Making the Archive

The following photographs and narratives are a record of how the archive was created. For more about the archive, please go to About the Project.

2001: Discovery of the extent of the archive - Kyoto, Japan

	“Imanishi Kinji's World.” Exhibit at the Kyoto University Museum, 2001.
	Exhibit of some of Imanishi's personal notebooks at the Kyoto University Museum (2001).
	Imanishi's 1958 African diaries on permanent display in the Kyoto University Museum.
	Pamela Asquith checking contents of a portion of archive in the Imanishi home (06/01).
	Undergraduate notebook cover taken at the Imanishi home (06/01).

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2002: Pilot study for digitizing the archive collection - Kyoto , Japan

	Peter Ryan setting up shot (07/02).
	Kaoru ADACHI and Peter Ryan testing photography in Mainichi Newspaper offices (07/02).
	Original labeling system (07/02)
	Peter Ryan – getting the big shot (07/02)
	Captain Bunatar IMANISHI, Kazuko IMANISHI, Kiyoaki SAITO at the offices of the Mainichi Newspapers, Kyoto (08/02).
	Kamogawa (Kamo River), Kyoto, where Imanishi studied mayfly larvae in the 1930s.
	Kropotkin Notebook Cover: First shots in the pilot study, offices of the Mainichi Newspapers, Kyoto (30/07/02).
	Kropotkin Notebook Page: First shots in the pilot study, offices of the Mainichi Newspapers, Kyoto (30/07/02).
	Osaka Bay, departing from Kyoto en route to Kansai airport.

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2003: Documenting the archive collection - Edmonton, Canada

	View of N. Saskatchewan River and NW Edmonton from the University of Alberta.
	Kiyoaki SAITO and Mariko SAITO with documents they carried from Japan at the University of Alberta (28/05/03).
	Kiyoaki SAITO and Pamela Asquith recording arrival of documents to Edmonton (05/03).
	Document arrival to University of Alberta, Edmonton (05/03).
	Peter Ryan, Kiyoaki SAITO and Bernie Higham (06/03).
	Carmen Zelada (07/03).
	Camera setup of first workstation.
	Pamela Asquith and Bernie Higham checking Excel database.
	“Pilgrim's Progress” – progression on photography.
	1949 Field note diary of Toimisaki showing labeling.
	Working late.
	A page from Futsugo (French) Undergraduate Notebook..
	MACI camera: used for high resolution images of the maps.
	Photographing quadrants of larger maps to be digitally stitched later.
	Prashant Jois and Bernie Higham.
	Carmen Zelada setting up shots.
	Back row, left to right: Aya FUJIWARA, Carmen Zelada, Pamela Asquith. Front row, left to right: Prashant Jois, Bernie Higham.

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2004: Final Stages/Photoshop work and website construction in the TAPoR laboratory - University of Alberta

	Craig Soars working at his terminal.
	Photoshop work underway.
	Image cropped and colour corrected.

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Gifu Library Holdings

	Gifu University Library Collection of Imanishi Kinji's personal library (donated on his retirement as President of Gifu University in 1965). These books are only a portion of some 2900 items.
	Foreign language books in Imanishi Kinji's personal library.
	Zensh (Collected Works) of Imanishi Kinji.

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