Category Archives: culture

Book Announcement: The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Paula

Adam Clulow Columbia Studies in International and Global History Cloth, 352 pages, Color Illus.: 9, , Maps: 2, ISBN: 978-0-231-16428-3 $55.00 / $B# (B38.00 Published by Columbia University Press http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16428-3/the-company-and-the-shogun The Company and the Shogun examines the encounter between the … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Compose Your Own J-Pop Songs

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Travis

Thanks to RocketNews24, we now have a nice system for composing your own cheesy J-pop lyrics! Just follow the boxes, and make some choices 🙂 Fuller explanation & translation of the chart at RocketNews.

Posted in culture, fun links | Tagged fun link friday, Japan, Japanese, Japanese culture, Japanese music, jpop, language, music | 2 Comments

Book Announcement: Hell-bent on Heaven in Tateyama mandara: Painting and Religious Practice at a Japanese Mountain

Posted on June 8, 2014 by Paula

Hell-bent on Heaven in Tateyama mandara: Painting and Religious Practice at a Japanese Mountain by Caroline Hirasawa The book is a highly interdisciplinary examination of the Tateyama cult and its material culture, and will be of interest to art historians … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Meine Meinung

Posted on June 6, 2014 by LM

Meine Meinung, a 4-person musical group consisting of Eriko Iwasawa, Kenta Sato, Makoto Suzaki, and Hiroyuki Kato, love recording covers of anime and video game music and playing concerts, many of which they Ustream for free. If you like Studio … Continue reading →

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Book Announcements: Japanese Visual Culture

Posted on June 1, 2014 by Paula

Rosina Buckland (National Museum of Scotland) and John Szostak (University of Hawaii at Manoa) would would like to announce publication of their books on modern Japanese painting, also part of Brill’s “Japanese Visual Culture” series. Rosina Buckland, *Painting Nature for … Continue reading →

Posted in announcements, culture | Tagged Japanese art, Japanese painting, kokuga, modern, Nihonga, painting, Taki Katei, Tsuchida Bakusen | Leave a comment

Fun Link Friday: Three Videos on Language & Ethnicity

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Travis

P. Kerim Friedman, associate professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures at National Dong Hwa University in Taiwan, recently posted some funny videos on Savage Minds (one of the most prominent anthropology blogs out there, it would seem, … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: A Reading of The Tale of Genji

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Paula

Description: This is a lightly edited and more accurately proofread version of The Disaster of the Third Princess: Essays on The Tale of Genji. The new title better conveys the book’s content. Disaster can be downloaded free in pdf format, but many prefer not to … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia

Posted on May 18, 2014 by Paula

The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia Edited by: Viren Murthy, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Axel Schneider, University of Goettingen (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2013) 302 pp ISBN13: 9789004260139 E-ISBN: 9789004260146 The papers … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: All About Netsuke

Posted on May 16, 2014 by LM

For the kogei- and fashion lovers, Collectors Weekly interviewed Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) director Christine Drosse back in 2011 about netsuke. The link includes links to LACMA’s online collections of Edo- and Meiji Period netsuke as well as to the International … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Classical World Literatures- Publication of “Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons”

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Paula

by Wiebke Denecke Ever since Karl Jaspers’s “axial age” paradigm, there have been a number of influential studies comparing ancient East Asian and Greco-Roman history and culture. However, to date there has been no comparative study involving multiple literary traditions … Continue reading →

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