Category Archives: culture

Book Announcement: The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Paula

Maki Fukuoka Stanford University Press, August 2012. 304 pp. (39 illustrations) ISBN: 9780804777902 Cloth $45 ISBN: 9780804784627 E-book $45.00 The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Alex Mitchell’s Sengoku Avengers

Posted on October 12, 2012 by LM

As seen on The Mary Sue: Project: Rooftop, a superhero costume-redesign tribute site, featured artist Alex Mitchell’s redesign of the Avengers as heroes of the Sengoku/Warring States Period (15-16th c.) on today’s fun link. Mitchell explains, I was wanting to … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Paula

Daniel P. Aldrich Abstract: Each year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren’t explained by the magnitude of the catastrophe or the amount … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: (Re)Constructions: Researching and Rethinking Asia

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Paula

York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) Graduate Student Conference York University, Glendon Campus, Toronto, Canada: April 26 and 27, 2013 Keynote Speaker: Vinay Gidwani, Department of Geography and Institute of Global Studies, University of Minnesota How does scholarship of or … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 5, 2012 by Paula

Originally posted on nonsolusblog:
Ise monogatari 伊勢物語 (Tales of Ise). Kyoto-fu (Saga): Suminokura Soan, with Nakanoin Michikatsu and Hon’ami Kōetsu, 1608. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has added its 13-millionth book, maintaining our status as the largest public university library in…

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Resource: Japan Artists Information Directory (JAID)

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Travis

Paula just alerted me to the existence of this new and exciting resource. The Japan Artists Information Directory (JAID) is a website organized by the Five College Consortium (based in Western Massachusetts), listing teachers and practitioners of Japanese traditional arts … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World

Posted on September 23, 2012 by LM

http://thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1815 Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World Author: Dower, John W. Pub Date: Spring 2012 336 pages ISBN: 978-1-59558-618-6 Remembering and reconstructing the past inevitably involves forgetting—and nowhere more so than in the complex relationship … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Japanese street fashion

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Paula

Being a girl of neither the height nor shape for clothing in Japan, I have never known much of anything about contemporary fashion there, not even the everyday looks. And the more extreme things? Well, I’m not one for standing … Continue reading →

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Resource: Podcasts on Japanese Literature and Culture

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Paula

As many of you know, we love podcasts. With all this newfangled technology, podcasts are an excellent way to practice language or learn about topics you have no previous experience with. Last year a friend of mine who specializes in … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200)

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Paula

In Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (ca. 800-1200), Joseph T. Sorensen illustrates how, on both the theoretical and the practical level, painted screens and other visual art objects helped define some of the essential characteristics of Japanese … Continue reading →

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