tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28775744943998939052024-02-07T21:45:02.096+09:00Miyagi Shiryō NetThe Miyagi Shiryō Net was founded in response to the recurring earthquakes and subsequent loss of the historical heritage of Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, since July 2003. After the tsunami and earthquake damage of 11th March 2011, our work not only entails historical preservation, but also helping shattered and endangered communities recover their identity and dynamism by giving them back a sense of their continuity.Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-77133043733925041332023-10-09T11:11:00.000+09:002023-10-09T11:11:58.707+09:00<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Miyagi Shiryō Net: </span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-AU" style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-size: large;">Part I Who we are, What we do, and Why we do it</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Acting to Save Our Heritage in the Face of Natural Disasters and Human Intervention</span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></b></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16pt;">Part I The Birth of Miyagi Shiryō Net<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></b></div><b><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Serial Earthquakes of 2003</span></span></b><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU">The Wholesale Destruction of People’s Livelihoods and ‘Historical Materials’<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> Miyagi Shiry</span><span lang="EN-AU">ō</span><span lang="EN-AU"> Net was founded in 2003, after the inland northern regions of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyagi_Prefecture">Miyagi Prefecture </a>suffered a series of direct hit earthquakes. The core of its members are faculty,and students specialising in Japanese history, art history, archaeology, and professionals from related fields such as architecture and museum curators, and employees of local governments within Miyagi Prefecture. To cope with the overwhelming increase in our salvage and restoration activities since March, 2011, we now employ on a part-time basis local volunteers to do the continuing tasks of cleaning and restoring documents, and also cooperate with universities and institutions with specialised skills throughout Japan. Volunteers from all over Japan, and occasionally from overseas participate on an ad hoc basis in individual salvage operations.</span><br /><span lang="EN-AU"> When we started conducting salvage operations for historical materials within the boundaries of the 5 municipalities (at the time) affected by these earthquakes, in the 192 old families we visited we found that many irreplaceable items, for example old tools, implements and furniture, and historical documents and paintings, all of which form a unique part of the historical heritage of each region, had been either burnt or thrown away when demolishing old houses and warehouses which had been badly damaged by the earthquakes. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> On arriving at these old-established families and being told that they had thrown away their historical heritage, we were repeatedly asked ‘if these items were so valuable, then why had we not arrived earlier to tell people about their worth.’ <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><v:shapetype coordsize="21600,21600" id="_x0000_t202" o:spt="202" path="m,l,21600r21600,l21600,xe"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"> <v:path gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"></v:path></v:stroke></v:shapetype><v:shape id="テキスト_x0020_ボックス_x0020_2" o:gfxdata="UEsDBBQABgAIAAAAIQC2gziS/gAAAOEBAAATAAAAW0NvbnRlbnRfVHlwZXNdLnhtbJSRQU7DMBBF 90jcwfIWJU67QAgl6YK0S0CoHGBkTxKLZGx5TGhvj5O2G0SRWNoz/78nu9wcxkFMGNg6quQqL6RA 0s5Y6ir5vt9lD1JwBDIwOMJKHpHlpr69KfdHjyxSmriSfYz+USnWPY7AufNIadK6MEJMx9ApD/oD OlTrorhX2lFEilmcO2RdNtjC5xDF9pCuTyYBB5bi6bQ4syoJ3g9WQ0ymaiLzg5KdCXlKLjvcW893 SUOqXwnz5DrgnHtJTxOsQfEKIT7DmDSUCaxw7Rqn8787ZsmRM9e2VmPeBN4uqYvTtW7jvijg9N/y JsXecLq0q+WD6m8AAAD//wMAUEsDBBQABgAIAAAAIQA4/SH/1gAAAJQBAAALAAAAX3JlbHMvLnJl bHOkkMFqwzAMhu+DvYPRfXGawxijTi+j0GvpHsDYimMaW0Yy2fr2M4PBMnrbUb/Q94l/f/hMi1qR JVI2sOt6UJgd+ZiDgffL8ekFlFSbvV0oo4EbChzGx4f9GRdb25HMsYhqlCwG5lrLq9biZkxWOiqY 22YiTra2kYMu1l1tQD30/bPm3wwYN0x18gb45AdQl1tp5j/sFB2T0FQ7R0nTNEV3j6o9feQzro1i OWA14Fm+Q8a1a8+Bvu/d/dMb2JY5uiPbhG/ktn4cqGU/er3pcvwCAAD//wMAUEsDBBQABgAIAAAA IQBNVKPARgIAAFgEAAAOAAAAZHJzL2Uyb0RvYy54bWysVM2O0zAQviPxDpbvNGna7rZR09XSpQhp F5AWHsBxnMbCsY3tNinHVkI8BK+AOPM8eRHGTreUvwsiB8vjmflm5puZzK/aWqAtM5YrmeHhIMaI SaoKLtcZfvtm9WSKkXVEFkQoyTK8YxZfLR4/mjc6ZYmqlCiYQQAibdroDFfO6TSKLK1YTexAaSZB WSpTEweiWUeFIQ2g1yJK4vgiapQptFGUWQuvN70SLwJ+WTLqXpWlZQ6JDENuLpwmnLk/o8WcpGtD dMXpMQ3yD1nUhEsIeoK6IY6gjeG/QdWcGmVV6QZU1ZEqS05ZqAGqGca/VHNfEc1CLUCO1Sea7P+D pS+3rw3iRYZH8SVGktTQpO7wsdt/6fbfusMn1B0+d4dDt/8KMko8YY22Kfjda/B07VPVQuND8Vbf KvrOIqmWFZFrdm2MaipGCkh46D2jM9cex3qQvLlTBcQlG6cCUFua2rMJ/CBAh8btTs1irUMUHpPR 5Ti5mGBEQTccx6PZdBJikPTBXRvrnjNVI3/JsIFpCPBke2udT4ekDyY+mlWCFysuRBDMOl8Kg7YE JmcVviP6T2ZCoibDs0ky6Rn4K0Qcvj9B1NzBCgheZ3h6MiKp5+2ZLMKAOsJFf4eUhTwS6bnrWXRt 3h4bk6tiB5Qa1Y86rCZcKmU+YNTAmGfYvt8QwzASLyS0ZTYcj/1eBGE8uUxAMOea/FxDJAWoDDuM +uvShV0KhOlraN+KB2J9n/tMjrnC+Aa+j6vm9+NcDlY/fgiL7wAAAP//AwBQSwMEFAAGAAgAAAAh AP0vMtbbAAAABQEAAA8AAABkcnMvZG93bnJldi54bWxMj8FOwzAQRO9I/IO1SNyokxQVSONUVQTX Sm2RuG7jbRKw1yF20vD3GC5wWWk0o5m3xWa2Rkw0+M6xgnSRgCCune64UfB6fLl7BOEDskbjmBR8 kYdNeX1VYK7dhfc0HUIjYgn7HBW0IfS5lL5uyaJfuJ44emc3WAxRDo3UA15iuTUyS5KVtNhxXGix p6ql+uMwWgXjsdpO+yp7f5t2+n63ekaL5lOp25t5uwYRaA5/YfjBj+hQRqaTG1l7YRTER8Lvjd7y YfkE4qQgy9IUZFnI//TlNwAAAP//AwBQSwECLQAUAAYACAAAACEAtoM4kv4AAADhAQAAEwAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW0NvbnRlbnRfVHlwZXNdLnhtbFBLAQItABQABgAIAAAAIQA4/SH/1gAAAJQB AAALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC8BAABfcmVscy8ucmVsc1BLAQItABQABgAIAAAAIQBNVKPARgIAAFgE AAAOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC4CAABkcnMvZTJvRG9jLnhtbFBLAQItABQABgAIAAAAIQD9LzLW2wAA AAUBAAAPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKAEAABkcnMvZG93bnJldi54bWxQSwUGAAAAAAQABADzAAAAqAUA AAAA " o:spid="_x0000_s1026" style="height: 47.55pt; 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The digital record we create provides the people of the area with a readily accessible tool to learn about their own history, and in the unfortunate case of the original collection being lost in a disaster, it provides a valuable record of the original historical materials.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> The methodology that Miyagi Shiry</span><span lang="EN-AU">ō</span><span lang="EN-AU"> Net has developed over our years of experience in locating and also recording local historical materials in a very short period of time has attracted attention from all over Japan as a practical model for disaster prevention practice for invaluable local historical materials. