Foreword

Tatuo KOBAYASHI

Beliefs in Sainokami in Echigo Area (1)

Fumio KANEDA

Notes on Pottery Usage Studies

Yastami NISHIDA

A Study of a Jomon Bottle with Human Face Figure Ornament

HiroyukiWATANABE

A Studiy of Azumakou-akinokagami ( A Guidebook of Merchants belonged to the Azuma fraternity, publ.1855)

Koji WATANABE

Dental Carious Lesions of the Medieval Kamakura Population in Japan

Hisashi FUJITA

Classification Maximum-Likelihood Clustering: An exapmle using compositional data from Kasori E pottery (in English)

Mark HALL

Beliefs in Sainokami in Echigo Area (2)

Fumio KANEDA

A Study of Snow Removal in Takada City in Showa 30's (1955-65)

Atsushi KOMATSU and Koji WATANABE

Outline of the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History Information Management System

Katsutoshi ASAI

A Study of Folktales in Echigo and Sado: an example of the writer IWAKURA Ichiro and speaker MAKINO Etsu

Fumio KANEDA

A Study of Ancient Echigo and Sado

Kentaro FUJIMORI

The Utility of Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry for Pottery Studies: a case study of Kasori E and Horinouchi Pottery (in English)

Mark HALL

A Study on Elment of Design about Flaming Pottery

Toru MIYAO

The Development of a Local Museum Management: a case of the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History part 1

Tetsuya YAMAMOTO

Reexamination of the Asahi type

Hiroyuki WATANABE

The Meaning of Postcards as Media

Motoki TANABE

Teaching Materials of the Takada School of the Blind

Kazue KOHINATA

"Sakai family documents" in the possession of the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History

Satoshi MAESHIMA

Study of Dogs in Echigo in the Edo Period

Koji WATANABE

The Boundaries in the Ancient Niigata Area

Kentaro FUJIMORI

A Traveller from Koshi

Motoyuki SUZUKI

Comment on Kaen style pottery from Hanawahigashi site, Mito City, Ibaragi prefecture

Yusuke TERASAKI

Comment on Aizu Kaen style pottery from Hanawahigashi site

Toru MIYAO

Life of Sakuya NISHIMAKI, civil rights activist in the Meiji Era

Kazunori TANAKA

Chinese Spring Festival Silhouette Figures

CHEN Ling

Special Issue Studies on Uesugi Kenshin

Uesugi Clan in Sengoku period

Toshifumi YATA

Iconography and Background of "Folding screen depicting the battle of Kawanaka-jima" drawn by Tosa Mitsunari

Osamu TAKAHASHI

Documents of Petition of Uesugi Kenshin

Yasuhiro KIMURA

Letters and Secretaries of Uesugi Terutora

Keichi FUKUHARA

Uesugi Kenshin and Vassal

Tsukuru HIROI

Items that was used for Exchange of Gifts by Usesugi Kenshin 

Satoshi MAESHIMA

Rule Domain of Kakizaki in the "Echigo pictorial map (Kubiki county) "

Kiyotaka ICHIMURA

Pictures of Uesugi Kenshin

Shin HASEGAWA

Clustered Tombs of Kofun Period in Niigata Prefecture

Michio IYOBE

Notes on Folklore Studies

Satoru ISHIGAKI

Votive Picture Paintings of Sake Brewing

Masao NOBORI

Coin Storage in Niigata Prefecture in the Medieval Age

Yohachiro TONE

Dyeing and Weaving in Maya and Caribbean Mola -Investigation of Homma Collection-

Tomoko SATO

"Tour note from Izumozaki to Itabashi" in the possession of the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History

Koji WATANABE

History and Aims of Starch Analysis

Peter J. MATTHEWS and Y.NISHIDA

Modern Plant Reference Materials from Japan

Ayako SHIBUTANI

Starch Analysis of Paleolithic Stone Tools

A.SHIBUTANI, P.J.MATTHEWS and Chuji SUZUKI

Experiments on Charred Residues

Y.NISHIDA

Isotope Analysis of Charred Residues

Kunio YOSHIDA

6^th Record of Experimental Stone Oven Cooking

Chuji SUZUKI, N.TAKEUCHI and the Stone oven cooking group

Temporal Changes of Stone Mortars and Plant Food Processing

Toru MIYAO and Nobuo MIYAUCHI

Appendix: Starch Reference Samples

A.SHIBUTANI and Y.NISHIDA

Special Issue  Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake

I    Outline of the Earthquake

II   Situation and Correspondence of the Museum immediately after the Earthquake

   The museum at the time of outbreak

   Process to the re-opening

III  Damages caused by the Earthquake and Actions

   Damages to the museum building

   Damages and restorations of the stored objects

   Damages to the permanent exhibition and its restoration

   Damages to the special exhibition and aftermath

IV  Museum Activities for Restoration of the District

   Museum activities for rescuing cultural properties

   Museum activities for assisting restoration of the stricken area

V  Discoveries made during restorations

   A lucky hit -discovery from a damaged Jomon pot

   Finding buddhist statues inside a damaged statue

VI  Future Problems

Votive Picture Paintings of Sake Brewing (2)

Masao NOBORI

Museum Web Site -Problem of eAccessibility

Katsutoshi ASAI

A Study of Wedding Ceremony of Igarashi Family in Aga town

Miyo KADOGUCHI

Straw Back-pad of Niigata

CHEN Ling

About the Current State of Barrier-free Research in the Museography

Tetsuya YAMAMOTO

Integrated Pest Management at the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History

Motoki TANABE

A Transcript of "The list of names for memorial service at Echigo" in the possession of Koyasan- shojoshin'in

Takashi YAMAMOTO

Special Issue Studies on pottery excavated from Yazu Site

Yazu site and Kiyoshi Ochiai

Eiichi NAKAJIMA

Reexamination of pottery excavated from Yazu site in Niigata

Takashi ARAKAWA

Pottery of the first half of Final Jomon Period excavated from Yazu site

Hiroyuki WATANABE

Votive Picture Paintings of Sake Brewing

Masao NOBORI

Some Issues concerning the Ancient Hokuriku Route of Echigo and Sado

Katsutoshi ASAI

Cloth Back-pad of Niigata and its Regional Variation

CHEN Ling

Study of "Kangorou" - Hoe in Uonuma Region

Kazumasa DAIRAKU

A Study of Picture of GOld Mine on Matsukura and Gold Mine on Sado

Koji WATANABE

A Study on the Sculpture of  so-called "Hatakeyama-Shigemune and his wife" owned by Kanbara Shinto Shrine

Keizaburo MIZUNO and Satoshi MAESHIMA

10th Anniversary Special Issue The Research on the Cultures of Nihonkai

10th Anniversary Special Exhibition "Glories and Legacies of Nihonkai (Sea of Japan)" and "The Research on the Cultures of Nihonkai"

Toru MIYAO

Triparitite talk "Jomon, Yayoi and Nihonkai"

Tatsuo KOBAYASHI, Hiroshi KANASEKI and Iwao MATSUMOTO

Nihonkai seen from Tohoku

Norio AKASAKA

Myths of Izumo and Nihonkai

Naoyuki OGAWA

Movements in Jomon Period -examples from Rokutanda-Minami Site, Itoigawa City, Niigata and Ohatadai Site, Oga City, Akita

Yusuke TERASAKI

Museums relating to the Sea of Japan: focusing on the Snow

Tetsuya YAMAMOTO