In his superb translation, Caleb Carter reveals the myriad sources that went into an eighteenth century “secret” history, and sought to legitimate the authority of its author via a number of traditions brought into dialogue at Togakushi itself.
https://t.co/05Smv79Xyr
Our final research article by Mengfei Pan focusses on a map produced of the Tokyo suburb of Negishi in the late Meiji period. Its makers chose to invest in articulating the symbolic significance of the area in order to assert their community identity.
https://t.co/XlcFSPAMjY
Sakurai Ryōta traces the stories of Shimao Toshio in order to demonstrate how the writer’s engagement with the history of the Amami islands and with Christianity came to be reflected through his tales.
https://t.co/uhmou4yewc
In his reconsideration of Saikaku’s representation and utilization of the handscroll format, Radu Leca foregrounds the materiality and authority associated with different media in the early modern era.
https://t.co/1PNKyYzCei
Kameyama Mitsuhiro follows the journey of Shaku Unshō to Korea in 1906, and details how Korea became a stage upon which criticisms of Shaku’s formalist precept practice in Japan were able to be redirected at Korea instead.
https://t.co/w5TlLQqY1E
Philip Swift provides a fascinating somatic study of the role of the physical in the Japanese new religion of Mahikari, demonstrating the centrality of the body to its cosmology.
https://t.co/67n1EwIXpR
The issue opens with a provocative article by Inaga Shigemi, who digs into Japan’s role as a ‘contact zone’ within which European and Asian artistic traditions were brought into dialogue with one another.
https://t.co/FvJ2V2GUzh
Monika Schrimpf’s “Boundary Work and Religious Authority among Ordained Buddhist Women in Contemporary Japan” joins a flurry of recent work looking at the role of gender in Buddhism https://t.co/aDCE5UBqmJ
Massimiliano Tomasi urges us to take Dazai’s engagement and struggles with Christianity seriously in “‘What is the Antonym of Sin?’: A Study of Dazai Osamu’s Confrontation with God” https://t.co/D8F0iYgir0 https://t.co/eDtcoQ7vLp
In “Fictitious Images of the Ainu: Ishū Retsuzō and Its Back Story,” Shiraishi Eri exposes the intent behind a famous series of paintings commissioned by the Matsumae domain of its Ainu subjects https://t.co/CHrcMLWgPN
Simon Partner focuses on Wakayama artist Kawai Koume, examining the roles of “Art and Gender in an Age of Revolution,” and how modernity found expression in changing practices of cultural production https://t.co/qTAURzlL94
Patricia Fister deepens our understanding of the history of imperial convents through her study of “The Auspicious Dragon Temple: Kyoto’s “Forgotten” Imperial Buddhist Convent, Zuiryūji” https://t.co/vglaqtGxeL https://t.co/RIdSVrfCcz
Tim Screech, who recently joined Nichibunken from @SOAS, examines “Maritime Disasters and Auspicious Images: A New Look at Hokusai’s Great Wave,” prompting us to reflect anew on the work’s symbolism https://t.co/h0V1CRI5Uh
【#研究紹介】Nichibunken Virtual Almni Project (INAGA Shigemi)
Why not set up a NVA around the ex-visiting scholars and group-research members, including independent scholars around the Nichibunken? Show us your good ideas to implement the networking.
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【刊行物】Nichibunken Monograph No.20 "Philosophy Live : A Perspective from Japan" を刊行しました。日文研オープンアクセスから全文のPDFをダウンロードできます。こちらhttps://t.co/p4PObYUq1J https://t.co/ZSbj86Zvus
【#研究紹介】Nichibunken Virtual Almni Project (INAGA Shigemi)
Why not set up a NVA around the ex-visiting scholars and group-research members, including independent scholars around the Nichibunken? Show us your good ideas to implement the networking.
https://t.co/xa9VQBAbLj https://t.co/CYaITDQV6U