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><v:shape id="_x0000_i1028" style="height: 318.6pt; width: 424.8pt;" type="#_x0000_t75"> <v:imagedata o:title="04" src="file:///C:\Users\JF1FC0~1.MOR\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image004.jpg"></v:imagedata></v:shape><o:p></o:p></span></div><br clear="ALL" /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Going Public</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14pt;">Miyagi Shiry</span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">ō</span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Net Becomes an NPO and our Second Experience of Disaster<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> In order to make our structure and activities more visible and open, in February of 2007, Miyagi Shiry</span><span lang="EN-AU">ō</span><span lang="EN-AU"> Net became an officially registered NPO.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> On the 14th June 2008, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Iwate-Miyagi_Nairiku_earthquake">Iwate and Miyagi Inland Earthquake</a> struck, and this became our second ‘baptism of fire’ in a real large scale disaster. However, this time, we could draw upon our experience accumulated over the intervening 5 years, and were able to start salvage work in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurihara,_Miyagi">Kurihara</a> and </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Csaki,_Miyagi">Ōs</a></span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Csaki,_Miyagi">aki</a> Cities, the 2 areas worst affected by this earthquake, soon after the disaster struck. In all, we conducted salvage activities for historical materials for items in the possession of 31 families.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> Of these 31 cases, some were totally unexpected and new finds. For example, in the earthquake, a wickerwork case fell down from where it had lay hidden in the ceiling of a warehouse, and when the owners opened it they found bundles of documents inside which no one knew anything about. In another case, when the owners started clearing away the debris of a warehouse which had totally collapsed in the earthquake, they discovered a treasure-trove of Edo Period (1600-1868) documents.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> As time passed by, the probability of the expected Miyagi Offshore Earthquake inched higher and higher. In expectation of this next big test, by February 2010, we had conducted pinpoint data recording at a total of 415 families.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><br /><b><span face="Arial, sans-serif" lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Miyagi Shiryō Net: </span></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Our Story in Pictures</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Activities and Operations Conducted from 2003 until 2009</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOWqiiPlNSE4to-0Fq2N-TgbgWfqpygDAp7CzpjawZtl_t-OCdWp9K4OBIZBddDcLzHItM-dFco13Emnq8pwiD4VGru2_kYb1FnmPK0qVk8JeJBf7HNK79I4dxu6RrfgREavkG6ObVLss/s1600/01_01.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOWqiiPlNSE4to-0Fq2N-TgbgWfqpygDAp7CzpjawZtl_t-OCdWp9K4OBIZBddDcLzHItM-dFco13Emnq8pwiD4VGru2_kYb1FnmPK0qVk8JeJBf7HNK79I4dxu6RrfgREavkG6ObVLss/s1600/01_01.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> A warehouse damaged by the northern Miyagi Inland Earthquake, former Kahoku Town (now Ishinomaki City), 10th August 2003. The warehouse contained a collection of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomon_culture"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Jōmon</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"> </span>Period</a> pottery and other artifacts discovered nearby and excavated between 1910 and 1926. The warehouse belongs to a family which accumulated wealth as landlords and rose to wealth in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_Period">Edo Period</a> (1600-1868).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBkBhfWEHSDqmpd25e89pFxmEkoZF1xtZvBjkYHuIt0-vV85u-_cMLtojjv-S8RoiV4NZYPUH0MKo9BkoKDoPXfLOZgjztaojLnAy9k7afIoO-0R7RhPxehhUUyZdwL_U1fuXD8pFtkGg/s1600/01_02.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBkBhfWEHSDqmpd25e89pFxmEkoZF1xtZvBjkYHuIt0-vV85u-_cMLtojjv-S8RoiV4NZYPUH0MKo9BkoKDoPXfLOZgjztaojLnAy9k7afIoO-0R7RhPxehhUUyZdwL_U1fuXD8pFtkGg/s1600/01_02.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Inside the warehouse above. The shelves have either fallen over or been twisted and damaged by the shock of the earthquake.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs-MHjleTQKtcsNU2QfHJIk5sIb3_Wi5IKM1RfJIN-QsVq4_Q5S-W9apgE29p6mSdRMkNj5LRpuG4kZs6jmotg4xQMAC-ecv_Hr835Dm2sVvwf-SU9XK6oHgyswKb4_zJVafkeBDuIKAU/s1600/01_03.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs-MHjleTQKtcsNU2QfHJIk5sIb3_Wi5IKM1RfJIN-QsVq4_Q5S-W9apgE29p6mSdRMkNj5LRpuG4kZs6jmotg4xQMAC-ecv_Hr835Dm2sVvwf-SU9XK6oHgyswKb4_zJVafkeBDuIKAU/s1600/01_03.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Carrying out old documents from another damaged warehouse for temporary safe-keeping (31st August, 2003).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimWjLIUOYwqDJcJVeAMKM_lkgxNDXV2HqWEaDoBcTQOCuQ-O1gigEiU0dDz_vwcE-SmiMPOlTgVYuqBaH0OdFMwTi9_YLynEezDuPNEQa0oKuFULcJmyduUiSYqCBs65jQKyJe2tHnd4s/s1600/01_04.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimWjLIUOYwqDJcJVeAMKM_lkgxNDXV2HqWEaDoBcTQOCuQ-O1gigEiU0dDz_vwcE-SmiMPOlTgVYuqBaH0OdFMwTi9_YLynEezDuPNEQa0oKuFULcJmyduUiSYqCBs65jQKyJe2tHnd4s/s1600/01_04.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Assessing the contents of the documents.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiftVSyzPrn1UnTouMQqISKxt4U8Gul6cb8nk6nc51SUNxguV7kAwbCIsjCi0pb8LoW0NxlOJRFdCEJ2mgoUxRU4gC0hkZyWPLAn8w29x7GEu2YQPRZXPEsWLLLZsvNeszRHk3hh9NVDCc/s1600/01_05.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiftVSyzPrn1UnTouMQqISKxt4U8Gul6cb8nk6nc51SUNxguV7kAwbCIsjCi0pb8LoW0NxlOJRFdCEJ2mgoUxRU4gC0hkZyWPLAn8w29x7GEu2YQPRZXPEsWLLLZsvNeszRHk3hh9NVDCc/s1600/01_05.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Salvaging the <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Jōmon Period pottery from shattered display cases.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvoRIzktLK0LjXi-WzlXNin9zq9sv3WF5f2yD_7KFyQUClIUepgcPXgNz6M_WHFqoB_4_SE7EAzjSDqfGSXn0KYslFNRCj-M0RARTplqkZZkO0cGBwQiKfEQxQ9dZm1Eji1g3ol-TGqXI/s1600/01_06.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvoRIzktLK0LjXi-WzlXNin9zq9sv3WF5f2yD_7KFyQUClIUepgcPXgNz6M_WHFqoB_4_SE7EAzjSDqfGSXn0KYslFNRCj-M0RARTplqkZZkO0cGBwQiKfEQxQ9dZm1Eji1g3ol-TGqXI/s1600/01_06.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Creating a catalogue of the documents held by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurihara_Den%27en_Railway_Line">Kurihara Den'en Railways</a>, Kurihara City, 3rd August 2006. The company operating the railway was terminated in 2007.