Collection
An Islamic Sacred Site and Epitaphs in the Southern Urals
This image database offers pictures of headstones and epitaphs in the “Ak-zirat” cemetery, containing the mausoleum of Huseyn-Bek, and located in the raion of Chishmy, which lies about 55 km west of the city of Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia. It contains pictures taken during a preliminary research visit on September 7, 2019 as well as pictures of the epitaphs photographed on the following day, September 8. Participants in the exploration on September 7-8, 2019 were IMAMATSU Yasushi, ISOGAI Masumi, Marsil N. FARKHSHATOV, Ramil M. BULGAKOV, and Evgenii V. RUSLANOV. Tatʹiana K. SURINA, a scientific photographer, photographed the epitaphs.
Kitake Monjo
Since 2020, the Uehiro Research Division of Historical Materials Study of the Center for Northeast Asian Studies at Tohoku University has been investigating 482 historical documents belonging to the Kita family, a feudal retainer of the Sendai Domain during the Edo period. The project was conducted with the approval of Miyagi Prefecture’s Kami Town Board of Education, which possesses the documents.
Tundra Nenets in Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District:Their Lifestyle and Subsistence activity
This collection is the image materials of the traditional culture of Nenets, an indigenous people for the exhibition which was held in 2020 by the invitation of the administration of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation. The photos were taken as part of a cultural anthropology survey conducted by Professor Atsushi Yoshida of Chiba University from 1995 to 2016.
Archive on the 2012 Photo Exhibition of Siberian Ethnography in Siberia
Social anthropologist Hiroki Takakura organized the photo exhibition in Sakkyryr village, Eveno-Bytantaiskii Ulus, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation during March 22-24, 2012. The photographs were taken by him conducting anthropological fieldwork at the Verkhoyansky region in Siberia during 1994-1996. This archive shows various aspects of the traditional livelihood of the indigenous Eveny people with the beautiful landscape of Verkhoyansky regions. There are two values in this archive: the first is on the historic-ethnographical record of the culture of Eveny people after the dissolution of socialist regime; and the second is on the material suggesting a way of collaboration between scientists and the targeted people for the research.