Guide to the Daniel Clarence Holtom Papers
Guide to the Daniel Clarence Holtom Papers
Collection number: H1962.3
Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd LibraryLibraries of The Claremont Colleges
Claremont, California
- Processed by:
- Carrie Marsh
- Date Completed:
- 2007 July
- Encoded by:
- Kelley Wolfe Bachli
Biography / Administrative History
Scope and Content of Collection
Personal correspondence and family documents
Articles about DC Holtom
Items printed and/or written in Japanese
Holtom children’s schoolwork and artwork
Personal correspondence relating to Japan
Personal: letters, pamphlets, photos, poetry
Japanese book sale catalog and jade sales catalog
Berkeley Baptist Divinity School – Correspondence 1942
Article – Pacific Affairs – correspondence
Starr – “Social Aspects of Japanese Problem” (fragment)
Gerald Holtom
Reviews by Holtom
Book reviews by D.C. Holtom
Book review: Kishimoto, Japanese Religion in the Meiji Era
“The National Faith of Japan” reviews
Book reviews in the Virginia Quarterly ReviewBook reviews in the Virginia Quarterly Review
Review of Shinto: The Unconquered Enemy by Robert O. Ballou for Review of Religion
Institute of Pacific Relations
Miscellaneous reviews
Lectures by Holtom
Chapel Talks and briefs address--Japanese
Shinto as the state religion of Modern Japan (lecture) – incomplete
Japanese Charms (Lecture) and Notes
Japanese Civilization – Some Permanent Values in – Lecture
Town Hall program 1944 September 14 Thursday
Haskell Lecture I: The Religious Foundations of the Japanese State
Haskell Lectures III: Nationalism and Universalism
Haskell Lectures VI: The Overseas Expansion of Shinto
Yasukuni Jinja – Misc. Notes – Haskell Lectures
Rauschenbusch Lectures I: The Japanese Mind (Nippon Seishin)
Rauschenbusch Lectures: The Psychological Armament of Japan
Rauschenbusch Lectures: Correspondence
Sermons and Notes (social life and manners)
Misc. Lecture guide
Articles by Holtom
Articles published
“Christianity in the Japanese Environment” 1938 October
The New Republic: “The Japanese Mind” By DC Holtom 1945 May 28
Work list for The National Faith of Japan
“The National Faith of Japan” page one of typescript
“The National Faith of Japan” – Business
Shinto – Collier’s 1947 May 1
Article on Shintoism for Religion in the XXth Century
"Moral characteristics, Japanese” article for Ency. Britannica 1946 March 29
Shinto – non-Japanese Interpretations Life, page 115 1945 September 17
“The New Status of Shinto” for the Far Eastern Survey
Shintoism – article for Ency Britannica 1950 September 1 deadline
“The Japanese Mind” New Republic (reprinted in Toronto StarWeekly) 1945 May 28
“Japanese Christianity and Shinto Nationalism” Christian Century 1942
“Shinto: The National Religion of Japan” for Princeton Publications
“Japan – New” Grolier Society Lands and Peoples
“Sir Ernest Satow” by DC Holtom
Far Eastern Survey
“The Foreign Scapegoat” Fragmentary typescript
Some Notes on Japanese Tree Worship by DC Holtom
Miscellaneous articles (for research and published)
Manuscript letter to Holtom from the Baptist church in Mito City
The Westminster Confession
Japanese Kokutai – notes
Notes on topics relations to Japanese religion (notecards)
Fragmentary notes on Christian topics
“A Study in Shinto Origin”, and notes; “A New Interpretation of Japanese Mythology” and incomplete copies of article
Part 1: Chapter 2 The Japanese Looks at Himself
Part 2: Chapter 2 The Japanese Looks at Himself
Chapter II – Early and Medieval forms of Shinto
Part 1: Chapter 3, The Son of Heaven
Part 2: Chapter III The Son of Heaven
Chapter 4 The Cult of the Sun Goddess (tentative outline)
Chapter 5 Inspecting the Ancestors (tentative outline) and Chapter 6 Soldiers and Gods (tentative outline)
Chapter 7 The Foreign Scapegoat (tentative outline)
Chapter 8, The Japanese People and Enduring Peace (tentative outline)
Chapter X Deities and Ceremonies
Far East and World Peace
Japan Post-war relations with Sansom
Bushido and Christianity (general notes)
Magazine articles – Bushido
The Absolute State
The Meaning of Kami--Notes
Meaning of Kami – Worship areas
Miscellaneous notes – Meaning of Kami – Chapter III Second copy
Meaning of Kami I, II
The Meaning of Kami II “private copy”
Meaning of Kami -- III
Part 1: The Meaning of Kami – Chapter III
Part 2: The Meaning of Kami – Chapter III
Early Japanese History (The Real Conflict)
The National Faith of Japan
The Edict of the Founding of the Japanese State (political texts)
Notes on state and religion in Japan
Magic
Notes on Japanese Enthronement Ceremonies
Japanese Enthronement Ceremonies
Shrine problem
Inari Shrines