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKSqaIKa77qZsn0Icg_a_j7OVL4UDwoXNLvtEn2AIwb6YOo9qMbgRir5-8L3lx3HG24vBATUVf6rVumydynf_KuD2XWy6nZGvV7JNostb2_W0Dn9NAp_CSNuPCyLGLXt_T4RFgj0maGpA/s1600/01_07.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKSqaIKa77qZsn0Icg_a_j7OVL4UDwoXNLvtEn2AIwb6YOo9qMbgRir5-8L3lx3HG24vBATUVf6rVumydynf_KuD2XWy6nZGvV7JNostb2_W0Dn9NAp_CSNuPCyLGLXt_T4RFgj0maGpA/s1600/01_07.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Creating a digital record of an extensive collection held by an old family in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakuwa,_Miyagi">Karakuwa,</a> Kesen'numa. In this session, over 20 digital cameras were used, but photographing this collection has been an ongoing operation extending over several years (5th August, 2007). (Note: the entry in Wikipedia for 'Karakuwa' is garbled, but is the best I could find JFM)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM6sxpz-NiovgDVJ89XWkmEqr85jlYJbj4nbBI_NF5XGJYV_fzEs0pm7VdiHu44we3M2YqIwjGPeye8VlZ3PAPmvsIQUJXQqhY94FhhNXIajh3BhtdkmWU09XCCgheNIxC6G1XKcNmQ7o/s1600/01_08.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM6sxpz-NiovgDVJ89XWkmEqr85jlYJbj4nbBI_NF5XGJYV_fzEs0pm7VdiHu44we3M2YqIwjGPeye8VlZ3PAPmvsIQUJXQqhY94FhhNXIajh3BhtdkmWU09XCCgheNIxC6G1XKcNmQ7o/s1600/01_08.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> The slope beside a school which collapsed after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwate_Miyagi_Earthquake">Iwate-Miyagi Inland Earthquake</a> of 14th June, 2008 (photographed on 15th June, 2008).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3mlTSI0KqHsh8nz8qCoQy1r2j1zR1rm4WKWkLispSvnfkqRu2XV460vR44eT7697fTT_d0UNfiooGXBM6TvmhnwLKsew9peOc1khleSFptT53rK8RZoMJdBNGCQFfeHIWJjTzEsAyz1Q/s1600/01_09.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3mlTSI0KqHsh8nz8qCoQy1r2j1zR1rm4WKWkLispSvnfkqRu2XV460vR44eT7697fTT_d0UNfiooGXBM6TvmhnwLKsew9peOc1khleSFptT53rK8RZoMJdBNGCQFfeHIWJjTzEsAyz1Q/s1600/01_09.JPG" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Gravestones overturned by the earthquake of 2008 (15th July 2008, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurihara,_Miyagi">Kurihara City</a>). In Japan, bodies are usually cremated and placed in a family grave, rather than an individual one. Gravestones are an important symbol linking present family members and their ancestors.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-k2LS4kM5N8kcizgU02PMFb2ar60f36Ua4kVeAaLj5LnpN3d0z0rV8maGW050i-i1l9VItgboAaatpNdhRnWnEHVBLG1kh-YhjWrWQTyf-GHE9x7g5tq5NIXHODTd6q8wliN4RXejI38/s1600/01_10.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-k2LS4kM5N8kcizgU02PMFb2ar60f36Ua4kVeAaLj5LnpN3d0z0rV8maGW050i-i1l9VItgboAaatpNdhRnWnEHVBLG1kh-YhjWrWQTyf-GHE9x7g5tq5NIXHODTd6q8wliN4RXejI38/s1600/01_10.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Student volunteer members scanning through local histories and other published sources to locate collections of original documents within the earthquake-affected area (T</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">ōhoku</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> University, Sendai, 16th June, 2008).</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrI5ocVCISbtCfcgF79rCpko74XXCJa7RCQSQcN_K87a_7fhPq0_k_bCvk8G60tCHfxF46hDgb9eylpRjh89xd3qkBERFHcOSBK_eD33YdQB9MpbOKUGppKcX6nEa6x5UoUrZKiEt_9vU/s1600/01_11.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrI5ocVCISbtCfcgF79rCpko74XXCJa7RCQSQcN_K87a_7fhPq0_k_bCvk8G60tCHfxF46hDgb9eylpRjh89xd3qkBERFHcOSBK_eD33YdQB9MpbOKUGppKcX6nEa6x5UoUrZKiEt_9vU/s1600/01_11.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Assessing the contents of a wicker basket full of original documents which fell down from the ceiling of a warehouse during the earthquake of 2008 (Kurihara City, 29th June, 2008)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrSfqhtbGkwynwzg3H6206v5fldGgHZj170E5ziWTCDRW9Cg6rWJUm2hyLNvFGODm4VRjzi56OBuz0_bUVEXTmzjwMo-R5MnYfo4PUhBtWZ3nCgwPr0AXM8wc8T-Xsq-N4-aS-iNq5-O4/s1600/01_14_02.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Assessing the collection of documents discovered above.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1nbGbjR7wsip4DyDERai8Y7A-oaBiuMGkhuHizeWTvzr5GeDaNGOb_B-Pq6itqtyMQX40QRzms62pp_ZKo4ff9lyh0LPAksuO6S7OeHBUrbztdyaIChVDdM9reE3j4TjapSeM_H7yhQ4/s1600/01_15.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1nbGbjR7wsip4DyDERai8Y7A-oaBiuMGkhuHizeWTvzr5GeDaNGOb_B-Pq6itqtyMQX40QRzms62pp_ZKo4ff9lyh0LPAksuO6S7OeHBUrbztdyaIChVDdM9reE3j4TjapSeM_H7yhQ4/s1600/01_15.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sorting the documents in the above collection.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-21540393619069311112023-10-09T10:59:00.000+09:002023-10-09T10:59:24.775+09:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span face=""Arial","sans-serif"" lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 16pt;">Part I The Birth of Miyagi
Shiryō Net<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Serial Earthquakes of 2003</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-AU">The Wholesale Destruction of People’s Livelihoods and ‘Historical
Materials’<span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> Miyagi
Shiry</span><span lang="EN-AU">ō</span><span lang="EN-AU"> Net was founded in 2003, after the inland northern regions of
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyagi_Prefecture">Miyagi Prefecture </a>suffered a series of direct hit earthquakes. The core of its members are faculty,and students specialising in Japanese history, art history, archaeology, and professionals from related fields such as architecture and museum curators, and employees of local governments within Miyagi Prefecture. To cope with the overwhelming increase in our salvage and restoration activities since March, 2011, we now employ on a part-time basis local volunteers to do the continuing tasks of cleaning and restoring documents, and also cooperate with universities and institutions with specialised skills throughout Japan. Volunteers from all over Japan, and occasionally from overseas participate on an ad hoc basis in individual salvage operations.</span><br />
<span lang="EN-AU"> When we started conducting salvage operations for historical materials within the boundaries of the 5
municipalities (at the time) affected by these earthquakes, in the 192 old
families we visited we found that many irreplaceable items, for example old tools,
implements and furniture, and historical documents and paintings, all of which
form a unique part of the historical heritage of each region, had been either burnt
or thrown away when demolishing old houses and warehouses which had been badly damaged
by the earthquakes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> On arriving at these old-established families and being told that they had thrown away
their historical heritage, we were repeatedly asked ‘if these items were so
valuable, then why had we not arrived earlier to tell people about their worth.’
