Use cases
Examples of Awase with real TEI collections. Watch the video, then open the same material with “Open in Awase”.
Kōi Genji Monogatari, Kiritsubo (text, IIIF images, critical apparatus, and witness agreement)
- Text
- Image & IIIF
- Critical apparatus
TEI/XML of Chapter 1 “Kiritsubo” from the Kōi Genji Monogatari. Read the vertical text alongside Ōshima-bon IIIF facsimile images while inspecting 557 critical apparatus entries and agreement rates across 18 witnesses. Selecting a witness swaps the variant readings directly in the text.
Open in AwaseIllustrated Tale of Genji (Eiri Genji) and Yosano Akiko’s translation (linked original, translation, and images)
- Text
- Image & IIIF
- Parallel texts
Displays the 1654 Illustrated Tale of Genji (Eiri Genji) alongside Yosano Akiko’s modern Japanese translation. Linked via @corresp attributes, scrolling one text brings the other along proportionally, and clicking a passage highlights its counterpart.
Open in AwaseTokugawa Ieyasu’s Diplomatic Reply to Annam (elevated lines, facsimile zones, map & timeline)
- Text
- Image & IIIF
- Parallel texts
- Named entities
- Map & timeline
TEI/XML of Tokugawa Ieyasu’s 1606 diplomatic reply to Annam. Reproduces traditional elevated-line layout (heishutsu and taitō) and links the classical Chinese original, kundoku reading, and modern translation. Selecting a passage zooms into its zone on the facsimile, while correspDesc drives a correspondence map and timeline.
Open in AwaseDazai Osamu’s “Run, Melos!” (speech statistics and appellation transitions)
- Text
- Named entities
- Speech & appellations
Aozora Bunko TEI edition of Dazai Osamu’s “Run, Melos!”. Aggregates speaker turn counts, character counts, speaker-to-addressee pairs, and how appellations for each character shift across the narrative, jumping directly to matching passages in the text.
Open in AwaseNagano Prefectural Library local news reel (video, transcript, glossary, and timeline)
- Text
- Video & audio
- Named entities
- Styles & XSL
A TEI/XML transcript with time-aligned utterances (@start / @end) and glossary notes. Opened in the Video Support style, transcript lines and glossary cards follow video playback automatically, with an occurrence timeline and reference map for jumping to any mention.
Open in AwaseComparing two Tale of Genji witnesses (IIIF images and character-level transcription diff)
- Text
- Image & IIIF
- Compare
Opens two IIIF manifests of The Tale of Genji (Kōi Genji Monogatari and an early-modern manuscript held by the National Diet Library) side by side on the /compare screen. Inspect character-by-character diffs with edit distance and similarity scores, or switch to Image mode to compare the manuscript pages.
Open in AwaseAkutagawa Ryūnosuke’s “The Three Treasures” (drama structure and LINE-style chat view)
- Text
- Speech & appellations
- Styles & XSL
Aozora Bunko TEI edition of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s play “The Three Treasures”, opened in the LINE-style dialogue view. Stage directions and character speeches (sp / speaker) are rendered as a chat thread using the cast list in particDesc.
Open in AwaseReading Support view with glossary cards, map, and occurrence chart
- Text
- Named entities
- Map & timeline
- Styles & XSL
The Reading Support style pairs annotated terms in the text with glossary cards at the bottom and a reference map and term-occurrence chart on the right. Clicking a term in the text or a card highlights and scrolls to its counterparts.
Open in AwaseToyo Bunko OCR facsimile view (bidirectional line-and-zone highlighting via XSL)
- Text
- Image & IIIF
- Styles & XSL
A TEI/XML document with facsimile surface zones and line transcriptions from Toyo Bunko’s tei-tools. Transformed in the browser via SaxonJS on the /xsl screen, hovering over a line region on the page image highlights the corresponding transcribed line.
Open in AwaseDTS collection of all 54 chapters of the Kōi Genji Monogatari (browse citable units and open in viewer)
- Text
- DTS
Browses all 54 chapters of the Kōi Genji Monogatari served via the Distributed Text Services (DTS) API specification on the /dts screen. Inspect metadata and paragraph-level citable units, and open either a full chapter or a specific passage directly in the Awase viewer.
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