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| | Griffis Collection Pilot Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | The essays extant in the Griffis Collection, over 340 in number, cover a range of topics of personal, historical and cultural interest, and vividly depict the interest (and to some degree the frictions) of these early days of cross-cultural contact. |
 | | In this pilot project, two of these essays, the autobiography of Komura Jutaro and an essay on the Japanese theater by a student named Isono, appear in electronic rendition. |
 | | The manuscript essays in this project, by Komura, Isono and Sugi, have been encoded according to the Guidelines of the TEI (Text Encoding Initiative). |
| www.ceth.rutgers.edu /projects/griffis/project.htm (1250 words) |
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