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14pt;">Learning to Prepare for Disasters Before They Happen<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> Before
the serial earthquakes of 2003, we had barely any information about ‘where’ and
‘what kinds’ of historical materials were held privately by families throughout
Miyagi Prefecture. This was the single largest reason why we had arrived
too late on the scene after this disaster. Moreover, at this stage, we already
knew that there was an 80% probability that another large scale offshore earthquake
would hit Miyagi Prefecture within the next 20 years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> It
was clear that the best way to prepare to save historical materials in any
future disasters would be to find out where such materials were held, and to
record these materials before disaster struck. Looking back on our failure in
2003, we decided to embark on a long term project to save historical materials
from natural disasters, and to do this, we knew that we would have to work in
cooperation with local governments and local people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-AU"><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">What Are ‘Preservation Activities?’</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> There
are 2 main different tasks that we do as preservation activity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">(1) ‘What’
and ‘where’: Combing an area to identify and locate materials<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> We
go through a certain whole area, usually either a unit of local government such
as a ‘town’ or ‘village,’ or else a smaller area that was formerly an
independent ‘village’ about a 100 years ago, to identify where and what kinds
of historical materials are held throughout the area.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> In
this kind of task, our members divide up into several separate teams to comb
the area, usually in a single day, to locate and identify historical materials.
By cataloguing and preserving this data, we can identify where all important
historical materials within the area are located <i>before</i> a big natural disaster occurs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU">(2) ‘Pinpoint’ recording: photographing a
whole single collection<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> In
the process of combing an area, we often discover a large collection of
documents or materials held by a single family or institution, and which is
invaluable in order to understand the history of the area. In this case, we
revisit the family or institution on a separate occasion and photograph the
whole collection. We also provide the materials (e.g. acid-free envelopes) and
advice necessary to preserve the items in the collection and save them from any
further deterioration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> To
photograph this kind of collection, we use digital cameras. This enables us to
create a digital record of the whole collection held by a single
family/institution in a very short period of time. The digital record we create
provides the people of the area with a readily accessible tool to learn about
their own history, and in the unfortunate case of the original collection being
lost in a disaster, it provides a valuable record of the original historical
materials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> The
methodology that Miyagi Shiry</span><span lang="EN-AU">ō</span><span lang="EN-AU"> Net has developed over our years of experience in locating and also recording local historical materials in a very short period of time has attracted attention from all over
Japan as a practical model for disaster prevention practice for invaluable
local historical materials. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14pt;">Miyagi Shiry</span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">ō</span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14pt;"> Net Becomes an NPO and our
Second Experience of Disaster<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> In
order to make our structure and activities more visible and open, in February
of 2007, Miyagi Shiry</span><span lang="EN-AU">ō</span><span lang="EN-AU"> Net became an officially registered NPO.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> On
the 14th June 2008, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Iwate-Miyagi_Nairiku_earthquake">Iwate and Miyagi Inland Earthquake</a> struck, and this became
our second ‘baptism of fire’ in a real large scale disaster. However, this
time, we could draw upon our experience accumulated over the intervening 5
years, and were able to start salvage work in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurihara,_Miyagi">Kurihara</a> and </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Csaki,_Miyagi">Ōs</a></span><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Csaki,_Miyagi">aki</a>
Cities, the 2 areas worst affected by this earthquake, soon after the disaster
struck. In all, we conducted salvage activities for historical materials for
items in the possession of 31 families.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> Of
these 31 cases, some were totally unexpected and new finds. For example, in the
earthquake, a wickerwork case fell down from where it had lay hidden in the
ceiling of a warehouse, and when the owners opened it they found bundles of
documents inside which no one knew anything about. In another case, when the
owners started clearing away the debris of a warehouse which had totally
collapsed in the earthquake, they discovered a treasure-trove of Edo Period
(1600-1868) documents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> As
time passed by, the probability of the expected Miyagi Offshore Earthquake
inched higher and higher. In expectation of this next big test, by February
2010, we had conducted pinpoint data recording at a total of 415 families.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Activities and Operations Conducted from 2003 until 2009</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> A warehouse damaged by the northern Miyagi Inland Earthquake, former Kahoku Town (now Ishinomaki City), 10th August 2003. The warehouse contained a collection of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomon_culture"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Jōmon</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;"> </span>Period</a> pottery and other artifacts discovered nearby and excavated between 1910 and 1926. The warehouse belongs to a family which accumulated wealth as landlords and rose to wealth in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_Period">Edo Period</a> (1600-1868).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Inside the warehouse above. The shelves have either fallen over or been twisted and damaged by the shock of the earthquake.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Carrying out old documents from another damaged warehouse for temporary safe-keeping (31st August, 2003).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Assessing the contents of the documents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Salvaging the <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 24px;">Jōmon Period pottery from shattered display cases.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Creating a catalogue of the documents held by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurihara_Den%27en_Railway_Line">Kurihara Den'en Railways</a>, Kurihara City, 3rd August 2006. The company operating the railway was terminated in 2007.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> Creating a digital record of an extensive collection held by an old family in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakuwa,_Miyagi">Karakuwa,</a> Kesen'numa. In this session, over 20 digital cameras were used, but photographing this collection has been an ongoing operation extending over several years (5th August, 2007). (Note: the entry in Wikipedia for 'Karakuwa' is garbled, but is the best I could find JFM)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> The slope beside a school which collapsed after the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwate_Miyagi_Earthquake">Iwate-Miyagi Inland Earthquake</a> of 14th June, 2008 (photographed on 15th June, 2008).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Gravestones overturned by the earthquake of 2008 (15th July 2008, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurihara,_Miyagi">Kurihara City</a>). In Japan, bodies are usually cremated and placed in a family grave, rather than an individual one. Gravestones are an important symbol linking present family members and their ancestors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Student volunteer members scanning through local histories and other published sources to locate collections of original documents within the earthquake-affected area (T</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">ōhoku</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> University, Sendai, 16th June, 2008).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Assessing the contents of a wicker basket full of original documents which fell down from the ceiling of a warehouse during the earthquake of 2008 (Kurihara City, 29th June, 2008)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">During a visit to families long established in the district throughout the affected areas, we discover a hitherto unknown collection of documents (</span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Csaki,_Miyagi">Ōsaki</a></span></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%8Csaki,_Miyagi"> City</a>, 27th August 2008)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Entering an old warehouse to search it for old documents and historical materials (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujisawa,_Iwate">Fujisawa Town</a>, Iwate Prefecture, 8th August 2008)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Inside the above warehouse, we found a collection of Edo Period documents in an antique chest of drawers.</span><br />
