著者

Gerhart M. Karen

出版者

Kyushu University, School of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities

雑誌

Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (ISSN:24334855)

巻号頁・発行日

no.4, pp.1-20, 2019-03

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Akahashi Nariko (1306–1365) was the primary wife of the first Ashikaga shogun Takauji (1305–1358) and the mother of his heir and six other children. Her natal family. the Akahashi Hōjō, were descendants of the Taira clan who had served for over a century as regents of the military government in Kamakura and later as its de facto rulers. But even with this notable pedigree, Nariko has garnered little scholarly attention: she seldom rates more than a footnote in studies about her famous husband, no monograph or article about her has been written in English, and there exists only one publication about her life in Japanese. While scholars have written much about the military and political machinations involving the Ashikaga shoguns in the fourteenth century, few have written about their wives and mothers. Seeking to develop a fuller understanding of Akahashi Nariko, this essay offers a picture of a strong-willed woman who had a close relationship with and powerful influence over her husband, and was a fierce protector of her children and their political and social interests.

著者

Leca Radu

出版者

Kyushu University, School of Letters, Graduate School of Humanities, Faculty of Humanities

雑誌

Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2, pp.125-135, 2017-03

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From the seventeenth until the nineteenth century, the Great Buddha Hall (Daibutsuden) of Hōkōji temple was one of the top attractions of a visit to the capital. The site has now almost disappeared, but its varied visual footprint testifies to the agency of its audiences, both local and foreign. The analysis of these visual sources yields information about the embodied experience of visiting the site and the strategies of dealing with its loss. These issues are relevant for present-day landscape conservation policies in the context of the availability of digital technology. If developed with attention to the specificity of historical sources, immersive digital apps have the potential to insert a new layer of interaction at the intersection between memory and architecture, thereby enabling users to re-engage with historical sites.