Protest to Consumer Culture (8 Questions)
  
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Entrance Survey

How to Use the Course

INTRODUCTION - New Historical Sources for a Digital Age

Day 1 - Course Overview (1 Question)

Day 2 - Doing History with Visuals (3 Questions)

MODULE I - Black Ships & Samurai: The Perry Expedition

Day 3 - Original Sources for the Perry Encounter (5 Questions)

Day 3 DISCUSSION

Day 4 - Historical Context: Medieval & Early Modern Japan (7 Questions)

Day 5 - Japan in the Pacific and the World (6 Questions)

Day 6 - Visualizing Japan ca. 1853 (4 Questions)

Day 7 - The Perry Expeditions (8 Questions)

Day 8 - American Barbarians in the Eyes of the Japanese (3 Questions)

Day 9 - Shore Life and the Black Ship Scroll (8 Questions)

REFERENCE: The Black Ship Scroll

Day 10 - Hakodate and Social Encounters (3 Questions)

Day 11 - Black Ship Screen, Conclusion (4 Questions)

MODULE I QUIZ (2 Questions)

REFERENCE: Module I Gallery

TRANSITION - After Perry

Day 12 - Yokohama Boomtown and Meiji Modernization (7 Questions)

Day 13 - Modernization, Westernization, the Rise of Imperial Japan (3 Questions)

MODULE II - Social Protest in Imperial Japan: the Hibiya Riot of 1905

Day 14 - The Hibiya Riot (4 Questions)

REFERENCE: The Complete Tokyo Riot Graphic & QUIZ

Day 15 - Illustrated News (9 Questions)

Day 16 - The Urban Crowd (11 Questions)

Day 17 - The Rioters' Goals and Targets (3 Questions)

Day 18 - Protest and Imperial Democracy (6 Questions)

MODULE II QUIZ (6 Questions)

REFERENCE: Module II Gallery

TRANSITION - From Hibiya to Shiseido

Day 19 - New Forms of Protest in Interwar Japan (7 Questions)

Day 20 - From Protest to Consumer Culture (8 Questions)

MODULE III - Modernity in Interwar Japan: Shiseido & Consumer Culture

Day 21 - Art and Commerce in an Age of Mass Production (7 Questions)

Day 22 - Ginza, the Shiseido stores and Archive (7 Questions)

Day 23 - Advertising and the Shiseido Network (14 Questions)

Day 24 - Shiseido Graph (11 Questions)

REFERENCE: Shiseido Graph and Shiseido Geppō

Day 25 - Modern Girl Modern Women (13 Questions)

MODULE III QUIZ & DISCUSSION (1 Question)

REFERENCE: Module III Gallery

CONCLUSION - Modernity, Militarism, March to War

Day 26 - Conclusion: Modernity, Militarism, March to War (9 Questions)

FINAL EXAM (10 Questions)

Exit Survey and Final Remarks