Clippings about shrines
Shrine items (printed) – found in envelope titled “pictures, unsorted"
“Shinto, Offspring of the Sun Goddess” table of contents and prologue
Shinto and peace
“The Shinto Dilemma”--1
“Shinto Dilemma” – 2
Shinto and Japanese Nationalism
Shinto history notes
Shinto history – Meiji period
Shinto history – Edo period
Shinto notes
Shinto – Ethical content
Shinto – Study of Special Terms
Shinto – Phallic Worship
Shinto – Purification
The Idea of the Sacred in Shinto – U. of Hawaii
Handwritten list of shrines, their deities, and addresses
Shinto – Separation of Buddhism and Shinto
Shinto Schools
Shinto Sects – Misogi Kyō
Shinto Sects – Kurozumi Kyō
Shinto Sects – Mitake Kyō
Shinto Sects – Shinri Kyō
Shinto Sects –Fusō Kyō
Shinto Sects – Tikko Kyō
Shinto History – Kamakura Period
Shinto Sects – Shinshū Kyō
Shinto Sects – Taisei Kyō
Shinto Sects – Tenri Kyō
Shinto Sects – Taisha Kyō
Shinto Sects – Konko Kyō
Shinto Sects – Shūsei Ha
Shinto Sects – Genreal Studies of Entire Group
Shinto Sects – General Studies of Entire Group – Clippings 1930-1931
Modern Shinto “The Official History”
Modern Shinto The Worship of the Sun Goddess
Modern Shinto The Parents of the Race
The Three Sacred Treasures (Shinto – Ethics, Symbolism)
Shrine Shinto – Post Surrender (the present state)
The Control of Shinto: Our Shinto Policy
Shinto – Miscellaneous (articles included)
Magazine articles on Shinto (by others)
Elementary Forms of religion
Buddhism (notes, typed drafts and articles)
Buddhism in Japan – outline and notes
Non- Christian Religious Movements in Japan
The Eight- forked serpent
Japanese mythology – The land of the Gods
Japanese Mythology – Sun, Moon and Storm
Japanese Mythology: 1.) Beginnings 2.) The Original Parents 3.) Death and Transformation
Confucianism in Japan
Storm God theme
Lightening – Swords and the subduing of the Land
“The Japanese State” – notes
Post Wheeler The Sacred Scriptures of the Japanese
Japanese Nationalism – notes
Notes and clippings and articles Christianity and Japanese Nationalism
The Christian Movement in Japan
“Christianity in the Japanese Environment” and “The Japanization of Christianity”
Christianity and National Religion
Japan – The Road by which They Came
Clippings – The Emperor’s Funeral by GP Holtom
Japanese culture, arts, and royal family--clippings
Japan University controversy – clippings
Istar and Tammuz
Japan and Christianity
Patriotic Organizations, Japanese
Comparison of world religions -- notes
Magazine articles – Japanese characteristics
Notes: “The Japanization of Christianity”
Militarism in the Japanese schools – clippings
“The Fundamental Character of the Japanese National Economy” by Ishikawa-Koji (offprint)
Clippings from “Japan Advertiser” 1937-1938
Excerpt from the “Japan Advertiser” 1938 March
Japanese history – articles by others
Religion in Japan—fragmentary notes
Post-war Japan—articles
Article by Saki-Atsuharu “Kaibara-ekiken and ‘onna- daigaki’”
“Observations on the Report of the Appraisal Commission of the Laymen’s Foreign missions enquiry” Tokyo – DC Holtom’s copy heavily annotated 1933 January
Bibliography – Japanese religions
Hito no michi religion (article by Barnard)
Magazine articles on Japanese folklore (by others)
Japanese English
Bibliography – Japanese, General
Off-prints of articles by David C. Graham on China
Excerpts from the letters of an American doctor in China
“China – The Summing Up” address by Ernest B. Price, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco 1944 October 13
Chinese language guides – and pronunciation key
Clement: Chinese refugees of the 17th cent. (Asiatic Society of Japan)
Spy prevention as a form of service behing the front
Clippings and ephemera – World War II and US public policy topics
Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism – clippings (acidic)
Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism – corresp., clippings
Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism: revised edition; business and reviews
Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism Chapter VII “The New Shinto” (and info about revision)
Modern Japan and Shinto Nationalism revision Chapter VIII “permanent values” text
Photos, postcards, and printed ephemera from Shinto shrines and temples
Charms – Unsorted
“Mirror with Genre Figures” – illustration (from a book or portfolio)
Two sets of photo prints of shrines in Japan
Postcards of shrines and scenes in Japan
Photo prints of shrines in Japan--7
Photos of shrines
Tree worship – photos and postcards; notes
Postcards – California, Mexico, Vermont, Niagara Falls
Souvenir photograph of Commodore Perry’s monument