For my community involvement project I have been volunteering at the museum and archives at the Kyoto Institute of Technology. The museum specializes in different fields of design, and has a wide collection of antique posters, radios, art books, and more. The most recent exhibitions on display were about foreign advertisements related to food, and the Dadaist artist, May Ray, respectively.<\/p>\n
The role that I play at the museum changes every week depending on what kind of tasks there are that need to be done. In my time there I have helped take photos to document antiques, set up and take down exhibitions, frame posters to go into new exhibitions, and enter data from old art books. Although it is probably the most tedious of my tasks, I find looking through the art books the most interesting. Some of the books were published as far back as the Meiji Period, so I have had the opportunity to learn something about old kanji that is generally not used anymore. For example, I never would have guessed that \u5b66 used to be \u5b78, \u82b8 used to be \u85dd, \u5341 can be \u62fe in official documents, or that the number twenty (\u5eff) has its own kanji!<\/p>\n
Because I worked at a museum instead of joining a club or circle at Doshisha or Kyoto University, I didn\u2019t have many opportunities to meet others my age through my CIP. However, I do feel that I am lucky to have had the opportunity to have a somewhat job-like experience in Japan, and although they may have not been college students, the people I met were great and taught me a lot.<\/p>\n
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Here is the museum’s website, if you are interested:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.kit.ac.jp\/en\/research\/museum-and-archives\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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