POSSIBILITIES AND CHALLENGES OF
INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATIVE WORK ON
JAPANESE RESOURCES:THE CASE OF THE SPECIAL COURSE KUZUSHIJI SEMINAR
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI
Rie Fuse
University of Helsinki

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TODAY’S PRESENTATION
1. Context of today’s presentation• the recent challenges in obtaining financial support
for infrastructure and activities utilising resources• visualising information on the usage of Japanese resources
for educational purposes

2. The Special Course is integrated withthe Kuzushiji seminar
3. Achievements through the course
4. Evaluations of achievements through the course
5. Conclusions
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THE SPECIAL COURSE INTEGRATED WITH THE KUZUSHIJI SEMINAR

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ACHIEVEMENTS THROUGH THE COURSE

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Tsuda, M., Fuse, R., Osamitsu, Y., Kenttä, L., Heiskanen, M. T., & Repo, S. (2020).
フィンランド国立図書館蔵 合巻『仮名手本忠臣蔵』調査報告.
The Hiyoshi Review of Humanities, 35, 221-244.

http://koara.lib.keio.ac.jp/xoonips/modules/xoonips/detail.php?koara_id=AN10065043-20200630-0221

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EVALUATIONS OF ACHIEVEMENTS THROUGH THE COURSE
Positive factors:• The knowledge of pre-modern literature distributed in the Finnish language to theappropriate audience;• Presenting local materials in the Japanese collection to local audiences;• The achievement of the collection’s online catalogue;• Constructing a transnational and interdisciplinary network.
Challenges:• Achievements of the course not filling the evaluation criteria by the Ministry of
Education and Culture in Finland;• An absence of a pedagogical framework to utilise resources for educational
purposes and to produce outputs from this usage;• Challenges in cooperating with organisations outside the university.
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CONCLUSIONS• The need for cooperation and collaboration among different actors for usingmaterials for education purposes;• Importance to consider the sustainable environment of using materials foreducational purposes;• Needing to construct the sustainable model and strategy of using materials foreducation purposes;• Further cooperation among actors.

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
References
Japonica kokoelma
https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/fi/content/japonica-kokoelma
Japanilaiset kirjoitusmerkit, kirjoitusjärjestelmä ja kirjojen historia tutuiksi Kuzushiji-seminaarissa
https://www2.helsinki.fi/fi/uutiset/kieli-kulttuuri/japanilaiset-kirjoitusmerkit-kirjoitusjarjestelma-ja-kirjojenhistoria-tutuiksi-kuzushiji-seminaarissa
Open Science National Coordination Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
https://avointiede.fi/en
Ministry of Education and Culture
https://minedu.fi/en/steering-financing-and-agreements
https://minedu.fi/documents/1410845/4392480/UNI_core_funding_2021.pdf/a9a65de5-bd76-e4ff-ea949b318af2f1bc/UNI_core_funding_2021.pdf?t=1608637262540

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