Glenn Shaw Collection

Through January 2006
Asia Collection
Fourth floor, Hamilton Library

The fourth floor of Hamilton Library currently is displaying materials from the Glenn Shaw Collection.

The Glenn W. Shaw Collection was presented to the East-West Center in 1963, after Shaw's death in 1961. It is a collection of more than 6,000 items, in both Japanese and English, with materials dating from the early Edo period and on.

Glenn Shaw was a writer and teacher who lived in Japan for more than 40 years, from 1913 to 1957, with a brief break during the war. He was a newspaper columnist and radio broadcaster, and was a cultural attache after WWII. He was head of the Navy Japanese Language School at one point, and was always interested in the language and culture of Japan.

The works displayed represent works both by Shaw, and collected by him, in Japanese and English. The display will run through the end of January.