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Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-70181193350844940772020-12-04T11:56:00.001+09:002020-12-04T11:56:34.128+09:00<h1 style="text-align: center;"> Miyagi Shiryō Net <br />9 Years 9 Months from 3.11</h1><div><span> Nine years and 9 months have passed since the tsunami of 11th March, 2011. I would like to present a short review of the status of Miyagi Shiry</span>ō Net's (MSN) salvage activities for historical heritage (mainly collections of old documents) since the tsunami.</div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>At the time of writing (2nd Dec. 2020), MSN has taken 88 collections of documents and other records put at risk by the tsunami and earthquake of 2011 into our hands for cleaning and restoration. MSN 'borrows' these collections until the documents have been restored to state where they can be returned to their owners/custodians.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>Of these 88 collections, MSN has completed the task of returning 26 collections to their original owners/custodians after </span>cleaning the documents of sand, salt and other deposited material and restoring the documents to a stable condition, and then digitally recording all the documents. This amounts to roughly 30% of the collections we have in temporary holding awaiting treatment. </div><div><br /></div><div>Of these 26, we have been able to provide either an index or other supplementary explanatory information for only 13 collections. In other words, we have only been able to provide basic information which makes it easier to access and use the contents of the collection for only some 15% of the total number of collections that we have salvaged. </div><div><br /></div><div>It goes without saying that it takes an enormous amount of time and human power to complete the multiple stages of treatment necessary to restore documents which have been exposed to immersion in seawater to a stable state. MSN had only just begun to start treating documents that we had salvaged from non-coastal areas in 2013, when we were faced with the task of mobilising to salvage collections at risk due to Typhoon Hagibis (Typhoon No. 19) in October 2019. To make matters worse, the onset of Covid-19 has resulted in a 5 month hiatus in our restoration work. Notwithstanding, we are now nearing the point where we can say that we have completed the process of initial stabilisation on all the collections damaged by immersion in seawater. We have been able to achieve this task thanks to the unstinting work of our volunteer supporters over a period of 9 years and 7 months. I would like to extend a special word of thanks to all our volunteers for achieving this Herculean task.</div><div><br /></div><div>On the other hand, as the figures above show, we are still a long way away from achieving our ultimate goal, and we must continue to move forward, one small step after another.</div><div><br /></div><div>3.11 is becoming past history, but for us it is still far from being over. We thank you for your concern and support up to today, and hope that you will continue to support our work in the future.</div><div><br /></div><div>Satō Daisuke for MSN</div><div>Translation J.F. Morris</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-30239735022965175982017-07-20T06:54:00.004+09:002019-03-30T17:57:04.126+09:00Miyagi Shiryō Net on Youtube<h2>Miyagi Shiryō Net is on Youtube</h2>A 15 minute documentary on the work of Miyagi Shiry<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">ō Net and the original K</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">ōbe Network is now available on Youtube. The original documentary is in Japanese, but this version has English-language subtitles. In 28 minutes, the documentary tells the story of the founding of these networks in Miyagi and in K</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">ōbe, how we reacted to the disaster of 11th March 2011, and shows how our work in preserving the historical and cultural heritage of a disaster-hit region can help survivors set about rebuilding their lives and communities. Overall, it provides a cogent but very concise introduction to our organisation. </span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=ja&q=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v%3Di74__L--sh4&source=gmail&ust=1500586577531000&usg=AFQjCNF_EU0x8pvRmkSiWA72i9BJO5ssgQ" href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i74__L--sh4" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">https://m.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=i74__L--sh4</a><br /><br />Miyagi Shiry<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">ō Net would like to thank the producers of the documentary for their permission and unstinting cooperation in making this documentary available with English subtitles.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-74672425288357640002017-07-20T06:54:00.003+09:002017-07-20T07:01:23.404+09:00Miyagi Shiryō Net on Youtube<h2>
Miyagi Shiryō Net is on Youtube</h2>
A 15 minute documentary on the work of Miyagi Shiry<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">ō Net and the original K</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">ōbe Network is now available on Youtube. The original documentary is in Japanese, but this version has English-language subtitles. In 28 minutes, the documentary tells the story of the founding of these networks in Miyagi and in K</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; text-align: center;">ōbe, how we reacted to the disaster of 11th March 2011, and shows how our work in preserving the historical and cultural heritage of a disaster-hit region can help survivors set about rebuilding their lives and communities. Overall, it provides a cogent but very concise introduction to our organisation. </span><br />
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<br />Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-83865240594979023582016-08-12T10:16:00.002+09:002019-03-30T17:57:04.297+09:00<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Miyagi Shiryō Net Goes to the US</span></h2><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A group of 5 historians from Miyagi Shiryō Net will participate in workshops on disaster and resilience at Drexel University, Philadelphia, and Ohio State University, Columbus, on 7th (Drexel) and 9th (Ohio State) of September.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the highlights of our presentations will be the paper presenting the preliminary findings of a group of clinical psychologists who have started a project to evaluate the psychosocial effects of the work of historians on preserving local heritage. The preliminary findings are exciting, and suggest that interdisciplinary co-operation of this kind can lead to discoveries significant to both sides, and suggest new ways of looking at how professional scholars can more effectively use their expertise to help disaster recovery.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The members of our group and the titles of their presentations are as follows:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">1) Time Matters: A Psychometrical Evaluation of the Effects of Salvaging Historical Heritage of Tsunami Survivors<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">KAMIYAMA Machiko (read by John Morris) 30 mins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">2) Psychosocial Support and History:: Preserving Heritage, Preserving Communities SAT</span><span lang="EN-US">Ō</span><span lang="EN-US"> Daisuke, Associate Professor, T</span><span lang="EN-US">ō</span><span lang="EN-US">hoku University 20 mins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">3) Preservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage by Local Government within the Area Affected by the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Accident<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">MONMA Takeshi, Tomioka Municipal Government 20 to 25 mins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4) Social Outreach in Historical Conservation Work: Giving Feedback about What We Learn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">TAKAHASHI Yō’ichi , Assistant Professor, Tōhoku University 20 mins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">5) A Case Study of the Significance of Preserving Historical and Cultural Heritage in the Evacuation Area after the Fukushima Accident: the Case of the Izumita Family, Futaba Town, Fukushima.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">IZUMITA Kunihiko, Graduate Student, Tōhoku University 20 mins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">6) Research and Responsibility: Personal Experiences with Historical Documents before and after the 3-11 Disaster<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">SAITŌ Yoshiyuki, Professor, Tōhoku Gakuin University 20 mins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For more details, please follow the Events sections of the History Departments of each university.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><br /><br /><br /><br />Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-75939034253455718562016-08-12T10:16:00.001+09:002016-08-12T10:17:10.773+09:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A group of 5 historians from Miyagi Shiryō Net will participate in workshops on disaster and resilience at Drexel University, Philadelphia, and Ohio State University, Columbus, on 7th (Drexel) and 9th (Ohio State) of September.