Wikipedia:Resource support pilot/Requests/1brianm7
1brianm7
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- Festschrift of sorts for Kazuo Ueda (linguist): Select articles from the "Commemorative Issue for the Retirement of Professor Kengo Tachibana and Professor Kazuo Ueda". Fukuoka University review of literature & humanities (in Japanese). 43 (4). National Diet Library. March 2012. Retrieved 2026-09-03.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: others (link), namely 上田和夫教授 略歴・著作目録 (Biography and bibliography), this introduction 言語をこよなく愛される上田先生, and this examination of The Metamorphosis カフカの『変身』をその言語使用の視点から再読する (Ueda was a Kafka scholar and this being published in his retirement issue seems like too much of a coincidence for it not to be related). - Link to request on RX: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request#Fukuoka_University_research_promotion
I expect to use the biography and introduction for WP:ABOUTSELF purposes, as I only have maybe three sentences on his personal life, and if the Kafka part is in fact related to expand more on it, since sources frequently describe its significance in his life without doing much elaboration. The bibliography would be especially useful as, if you can believe it, it is hard to find bibliographic info on a man who usually wrote in German or Japanese in a Japanese journal regarding Yiddish and Ladino. I have exhausted Google Scholar, Internet Archive, and the National Diet Library, with such lax search parameters that about 95% of search results were false positives. These are only available in one stack in a Japanese library in Tokyo... and going to Tokyo to read these is... prohibitively expensive. Ueda is 83 and, as of 14 years ago, has Parkinson's (I guess he was still alive as of 2018). The author of two of the above articles is in his early 70s and has presumably retired, having last published in 2018. 1brianm7 (talk) 02:03, 3 September 2026 (UTC)
- @1brianm7, hi, thanks for your request! Is this for sale somewhere? If it's not something we can relatively feasibly purchase, we're typically unable to support. RAdimer-WMF (talk) 21:51, 4 September 2026 (UTC)
- @RAdimer-WMF Thanks for the reply! The National Diet Library will make a copy of it and sell it (if you scroll down on the three articles linked, and I think you might need to have an account, there is an add to cart option). I wasn't able to figure out what the pricing was exactly, the estimates they give are a bit odd, but I think all 3 would be no more than about US$20 (I have no clue what the shipping price is... I have had poor experiences with shipping from Japan since tariffs). In the add to cart form, it asks for me to input "複写ページ総数", which is translated as "Total number of copied pages", but I have no clue if the value inputted is for printing one page or printing one copy of each set. 1brianm7 (talk) 22:42, 4 September 2026 (UTC)
- @1brianm7: Sorry for the delayed reply. I'm going to check with a colleague and see whether this might be feasible. RAdimer-WMF (talk) 20:51, 18 September 2026 (UTC)
- Ok, cool. Thank you. 1brianm7 (talk) 21:45, 18 September 2026 (UTC)
- If this does turn out to be feasible, I'm wondering if it would be possible to tack on these two reviews of a book he wrote. They are of the same availability as the above sources (I requested at RX 8 days ago). My biggest concern is shipping, since that is not accounted for before ordering and there is a non-zero chance I'll get footed with a $100+ bill. Also noting that there's another angle at accessing these sources that I did not know about at the time, and which I have entered. No clue if it will pan out.
- Higami, Chizuru (October 1997). "書評 上田和夫著『イディッシュ文化』(三省堂、1996)" [Book Review: Kazuo Ueda, *Yiddish Culture* (Sanseido, 1996)] (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Kobe: Japan-Jewish Culture Research Association. pp. 80–83. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- Hirose, Keiji (April 1998). "<書評>上田和夫著 「イディッシュ文化」(三省堂,1996年)" [<Book Review> "Yiddish Culture" by Kazuo Ueda (Sanseido, 1996)]. Studies on Jewish life and culture (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Tokyo: Japan Jewish Studies Association. pp. 75–76. Retrieved 2026-09-21. 1brianm7 (talk) 19:27, 28 September 2026 (UTC)
- Ok, I've learned the power of ILLs. I've wasted so much of my life ignorant of their power! I think I'll be able to get it all of these for free, in a few weeks. 1brianm7 (talk) 06:49, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
- Oh, okay! Let me know if that ends up working :) RAdimer-WMF (talk) 22:06, 2 October 2026 (UTC)
- Ok, I've learned the power of ILLs. I've wasted so much of my life ignorant of their power! I think I'll be able to get it all of these for free, in a few weeks. 1brianm7 (talk) 06:49, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
- @1brianm7: Sorry for the delayed reply. I'm going to check with a colleague and see whether this might be feasible. RAdimer-WMF (talk) 20:51, 18 September 2026 (UTC)
- @RAdimer-WMF Thanks for the reply! The National Diet Library will make a copy of it and sell it (if you scroll down on the three articles linked, and I think you might need to have an account, there is an add to cart option). I wasn't able to figure out what the pricing was exactly, the estimates they give are a bit odd, but I think all 3 would be no more than about US$20 (I have no clue what the shipping price is... I have had poor experiences with shipping from Japan since tariffs). In the add to cart form, it asks for me to input "複写ページ総数", which is translated as "Total number of copied pages", but I have no clue if the value inputted is for printing one page or printing one copy of each set. 1brianm7 (talk) 22:42, 4 September 2026 (UTC)