Category Archives: culture

Book Announcement: Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kukai and Dogen on the Art of Enlightenment

Posted on November 17, 2013 by LM

Via Oxford University Press. Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kukai and Dogen on the Art of Enlightenment Author: Pamela D. Winfield Price(incl.tax): 3,224 yen ISBN: 9780199945559 224 Pages Paperback Feb 2013 Pamela D. Winfield offers a fascinating juxtaposition and … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: A Dance of Brush and Ink: Tomoko Kawao at TEDxKyoto 2013

Posted on November 15, 2013 by LM

Today’s Fun Link is one of the TEDxKyoto 2013 events, A Dance of Brush and Ink with Tomoko Kawao. A Dance of Brush and Ink: Tomoko Kawao at TEDxKyoto 2013. In the hands of calligraphy artist Tomoko Kawao, the brush … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Tang China in Multi-polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and War

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Travis

http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8941-9780824836443.aspx by Wang Zhenping 2013, 480 pages $65.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3644-3, Hardcover Publisher’s blurb: Using a synthetic narrative approach, this ambitious work uses the lens of multipolarity to analyze Tang China’s (618–907) relations with Turkestan; the Korean states of Koguryŏ, Silla, … Continue reading →

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Workshop: Theatre Nohgaku

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Paula

Theatre Nohgaku wishes to announce its 2014 Workshop Season. We will again be conducting three workshops in the writing and literary structure of noh, in the music of noh, and in the costumes and costuming of noh. These are open … Continue reading →

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Conference: 6th Asian Translation Tradition Conference 2014 Translating Asia: Migration and Transgression

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Paula

Location:       Philippines Asia has been the site of the migration of peoples, texts, and cultures since pre-modern times. These flows have came largely from the “mother” civilizations of the Arabic, Indian, and Chinese peoples and, in the … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Misao and Fukumaru

Posted on November 8, 2013 by LM

Via itsmikolmota via Demilked. Today’s fun link is the galleries of photographer Miyoko Ihara’s Misao and Fukumaru series. Miyoko Ihara graduated from the Nippon Photography Institute in 2002. Around that time, she began photographing her grandmother, Misao, in order to document … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature

Posted on November 3, 2013 by Travis

Michael Emmerich The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature, Columbia University Press, October 2013 Cloth, 512 pages ISBN: 978-0-231-16272-2 $60.00 / £41.50 Publisher’s blurb: Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Ramen cake

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Paula

Now that the temperature is dropping and we’re starting to get a little sneak peek at winter, I’m craving ramen. All I can think about while shivering at the bus stop is how great it’ll be to have giant bowls … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945

Posted on October 27, 2013 by LM

Via Stanford University Press. Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 Aaron Stephen Moore 2013, Available Now 328 pp. ISBN: 9780804785396 Cloth $55.00 ISBN: 9780804786690 E-book $55.00 The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Halloween Bento 2013

Posted on October 25, 2013 by LM

Images are from Cookpad. They are linked to their original recipes and credited. I do one of these articles every year, but now I want to start documenting the numbers, since I have a theory that Halloween in Japan is … Continue reading →

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