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the highlights of our presentations will be the paper presenting the preliminary findings of a group of clinical psychologists who have started a project to evaluate the psychosocial effects of the work of historians on preserving local heritage. The preliminary findings are exciting, and suggest that interdisciplinary co-operation of this kind can lead to discoveries significant to both sides, and suggest new ways of looking at how professional scholars can more effectively use their expertise to help disaster recovery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The members of our group and the titles of their presentations are as follows:</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">1) Time Matters: A Psychometrical Evaluation of the Effects of Salvaging Historical Heritage of Tsunami Survivors<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">KAMIYAMA Machiko (read by John Morris) 30 mins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">2) Psychosocial Support and History:: Preserving Heritage, Preserving Communities SAT</span><span lang="EN-US">Ō</span><span lang="EN-US"> Daisuke, Associate Professor, T</span><span lang="EN-US">ō</span><span lang="EN-US">hoku University 20 mins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">3) Preservation of Historical and Cultural Heritage by Local Government within the Area Affected by the Fukushima Nuclear Reactor Accident<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">MONMA Takeshi, Tomioka Municipal Government 20 to 25 mins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4) Social Outreach in Historical Conservation Work: Giving Feedback about What We Learn<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">TAKAHASHI Yō’ichi , Assistant Professor, Tōhoku University 20 mins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">5) A Case Study of the Significance of Preserving Historical and Cultural Heritage in the Evacuation Area after the Fukushima Accident: the Case of the Izumita Family, Futaba Town, Fukushima.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">IZUMITA Kunihiko, Graduate Student, Tōhoku University 20 mins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">6) Research and Responsibility: Personal Experiences with Historical Documents before and after the 3-11 Disaster<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">SAITŌ Yoshiyuki, Professor, Tōhoku Gakuin University 20 mins<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br />Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-81486102172206726612016-04-12T12:10:00.006+09:002019-03-30T17:57:04.407+09:00<h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Miyagi Shiry</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ō</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Network On YouTube</span></h2><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miyagi Shiry</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">ō Network, Fukushima Shiry</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">ō Network, and K</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">ōbe Shiry</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">ō Network are introduced in a television series now available on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkhNiM4NrPU" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">At the time of writing (April 2016), this programme is only available in Japanese, but it provides a very well-balanced introduction to the work that each </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">Shiry</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">ō Network has done and is continuing to do, and what this means to the people we serve. </span><br /><div><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;"><br /></span></div>Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-10564083928485335542016-04-12T12:10:00.005+09:002016-04-12T12:10:54.759+09:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">Miyagi Shiry</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ō</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Network On YouTube</span></h2>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miyagi Shiry</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">ō Network, Fukushima Shiry</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">ō Network, and K</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">ōbe Shiry</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">ō Network are introduced in a television series now available on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkhNiM4NrPU" target="_blank">YouTube</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">At the time of writing (April 2016), this programme is only available in Japanese, but it provides a very well-balanced introduction to the work that each </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">Shiry</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: right;">ō Network has done and is continuing to do, and what this means to the people we serve. </span><br />
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Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-14772201977780496582016-03-29T11:30:00.001+09:002019-03-30T17:57:04.513+09:00Miyagi Shiryo Net 5 Years on from 2011<h2>Miyagi Shiryo Net 5 Years on from 2011: A Retrospective</h2><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a long silence, we bring you a series of 4 essays on where we are today five years after the 3-fold disaster of March, 2011. We also have some new titles to announce in our 'Historical Regeneration' publishing series.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Five Years On: a Retrospective</span><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_82.html" target="_blank">No 1 Ishinomaki and the Honma Family Warehouse</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/five-years-on-no.html" target="_blank">No 2 Returning Lost Documents to their Owners</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/five-years-on-no_21.html" target="_blank">No 3 A Task with No End in Sight</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_25.html" target="_blank">No 4 Preserving Historical Documents and the Role of 'Ordinary People'</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/five-years-on-no_28.html" target="_blank"><br /></a></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/five-years-on-no_28.html" target="_blank">No 5 Translator's Afterword</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">New Titles Published</span><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The new titles published in March 2016 bring this total number of booklets in this series to 12, and the series has been concluded.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_12.html" target="_blank">New titles in the 'Historical Regeneration Project' July 2015</a></span><br /><br /><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_99.html" target="_blank">New titles in the 'Historical Regeneration Project' March 2016</a><br /><br />Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-77859608889925862322016-03-29T11:30:00.000+09:002016-03-29T11:41:18.240+09:00Miyagi Shiryo Net 5 Years on from 2011<h2>
Miyagi Shiryo Net 5 Years on from 2011: A Retrospective</h2>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">After a long silence, we bring you a series of 4 essays on where we are today five years after the 3-fold disaster of March, 2011. We also have some new titles to announce in our 'Historical Regeneration' publishing series.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Five Years On: a Retrospective</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_82.html" target="_blank">No 1 Ishinomaki and the Honma Family Warehouse</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/five-years-on-no.html" target="_blank">No 2 Returning Lost Documents to their Owners</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/five-years-on-no_21.html" target="_blank">No 3 A Task with No End in Sight</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_25.html" target="_blank">No 4 Preserving Historical Documents and the Role of 'Ordinary People'</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/five-years-on-no_28.html" target="_blank"><br /></a></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/five-years-on-no_28.html" target="_blank">No 5 Translator's Afterword</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">New Titles Published</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The new titles published in March 2016 bring this total number of booklets in this series to 12, and the series has been concluded.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_12.html" target="_blank">New titles in the 'Historical Regeneration Project' July 2015</a></span><br />
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<a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_99.html" target="_blank">New titles in the 'Historical Regeneration Project' March 2016</a><br />
<br />Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-47297403473283488642014-08-21T21:35:00.005+09:002019-03-30T17:57:04.618+09:00<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">A New Addition to the Miyagi Shiryō Net Series 'Historical Regeneration' </span><br /><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;"><u><strike><br /></strike></u></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">We are happy to announce that No. 4 in the 'Historical Regeneration' Series has been published.</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">The new volume by Takahashi Y</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">ō</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">'ichi</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;"> is entitled "Bringing Back the Steamy Mists: Recovery from Famines in the Edo Period."</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">In the Edo Period, the greatest cause of mass deaths was neither earthquakes nor tsunami, but famine. In the Tenmei Famine in Sendai (1782 to 1788) some 200,000 people are estimated to have died. People faced with the sudden depopulation of the towns and villages had to set about rebuilding their communities by themselves. One way they did this, where possible, was to use local hot springs as a way to revitalise their community.</span><br /><br />Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-5017327460600864192014-08-21T21:35:00.004+09:002016-03-14T18:22:49.442+09:00<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">A New Addition to the Miyagi Shiryō Net Series 'Historical Regeneration' </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">We are happy to announce that No. 4 in the 'Historical Regeneration' Series has been published.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">The new volume by Takahashi Y</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">ō</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">'ichi</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;"> is entitled "Bringing Back the Steamy Mists: Recovery from Famines in the Edo Period."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">In the Edo Period, the greatest cause of mass deaths was neither earthquakes nor tsunami, but famine. In the Tenmei Famine in Sendai (1782 to 1788) some 200,000 people are estimated to have died. People faced with the sudden depopulation of the towns and villages had to set about rebuilding their communities by themselves. One way they did this, where possible, was to use local hot springs as a way to revitalise their community.</span><br />
