Position:

Bodleian Japanese Librarian

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute

Email:

izumi.tytler@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• Japanese bibliography
• Japanese theatre
• Early contacts between Europe and Japan

Current Projects:

• Compilation of the catalogue of the early Japanese books and manuscripts in the Bodleian Library
• Organizing the Tenri Antiquarian Material Workshop (2007-2009)

Recent Publications:

• “Nara ehon/emaki collection in the Bodleian Japanese Library, University of Oxford” in the preprints of the International Nara ehon/emaki Conference (オクスフォード大学ボドリアン図書館附属日本研究図書館所蔵の奈良絵本・絵巻コレクション,　奈良絵本・絵巻国際会議ダブリン大会資料集),　Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 22-23 March 2008, 27-32.
• 'Japan' in G. Walker et al (ed.), The Bodleian Library: A Subject Guide to the Collections, Oxford : Bodleian Library, 2004, 145-147
• "NACSIS/UK Union Catalogue project" in E. Naito (ed.), Study on international sharing of Japanese scholarly information: international joint research project funded by a grant-in-aid from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Japan: report for the year 1998, Tokyo: NACSIS 1999, 135-144
• "East meets West: original records of Western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. Part 1: The log book of Willian Adams (1564-1620) and other manuscript and rare printed materials from the Bodleian Library, Oxford", Adam Matthew Publications 1998 [A listing and guides to Part 1 of the microfilm collection]
• "UK Union Catalogue of Japanese books", Records Management 37 (1998), 39-44
• "The Japanese collections in the Bodleian Library", in Japanese Studies: papers presented at a colloquium at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 14-16 September 1988 (British Library Occasional Papers, 11), 1990
• With D. Massarella, "The Japonian charters: the English and Dutch shuinjo" Monumenta Nipponica 45 (1990), 190-205

Further Info:

• Bodleian Japanese Library

Membership:

• the British Association of Japanese Studies
• the European Association of Japanese Studies
• the (UK) Japan Library Group
• the European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (board member)