{"id":14749,"date":"2026-04-20T15:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14749"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:40:50","slug":"tamar-feinland-volunteering-at-the-kyoto-manga-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/2026\/04\/20\/tamar-feinland-volunteering-at-the-kyoto-manga-museum","title":{"rendered":"Tamar Feinland: Volunteering at the Kyoto Manga Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"For my CIP this semester, I chose to volunteer at the Kyoto International Manga Museum, as I enjoy reading manga to enhance my reading skills and Japanese and thought this would be a good opportunity to get better. I did some filing and sorting during my sessions, but most of my time there was actually spent preparing for and carrying out a gallery talk about one of their exhibits. My classmate Destiny and I were expected to follow traditional Japanese workplace manners like using keigo and excusing ourselves when we entered a room and such. However, as time passed we got more comfortable with our mentor who supervised the gallery talk and she eventually started using short form with us in our final weeks, and I was really glad she felt comfortable enough to do that, like I had made a real connection.<\/p>\n

If any incoming students like manga and would like to volunteer at the museum, I’d definitely recommend it. It will take some time for both parties to loosen up when it comes to formalities, but after you get to know the staff, there’s not so much pressure and you can enjoy yourself a lot more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For my CIP this semester, I chose to volunteer at the Kyoto International Manga Museum, as I enjoy reading man … \u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080 →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":725,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_locale":"ja","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/?p=14749"},"categories":[39,184,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14760,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749\/revisions\/14760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcjs.jp\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}