<br />Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-24036809746318512662014-05-18T12:39:00.003+09:002019-03-30T17:57:04.722+09:00<br /><span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">New Publications in the Miyagi Shiryō Net Series 'Historical Regeneration' </span><br /><br /><br /><a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The second booklet in this series is about the Keich<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">ō tsunami of 1611. A concerted downplaying of this tsunami was necessary to justify the location of nuclear plants on low-elevations sites in Fukushima. This booklet by Ebina Y</span>ū'ichi examines the historical and archaeological evidence for this tsunami, and argues that the hackneyed claim that the tsunami of 2011 was 'a once in a 1,000 year event' is a gross mis-reading of the historical record.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;"> </span><img src="http://banzanbou.com/banzanbou_hp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/%E3%82%88%E3%81%BF%E3%81%8C%E3%81%88%E3%82%8B2_%E8%A1%A8%E7%B4%99B_03.jpg" /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For details on how to purchase this booklet, please see our <a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/miyagi-shiry-o-net-has-started.html">earlier posting</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Further coming booklets with deal with the formation of villages on the Sendai Plain in the 17th century, and with the recovery of villages in the hotspa district of Akiu after the major famines of the later 18th century.</span>Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-23893474924595047472014-05-18T12:39:00.002+09:002014-05-18T12:39:29.510+09:00<br />
<span style="background-color: #cccccc; color: #222222; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">New Publications in the Miyagi Shiryō Net Series 'Historical Regeneration' </span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The second booklet in this series is about the Keich<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 30.545452117919922px;">ō tsunami of 1611. A concerted downplaying of this tsunami was necessary to justify the location of nuclear plants on low-elevations sites in Fukushima. This booklet by Ebina Y</span>ū'ichi examines the historical and archaeological evidence for this tsunami, and argues that the hackneyed claim that the tsunami of 2011 was 'a once in a 1,000 year event' is a gross mis-reading of the historical record.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For details on how to purchase this booklet, please see our <a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/miyagi-shiry-o-net-has-started.html">earlier posting</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Further coming booklets with deal with the formation of villages on the Sendai Plain in the 17th century, and with the recovery of villages in the hotspa district of Akiu after the major famines of the later 18th century.</span>Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-3165466668457754392014-03-27T12:17:00.002+09:002019-03-30T17:57:04.824+09:00<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Miyagi Shiryō Net Announces its First Publication in a New Series 'Historical Regeneration' </span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/miyagi-shiry-o-net-has-started.html"><i>Read more</i></a></span><br /><br /><br />Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-52006493640176037452014-03-27T12:17:00.001+09:002014-03-27T12:20:29.707+09:00<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Miyagi Shiryō Net Announces its First Publication in a New Series 'Historical Regeneration' </span><br />
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<br />Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-42781721342993430642014-03-13T16:41:00.001+09:002019-03-30T17:57:05.039+09:00<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Part II Salvage Operations for Historical Materials after the Great East Japan Earthquake</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Damage Assessment and Salvage Work within the Disaster Area</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">3.11. 2011: Disaster Hits for the Third Time<o:p></o:p></span></b><br /><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> At 2.40 p.m. on 11th March 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on the Richter scale occurred offshore the Pacific seaboard of the T</span><span lang="EN-AU">ō</span><span lang="EN-AU">hoku Region (the northeastern part of the main island of Honsh</span><span lang="EN-AU">ū</span><span lang="EN-AU">). Soon after that, a gigantic tsunami hit the neighbouring coastline. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> The third major earthquake that we experienced, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_East_Japan_Earthquake">Great East Japan Earthquake</a>, was something that almost no one had predicted nor expected. It exceeded all prior estimates about the expected scale of the next Miyagi Offshore Earthquake, which occurs on an approximately 40 year cycle, and the tsunami that it caused wrought mass damage extending over 500 kilometres of coastline.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Documents Washed Away by the Tsunami<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Originals Have Gone, but the Digital Data Remains<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> In the areas along the coast hit by the tsunami, countless historical materials were lost. The very first time we were able to enter the disaster area to visit a family in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishinomaki,_Miyagi">Ishinomaki City</a>, the approximately 12,000 historical documents held there had all been washed away, along with everything else that the family owned.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> Despite this great loss to the historical heritage of the region, we had already photographed all these documents over a period of 10 years starting from 2000. It was a lesson learnt in the worst way possible, but this example demonstrates clearly the importance of conducting preservation activities for historical materials <i>before</i> disaster strikes.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Countless Historical Materials in Danger<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Salvaging as Much as Fast as Possible<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> From around the middle of April 2011, we started to receive urgent calls to come and salvage collections of historical materials, both from areas hit by the tsunami, and areas further inland. These calls not only came from people who held the materials, but also from people in local government and local citizens with whom we had established a working relationship in our years of activities throughout the region before the disaster. <o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"> As of December 2013, we have conducted a total of 105 salvage operations in a total of 88 families and institutions throughout <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyagi_Prefecture">Miyagi</a> and southern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwate_Prefecture">Iwate</a> Prefectures <i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Note: the Wikipedia entries linked to here are highly unsatisfactory, but at least you can locate the prefectures on a map JFM)</span></i>. Notwithstanding the scope of this disaster, we have discovered many collections of historical materials which have miraculously survived, but which are in jeopardy, either due to immersion in seawater and silt from the tsunami, or by being housed in collapsed or condemned buildings damaged by the earthquake. It is a race against time to save as many of these materials as possible for posterity.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN-AU"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCliFGeUCISywHpe9tzjwWmCIWdgRUyPUBrcX92u973EV_cUQFMMiTEsWkC1DJyKzg6l9lkSiIJTd8gz-bhonnqvSoTFJWjD5p6EbSpwDj33et_0YmwuD-WVu5xTEa0Karm_wmddZhwG8/s1600/%E7%8F%BE%E5%9C%A8%E3%81%AE%E6%B4%BB%E5%8B%95%E7%8A%B6%E6%B3%81%E5%9C%B0%E5%9B%B3-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCliFGeUCISywHpe9tzjwWmCIWdgRUyPUBrcX92u973EV_cUQFMMiTEsWkC1DJyKzg6l9lkSiIJTd8gz-bhonnqvSoTFJWjD5p6EbSpwDj33et_0YmwuD-WVu5xTEa0Karm_wmddZhwG8/s1600/%E7%8F%BE%E5%9C%A8%E3%81%AE%E6%B4%BB%E5%8B%95%E7%8A%B6%E6%B3%81%E5%9C%B0%E5%9B%B3-2.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">Read More:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_13.html"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Assesing Damage to Historical Buildings and Emergency Repairs</i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/the-tea-chest-that-was-washedashore.html"><span style="color: blue;"><i>The Tea chest that was Washed Ashore: Saving the Documents of the Kimura Family, Onagawa</i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/salvage-operations-for-historical.html"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Salvage Work after the Tsunami: The Honma Family, Ishinomaki</i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/restoration-work-on-padding-from-paper.html"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Restoration Work on the Padding from Sliding Doors: A Time Capsule</i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/first-aid-for-salvaged-materials-why-is.html"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Treating Water-Immersed Documents</i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: blue;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/conclusion-why-our-work-mustgo-on.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><i>Conclusion: Why our Work Must Go On</i></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Epilogue</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_9219.html"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Why all this Paper? 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2.40 p.m. on 11th March 2011, an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on the Richter
