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Category Archives: culture
Fun Link Friday: Eiji Ohashi’s lonely vending machines
This week is just a quick fun link– a CNN feature on the photographer Eiji Ohashi, who has spent years photographing vending machines that often stand alone in Japan’s most isolated places. Travelers unfamiliar with Japan are often shocked by … Continue reading
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Tagged fun link friday, fun links, Japan, photography, photos, vending machines
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Fun Link Friday: Interactive digital views of the Edo period
Although having digital views of any view you wish has long been a staple in science fiction film, that day is pretty much already upon us! Recently the Atmoph Window company released information on their high definition window displays, which … Continue reading
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Tagged early modern Japan, Edo, Edo Japan, Japan, technology
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Fun Link Friday: Olympics meets Noh
A quickie Fun Link Friday for you all today! Those who have been following the 2020 Tokyo Olympics carefully probably know that their social media campaign is “Make the Beat,” inviting people to post to social media with the hashtag … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, no theater, noh, Noh theater, Olympics, Tokyo Olympics
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Book Announcement: Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan
AGENTS OF WORLD RENEWAL: THE RISE OF YONAOSHI GODS IN JAPAN Takashi Miura This volume examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of “world renewal” (yonaoshi). In the latter half of the Tokugawa period (1603–1867), a … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, gods, history, Japan, Japanese culture, kami, religious studies
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Fun Link Friday: Small Worlds Tokyo
If lately you’ve just been feeling insignificant compared to the vastness of the universe, maybe you need to plan on booking a trip to Small Worlds Tokyo, which is set to open next spring. Planned as the world’s largest diorama … Continue reading
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Tagged fun link friday, fun links, Japan, miniatures, Tokyo
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Fun Link Friday: Ikebana Battles 🌿🌻
What artful masterpiece can you put together in five minutes? At the third annual flower arranging battle in Ota, Tokyo this summer, spectators got to find out! Although the traditional art of ikebana (flower arrangement) in Japan is often thought of … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, flower arrangement, fun link friday, ikebana, Japan, Japanese culture
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Book Announcement: Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education
Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education Raja Adal When modern primary schools were first founded in Japan and Egypt in the 1870s, they did not teach art. Yet by the middle … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, education, Egypt, global history, Japan, transnational history
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Fun Link Friday: 2019 Rice Field art at Inakadate
As long-time readers know, each year we showcase the rice paddy art of Inakadate, Aomori Prefecture, which has a long standing tradition of growing multicolored rice to great gigantic rice paddy art! This year the theme is Oshin「おしん」, a television … Continue reading
Book Announcement: The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961
The Making of Japanese Settler Colonialism: Malthusianism and Trans-Pacific Migration, 1868-1961 Sidney Xu Lu This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, colonialism, empire, Japan, Japanese history, modern, modern Japan, modern Japanese history
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Fun Link Friday: Cooking Edo Period Food 🍚
When in Japan, food is everything. What’s the local specialty? What’s the best omiyage? But have you stopped and wondered “What were people eating 200 years ago?” Well the Center for Open Data in the Humanities might be able to … Continue reading
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Tagged cooking, data, early modern, early modern Japan, Edo period, Japan, Japanese cooking, recipes
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 