scale occurred offshore the Pacific seaboard of the T</span><span lang="EN-AU">ō</span><span lang="EN-AU">hoku Region (the northeastern part of the main island of Honsh</span><span lang="EN-AU">ū</span><span lang="EN-AU">). Soon after that, a gigantic
tsunami hit the neighbouring coastline. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> The
third major earthquake that we experienced, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_East_Japan_Earthquake">Great East Japan Earthquake</a>, was
something that almost no one had predicted nor expected. It exceeded all prior
estimates about the expected scale of the next Miyagi Offshore Earthquake,
which occurs on an approximately 40 year cycle, and the tsunami that it caused
wrought mass damage extending over 500 kilometres of coastline.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">The Originals Have Gone, but the Digital Data Remains<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> In
the areas along the coast hit by the tsunami, countless historical materials
were lost. The very first time we were able to enter the disaster area to visit
a family in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishinomaki,_Miyagi">Ishinomaki City</a>, the approximately 12,000 historical documents held
there had all been washed away, along with everything else that the family owned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU"> Despite
this great loss to the historical heritage of the region, we had already
photographed all these documents over a period of 10 years starting from 2000. It
was a lesson learnt in the worst way possible, but this example demonstrates
clearly the importance of conducting preservation activities for historical
materials <i>before</i> disaster strikes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Countless Historical Materials in Danger<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Salvaging as Much as Fast as Possible<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-AU"> From
around the middle of April 2011, we started to receive urgent calls to come and
salvage collections of historical materials, both from areas hit by the
tsunami, and areas further inland. These calls not only came from people who
held the materials, but also from people in local government and local citizens
with whom we had established a working relationship in our years of activities
throughout the region before the disaster. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-AU"> As
of December 2013, we have conducted a total of 105 salvage operations in a total of 88 families and institutions throughout <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyagi_Prefecture">Miyagi</a> and southern <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iwate_Prefecture">Iwate</a> Prefectures <i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Note: the Wikipedia entries linked to here are highly unsatisfactory, but at least you can locate the prefectures on a map JFM)</span></i>. Notwithstanding the
scope of this disaster, we have discovered many collections of historical
materials which have miraculously survived, but which are in jeopardy, either
due to immersion in seawater and silt from the tsunami, or by being housed in
collapsed or condemned buildings damaged by the earthquake. It is a race
against time to save as many of these materials as possible for posterity.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/the-tea-chest-that-was-washedashore.html"><span style="color: blue;"><i>The Tea chest that was Washed Ashore: Saving the Documents of the Kimura Family, Onagawa</i></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/salvage-operations-for-historical.html"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Salvage Work after the Tsunami: The Honma Family, Ishinomaki</i></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/restoration-work-on-padding-from-paper.html"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Restoration Work on the Padding from Sliding Doors: A Time Capsule</i></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/first-aid-for-salvaged-materials-why-is.html"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Treating Water-Immersed Documents</i></span></a></div>
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<i><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_9219.html"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Why all this Paper? Japan's Unknown 'World Heritage'</span></a></i></div>
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Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2877574494399893905.post-20949543549159076762014-01-29T11:23:00.002+09:002019-03-30T17:57:05.136+09:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><h2><span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN-US">Half-Yearly Report for June to December 2013 from Miyagi Shiry</span><span lang="EN-AU">ō Net</span></span></h2><b><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family: "Century","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-font-kerning: 1.0pt;"></span></b><br /><div><span lang="EN-US"><b> <span style="font-size: large;">Introduction</span></b></span><br /><span lang="EN-US"><b><br /></b></span></div></div><br /><br /><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">At the time of writing, over 1,000 days have passed since the events of 3.11. However, as time passes, the number of requests to conduct emergency rescue operation for endangered historical materials that we are receiving shows no signs of decreasing, and we are still receiving requests to provide emergency rescue operations.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> This report will be divided into three parts, respectively covering (1) Rescue Operations, (2) Ongoing Tasks at the Network’s Main Office, and (3) A Variety of Activities and Tasks. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">1)<b> Rescue Operations</b> includes a summary of the 9 different rescue operations we conducted between July and December of 2013. Six of these operations were in tsunami affected areas, and 3 in areas suffering earthquake damage. This part also includes a short analysis of the channels through which we gather information about heritage at risk. This section also includes a glimpse into the faces of the people who are the holders/owners of the various kinds of heritage we are working to salvage, and what our work means for them. </span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/half-yearly-report-for-second-half-of.html">Read more</a></i></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2) <b>Ongoing Tasks at the Network's Main Office</b> contains a summary of the work that goes on after the initial salvage work is done. The main tasks of cleaning, restoring, digitally recording and cataloguing the mass of documents that we are recovering is a huge task involving large amounts of continuing work. This section gives a glimpse into the physical and technical challenges we face.</span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/half-yearly-report-for-second-half-of_13.html">Read more</a></i></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">3)<b>A Variety of Activities and Tasks</b> covers the many salvage operations that we also conduct but which are not directly disaster-related, and the various educational, outreach and publicity activities in which we also engage.</span><br /><i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/half-yearly-report-for-second-half-of_8342.html">Read more</a></span></i><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(Please note that all linked sites marked (J) are in Japanese. Also, all Japanese personal names are given in Japanese order, with the surname first.)</span></i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Translation: <a href="http://www.mgu.ac.jp/~jfmorris/CVitae.htm">J.F. Morris</a>(J), Miyagi Gakuin Women's University</span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Member of the Board of Directors of Miyagi Shiry<span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">ō Net</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span><br /><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(NPO) <a href="http://www.miyagi-shiryounet.org/"><i><span style="color: blue;">Miyagi Shiryou Net</span></i></a>(J)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Telephone/Fax (81) (0)22-795-7693/7546<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Email: <a href="mailto:office@miyagi-shiryounet.org">office@miyagi-shiryounet.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">URL: <a href="http://www.miyagi-shiryounet.org/">http://www.miyagi-shiryounet.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Credits: </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: right;">Miyagi Shiry</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">ō Net would like to thank <span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><a href="http://miyagi-shiryou-net.blogspot.jp/p/blog-page_14.html"><i>Dr Guven Wittenveen</i> </a></span>for suggesting to set up this English-language blog on our activities, and for providing invaluable advice on how to proceed with this. </span></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="left" class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>Shiryounet Miyagihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13049163863578576172noreply@blogger.com0